Monday, May 27, 2013

Livin' in a bus .. ain't that bad ...

I am quite loving it really ... sure it has its ups and downs .. but on the whole ... it is really wonderful .. 


Currently we are visiting with our son and his wife and children ... all four gorgeous boys ... the 3 younger ones love nothing more than to spend their weekend on my bed playing 'playstation' with Poppy ... 



Lookout ... Chance seems to be beating Poppy ... 
 and the young fella does looked real pleased with himself ...
Cameron and Barak are sitting waiting for the inevitable ...



And it just happened ... 
 Watch Out Chance ...   Poppy don't play fair ... He don't care that you are only 4 ... 
He WILL kill you so that he can win ... He has no conscience ... 



Yes Chance .... Poppy is a really mean old man ... 
and he will not apologise .. even if you cry ... and thinks nothing of arguing with a 4 year old either ... 

mean old Poppy ... 
and now there is a winner the older boys seem to have totally lost interest in the whole game ... 




 and underneath all those bodies is my bed ... 
I may be able to fix it later when I need to go to bed ... maybe ....


And while the boys and the mean old man are in the bedroom ... killing my bed .... I am at the other end of the bus ... sewing ... I have my 'sewing room' set up ... everything has its place .. and I love it ... 

The ironing and pressing of blocks gets done here ... 
on my sewing board .. over the sink ... 
what do you think of that ... great hey?? ... 




 The cutting board lives here ... with my sweet Kevin over seeing things ... and if you look to the left of him you will see my little friend 'Chookie' ... the sweet Fiona made her for me when we left Toowoomba ... she keeps Kev company and makes sure he does not wander off too far ... 

The cutting board had to have a few minor tweaks to get it to fit on the countertop ... points cut off the corners and just a wee little notch in the centre so that it would fit around the wall paneling .. 


 and the beautiful machine ... well she lives here ... on my foldaway table ... this is the heart and soul of the sewing room ... 
and hanging just above it is my humming bird ... a very lovely gift from the very lovely Maddy .. 


Behind me on the other counter top is all the fabric and bits and bobs that get used ... 
And it is when it looks like this .. I really want to sew but I just stop and look at it for a while ... have a cuppa and take in the beauty of it all ... cos I know as soon as I pull out the fabric ... it won't look like this for very long ... it will look like all your rooms do .... a glorious mess ..... with good things happening ... 



I made this last week .. for my DIL's sister ... her baby is due in about 6 weeks ... she is having a little boy ... it was not a full size cot quilt as she really wanted something for a basket .. it measured 30 x 34 inches ... and the machine embroidery blocks were a gift from a friend who owns this site ... http://www.nanasweightedblankets.com.au/ 
Actually this looks a little purplish in this shot .. but it is a real royal blue ... 




And this was a prize that I won doing a Mystery Quilt from Here!!
I guessed the name of the block and had my quilt finished before anyone else ... woohoo .... 
I am guessing the little dragonfly was just a little extra something for Me !!! ...



a close up of the little dragonfly ...
Too cute ..


This is the Mystery Quilt ... 



As today is a Monday ... the big boys are all at school .. 
so this is what my bedroom generally looks like ... this is an old photo .. would take another one right now of the same scene .. but my battery is flat ... but they are in there again ... saving the world from the bad guys ... oh ... and arguing like a couple of school kids ... 




love my family ... love my life ...