Archive for the ‘christmas’ Category
TweetNow that mum’s retired and all and living by the sea where it can be *very* *very* chilly, it was time to stitch her a beachy picnic quilt of her own. Naturally, Christmas was the perfect time. Most of the fabrics came from the stash but I did succumb to a few lovelies from Amitie [...]
TweetPresents for the girlie have become a bit trickier these last few years. Those considered standard for the modern teenager include clothes, money, clothes, money, expensive electronic equipment, money … hmmm! Well, to be honest, we are very blessed with electronic equipment (courtesy of husband-father who works in IT) so simply don’t need any. Clothes [...]
Tweet { The Tomten Christmas Band, copyright 2011 A Pint of Cream } I’ve been squeezing Christmas cross stitch time in between all the other busyness that is our lives at the moment. It began with the realisation, back in Bootville, that I couldn’t find our Christmas stockings and that, in fact, I hadn’t been [...]
Tweet The very day we flew out of Brisbane (just over a week ago now), I was frantically finishing the quilting of our new Father Christmas quilt and adding a super quick machine stitched binding (which, I might add, cured me of machine stitched bindings for ever – they truly don’t look nearly as lovely [...]
TweetOh the busyness! Oh the exhaustion! Oh the nerve-wrackingness of not being able to boot this silly little laptop up for a whole week. Oy! The last week has seen us finish up school for the year, travel to Brisbane, finish packing Mum’s house, experience the franticness of the big moving day, say au revoirs [...]
TweetI am here … I’ve just had a quick trip to Brisbane to celebrate the end of Mum’s 22 year career and a heap of packing … now I’m stitching and quilting and sawing and gluing and trimming and soaking and cooking and wrapping … But I have no bandwidth. The changes you can see [...]
