Pay it forward

I have finally sent off all 9 'Pay-it-forward' gifts.

One of them was given a little earlier than the others as it accompanied a birthday present back in March.
Kate is a lover of both horses and pincushions so I made her this to add to her growing collection.

In addition, she received her PIF gift ...

A covered notebook with a tiny hand-stitched hexagon flower as embellishment.

The remaining 8 were sent off last week.

Each with a matching notecard.

I hope they are enjoyed by their recipients and I look forward to hearing about their own PIF's.

In other PIF news, I received a gorgeous bag from Kerri a while back and it has taken me an age to post about it.

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Image taken from Kerri's blog

Thanks so much Kerri.. 

I love it and hope you are continuing to have a wonderful family holiday!

Hope you all have a great week.

Andi :-)

Beehive - May

This month Julie requested modern log-cabin style blocks with extra 'surprises' in the logs.

Having the flexibility of adding splashes of colour within the logs enabled me to be a complete tight-arse with the fabric and I hardly wasted any fabric at all.

 I love the collection of fabrics she sent. I must find out what that green is. (Maybe a Kaffe shot cotton???).
I must have some!!!

Hope you like them Julie.

In other news, I am COMPLETELY behind with a whole lot of posts I have been meaning to do and will try to get to them in the coming week or so.

I'm off to Stitches and Craft on Friday. Wheeeee!!!!
See you there?


Andi :-)

10 consecutive bad hair days .... and loving it!

'Bula' from beautiful Fiji!

We got back on Sunday night from a 10 day family holiday / honeymoon.

I am still rather jet-lagged and I'm writing this at 5am Melbourne time so I might just let the pictures do the talking .....  (Click on the mosaics to see more detail)

We spent some quality time together as a family:

Met some wonderful people:

And encountered some incredible wildlife:

Apologies to anyone who has been expecting emails from me in the past couple of weeks. I've been otherwise engaged.

Back to crafting very soon .... promise!!

Andi :-)

Boyish

The Hebrew writing says 'Naphtali' which is the name of a brand new baby boy.

Andi :-)

School holiday crafting

Tie-dyed t-shirts.
Thought the kids might enjoy getting involved ....

First, tie up your nice clean white t-shirts.
(The kids actually helped with this bit)

Dip half into the dye colour of choice

Give a bit of a stir every now and then

Once dyed, dip the other half in a second colour.

Admire the results

Untie those ties. (Not easy to do!!)

With a bit of help from Mum and Rosie

Soak in a salt bath

Hang on the line

Happy little people

Andi :-)

A post of belated 'thank you's

I have been so very lucky in recent weeks and have neglected to share my luck in this forum.

So here are some of (but not all of) the lovely items I have received of late ........

Last year I won a competition over at Wendy's. There were 2 items on offer and I won the Christmas bag.
A couple of months later, Wendy was ready to send me my prize when she realised that, being a Jewish sort of a person, I might not actually want a Christmassy sort of a bag so .... knowing I am collecting scraps for a scrappy quilt .... she thoughtfully send me a selection of gorgeous scraps instead. Including lots of lovely Wonderland fabric which I adore.
Thanks so much Wendy.

More recently, I won some more scrappy pieces over at Sheridan's place.
Yes, those ARE Heather Ross camper-vans and gnomes you can see in that photo.
Thank you so much Sheridan. These will also make a stunning addition to my new quilt.

And lastly (for today), Tanya gave me one of her highly coveted 'T is for towel' tea towels in exchange for a book that I KNEW had to belong on her bookshelf.

She also included this extra tea towel which I absolutely adore.
Thanks Tanya. How good is the blogosphere!!!!

Well, that's all for now although I have plenty more treats to show you in the coming days.

Until then ....

Andi :-)