Final finish for September....

I finally finished putting the border on my birdie stitchery block,now to wait for the next block and start all over again.

Look what came in the mail......

I joined in the Blog Hop that's been happening around blogland and won one of Bunny Hill's scrap bag and this box is what I picked up from the post office and inside was..........

This humungus bag of scraps,much more than I was expecting! I just want to say a huge thank you to Anne from http://BunnyHillblog.com/ for her generosity, the lollies lasted no more than five minutes before being eaten LOL :)
Now to put my thinking cap on and come up with a plan or two on what to use these fabulous scraps for......maybe a few hexies,cushions,quilt,what do you think I should use them for???

ANOTHER FINISH FOR OPAM......

Remember these blocks.....

I started them oohhhh.......About two,maybe three years ago???

Well.....I've finally finished putting them all together and.....

VOILA!!! I now have a lovely table top curtesy of Vicki's lovely free BOM she shared a few years ago.If you'd like to make one just pop into Vicki's store http://www.thepickledishpatch.com/store and ask her about them :)

Giveaway Winner....

Well the time has come to announce the winner of my giveaway....... the winner is comment no: 27 "ROSEANNE" ,Congratulations!!

Roseanne if you send me an email with your snail mail addy I'll post of your stack of 5" squares to you this week I may even include a little surprise or two as well in the parcel :)

A belated thankyou & a finish.....

With all the things that have been happening with both my parents I forgot to say thank you to Joanne www.pbpatch.com.au/ for the hexie cards I won in her giveaway a little while back.....as you can see I now have the glue pens so there's no exscuse for me not to attempt my first hexie and start my hexie addiction......Thanks again Joanne!
Click on the link www.pbpatch.com.au/ and check out her website as she's now selling pre-cut fabric hexies in some of the newest fabric ranges which means that your hexie addiction will grow that much faster LOL.

This is my worry blanket...This is what I've been working on for the last three weeks while travelling between hospitals and emergency waiting rooms etc....with both my parents.Everytime I use this blanket I'll remember this time and be grateful for family and the times we have with them....even the stressful times :)

GIVEAWAY TIME.....

Well as promised here is the bundle of 5" squares I have leftover from making my summer table topper.This stack of squares is up for grabs to anyone including international participantsThe rules are simple........there are no rules,just leave a comment with some way of me being able to contact you if you're the lucky winner.....no way to contact the winner means I may have to re-draw.

This giveaway will stay open for a week so plenty of time to tell your friends to come over and try their luck.

I'll announce the winner sometime next weekend :)

FNSI.....

Well here's the table topper I said I was going to work on last night all finished.I started out randomly sewing on diferent coloured buttons and then decided I didn't like how they looked after a couple of rows LOl so I decided to use only the pinks from my button collection.I like how just using the one colour pallete for the buttons brought everything together.Now to add this to my Sepetember OPAM list,my 1st for this month......
Don't forget to come back tomorrow for my giveaway for the leftover 5" squares I used to make this table topper,what you see in the picture above are just a few of the ones I have left from this fabric stack :)

Friday night sew in....

Have you joined??? There's still time....just click on the Friday night sew in button on the right and join in the fun! Do you remember the pile of 4" and 5" squares I showed you a few posts ago well I decided to put together the 5" squares,I just randomly placed them together 6 rows by 7 rows and this is what it looks like.Tonight I'll be quilting this table topper and hope to have it finished to show you tomorrow,wish me luck!

Also I'll be hosting a giveaway for the remainder of the 5" squares over the weekend,there's still plenty to make a table topper like mine or a small quilt so come back then and join in the fun,this will be open to anyone no matter where you live....I promise I wont make you jump through hoops :)

It's been a very ,very long week!

With both my parents ending up in two different hospitals last week, two hours away from each other and then trying to outdo each other by both being operated on the same day,oneupmanship has gone just that tad too far folks.....So this past week has just gone in a blur of emergency rooms,hospital admissions and more sitting around hospitals waiting rooms and trying to flit between visiting both has left me and my sister exhauseted but we wouldn't have it any other way,this is what families are for to be there in time of need.

Soooo while waiting for operations to be done,visiting etc all I've been able to concentrate on is these crocheted squares ( thank goodness for craft and big sisters ) these are some of the squares made up which will hopefully be a lovely warm blanket for my knees next winter.

All I can say is that every time I use this blanket I'll remember every stitch that went into the making of it and why family are the most important thing in life and to be grateful for every day you have with them :)