MOTHERS DAY GIFTS & OTHER BITS

Where has this last week gone.  It seems like yesterday we were over at my daughter's house and celebrating Mother's Day.

The beautiful card my daughter made for me.  If you click on it,  you can see the writing more clearly , and it is so  me.

And these are my presents.  The owls are fridge magnets, the book  is one of Erica  James  that I've not read and the  fun birdcage something I tried to buy, but they had sold out.  I have put three jelly rolls inside to make sure they get used instead of in the cupboard where they may be forgotten.  We'll see, but aren't I the lucky one.

I also brought this home with me.  My daughter has made this for Gs "L", as now that he is 7, his little cuddle quilt I made for him is too small for cuddling under whilst watching TV.  She hand appliqued the cars and vans using buttonhole stitch and drew some faces in the windows.  It looks absolutely lovely.  Gd "M" will be getting one also, with beautiful fairy embroidery.








On Thursday my hubby had the day off and we decided to go out for the day, but as it was windy and lashing down with rain so we went to the Tyabb Packing House Antique Centre as we knew we'd be dry and there is a nice little cafe, so we could have a light lunch.  We wandered around  and saw lots, but luckily didn't buy anything except a couple of old books.  The above pictures are how the sky was looking for most of the day and the second one, galahs sitting on the wires.  These birds are pink and grey and there were dozens of them.  I was lucky to get this pic, as we were sitting at a set of traffic lights and I couldn't find the camera, but it came out better than I thought.


 


On the way to Tyabb, we stopped at one of my favourite little interiors/gift shops.  I don't get there very often and she sells both new and old things.  I bought these 5 little bottles, which I do need to get a little cleaner, but couldn't resist to put them on the window sill this morning with some flowers from the garden.  Not much is flowering at the moment, and what is there, is a little battered from the heavy rain.  My feet were soaked when I came in.  I also picked some rhubarb and will make a crumble for dessert tonight.

My English Garden quilt is now bound and is to be displayed in the Lioness Quilt Show in September, or so I've been told.  I have a few others I would like to finish as well, but with a baby quilt and Gd's to do, they will have to wait.

These are stitcheries I've done over the last few years and I'm debating on a design for them.  It will be a small quilt and probably with lots of floral fabric.  Watch this space.  The designs are from Bronwyn Hayes.

Well, this is some of what I've been up to this week.  Must go and finish making some soup and baking a slice.

Have a lovely weekend girls and thanks for my comments.

Susan.