Annies Crazy World

I lay the laces and threads from the Heavenly Embellishmnets bag on top of the block to get a feel for how I can use the different bits…I auditioned the large piece of lace over the silk print and on a bigger block it would have gone well but I decided that it was to big for the size of my block (6″ x 8 1/2″) and used one of the smaller pieces of lace instead…I curved it around the top left corner of the silk Print and used sequins, from one of the other pieces of lace, for the flower centres and scattered a few around the lace.

For weeks now, little bit at a time I have been leveling this area of the front garden…It is only a few inches that I have dug down but it is hard packed clay and shale and has been hard digging but today I wheeled away the last load of soil leaving the site ready for the next stage.

In the last year or so Sharon B’s challenges, being Bags of Fun, All that Jazz and 100 details have all inspired me to do good things…I haven’t stitched much lately and have decided to join her Take a Stitch Tuesday to get me back into regular stitching…Todays stitch is Herringbone which I have worked over some Ric Rack braid and then further embellished with Colonial knots and Pistol Stitch.

I used today’s stitch to start the embroidery on a block that I made from a Heavenly Embellishments bag.

Happy New Year Everyone…I hope you all have a wonderful 2007.

My New years resolution is to Start Blogging again and to blog regularly all year.

And I am at least well started with a New Years Day Post…celebrating with a photo I took at last nights Fireworks…To photograph fireworks one really needs a more sophisticated camera than mine and a tripod but I got some interesting effects.

Going back to last year, my last post was my 5oth B’day invitation…the weather was a perfect 29 degrees, My Mum with a brother and his family made the long trip down to surprise me, and together with other family and friends we had a lovely Garden Tea Party…and below is the wonderful Crazy Quilt Cake that my son and niece made for me…being 50 is Good

I wasn’t the only one to have a B’day, another of my nieces turned 10 and I made her a Garden Party Cake, I used the same trees for the Garden as I used on my other nieces Winter Wonderland Cake

my daughter and I play in a ten pin bowling league and this year we came second (last year we came 3rd and for years before that we were last place).

I also spent a lot of time in my garden, the drought and water restrictions have made it hard but I used birthday money to buy weeper hoses and together with soil wetter and thick mulch the garden is surviving I did a lot of cleaning up so that it looked lovely and neat for christmas and the rain that we have had in the last couple of days has washed everything clean and made the whole garden look bright and the plants have loved it…

that about catches me up and I will say goodnight with a photo I took today of the miniature agapanthus that is just coming into bloom…