P!NK was FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me on the balcony of our apt. just before we left! {Note the pink hair 😉 😉 }

Singing with Nate via technology ❤

Loved the “Truth About Love” tour!

She landed on a taaaallllll pillar just a couple of meters from us!!! 😀

I think I may just have to go see her again next time she tours 🙂

Hmmm I seem to be very slack lately and all I do is play “Catch Up”
Manic Mumdays, sewing, household … Ugh!

I need to make some lists and work my way thru them.

I made this darling quilt months ago:

I’ve even quilted it! All it needs is the binding but I havnt gotten my shit together enough to get cracking on it!
I also have a table centre and placemat set to finish as well … Argh! I swear, I drive myself nucking futs sometimes!

 

Anyhooo … I have also just signed up for my *FIRST* Quilting Bee!
We are making this for the first Queen :

This gorgeous little block comes together like a dream! I love it so much I am going to make one for someone very special’s Birthday or Christmas maybe 🙂

I am the next Queen tho and I am pretty sure I have chosem my block … Decisions, decisions!

 

I am going to try my darndest to make it back sooner rather than later for my next post 🙂
Catch ya’s on the flip side xo

Yayyyy for the weekend! Tho, I always feel a little grumpy on Sunday afternoons.

The weekend is drawing to a close and it’s back to the grind tomorrow …

It should be an interesting week 🙂 There will be dentist appts {the last of many – yayy!!}, extra swimming lessons, airport visits, school of course. I’m working Monday and Tuesday this week because Mr Manic is heading off on a boy’s “weekend” to Melbourne for football. His beloved Pies are playing his mates team and they are making a weekend of it 🙂 I hope he has a blast!!

I go away on my own a fortnight later to see the only woman I would turn for :
P!NK!!

I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am and how much I’m looking forward to some time away. Not so much time away from my boys {I will miss them with everything I am} but time away from the mundane day-to-day … and if I’m honest, from responsibility.

I will be catching up with lots of fabulous friends while I’m down there too.

My littlest man turns 4 the day before I leave. I can’t believe how time has flown! It seems like only yesterday I was pregnant!

+ 4 years =

My little ice cream monster 🙂 Love his guts!!

Sew, this is the last quilt I finished:

I made it for the very first market night at a new page I am admin on : Market Night

Head on over and check it out, we are trying to hold one every few weeks and the more people who know about it, the more successful it will be! 🙂

My job for today is to bind a UFO and get into ironing a heap of fabric! 😀 😀 😀
I even found some at the bottom of the family ironing pile – I forgot all about it!!!
Just in time too cos some of it is Christmas fabric … not too early to sew for Christmas is it? lol

Which reminds me ….. Which side of the debate do you fall on – Pre-wash or no pre-wash?

Have a great Sunday!!!

Good Morning!

Remember I said I was working on a secret squirrel project recently?

The item has now been delivered and I’d love to share the story with you all 🙂

4 1/2 years ago I discovered I was pregnant with our second child. I signed up to an online Baby Club, thinking it would be a place to find out information and meet some people in the same place in their lives.

Well!!!

Meet them I did! We were a group of 80 or 90 and over the years a few have dropped off, but even now we are round the 70 mark. We are spread out – all over Australia and New Zealand in fact. With one of us even jet setting off to Saudi Arabia last year!
Anyhow, we have become extremely tight-knit and have held meet-ups – both “mega” and “mini” {more for those close by to just have a coffee and playdate.} These ladies will be my life-long friends! We are family.

Sadly one of our family are going thru a sad, terrible, tough, heart-breaking time. They lost her beloved Dad unexpectedly a little while ago. And within weeks of that tragedy they were dealt a double blow. Their adorable, vibrant little boy, Devin was diagnosed with Leukemia. Treatment commenced almost immediately starting off with a trip on the Flying Doctor to Westmead Hospital.

This is Devin, look at that AMAZING hair!

Our group passed the hat around and treated Devin to an iPad – a wonderful tool for keeping little people occupied for hours, I know it keeps my 2 little and 1 big men enthralled!

But we wanted to do something a little more personal. One of our lovelies {hi Meg!} came up with the fabulous idea of making a quilt from blocks sent from all of our combined families! I was nominated to assemble it and off we went!!

Here are a couple of collages of blocks as I got them:

Layering the work in progress:

The fabulous pillowcase made by another talented member {Hi Ange!}

This is how it turned out :

Amazing how little battlers can still smile thru the tough times!

A page has been set up on Facebook to try to help this wonderful family out. They are holding an Auction night on the 16th August, please head on over and check it out. The link is HereThey are also gratefully accepting donations. Every cent goes to Devin and his family for living away from home costs.

Ohhhh Dear!
Time has really gotten away from me in the last couple of months! I have been so busy! I’ve just completed one of the most special projects I’ve ever attempted. But I can’t share pics yet as it is still has “Secret Squirrel”* status.

I will however, share some pics of other quilts I have done recently…
This VHC one was made for stock but sold really quickly {within a day!} on my Facebook page:

And this woodland themed one, ordered specially for my friend’s gorgeous, new little niece:

And I made this VHC pram/playmat Raggy for a colleague’s little boy born last week :

I also have this sweet little cot quilt waiting patiently for some binding:

And the back :

Cant wait to finish this one-off. We have guests coming and I will be sewing for a Market Night in between … And August isn’t looking much calmer. Hubby is going away for a football weekend mid-month. Sounds fit and healthy doesn’t it? Sadly it involves more watching footy and drinking beer than playing haha He will have fun tho, I am sure 🙂 And I will be going away at the end of August to see P!NK – yeah baby! I am hanging out for that!!!!!! Going to catch up with some fabulous friends there too! 😀

Maybe September will be a sewing month. My next quilt will be a Pow Wow by Cluck Cluck Sew Patterns.
I cant wait to get into that baby! 🙂

Anyhow, hope all’s well in your corner of the world, and I will be back over the weekend to reveal my super special last project once its SS* status is lifted … Kate xo

* Secret Squirrel {from now on known as “SS” 😉 } When we were kids, if we wanted something kept super secret we’d say “Secret squirrel business” and tap our noses wisely 🙂

Hmmmm … Where did May go???

Why, oh why does time go so fast? Is it just cos I’m a Mum now? Or is it the same for everyone?

I swear it never used to fly so …

I have just farewelled my gorgeous sister Boo, her hubby, and her 3 gorgeous little munchkins – Lockstar, Potater and Moo

😦 So I am sad.

Going to drag my sewing stuff back out and mess my loungeroom up again now! I have some mending and a replacement t-shirt to do first and then I am laying out 2 cot quilts and have some skirts and bunting cut out and ready to sew this week.

The last 2 things I sewed last week :
A shirred maxi dress (CKC pattern, I did the sew along with them again!) for Moo and Darth Vader cape for JoJo.
I was most upset to see he had taken it off at school for the costume parade … he looked so totally awesome I thought!!

Some pics of my recently visiting family 🙂

The 4 Rascally boys eating dinner … they loved their own special table lol 🙂

 
My niece Moo with me on the left and with her Mum, my sister Boo on the right 🙂

Us 3 girls on the left, and all the cousins together on the right 🙂

Lockstar, Pie and Potater being Batmen! (can you all sense a theme in my blogs? My boys love Batman!)

And finally, how it looks in my little piece of paradise today :

Will be back soon to show you some pics of my 2 raggy quilts on the mat today!
Catch ya on the flip side x