Quilt Pink for Charity

I have just received this lovely quilt in the post, all the way from the United States!

There is an auction happening on ebay, where lots of lovely donated quilts are being sold to raise funds for a breast cancer charity: Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and I was the lucky winner of this one.

It is called "Cloudia" and was made by customers &/or staff of the Tater Patch Quilts quilting shop in Oregon. The photo doesn't really do it justice. There are lots of lovely bright pink print and plain fabrics used, and a delightful Peter rabbit print (pink on white) used for the backing.

A big Thank You to all those who worked on this quilt. If any of you ever read this, know that I love it and appreciate what you have done.

L & Ms Engagement Party

My DD and her fiance celebrated their Engagement recently. We had a lovely night. The venue was a private room at an Irish pub in town, and we had a beautiful 2 course meal followed by cake for dessert.

I guess we now move from Engagement party plans, to wedding plans. We have already booked the reception venue for next year, but that's all, at this stage. (see earlier post)

The cakes (they had 2 to make sure there was enough for dessert and some to take home) were from the Cheesecake shop. One was a marble mudcake and the other was a white chocolate mudcake, both decorated with chocolate ganache. The shop did a great job, and were very reasonable compared with other cake shops. And the cakes were delicious! One had the names of the happy couple and the other is pictured.

Post Newcastle Storm

Well, Newcastle appears to be almost back to normal after the storms and flooding. Of course, there are a lot of people still suffering and trying to get back to normal, but unless you know them, they aren't so obvious any more.

2 who were affected, were my son and his girlfriend, their puppy and bird. Their flat was flooded as well as having rain come in through the roof, and is now totally uninhabitable. The walls were so wet, the plaster became soft enough to leave hand imprints, and the ceiling was sagging!

They lost all their large furniture (sodden, muddy and stinking with mildew by the time they could get back to clean up) and quite a lot of other stuff. The salvagable stuff was loaded up and brought back to my place to be cleaned and dried.

They are now living here until they can find another flat! We are all very crowded and I no longer have anywhere to sew, so no quilting for a while.

Here are some pics of their stuff dumped in our loungeroom until it could be sorted and fitted in somewhere.

I'm back!

Life has been very hectic of late and I haven't had much time to even think about posts. I will get back to this very soon. Got lots to catch up on: Son moving back home, Daughter's engagement, end of year bookwork and tax... Add to that, the fact that blogspot has been having problems with their compose and post mode and you get a very frustrated blogger!
Meanwhile, enjoy this photo of my son fire twirling. (He also fire breathes).

[photo copyright of Hannah.]