an update

since the completion of everything in last months pictures I havent started anything new nor have I been working on anything major. I did pull out a cross stitch a I started a few months back, because its portable and can go back in its little bag and everything will be nice and contained.

other than that I am still...um...how should I put this....battling? family. yea not quite. Either way my nan has been down from queensland since my nephews christening in early december and hasnt left yet. shes tried to a few times, but last time her car stopped an hour up the road.

other than that im hanging to get to boyfriends house for a few days away but I now have a job interview so plans have change, or been put on hold rather because if the interview goes well training will start the next day so they can open the shop next week in which case I dont know when ill get up there.

its not a fantastic job but it pays and money is necessary for the whole having a roof over your head, eating, and actually being able to get to classes at uni.

other than that...i have a new cd? exciting stuff I know. It was a deliberate move though as my laptop plug had a tantrum and now refuses to charge my laptop. which means that i cant play the new game i just downloaded and am thoroughly addicted to, cant listen to music on my itunes (hence the need to put some on a cd from my sisters computer) and more important still.....i cant login to the forum because all my details are on auto and I cant remember what they are anymore.

fortunately though, I was able to email one of the forum big wigs (ill get in trouble if she reads this..oops) to let her know im still kicking just computerless and tell her im still in for this months hexi swap.

either way ill be back in a few days...i hope. it will depend on the job thingo as to when and whether hubby dearest can fix said cord because hes wonderful like that, or whether i am stuck here because of the work thing and suffer such withdrawerals and fork out the $130 for a brand spanking new universal power cord.


so thats me, i bit hum drum at the moment really. but i have to write somewhere and i actually know this password hehehe

hope all is well.

wait i remembered something else to prove my hum drumness....

on new years eve when all of you im sure had fantastically exciting plans....i was home in bed with a book. sad isnt it? i did have plans with a friend but he ditched me (he got in big trouble too). i hear you ask 'what about your boyfriend?' and the answer is...his best friend since high school has a birthday on the 31st and so he is always at her house to celebrate her birthday. my family, the odd bunch that they are spent the evening concurrently watching AND recording the basketball on tv. I however who could give two hoots about the sport took my book and a dvd and got comfy in bed.

there you go i really am pathetic. i hope you have enjoyed my random ramble and that it has at least kept you mildy amused for a few minutes

have come back again because i forgot something slightly important. I have just started a certificate in Faith Education which will, eventually, enable me to teach RE in Catholic schools. So that combined with the course I'm currently doing will mean that in 2.5 years I'll be a fully qualified high school teacher. My subject areas will be Society and Culture ( cuz i like people watching), Religion (cuz its something i know and am passionate about and history, not sure whether it will be ancient or modern, it could be both depending on the next few subjects i take. im not actually all that interested in either its just a fluke of the uni requirements.

either way, this course, or rather the people that run it, send me out lectures on cd and reading materials and essay questions and give me ten weeks for each subject. i can email them with questions but other than that work on it fairly independantly. the irony is im doing 2 subjects at the moment and while i did start working on them last week, ive been a bit distracted with other things the last few days and havent gotten back to it. methinks that im being sent a message from someone higher up...perhaps he figures that without my laptop i wont play silly games and might get back to my study

he does work in mysterious ways. am off to study now, so maybe he had a point

piccies of finished christmas lovelies

this is my brothers quilt before it was finished, that was me checking out just how big it is. now of course it is finished

this is my sisters quilt the night after it was completed, i lay it on the lounge room floor to double check everything and cut threads

this is the card i made my father (he has a thing about handmade cards) its the newest craft ive tried called Pickpoint

this is the gift i recieved from one of the forum ladies for christmas. she made it herself

the completed tablerunner and this months hexi

this is the finished tablerunner. or what it will look like in about an hour when the last 5 hexis are added. i took 2 pics so you could see the designs on some of the hexis.

also this is the hexi i made for Vicki on the forum yesterday. the idea for the design came to me in the shower oddly enough. either way i hope she likes it. i have seen a pic of the one she is sending me and it is beautiful.

crafty deadlines

theres just over a week til christmas and i still have 3 gifts to finish making as well as stitching my hexi for this months swap.

i have to back/frame 9 more hexis and join them together for the tablerunner - theres 24 in total

i have to join my sisters 24 squares/blocks for her quilt. i have 2 rows of 4 together but the rest are in ones and twos and the rows need to be joined also.

i need to pull my brothers quilt out of the storage bag it is currently in as well as a the fabric i stashed in there when i was moving in the hopes there would be enough to make the border for his centrepiece.

while i want to finish hand sewing the table runner first i do still need to stitch a hexi design for Vicki. fortunately i have informed her of this and she is to be sending to me too so neither of us are in a huge rush.

phew, huge sigh. im a bit exhausted just listing those things. i am very keen to finish my projects tho and realise the visions i had...quite a while ago for the quilts at least.

off to carols by candlelight at the local public high school that is put on every year by the christian churches in our area. i wonder if anyone would notice if i took my sewing with me.....

christmas blog bingo

In Stitches is doing a round of christmas blog bingo so these are my 25 words so i remember where i put them and can cross them off.   http://the-quilt-shoppe.blogspot.com/ thats where the bingo words will be listed each day.

  

1. little drummer boy.

2. hallelujah chorus

3. magic

4. wreath

5. quilt

6. bethlehem

7. snowflake

8. sparkle

9. spirit

10. angel

11. nativity

12. charity

13. peace

14. chocolate

15. mistletoe

16. bells

17. star

18. elves

19. movies

20. games

21. stocking

22. carols

23. choir

24. church

25. Christ's birth

Christmas shopping Done!! no more crowds for me

yup its official. just a short post to say how thrilled i am to not have to brave the shopping centres again before christmas. i may still end up going with my mum or sister to help them with gifts later but it wont be in sydney so it will automatically be better.

i still have 3 gifts to finish sewing for my younger brother and sister and my MIL but everything else is purchased or crafted and with the exception of the last 2 i bought today even wrapped, WOOT!

Angel Tablerunner

As some of you are aware I am making a framed hexagon table runner for my MIL. It is angel themed and will end up on her dining table in the front room that doesnt get used all that often so she can leave it on year round, that is also why I made it in purples, blues, creams and whites. This is where Im at so far. In that pic , some of the designs are still pinned but ive actually finished them since then. Im still short a few designs and 4 hexis of angel patterned fabric that im still waiting on from a friend but everything is all planned out so im happy with it. will post another pic when its finished