Photo Day

Today was photo day, yipee. I love that they take studio photos of all the girls. I snapped a few photos in between helping to dress and fix hair, those wiglets can be quite tricky to get in and out. It was a good opportunity to see how all the costumes will look when on stage together, and how they fit. Plus it gave me some much needed practice with applying head pieces and false eyelashes!

Club uniform 

March - Pirates of the Caribbean

Rods - 76 Trombones

Clubs

Free Arm - Cat in a Hat

  

 Aesthetics

Stage Review - Jungle Melody

And Folk dance to come, the costumes are not yet completed but they are red and white satin with gold sequins and look amazing. 3 weeks to the first competition, we can't wait!

Trip to the snow

For months we have been promising the kids a trip to play in the snow, and we finally did it! I took a week off work and pulled them out of school for a few days and we took off. Only a 3 hour drive to the nearest snow resort, not really a resort more a little village with a toboggan run.
Kids had a great time, we did quite a few hikes, played in many playgrounds, ate at alot of country bakery's and even rescued a horse from the road!
Some of my fave pics, we hiked to the summit and that's where the real snow was so they attempted to make snow angels and a snowman and they all ate some. lol. On the toboggan run it was man made snow so more of an ice chip than fluffy and white but still a great experience.

Next vacation? Queensland!!

Charm Square Christmas

I found a nice stash of pre cut 5" charms in a box that I thought contained an iron? So on Thursday night I pulled out all the red, green and white print ones and sewed into pairs. Then I sewed into 4's. Then 2 lots of 4's. Then added another 4 and created 12 rows of 12. Creating a quick and easy quilt top.

Will make a nice gift for someone this Christmas, most likely a teacher or one of Cate's many dance coaches. I have folded up and put away for now, need to stock up on wadding then get into the spirit of sitting and quilting.

Sheep and Alpaca Show

I took Oliver the the local Sheep and Alpaca show yesterday. When we get our farmlet I want some sheep. I have pretty much settled on the Wiltipol Sheep, despite them being marketed as lean meat sheep (we do NOT eat lamb). There pros - no shearing, no tails, good in wet conditions, high baby production and they apparently stay in there allocated paddocks, ha!

And to protect all my lambs, we will be needing a few Alpacas. Brown ones. One called Kerry and the other Rupert, lol.

Not sure how Oliver will go with the whole farming thing, he stepped in sheep poo and complained about the smell and was worried the sheep were going to bite him. But he was curious about the judging and seemed happy enough just to look. Really need to step up the hunt for our land so we can get this project happening.



The charms are rolling in

Rose sent a whopping 496 plus 87 Christmas prints!!

It's not to late to sign up, comment below and I will email you the details, the more the merrier.

Instagram Fun

Loving my iphone, some quick pics; strip pieced half square triangles. All 2.5" squares in bright modern prints. These are the corners from the boys quilts, need about 900 to make a single bed size, loving it so far.

And Cate who's so happy, happy, happy! We had family over on the weekend which equals a younger cousin to play with, oh how she misses her cousins in Perth. Lots of balloons and streamers, food and jelly, good times. No pinata though, maybe next time.

And Kipper, who is usually mad as, she hates the cold, hates visitors, the neighbours dog, the kids being loud after school, the bin truck, the vacuum cleaner and has a big fear of the mop.

Ok enough spam, quilt pics to come, have some serious WIP happening.

Charm Swap - including Christmas prints.

Lots of lovely participants in my charm swap, great to see some blogged posts too! I have been cutting and cutting, some of my fave prints in here including Amy Butler, Joel Dewberry, Kei, Kona, and novelty prints, Moda florals and some of my Spotlight lovelies.

I am also doing a separate Christmas swap, same 5" size but will keep these prints away from the other swap so you will only get Christmas prints back if you send some Christmas joy. Still plenty of time to sign up, post here.