What a wonderful Weekend

Hi all

this past weekend was amazing, scary, wonderful and exciting.

It all started on Saturday morning, I did a Trunk show at The Patchwork Angel, thank you for having me  Penny.  Twenty lovely ladies came to the shop on the first sunny day we have had all week to see all the quilts I have made for my "Bake at 60 degrees" classes.   I had a wonderful time talking to and meeting all of the girls there.  I did forget though to take photos, except for at the start before everyone came in, bugger.......

 

 All of the quilts are made with 60 degree triangles, diamonds and hexagons, but with no set in seams to be found anywhere.  The class is a set of 2 held over 2 weeks and the ladies will learn how to cut and sew these shapes, but also how to adjust the blocks to a size they would like to make.

Over the past 12 months I have been making samples to show and on Saturday I got to show them and was very nervous.  Thank you ladies for being patient and gentle with me.  Since finishing my talk I have kept remembering things that I wanted to say but forgot to.  Isn't that the way it happens.

My first lot of classes were filled but don't worry I am looking at more dates for later in the year and will chat to Penny and we will see what is available for more classes.

The Trunk show was professional goal of mine and I am so happy and proud that I didn't chicken out.  We can do anything if we really want to.....

Saturday evening saw us going out for a lovely dinner at the local Italian restaurant with good friends.  The food was great, the company was fun and the kids enjoyed themselves also.  We had a table outside and kids found geckos and a tree frog to play with between courses and not in their food and so the adults could relax over dinner and still be able to watch the kids.

Sunday came around and I was busy making lunch for my mum and sisters coming over.  I live a good hours drive away from them and so getting together is very important in our busy lives. Unfortunately we have been scattered around the world this past few months and missed a couple of birthdays, so with mine this week, we all made the time to have lunch.  So yesterday was brought together by the colour pink and the numbers, 2, 44 and 65 ( the ages of us birthday girls).  We had a great time and I played up the pink theme, balloons, drinks, desert, cake and even our clothes.

My mum bought me a pink Hairdryer, a sister gave me a bottle of Muscato wine (pink/rose) and I received some money, because I am in need of a new handbag. Tomorrow I will go shopping for a bag, what colour should I get????????

One other exciting thing happened, but I will show and tell you about it if all goes well this week......

It's was my Birthday AGAIN!!

Boy doesn't the year just fly by. I still have to print out the photo's from last years (40th) Birthday and the next one has rolled around.

My birthday was last Friday, one of my days at the Patchwork Angel. It was quite busy all day and my phone kept beeping with text messages, which was lovely but I didn't get to reply to until later at night. I am sorry for the late reply guys. My husband had gone to the AC/DC concert in Brisbane the night before so no cup of tea in bed. I did get flowers from the girls at work. We headed out for a lovely dinner, cause no way was I cooking, with just the four of us and then home early for ice cream.

I then had my family come up for lunch on Sunday. They all live in Brisbane, which is about 1 ½ hours drive south of me. We had not seen each other since Christmas so there was lots to catch up on.

Everyone had good news and some bad news to share. We all got a chance to share and listen, support and comfort and laugh and cry. It was all very relaxed and wonderful.

Mum got a medallion for 25 years of work with the State Government, new plans for the back deck roof. She brought up stuff from home that belonged to one of my sisters, she was not sure who's, and I'm not sure I would of claimed them if they were mine. There was a G String leotard from the nineties – Avril claimed them and then put them on over her clothes – gee what a sight that was.

Avril was showing us the beautiful beads and jewelry she has made since last time. She makes the beads from scratch with rods of glass that look like lolly sticks in her studio at home. Heather was her model for the day. Avril has an ETSY shop for her beads plus some pieces are going on display at Southbank later this month. Avril is in the green top and Heather in the white top.





I had gotten an email from a sister for my birthday wish list during the week. I have a lot of trouble with that. I don't need anything, nor do I expect anything. I things I would like are all quilting related and that can be difficult for the Non-Quilter to find, get or know what it even is. So I put in a request for secondhand, vintage crockery. It had to have pink on it somewhere and only if they had time to look. I currently have a cream dinner set that my MIL gave me before she was my MIL and it has survived very well over that last 17 years, but a change is needed, but I have issues about throwing things out when they are still in good condition. So my plan is to incorporate the vintage finds in with what I have. Then when the vintage gets to the point where I have enough for 12 people then the cream set will then be donated to charity.

Well, Mum, Chrissie and Heather went secondhand shopping and had fun. Chrissie said she could easily be a collector, if she just had the room. She got me the two small coffee cups with saucers. Heather found 2 matching tea cups and saucers and Mum found the lovely pink plates. On her way to my house, Mum stopped at a garage sale IN MY STREET and picked up the pink bowl.



Avril made me the gorgeous pink bead necklace.


I am really lucky to have my Mum and sister, I thought it was wonderful that they spent the time searching for the right gift for me at places that are not in their normal routine or comfort zone. But they all sounded excited about their adventure into the world of vintage shopping and hopefully did not spend a lot of money either.

Thank guys for a wonderful birthday.

Love

Fiona