123mb Ornament Exchange

For the last few years I have been participating in an ornament exchange over at a message board I frequent.

The exchange is super well organised and I have always received a wonderful partner.

For 2012 my partner was Barb, this is the ornament I sent her......

It is from the JCS 2011 ornament issue and the colour palette is my own. The only thing I would change would be the white "o" but it is supposed to be a snowflake :-)

My next post will be the lovely ornament that I received from Barb.

Friday Funny

This Weekend

SEASON 5

My Exchange Parcel Received

Well Mariann finally received my halloween exchange parcel......

And I also included some chocolate as what exchange is complete without chocolate. LOL

Now back to stitching christmas ornaments for exchanges.

Exchange Goodness and The Wedding

Well, the wedding was lovely but the spring weather was as usual unpredictable. We drove down in the pouring rain, checked into our hotel and well it being a country town there wasn't much else to do so went and sat in the bar.

Saturday dawned overcast and drizzly but as the day progressed the sun decided to come out and the clouds decided to vanish.

The venue for the wedding was amazing the spring blossom was out on the fruit trees........

Once the sun went down though holy moley it got cold and I mean freezing cold, most of us ended up playing pass the jacket, I ended up with MOTH's nieces jacket, she had on her boyfriends etc. It actually got so cold that we stopped drinking, yep that is correct it got to cold to drink LOL.
We ended up back in our hotel room by about 10pm. MOTH was asleep and I was lying there freezing my ample butt off so I got up put on a jumper, cranked the heater up and then managed to get some sleep.
All in all it was a great time and it was good to get away for the weekend but it is also good to get home again.

Now for some crafty news

I participated in a fob exchange and I made my partner a crocheted fob

Which I adapted from this pattern Yellow Pink and Sparkly Blog

and I received this in return from my patner (apologies this photo is totally crap but if you are a regular reader of this blog you know I take crap photos!) I currently have it hanging on a multi tiered candle holder as it really is to pretty to use as a scissor fob. (oh and I am debating as to if I should dye the lacy tablecloth in the above picture to some funky colour!)

I was also involved in a Halloween exchange and I had the most wonderful swap partner called Mariann, I don't think she has a blog :-(
Mariann sent me the most wonderful box of goodies and the ornament she stitched was fabulous......

I can't show you what I sent Mariann yet as it is still to arrive in her mail box, it has only been 15 days so far so hopefully early next week.....

Well the weekend is nearly upon us and I am happy to report that we actually have nada, zip, zero things on this weekend which is a first for us in awhile and I am totally looking forward to it.
The weather is supposed to be warming up with a high of about 27C on Sunday which means that MOTH will get the Harley out dust of the cobwebs and take it for a ride which will leave me at home on my own for half the day and I intend to craft that time away and watch the Simpsons - yes every Sunday morning I get 4 hours of the Simpsons on Foxtel. It is a nice way to start finishing off the weekend.

Well until next time Ciao

Am I Abnormal?

I am sitting here at work pondering the ways of the world and reading some blogs (now before some of you get all snippy this is between doing what I am supposed to be doing) and it got me to wondering...........

* Cue Sex in the City Theme Song

AM I/WE ABNORMAL .....

• At home I don't have a wireless internet device we are plugged into the wall. (not dial up though thank God)
• I don't have a laptop I have a PC
• We still use windows xp
• My mobile phone is not a "smart phone"
• I have an iPad but it is a work one and kept at work
• We don't download movies or tv shows
• If the power goes off I need to read the DVR manual to reset the time
• I still have a stash of VHS movies sitting around
• MOTH will not do internet banking or pay bills online
• We don't listen to music at home through an iPod we still use CD's or "gasp" listen to the radio
• I accidentally found out how to "series link" a tv show on my DVR

Do you sometimes feel that technology is just going way to fast for you to keep up with?

This Weekend

Tomorrow is a......

We are heading away for the weekend to stay here...............

To attend a...............

There will be lots of..................

And.....

And Sunday I will need to face a 4 hour drive home with maybe this as a passenger.... Oh I will be the passenger as MOTH will be driving LOL