Two more down

Everyone is back at school, yay! These two are very happy, they were ready to start a month ago. Thick red fleecy jumpers, there double layer and so warm.

Cate is in year 4 and Stu in year 6, final year of Primary School here. His teacher seems great, very sporty and plans on getting the boys into cricket at lunch.

I love Cate's new bag, Little Wols. Only $9 from Kmart, bargain. We bought 2 as not sure on expected lifespan.

School run takes 40 minutes, we drop Oliver at the cross walk and have to drive past 6 other schools in peak hour traffic all 40km zones, we go through 2 sets of traffic lights, 3 round abouts and 4 school crossings. I drop them at the corner, there is no car park, seriously not even a drop and run section. Afternoon pick ups are interesting.  

However one good thing is that there school is on the same street as The Crafty Squirrel.

High School Boy

yep, he's going to High School.

His bag weighed down with books, they have a locker with a combination lock, we practiced using it heaps so fingers crossed he can get his books in and out.

With 250 other kids in his year group he is going to make lots of new friends, go on camp, do lots of homework and enjoy new experiences such as rowing regatta's and class science experiments with bunsen burners.

He's also wants to master German, travel using the public bus and play a musical instrument (please not the drums!!)

 Love you Mr Ver my grown up high schooler, only 6 more years ahead of you then onto Uni, yipee.

January WIP Challenge - Walk in the Woods

Walk in the Woods, a large single bed sized quilt for Cate. Sorry for the awful photos, will do a big blog post when her room decor is complete. Cate picked this layer cake out when we went Christmas Shopping at Ballarat Patchwork. I used nearly 2 layer cakes to get the desired size and left the blocks as a 10" square to show the prints off at her request.

I made my own bias binding for the curved corners, love the look and will definitely be doing this again. Backing was pieced using KAI dots and watermelon pink homespun, (both from my stash) and quilted straight lines and across the diagonal.

Squeak our woodland creature, always good for a pose, no foxes or hedgehogs in Ballarat.

This is my completed work in progress for AJ's WIP Challenge, more woodland delight to come as I finish Cate's room revamp.

Sheep Dog Trials

So much fun, a great morning out. 5 dogs competing for the regional title, they had to take 3 sheep from the corner, bring them across the oval staying within the cone markers, go through an open gate, go through a double fenced walkway, up a ramp and off then over to another pen for the gate to be shut, all within 15 minutes.
First up, D'arcy, he sorted the sheep out in no time. Unfortunately for round 2 he just couldn't get them in the pen for the gate to be shut, round and round they went and he was getting hot so his trainer called him back.

Dog 2, Charlie. Another good competitor, very fast and keen to show off his sheep handling skills.

3rd was Sid, who was very shy and didn't want to go out, took some convincing to get him on the course. 4th dog was disqualified for going out of the marked area and 5th dog was a small brown Kelpie that was also very good.

Cate's pick was D'arcy. Reigning champion and happy for a pat. No idea who won, got to hot and after 3 hours I was ready to go home. will check the local paper for results mid week.

Cate would love a border collie and has plans of being on the course herself next year. We'll see. Oh and to quote the program, please don't to worry, with the lenient sentences handed out these days any dogs found guilty during these trials will only receive a slap on the paw.....

At the Park

At the local park, having some fun. 2 more weeks of school holidays, will it ever end??

Sherbet Pips

So cute and all mine, I have big plans for these little charms. Stay tuned.

WIP Wednesday # 2 Walk In the Woods quilt top

Quite a bit of progress on the quilting for Cate's bed quilt. I had to stay home today for our couches to be delivered (anytime from 9am to 6pm) so I took advantage of the clean house and enjoyed the quilting process. Maybe an hour left of quilting then I can decide on the binding.

I'm having trouble with Muffin, whenever I quilt he lays on top, so cold here today I can't really blame him. I normally try to work around him but he's so heavy to push up and down. Choofed off the the bedroom today.

Linked up here for WIP Wednesday.