Hello Again fellow Bloggers

Well hello again, it has been a few weeks since I last blogged, it has been a hectic time here for me what with medical appointments and other such things that life throws at you. The kittens are now twice the size they were when I first bought them home and we have a knew addition to our fur family called Petal. She is a little cat that my daughter hand raised when she found them dumped in the back yard and they had been abandoned by their mother, she origonally had a boy and a girl and she has hand raised them from about 4 days old. But it is time for the little girl to be desexed and she was afraid if she kept her she would become pregnant by her brother so she asked me to try and rehome her, well that was never going to happen :) She is a very sweet and affectionate little girl and we lover dearly. I went to the markets again the other week and bought these few fat 1/4's, there was nothing else much there but apparently she was bringing more bolts of fabric in this week so I will have to go on Sunday and have another look :)
I have been feeling a bit Blah and decided that I needed a treat so I purchaced these three books they are just lovely.
I also bought some new cookbooks these have glorious recipes in and if your a lover of Chocolate and Coffee then the Bible is a great book. The Italian food encyclopedia was a bargain from the Markets at only $6 it is about 2 inches thick and it truely is an encyclopedia of Italian Food it has some gorgeous recipes in it.
I have started a felt table runner and this is the design so far, it is lovel even if I do say so myself and it is the perfect project to take to my sit and sew days on Fridays at the Village Sampler.

I wrote about this on the Forum so my friends from there know about this but I wanted to tell all my blogland friends about it too I am going to start a buisness hopefully within the next two months.
For a little while now I have been thinking that I will need to do something soon about working as when Craig and I get married I will no longer be entitled to an of my Disibility pension. So What to do as I need something that will be flexible with my various illnesses and injuries that I carry it turns out that the shop next dooor to my hairderesser in the Village is vacant. I am a qualified Nail Tech so I had a chat to Tish (my hairdresser) about starting up a nail salon, she reckons it is a brilliant idea as she is always getting request from ladies about nails and waxing, which is something else that I have been trained in so I have done some research and the rent on the little shop is ver cheap, and to buy all the stock and things that I will need it will cost me just around $1000. The little shop is perfect, it has a little area at the front with an open fire place lovely natural polished timber floor boards and just white walls on three sides and baltic pine walls on the other. then there is a small door way which leads into another room which will be perfect for my waxing room. I am very excited about it I will be doing Gel Nails, manicures, pedicures, Eyebrow and Eyelash tinting and Waxing I will do all waxing except Brazillian! I am going to do a refresher course on the nails as it has been several years since I did it, and I will be read to go so over the next few weeks I am going to start getting all my supplies in then I will open. It will be perfect for me as there is no heavy lifting or long periods of standing or walking involved so I will be able to keep my own hours to suit myself. I will take my computer with me so I can be on here if I want to and I will also be able to take my hand sewing with me for when I am inbetween clients. I am ver excited about it all so tell me what do ou think??? I will just do a six month lease to start with and see how it goes and if it does well then I will continue and if it does not do well then I have not really lost too much and I can always sell the equipment if it fails. The way I look at it is If I dont give it a try I will never know I like to think I am a glass half full type of Gal!

Anyhow that is just about it from me for today throw me some suggestions for names or my new venture, keeping in mind that I have not legally changed my name to Olivia yet although I may do that at the same time and also the Village where I live is called Lilydale.

Massive Cyber Hugs to you all have a lovely and safe Easter

xxxx

New Goodies In

I have recently bought a little bit of fabric :) Most of it is from the states but I got some small pieces at the local Patchwork shop. She has some lovely stuff just a bit exxy that is all.  I also bought a couple of pieces of fine seer sucker I have never used it before and dont even know if it would be suitable for patchwork it is 100% cotton but who knows anyway I liked it so I got it.  A lot of these fabrics are way out of my comfort zone they are fabrics I would not normally look at but I thought it was time to expand my horizons not sure that I would ever use it in something for my own home but tastes change I still like all the stuff I usually have just diversifiying that is all :)



:Love and Hugs

All these to here were purchased from the USA



These are 1/2 meter peices from the local P/Work Shop.



This is the seersucker

Also my son bought me the three precut packs for my Birthday. They came from spotlight and each pack has a 2 yard piece of backing fabric and 5 or 6 1/4 yard pieces and a pattern pamplet to make a small quilt. Once again fabrics way out of my comfort zone but I kind of liked them. I think I am just a fabric collector. :) I don't know if any of it will ever make it's way into a quilt or a project :~

Pre Cut Pack 1

PreCut pack 2

PreCut Pack 3

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NSW Quilt Guild Challenge Quilts

Hi I hope you enjoy the pictures of the Challenge Quilts that I stood guard over yesterday :) It is quite a large post due to the volume of photos. They are from the 2009 NSW Quilters Guild Challenge. Themed "What Tickles Your Fancy" I think you will agree that they are a terrific variety of quilts. There are 31 quilts in all. One of them was a double quilt done by a Man and it was entered both front and back. The Lilydale arts Council has held the exhibition at Providence Vinyards, one of our local wineries in the Lilydale Area. You can find out more about Providence here http://www.providence.com.au/
So here they are:)

This is the front of the double quilt done by the only male entrant.

This is the back :)

Jar Ideas

Thanks for the ideas to fill those jars BUT :) I do have thousands of buttons but I don't think you all realise how big they are the measure 14inches high and 21 inches around. Even I would have trouble filling them up "LOL" But I guess it would be fun collecting all the buttons to try. :)

I forgot to take a photo of these little jars. I guess they are spice jars but I bought them to store beads and sequins in. :) They will be much easier to fill up than the big jars. They don't look like they have ever been used and were also a bargain at $3.

Market Finds

I decided to take myself off to the markets at about 11.30 this morning so arrived there at 12.10. There was soooo much stuff there here a piccy of my goodies.

There was a lady there who had heaps of patchwork fabrics and patterns and they were ridiculously cheap. This is all quality fabrics. I got 1 metre each of the green and cream rose fabrics what a bargain at $5 a meter and they were on the bolt and the origonal price was $32 a meter.

The book was $2 brand new and still had the price tag on it of $39.99. I was wrapped I will definately be going back next week :)

Fabrics and book

Fat 1/4's

The fat 1/4's were 10 for $5 once again all realy good quality fabrics. :)



Then another lady had these two fantastic large glass barrels for $5 for the 2 so I snapped those up as they are perfect for sitting on the bench in the kitchen with my fresh home made cookies in them. Stay tuned when i make a few batches and fill them up I will post a photo :)

Last but by no means least how was this for a bargain. I have been wanting a timber coffee table with a draw in if for about 5 years and Craig has been promising to make me one for the past 3. I won't hold my breath so when I saw this little beauty for $15 I snapped that up to.  I was thrilled with it. It has a couple of light scratches on the top but nothing that a light sand and a polish won't fix. :)
So I reckon I did pretty well all this for the bargain price of  $42. :))

Love and Hugs
Olivia. XXXXX

another Giveaway

Terri has a great givaway at her blog too so make sure you pop on over and check it out here

http://vrbh.blogspot.com/


Love and Hugs
Olivia

Blog Giveaways

Do you all love a giveaway? I know I do :) if you do pop on over to my friend Sameliasmum she has a terrific one at the moment consisting of two (2) yep that's right 2 lots of lovelies, to choose from you can get there by clicking here.

http://www.sameliasmum.com/

It will be difficult to choose :)

Hugs Olivia

The Return of the Prodigal Rooster

A few weeks ago a friend of Mum's gave me a lovely young Rhode Island Red.

Well he spent the first night here and in the morning flew over the 8 foot fence and went bush. We spent 3 days chasing him through the bush trying to catch him :)

We could hear him crowing away all around the property. I was dissapointed but I wasn't concerned as I had a feeling that he would come back.

Anyway a couple of days ago he was back near the chok pen, so instead of trying to catch him and have him run off again I just left some food and water out for him. A couple of hours later I went down and he was in the chook run with the other roosters and hens and that is where he stayed.

I took a couple of photos of him yesterday he is quite a handsome fellow and we named him "RANDOLF"      '

Randolf

Strutting

       

New Babies

Hi all,

I just wanted to introduce you all to the two newest members of the family. I went to a pet shop in Mowbray this morning big mistake :) well not really a mistake but I have been wanting a ginger kitten for awhile and they just happened to have two :) I picked one and left then was driving up the road and thought to myself how could I leave the other one so I went back and bought him too :) So here they are Triv and Harley. Arn't they just darling they are 6 weeks old:)

Triv & Harley

Triv & Harley

Harley getting to know the tiger

Triv getting playful

Triv