{image via wedding chicks}
Phoof…where has this week gone? One thing for sure is I am welcoming this weekend with open arms. After two VERY late night baking marathons (or should I say early hour finishes…gulp) I am exhausted. Proud of what I achieved, but exhausted. How about chuffed, but stuffed.
Anyway let me introduce you to Baby Maggie. One out of three baby magpies, that have become so tame they take bread tidbits from my hand and think nothing of lining up alongside Sooty and Fo in an attempt to share from their dinner bowls 🙂
Have a lovely weekend xx
Showstopper
Usually I am my own harshest critic, often deeming finished projects as somehow falling short of my level of perfection, but not this time. I don't think I've ever been as proud of something as I am of this beauty. I literally could stare at it all day long. And it won me first place at our local show over the weekend, how awesome is that!
I love the simple three tiered design, and the cascade of sugar flowers consisting of an open peony, buds, pom pom dahlias, hydrangeas and peiris. Having never made sugar dahlias before I must say it was quite a challenge, having to cut and shape over 70 individual petals!
And the sweet cotton lace (raided from Mum's stash) helped complete the look.
Simply stunning. Sigh…
Happy Birthday
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Monday
{image via Once Wed}
Well thanks to a new pair of heels and a long overdue opportunity to carve it up on the dancefloor at a wedding on Saturday night, this week I'm sporting a rather large blister. Nice. Yesterday was another day under the pump finishing off sugar flowers and covering cake tiers, and so far so good. Can't wait to see it all come together!
P.S Jodie if you've found me, and are now stalking me 🙂 I just wanted to say thanks for being such awesome company on Saturday night!
Hello there bernina 710
When my little old faithful Brother PS-55 started giving me grief post Christmas (thankfully it was after the mad rush to finish Christmas stockings) I decided it was finally time to update my machine. To invest in something that would last a life time…because God only knows it will take that long to work my way through 600 and something stitch patterns.
Feast your eyes on this baby. The Bernina 710.
It's magnificent. And it's huge. So huge and magnificent it's helping me to forget it cost almost both arms and legs. It doesn't know it yet but it's going to work it's gloss off (well not literally I hope) because from now on I plan to cut, stitch and baste like nobody's business.
See, even the box is huge.
Did someone just say fabric?
Hmm no, but hey let me mention it just so we can talk about it awhile.
About this same time every year I go a little mad about fabric. From pastel florals to modern geometric, just name it and I’m sure I’ll find a reason as to why I think I have to have it. It also doesn’t take much more than the word pre-cut to get my attention, but pair that with an adorable name like jelly roll, layer cake, charm or honey bun and who wouldn’t want to get their hands on a sweet little bundle of endless possibilities, I mean seriously.
Despite having learnt to sew at an early age, it was only two years ago that I actually made my first quilt. I designed the blocks/pattern myself, purchased way too much yardage (the perils of an overzealous beginner quilter) and sewed my little heart out to have it finished in time to enter into our annual agricultural show. I won first prize for ‘Quilt by Beginner’ and that was that. I was hooked.
Since then I’ve made this one that I gave to Mum for her birthday, have just about finished this one which I’m ashamed to say has not been touched since er, March of last year…gulp, and have yet another one on standby that currently consists of a few stacked sewn half triangles.
That should keep me busy for a while you say? Well yes, but alas in my midst of fabric fever I suddenly had a brilliant idea that Mum and I should make a Christmas quilt together. Or rather a quilt each – same fabric, different pattern. And then we’re just going to pretend that making a quilt intended for our otherwise incredibly hot holiday season makes complete sense. As does the excuse to buy even more gorgeous fabric! We’ve settled on Chateau Rouge by French General. Perfect for a red, white and grey themed Christmas.
And I have some other rather exciting news to share, but I’m saving it for tomorrows post 🙂
Fourteen.
Truth be told I'm not sure of the exact day our furry monsters were born, but judging from this old photo we found over the weekend, they would have more than likely been almost three weeks old. Count back from that and there you have it. Of course that's Sooty and Fo right out in front trying to make a run for it 🙂
It's hard to believe they were ever that tiny. So vulnerable and so precious.
And here we have Sooty showing a little brotherly love (or not so much, from the look on Fo's face).
Fourteen years on and no less precious, Happy Birthday kitties.
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