Saturday, December 10, 2011

Last night's effort ...

We ended up going out for dinner last night ... which meant I got started on my sewing later than I would have liked to for my 



 ... but I did get started which is great ... 

I made 3 placemats ... not a huge lot accomplished .. but better than nothing ... 
I am still to finish them with the binding ... I also managed to cut all the backings and wadding for the other 20 ... so really I am off to a good start ... 

these are the first 3 ... 


I think I know who these are going to .. 
but that is subject to change at any time ... 

Friday, December 9, 2011

FNSI

Well it is about time I got myself organised ... haha .. I reckon I say that at least once a day ... but ... tonight I am gluing myself in front of the machine and I am not leaving until I have something sewn for my grandchildren for Christmas ... Because ..... tonight is ....

Friday Night Sew In at my place ...

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Pin Tangle TAST 2012

This is what i am committing myself to next year ... it sounds like fun and I know I need that extra push at times to stay focused ... Pin Tangle TAST 2012

I do think I will really enjoy this challenge ...

It arrived ....

I went out on Tuesday and purchased a table tennis table .. with the idea it would be perfect for pinning my quilts layers together ... perfect for single size quilt tops ... which is what I am making for the grandchildren ...

The table arrived yesterday afternoon .. in a box ... and it took us both ages to put it together .. and when I say both of us I really mean my darling husband Marcos ... He worked on it for around 3 hours and finally it was done ... in all its magical glory there it stood .. and where was my man ... out side stretching ... he had hurt himself climbing under it to do nuts and bolts up ... opps .. sorry hun ...

I do love this man ... after 3 hours of fitting this wonderful table together for me .. I wheeled it up the passage way to my sewing room to put it away ... tra-la-la ... lala-la-la-laaaaa ........

oh my ... oooohhhh my ..... oh noooo .....  it won't fit through the door ... it goes up the passage way not problem at all ... and goes through the doorway .... about 2 feet ... but ... can't turn far enough in the passage way space to actually go all the way into the room .... ohhhhhhh mmmyyyy .... there is 4 foot of this thing that just don't fit .... no matter how much we giggled and pushed ... and wiggled and rocked .... and nugded and coerced  ..... and threatened and yelled .... and ....

well ... after a wee bit of a dummy spit from this here dummy .. and a couple of major tanties ... (again from me ) ... my darling man suggest we do a little rearranging ... the table would just go straight through the doorway into our bedroom because our room was at the end of the passage way .... so why not ... move the sewing room to the bedroom and the bedroom to the sewing room .... I will lose a bit of space because the bedroom is a smaller room but it has better light from more windows .. and he wins too because the sewing room new bedroom is darker and this means .. longer sleep ins ... not that he really needs much help in that department ... yesterday ... he didn't rise until 10:30 and this morning it was a little after 10 ...

My dear friend Fiona told me this morning that I will laugh about this soon .. and I am off to a good start .... because I am already laughing ... at myself ...

oh well ... I am going to sign off now ... and get back into making this quilt for the lad ... the top is all but finished ... and I now have a wonderful big table surface on which to pin it ...

have a lovely day out there ... be safe and stay warm ...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

ahhhh Christmas ...

it is almost that time of year again ... and as usual I am no where near ready .... I would like to make all the grandies something this year rather than buy them something or ....  just give them money which honestly is my first choice .... because then they can get something they really want rather than just something Nan got them that will sit in the bottom drawer and never get used ...

but this year I think I am going to make them something ... small ... and easy ... cos there are 23 of them and I have less than 3 weeks of time left and that time is also shared with another project that i still have not finished ... but it is coming along really nicely ... i have all the blocks put together ... now to just sew them all in rows and then put those rows together ... no borders ... just quilt and bind ... not too much more to do at all ....

i will be back with photos soon ....

and I think I shall make the children ... placemats ... all different of course ....

Monday, December 5, 2011

Back again ...

I have to be quick with this entry cos I am busy busy ... I have made a start on the quilt for my grandson Brad's 18th birthday ... which is on the 21st of this month ... hench the need to do a hasty post and get back to it ...

but I just wanted to update on a couple of things that I have done ... like the tube quilts progress ... not finished but still on the design board ... if I pack it away who knows when it will ever get done .. so it can stay there until after Brads quilt is done ...

here is a quick pic of the progress ... the top row is stitched together ... 
the other 4 are not ... 


I think it is coming along nicely ... 

Now an update on my block swaps for this month ... I had 2 with 


Here is the one I made for Beatrice .... who lives in France ... 



and this one I made for Jen D ... 
who lives in Allentown, PA 
some beautiful batiks ..... 
(sorry the pic is a bit blurry)

And this is a pic of a lovely parcel I received the other day ... 




I will be back a little later with photos of Brad's quilt .. 

but here are a couple of the what I have done so far .....



these are 6 ½ inch blocks .....

looks interesting no????? .... NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... haha ... 

Saturday, November 26, 2011

I am being norti ...



I am doing stuff I should not be doing .. 

with this .... 


and ..... 


Not doing the thing I should be doing ...



with this .... 





but .... I am having fun .... haha !!!!


It's been awhile

since I last posted anything here in my blog ... the year has just gone by so fast ... And it is almost Christmas again .... The days go by faster and faster ... or is it that I am just getting slower and slower ...
all I know is ... if this keeps up ... there won't be enough time left in my day to get out of bed ...

I have been doing so sewing ... and playing catch up on my block swap commitments ... I finally got my September and October swaps in the mail ... along with Novembers .... so currently I am all caught up .... 

These are the blocks I have mailed out for my partners


For Janet in Canada ... 



For Lorraine in New Zealand 



for Cheryl in Western Australia


and these are the swap blocks I have received back so far ... 

6 inch blocks from Janet .. 


and from Lyndell .. a 12 inch block .. 
and an extra surprise ... 4 cute little scrappy blocks .. 




and these are 12 inch blocks for this swap group ... 


for Robyn R in New South Wales .. 



for Heather G in Nova Scotia .. Canada ... 



for Lyndell in South Australia .. 



I have also made a Santa Mug Rug for another group I am in .. 
here is a pic of it ... I think it is cute ... 




I also finished off this coffee mug bag that I started a few years ago ... I am not sure why it was never finished before now ... maybe it had something to do with it being at the bottom of one of my many tubs of UFO's ... ... I really need to do something about all them too .... one day .... 

here is a pic of it ... 

I have done a couple of other things too but have not taken pics of them yet .... I will get around to that soon .... but until then I hope to get more sewing done this weekend ... I have a grandson having a birthday late next month and I do need to have a quilt done for him ... so ... that has to be my number one priority now ... I have the fabrics for it ... and I started out with a pattern in mind .. but .. that has changed ... and changed again ... so now I am not sure which of the three I am going to do .. haha ... I really should not have tampered with the original plan .... cos now I have no idea which one to pick ... haha .... maybe I should put them in a hat and pick one and be done with it ... 
but stay tuned because there will be photos of this soon ... 


Saturday, October 15, 2011

How have you all been .... Probably busy busy ... Me ... I have been busy too ... but it would appear that I have been doing very little for all of my busyness .... The weeks fly by and I get older and older and I get busier and busier ... But it all seems to produce less and less as time goes by ...
 
And as the weeks approach I make grand plans filling in days on my calendar and adding bits to my 'to-do' list ... but I tend to find the same things being put on these lists over and over again ... Maybe I am totally unorganised ... or maybe not as good at time management as I thought I was ... or maybe I don't get much achieved cos I am just plain out and out muddle minded ... lol..
 
Oh well ... let's see what this next week will bring .. getting put on the lists are ..
 
swap blocks to complete .... and
 
a quilt for my grandson's 18th birthday to cut out and hopefully start on .... and ...
 
hubby is going away for 6 weeks working and I have to prepare and freeze meals etc for him while he is away ....
 
hmmm ... I hope my time management and to-do lists start working or he will be very hungry over the coming weeks ... haha .. because I see the sewing things getting priority .....
 
 

Friday, October 14, 2011

Have you ever lost ...

The pattern sheet from your quilting magazine ... ??? ... Isn't it annoying ???

There you are reading through the lovely (and well fingered) pages in your quilting mag and think to yourself ... 'self .. that would be fun to make' ... so you get all your bits and bobs ready .. and then go to get the pattern sheet from the centre of the book .. just to find it is not there ... and oh where on earth could it be ... probably tucked away in of one of the other (1,000) magazines you have stashed in your sewing room ... gone .. but not forgotten ...

This was shown to me by a lady from the US .. I purchased a mag from her via ebay years ago and it is something I try to do when I pull the pattern sheet out .. Hopefully it will help you stay intouch with all those pages you are forced to rip from the centre of your magazine .. and once ripped .. easily lost ... sometimes forever ............

Firstly I take a plastic sleeve .... A4 is plenty big enough ... then I pop that plastic sheet into the back of the magazine .. just inside the back cover ... and using my rotary cutter and ruler I trim the plastic sleeve back to just under the cover size ... this will fit the pattern insert ..



Then trimming the side with the reinforced edge and  the top of the sleeve at the opening ...




Next I have to repair the side of the plastic sleeve so the pattern pages don't fall out ..  this is simply done with cello tape ... neatly down the side ...





Then I put double sided tape on the back side of the sleeve ... and with the pattern sheets inside the sleeve I remove the paper from the double sided tape ... if the pattern sheets are not in the sleeve the sleeve tends to move all over the place and the tape sticks to itself and trust me ... it can become very frustrating ... to the point of ... having to leave the room .. maybe grab a bottle .. i mean a glass of alcoholic beverage and then return to start all over again ... so .. by just popping the pattern into the sleeve you can still have your drink and enjoy your work ...





Then you carefully lay the whole thing onto the inside of the back cover of your magazine ...








And there it is .. preserved for all time ... in the correct mag .... safe and sound for the next usage ... that is ... as long as you remember to put it back in there once you are done ....

Happy stitching ...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

i really suck at blogging!!!! lol

I have been getting little reminders from my sweet friend that my blog is still not been updated .. and as I truly promised I would do something HERE I AM ... haha ...

I really am not very disiplined at all ... at anything really ... like this morning .. I have just finished writing out birthday cards for three of my grandsons ... one had his birthday last month .. one on the 5th of this month and the others birthday is friday .. and his card will also be late as it won't travel fast enough to get there in time ... I really do start the year with good intentions ... but that lasts all of January ... and then it goes down hill from there ... but I am pretty certain once the cards are open and the $$$ fall out the children don't care that the card is late ... gee I don't even think half of them read the card to find out who it is from ... haha .. they are just happy to get the cash ...

I have been doing a touch of sewing ... some block swaps ..which I am pretty sure I am behind in ... and .. a ring cushion for my niece for her wedding last saturday ... I have been asked to make a couple more too ... so maybe I can generate a few $$$ for the grandies birthdays by making these .... I do really enjoy these little cushions ... they are very relaxing and certainly get the creative juices flowing ...


The best part of making this was the look on the brides face when she saw it ... now that really was priceless ....  I love you my darling Lesleigh-Ellen ... and I just know you and your Casey will have a long and very happy life together ....




Thursday, August 18, 2011

QBS-A is having a givaway

Over at QBS-A ... Quilting Block Swap - Australia ... they are having a fantastic giveaway ... and the reason for this is .. they have reached and passed 100 followers .... what an excellent job Sue B has done with it ...

Well done Sue and come on over and join in the block swap fun ... done monthly and although it says Australia .. the swaps are also international if you chose ...

QBS-A and the info for the giveaway is ...... HERE!!!!!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

2 am and I am awake ... but not for long .....

It is 2am ... I am awake .. and sleep is not far off  ... I have been rather lazy with my blogging but in my defence I have been sort of busy ....

but .. to try to condense my week or at least a couple of days of it ... ( I will do a more detailed post when I am not so weary of mind)

Tuesday I made a trip to brisbane to have my toe surgery checked over .... doctors were very happy with what they saw ... excellent ...
I also spent most of that day with my daughter and her babies ... 3 year old Alicia and 10 month old Stephie ... then went to the doctors .. and then back to see her older children . 10 year old Phoebe and 13 year old Cory .... I had a long drive home and it was late when I got in but it was well worth the time I had with the children ...
Friday was spent in the hospital .... another colonoscopy .... and I got the all clear ... no need for another test for 3 to 5 years he said ... wow .. that is wonderful ... but I think I want to hear that from my doctor before I get too excited about not having to have another one for so long  ... although I was very excited when i was told that .. and deep down I still am ... cos that means we may be on the 'right' side of this rotten cancer .... I suppose there is always a possibility of it coming back ... but then .. there is always a possibility of getting hit by a bus isn't there .... I will try to live in the positives and push the negatives out the window so they get blown away with the wind ...

I am very pleased with the results ... very pleased indeed ...this little trip we have been on has certainly had its ups and downs ... sort of like a rollercoaster .. haha  ... but this news means maybe we will have a bit of clear sailing for a while ... sounds great to me ...

my second eldest son and his family are due here on tuesday .. and wednesday I will have 3 of my children, their spouses and their children here ... and I am sooooo looking forward to it ... these three have 11 children between them ... ....................

i will be back when they have all gone home ... and maybe I will have some photos of them ...

good night all ... huge hugs ...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

busy .... busy ...

I am sitting here ... chewing down a ham, cheese and tomato toasted sandwich .. hubby is almost ready to go back to work for his afternoon school bus run ...

I have a table runner sitting on the work table .... 1/3 of it is quilted .. nothing fancy ... just in the ditch ... and this afternoon I plan on doing the other 2/3's and getting the binding on it .. and taking it with me to finish when I go and visit Fiona of bubzrugz tomorrow ... I am so looking forward to seeing her again .. it has been ages ... and we do have such a good time ... I don't get too much done ... too busy chatting ... haha ... but the company is soooo good ...

I also have some new block swaps to complete ... I like to get them done and sent off as soon as possible .. cos I never know what might happen next week ... or for that matter tomorrow ... so as soon as I get my partner info I like to start planning and making the blocks .. I have two already sorted and 2 not .. this is something else that needs to be done ... today ...

well I am off to do some quilting on this very pretty table runner ...

have a great day everyone ...

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

looking forward

I spent the better half of yesterday thinking of things I have forgotten to do and people I had forgotten to contact .. missed opportunities ... and really I cannot undo anything I have not done .... all I can do is get my eyes and my mind looking forward ... and get on with the really important things ... family ... friends ... living a positive life as one should ... and of course .. make more quilts ...

life is too short to sit and dwell on the 'what might have beens' .. I need to start fixating on the 'what's next' ....

so next on my list of things i need, want or have to do ... is ... eyes forward .... and for this moment in time I am going to .... make a quilt ... well a table runner actually ... watch this space for piccies ... coming soon ...


hope you are all having a lovely day where ever you are ....

huge hugs from me ...


Monday, July 25, 2011

Goodbye Gail ...

I got word last night that my cousin passed away .. She had been ill for a while with cancer and things looked on the improve there for a bit ... then she went downhill rather fast ....

it is a sad day for her family ... I really didn't know her very well, my Mum and Dad moved away from the rest of the family when I was very little and I never got to meet her or sit and have a cuppa .. But we did chat via the internet ... and that was good ...

I wish we lived closer so I could give her sister a big hug ... one of those forever hugs .. You know .. when no one wants to let go ... I just can't imagine.. and for that matter .. do not ever want to know what it would be like to lose a sister ... I have three and I just know my heart would break and never ever mend if I was to lose one of them ...

so I am feeling a little sad today ... not for Gail (her pain is finally over) ... but for her family, for what they are going through and for me too, and what could someday be closer to home ... it seems death of family or friends brings home the reality of how very frail and how very precious life is ...

We are here for such a very short time … I just hope that I use what time I have left productively .. and that my family and friends know that I love them … and that when I do shuffle off this mortal coil … folks will smile with fond memories rather than cry over missed opportunities …

Have a lovely day out there …. hold very close to your heart those who are precious to you … and make sure to tell them that you love them ….

Saturday, July 23, 2011

My FNSI ...

Well it did not go to plan .. I was going to do great things on my first FNSI 

but .. that was not to be ...

Firstly .. I pulled this out  but just could not get interested in it ...



So I  pulled this out .. and decided it needs to be unpicked too .. cos i stitched it all wrong .. and will have to wait for daylight cos these old eyes don't do black in the dark anymore ...



So I went looking again ... and I found this poor (misshapen, neglected, half made, part unpicked) but very pretty project ... it was the first quilt I cut from a pattern ... done in a workshop environment  .. which did not go to plan either .. lol

I was a brand new 'quilter' .. new to the district and .... apparently a pain in the butt to some of the local ladies in the quilt club ... small country area ... a cliquish group ... and not much tolerance for lots of questions .. as one tends to have when one is learning … actually they sucked at being helpful .. that is why I ended up on the internet … looking for like minded folk who were really going to help .. … opps!!! off topic a bit ...

Back to my FNSI … I pulled out this poor misshapen pile of blocks .. I will tell you the story behind them as it does tell why they have sat for close on 5 years in a dark and dreary place ..

My local quilt club was having a weekend workshop .. doing a Bethany Reynolds ‘Stack n Whack’…. Did I want to join in?? … Sure, why not! I purchased my fabric, got all my stuff organised for what I believed was going to be a wonderful weekend .. learning new stuff … and this was brand new stuff to me ... to date I had made 2 quilts .. one little one for a friend’s baby shower which was really just panels sewn together .. and a quilt for my man,which again was panels and charm squares .. which I must admit I purchased online already cut, so no work there but sewing bits together … easy as … So what was happening at this workshop was all brand new stuff to me .. of course these ladies had done heaps of quilts … they had been raised making quilts with their mums and had taught their daughters all to quilt …. Me .. I had done dressmaking so I knew my way around a machine and a needle, but not a rotary cutter .. mat … ruler … squares … ¼ inch seam ….. all these things were very very new to me … even the quilts I had made really did not require a ¼ inch seam .. the seams just needed to be all the same size …

The instructor .. we shall call her Tina .. (not to protect the innocent but because that was her name .. haha) ...later said the workshop was geared for the experienced quilter …. So what I kept hearing was .. aren’t you done yet ??? … you need to hurry .. best you catch up quick … no I don’t really have the time to stand here and show you everything …. But .. you can come to my shop and I will help you later …

So I finished at the workshop and what I had learnt was how to put the blocks together .. I finished them at home … but there was not two the same size .. yep … all 15 of them were different … what a nightmare … I rang Tina .. sure come on into the shop … we do ‘bring your own project days’ on Tuesday .. only $20, I can show you how to do quilt as you go … and .. help with the sizing of the blocks …

Great ... I only have to drive 300 kilometres for you to do that !!!!   I was to say the least feeling very disheartened ..

I went there on the following Tuesday and she proceeded to help me cut the wadding and the backing … mind you she did nothing about the sizes of the blocks …and said with a bit of sashing no one would notice the difference in them …. So I merrily set about quilting all these blocks just to find later when I put the sashing on ….Yep … you already know where this is going don’t you … nothing fitted .. I did unpick some of the blocks .. but got totally ticked off that I packed it all away .. and until last night it has been in the bottom of a tub … in a zippy bag .. where I can’t see it … until last night …..

I have now decided this poor misshapen mass of blocks is going to be my FNSI project ( I will do at least one of these a week ) … I am going to unpick every block and resew them and make a quilt from them … I can unpick while I am watching tele or sitting at the doctors waiting to get in ….. if I take my lint roll (the sticky paper one ) .. I can use it to catch all the threads and not make a mess in the doctors waiting room … or maybe I should make a mess …. Might get me into see the doc quicker … lol …

So this is what I started with … last night …


oh yes ... and my cuppa and little snack .. sweet biscuits .. (norti girl)



And this is what I finished with … a new block that measures …
12 ½ inch … yay!!!!

Stay tuned for more on the life and times of my Stack n Whack ...

Friday, July 22, 2011

FNSI ... tonight ...

I am playing FNSI for the first time tonight ...

I am all set to sew ... if you want to join in ... pop on over to Handmade By Heidi and join in the fun ..

more mug rugs ...

I really do enjoy making these little beauties ... they are so much fun .. and easy to do too ...

These were also made for my friend Karen ... and the Mums On a Mission ... who are fundraising for the Relay for Life ...






it is a wonderful thing that Karen and her friends are doing .... and I am blessed to be able to help a little in their fundraising efforts ... next year tho I shall start a little earlier with my sewing efforts .. that way I will get a wee bit more done ...



Now I am off to the Post Office ... Karen should have these by Tuesday .. hopefully ....

Monday, July 18, 2011

what a great weekend ....

it started off slow ... with me doing a little bit of housework ... well putting a load of laundry thru the machine and moving the dust bunnies about sort of constitutes housework doesn't it ... no .. ok .. well the weekend started of slow ... with me doing very little about the house .... i did spend just about the entire 2 days in my sewing room ... while hubby fended for himself ... out there in the mess .. kitchen ... fixing his own meals ... oh well ... he is a big boy .. and if he does not know how to do stuff by now .. he will starve if i should happen to go off for a holiday or some such thing ...

so ... we have him looking for food in a kitchen that has very little food in it ... and we have me ... in my sewing room ... being served up coffee and muffins and beautiful chicken sandwiches for lunch ... heehee .. he went shopping .. i knew he was a keeper that first moment i saw him ...


yep .. he looked after me real good he did … … ummm .. hang on a minute …  why am I talking about him … not sure really how the topic got changed .. but this is All about Me  … so let’s just …get … back to me

I made some swap blocks … and they were all soooo gorgeous .. I had to make some for me too …


This is something I have been doing with my swaps … I make 2 blocks in my partners choice of colours or fabrics .. and I send one to her .. and keep one for me .. and when I am ready and have enough blocks .. I will get to make 2 quilts … one with the blocks I received from my partners .. and one with the blocks that I sent to my partners … well at least copies of the blocks … or I may even make a reversible quilt .. … incoming on one side .. outgoing on the other … I think that would be super actually … hmm … food for thought .. … hmm  .. food … where is that man when I am hungry … in bed sleeping … typical … looks like I will have to go get my own snack … would call it a midnight snack but it is 3 in the morning …

I am back .. have my snack … steaming hot feta and spinach parcels … yummmmmmy ….



I now have all my block swaps caught up … and i now have a couple more mug rugs to make for my dear friend Karen … who does “Relay for Life” every year .. and this year they are auctioning off stuff on ebay to raise funds … and some of my mug rugs have been sold already … you can find their little bits here …. Mums On a Mission … so I told Karen that I would make some more .. because every little bit helps .. and they really don't take that long to make up ...

Also this weekend I tidied up my sewing room … cos it was all a bit messy and I was having problems finding things .. I am sure you all have had a similar experience … I think it was that gnome … Kevin .. messing things up … moving stuff about … I just know he has been in and out all weekend … tells me he only came in tonight to get out of the wet … cos he really hates the wet … but it has been wet out for a while now .. I think it rained all day Saturday .. so he would have snuck in at some stage … and just hidden himself away in a corner …. Gee the house is so messy he could have stood naked in the middle of the lounge room and no one would have noticed him … lol

But he did want to help while I was taking photos of the swap blocks .. I wanted to take a sneak peek pic of one of the blocks .. it is going to Medora in Canada .. anyway … I was having problems getting the camera to take a close up shot .. and an angled one was just all blurry or the flash was way too much .. haha … anyway .. I went out to make a cuppa and relax a little … and when I came back in .. here he was .. Kevin … on the table … saying he had worked it out and solved my problem  .. so I took a photo … and well yes .. it was a good Idea that he had … umm it would probably be easier if I just showed you …. Here he is …

 the block is well concealed ... but still visible enough to get a little idea of the colours used ...

anyway lovely people in blogland ...

it is late .. even for me … so on that note I shall say good night … sleep dreams and stay safe everyone …. Huge hugs …

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Lookie ... See .....



What the postie did bring for me … it is my MugRug from Dorian … Yay !!!! Doin’ the Happy Dance !!!! 



My little package was mailed out of Canada on June 1 … and inside the package was … my MugRug … a gorgeous piece of fabric and a sweet little card inside its own little envelope … and on that envelope was my name and address …. And .. on the outside of the package was all the usual things …. Stamps … international / customs declaration .. name … and oh my .. the wrong address …

I have no idea how long my lovely package was at the wrong address for .. and I don’t know why the person who lives there opened it … by accident or on purpose .. it matters not … because .....

Here in Australia .. you are allowed to open any mail with your address on it … whether it belongs to you or not .. if it has your address on it .. it belongs to you … now … I am sooo  grateful that Dorian wrote the address on the sweet little envelope … and I am soooo grateful to the person who did open my package (for whatever reason) was an honest person and that they gave it back to the postie to bring here where it belongs … home at last … yay !!!!
Now my little MugRug is very very special … not only because it had an incredible journey to get here but also because it is actually reversible .. I got a 2 for 1 … wooohoooo!!!!!
Oh … I guess I should put in a pic or two to show just how gorgeous this MugRug is ..


This is the topside .. isn’t it gorgeous … precious little darlings looking out to sea … and the sweet little card .. and the beautiful fabric … yeah it is only a wee peek of that .. sorry

This is the backside ... with all the good bits that go with being at the beach ...

 



And … I also should write a little thankyou card
to the lovely honest person at number 56 …



Thank you Dorian … I just love my MugRug …