Busy

I have started to make another Christmas star banner and hope to have it done by tomorrow evening and will post a picture of it then.
I have sold the other one at the Christmas market. It was decided to have it yearly and also not so long. Only two or three days. which is great as the week was long and sales not much.
This was an experiment and hopefully it will become more and more known to the locals and supported by them too.
Thanks to the persons who made it possible for us to show our talents.
Hope it will grow and grow more each year.

Finished

This is two banners I made for the
Christmas Market being held at our
Church Hall. Hope they sell but if
they dont I will most certainly use
them here at home. If they sell
I will make myself another set of
these, maybe just a bit different.
Dont like to make exactly the same
stuff twice.

This is my Christmas wallhanging that was started last Christmas
Just have to finished up with lots of bling.













This is my snow family banner for next winter.

Christmas Table Runner

This is the table runner I made for

the Chicks Christmas project.

Christmas Angel

This is my Special Christmas Angel. When I made her I thought

her head was too small. Put her in my basket to look and she

said to me that I must leave it that way as we are all different

but very special.

My Pumpkin Patch

This is a pumpkin patch x stitch that I have recently finished.

I am going to make a small quilted wallhanging with it as I have some lovely pumpkin fabric

that would look great.

Our cat Thandor has still not returned and never will. He is greatly missed by all.

Thandor our cat is missing

This is Thandor, hubby's cat and he has been missing since Saturday night. We have searched all over but nothing. We suspect that he was hit by a car and taken away. The person did not have the decency to face the war and tell us. We have now lost 3 cats since moving here. the first was hit by a car and no one came forward, but we know who it was. the other was poisoned and now the third cat. This cat had such a wonderful personality and the whole neighbourhood loved him. the other cats already have this "when is Thandor coming home" look in their eyes or maybe they know what has happened to him. We are very heartbroken loosing him.

Well life goes on and we have to make peace with this. I have been at war with the further neighbours about them thinking that this street is a racing circuit. They are all in a hurry to goodness knows where, as there is no traffic here dont even have a traffic light. This is a place where families live and not cars. I have a hatred towards people that dont have respect for others and their pets, who mean the world to us,and here there are a few living in this street. People are false and just dont touch their pets, but they dont even have the decency to come and apologize for causing such pain. I have a way of working out how what where and when and who, so they ignore me but somehow I do get behind it all.

Please think about how your driving in the suburbs where people and pets live affect them, when you charge ahead. !!!!! take your time and appreciate the neighbourhood and greet everyone and you will be able to change the world that way

Horoscopes

I had a good laugh last night when I found out that I am a goat in the chinese horoscope and then reading it describe my personality correct in every way. Even hubby's was correct. It makes me feel so, well that there is more than one me on this earth and here I was thinking that I am a great individual person. Well I still think that I am special. Have been busy making some banners for my bedroom. I seem to want to make everything in red nowdays. I am also making a banner with snowmen on for when winter comes around next year. Hope to have it finished by then.

Broken rules

I have been chatting to friends about breaking rules and also how thankful I am that rules are to be broken because we would not have had all the technology we have today if rules were not broken. Could you imagine being without electricity, water supply to our homes, the telephone which was the starting point of the cellphone. There is a whole world outside there that has been started on broken rules in our everyday lives. I have so many examples that this would be too small to list. Gee being without the telephone or even the cellphone and now the internet is unthinkable to me. Have had times when line is not available and that was awful. Also being without the basic electricity has also made me realize that there will be no!!!!!!!!!!! nothing that is also the radio here in the house will be useless. They (Eskom) has us exactly where they want us to be dependant on them so that they will always be in business. Well we could walk to where we want to be and also go and chat but what about coffee and tea to drink. Getting to think how the elders got along without all these things is just beyond me and just thinking of all the hard work that would have got to be done to just get coffee to drink, milk the cow by hand, that has never appealed to me, tried it once and nearly got kicked over by the cow. Make a fire, well that is an impossible task for me have never been good at getting the fire in our fireplace lit without having the whole place in smoke. So as you can see I sure will have an enormous amount of problems getting just a few small tasks done.

Quilt show at Riebeeck Kasteel

Went to the quilt show at Riebeeck and it was great. Luckily hubby took me because at the end of looking at all the quilts my eyes and feet were sore, even though I had the most comfortable shoes on and also my reading glasses which are new. He drove us back and that was great as I was able to sit back and recap all the quilts I had seen there. The quilts were from all different styles and it was great to see how artistic all of the different styles were. There were also traditional quilts, machine quilted quilts, and also lots of wallhangings. The winner quilt was a wallhanging with tiny ivy leaves all sewn on seperately. Congratulations to the winner, all that hard work has paid off. Marie Claase had her quilts shown there and also lots of Susan Sittig was there too. Lovely quilts but Susan loves and knows her sewing machine and uses it too the fullest. Her quilts are mostly machine made and quilted. I prefer to do all my quilts by hand but recognize all the hard work that goes into even the machine made quilts. Will be there with the next show and thanks to all the people working behind the scenes to bring us this wonderful world of quilting.

Just thoughts

Hubby's sister was visiting here and I was unable to post and also did very little sewing. We fetched her as she is now 72 and unable to drive such long distances anyway. She came on a trip to see all the places that she used to go to when she was growing up in this area. Very nostalgic. Took her back this morning and had tea and cake and then returned home. It was awful as I would have loved to do some shopping but hubby was in a hurry to get back home. We love having visitors but also having the house to ourselves after a whole week of visitors is also great. I am on a diet and having guests is not easy. but I willl persist with it this coming week. Not a very strict diet but just to get too loose a bit of weight. I will now be able to get back to my sewing this week and stitch up a storm. The week was too long without all my sewing to keep me company. We the patchwork group is now finished with all the squares and stuff for the last of our mystery quilt which is named "the torture mystery quilt" and it was really torture to make all these small pieces and use a lot of new techniques. Thanks to D for all her hard work to make this mystery quilt so interesting. She even cut the fabric pieces beforehand so it does not take so long to get the squares finished. So next Thursday all will be revealed and I cant wait as I did have to do a lot of machine stitching which is not my favorite hobby.