Worlds Greatest Shave - Sponsor Someone and Have a Chance to Win Prizes

A fellow stitcher, Australian and all round lovely lady is doing the Worlds Greatest Shave this year. If you sponsor Terry Louise for this very worthwhile cause you go into the draw to win some fantastic prizes, and all money raised goes to the Leukemia Foundation.

STITCHERS PACKAGE for Tazzy’s WORLD’S GREATEST SHAVE fundraiser
MAIN PRIZE

A full set of Dinky Dyes silk floss – Sincere thanks to Jo for such generous support.
Dinky Dyes

$25 Gift Certificate to 123 Stitch

$25 Gift Voucher for Fiona Jude’s Country Threads. Sincere thanks to Fiona for her generous support.
Country Threads

4 x Fat Eighths (13”x19”) of hand dyed fabrics from Countrystitch in New Zealand (or 2 x Fat Quarters) – winners choice. Sincere thanks to Catherine at Countrystitch for her generous support.
Countrystitch

1 x Janet M Davies (New Zealand designer) - Alby Owl (5 Blackwork designs)
JMD Designs - Alby

1 x Janet M Davies (New Zealand designer) – Rainbow Galaxy (4 Hardanger designs) JMD Designs - Rainbow

1 x Nutmeg Company 3D Weekend Cottage kit – Easter in the Cotswolds Nutmeg Company - cottages

1 x Nutmeg Company Trios Kit – Peeping Tom Nutmeg Company – Trios

1 x Chatelaine (Martina Weber) chart – The Knotgarden

2 x 12” Tuck Pillow covers – pillow insert not included

6 x Christmas themed Tuck Ornaments

Some Australian lollies and chocolates

OTHER PRIZES

A very generous anonymous benefactor has offered to donate additional gift certificates as the fundraising reaches set goals.

I will also add a gift certificate to 123 Stitch for every $500 of donations received through this and other stitching boards. Each certificate will be at least $10.00.

$10 gift certificate to 123Stitch or an LNS of the winner’s choice. Generously donated by Norma Braden. Thank you Norma.

TO PARTICIPATE

1. Please sponsor me at my Worlds Greatest Shave site. Payments many be made by credit card or Paypal.
Terry Louise's WGS page

2. Then email me at terrylouisetas@yahoo.com with Stitcher’s Package donation in the heading and let me know the name under which you made your donation and I will enter you in the draw.

OTHER INFORMATION

One chance to win this Stitcher’s Package will be given for each $10.00 donated through my site with donations of multiples of $10 having multiple chances. Winners will be chosen at random. The draw will be made on or about St Patrick’s Day as we are still trying to confirm a time with a hairdresser.

The donors of prizes or I will pay for postage and we will post anywhere in the world.

Anyone who donates to my page before St Valentine’s Day will also have the chance to win the gorgeous SNOOPY HO HO HO Stocking Kit that Mary in CA has donated to the cause. For more information please check out Mary’s post.
SNOOPY Stocking Kit

For anyone who is unsure about donating in a different currency – the Aussie dollar and US dollar are close to parity at the moment. The Australian dollar was a couple of cents over the US last time I looked.

If anyone has any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at the above email.

Best wishes

Terry Louise - Tasmania

Perth Western Australia aka OMG I'm Melting!

And you may ask yourself "Why does she live there?" and I sometimes wonder that myself..........

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A Stitching Post - yep two posts in one week!!

This is what I have been stitching on over the summer. It is a design by Cricket Collection and the fabric is from Sassy's, it was part of my colour of the month club a few months ago.

And this is what it should look like when I am finished..........

I am enjoying stitching this as it is all full x stitches, has very little back stitching and large blocks of one colour.

* Sorry for the crappy photo I think my flash was turned off - I promise the next update the photo will be 100% better :0)

Where There Is Smoke There Is Fire

Wednesday the 4 January started out like any other day. The temperature soared as the day progressed and by lunchtime there was a smell of smoke in the air. But living in Western Australia bush fires in summer are a regular occurance and you usually just listen to the radio to see where the fire is.........

The afternoon progressed and you could hear the fire fighting helicopters taking flying backwards and forwards from the airport, this is not an uncommon sound for us as we live by the airport. I had a friend popping in after he had finished work for the day and well being the first day back at work for him he left early and arrived at my house about 3pm, we cracked a drink and that is when all hell broke lose!!!

The noise of the helicopters was getting louder and they were flying really low over the houses in our street, so being the nosey people that we are we went outside to have a look and......

Yep the fire was actually down the other end of our street, it has started at the airport jumped a highway and threatening houses at the far end of our street.
Now this had happened a couple of years ago and it was soon bought under control but with the winds we were having this had the potential to jump again and take out houses.

About 4pm the police came along and told everyone to grab important documents, pets and meds and evacuate the street. Now when this happened we kind of thought WTF. So we loaded up the dogs, grabbed passports, meds, turned the front sprinklers on, jumped in the car and thought "where shall we go" as we didn't want to go to far from home, so we went to a friends place around the corner. The police had completely blocked off the street and were only letting people out so that they could evacuate.
After about 90mins we returned to the blockade and found all our neighbours there also and after about another 30 mins we were allowed back in our houses, but all night fire engines and police were cruising the street to make sure that that the fire didn't flare up again.

The firefighters and helicopter pilots did a wonderful job finally getting the fire under control and luckily no property was damaged.

Doesn't Anyone Proof Read Anymore?



I was getting ready to mail off a form to a Government Department and picked up a couple of typos. Sorry that the picture isn't very clear. Geez doesn't anyone proof read anymore and I can guarantee that they will have thousands of these forms sitting around waiting to be used. And the bizzare thing is that declare is spelt correctly all the way through the document until the end LOL