My year

This was my 2011. Had lots of fun looking back through the photos and remembering what happened.
Click on the photos to see them larger and make your own photo mosaics here.
January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Wonder what 2012 will bring...
Wishing you and everyone you love a VERY Happy New Year

Creative Jump Start

Do you know about this?

Jump start your creativity in January 2012.
Nathalie Kalbach has organised a group of creative women from around the globe in the scrapbooking and mixed media fields to join together for this event. They will share videos, audio or pictures to inspire. Get all the info here
IT'S FREE to sign up - why wouldn't you?

Christmas Cheer

So how was your Christmas?

We weren't up until 6.30am this year so that wasn't too bad ;-)

Lots of great presies under the tree

Will share more about these lovely books another day...

Good company

Great food

Fabulous weather
Now we are just having some relaxing days around the pool

Talk to you soon

Happy thoughts

New card delivered this week 

- happy thought for a girlfriend moving to London for a while

Grateful for friendships

My feathers made it to their destination and there have been some lovely comments made about them. I so appreciate when you comment :-)
Laughter is very important

Lovely images still appearing daily from Lisa Vollrath
Hope you are finding lots of happiness this week.
Merry Merry...

With thanks to The Graphics Fairy for this lovely image

Wishing everyone a peaceful and happy Christmas.

Wedding quilt

We've been to Auckland to celebrate our nephew's wedding.
A bit late in the piece, I decided I wanted to make them a wedding quilt. Shared the fabrics with you a few weeks ago - a tight deadline but I made it.

Including a homemade card

with appropriate words inside

I am always amazed to see how the quilt changes through the different processes. This block shows the difference of part just basted down (I used 505 basting spray) and the other part appliqued

Click on images for more detail

Also enjoy the difference from basted top

to finished article

You can see more in the detail shots

Appliqued and basted

Quilting detail

Appliqued and basted

Quilted detail

And a few more quilting close-ups on blocks

I really had fun with the quilting

This is my take on a design by Donna Ward - check it out here if you want to make your own variation.

Wishing the lovely couple every happiness for their future together

Something for the weekend

We are going away for the weekend, so thought I'd share a few things to check out while I'm gone.
Started and highly recommending this book

Enjoying these blog postings :
Alisa Burke is inspiring with ideas for using paper bags for wrapping.
Roben-Marie has created some very lovely mini journals that anyone would love to find under the tree
Still enjoying the sweet daily images of Lisa Vollrath
And really loving I discovered the blog of Stipje

Inspired by this collection of fungi:

Lately we have had warm damp weather - these appeared overnight.
Hope you have a happy weekend....only 9 more sleeps ;-)

My Quilts : Part 4

We are heading up to Auckland this weekend for a wedding. Have been madly quilting and will do a full reveal next week.

In the meantime, thought you might like to see a few more of the quilts that I've made for special occasions.
A nephew's 21st

Mother-in-law's 70th

Father-in-law's 70th

A quilt to celebrate my Mum & Dad's 40th wedding anniversary (this is my version of a Piece O' Cake design : Thru Grandmother's Window)

And another wedding quilt

Click on these links if you've missed my quilts parts 1, 2, and 3