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ONLY SIX HOURS TO GO ... time now 12 midday... WINNER... Katina ... Thank You All
My One World - One Heart Giveaway...
I'm playing yaaaa ... this is approx. 10" x 12" (A4 ) fabric collage/art quiltie ... I have some problems defining the difference ...

The one I have for my giveaway will be very similar to this one - same flowers & same coloured butterfly ... binding maybe a different colour & the word will be 'Cherish' ... I'm still working on it & once it is finished I will swap the photos over for you.
It has a hanging pocket on the back ... I will include a rod to hang it as well.
Anyone can join in the fun but please make sure you leave me an email addy or some way of my contacting you if you don't have a blog yourself.
I'll be using OW-OH's recommended random counter to pick the winner on the 12 Feb 09 so go for it folks...
Thank you Lisa for this wonderful giveaway idea - I had heaps of fun at OW-OH last year & meet heaps of wonderful giving folks & know I will again this year ...
Lisa CONGRATULATIONS on such an successful International Blogging Event - one of the highlites of my year...
Everybody out there I hope you are having a FUN time too ...
Thankful... for such wonderful people who are so willing to give of their own personal time for the pleasure of others...

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Home again after a lovely 6 days away - which included the Australia Day long w/e - visiting our eldest daughter & taking her boys home... We had a wonderful time with all the Grandies over the school holidays but they are all back at school again now... much to the relief of their mothers... ha ha.

We are attempting to come back to the normal route of life ourselves as it has been rather full on ... Gilly gets groomed today - she is so in need of it especially with all this hot weather we are having ... Hot Humid & Horrible ... but at least we are getting rain here & there & some good rain at that ...

Here is TC taking Gilly for a walk in the park while she was here with us all. All the kids loved to go to the park each arvo ...walking or riding their bikes...

In between all the comings & goings of kids I did get to do a bit of sewing/fabric collage so will have a bit of a reveal in the next while ... so keep tuned

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Gosh it's been two weeks since I've been on here , sorry if you have popped on by & seen nothing new...

but I've been called into Grandie duties ... one sick daughter, two Grandies, one visiting Grandie & now the Boy Grandies who's Mum is in need of a well deserved break - from each other ... ha ha - don't we all know that feeling ...

Sick Daughter well again so has gone home with her two, O/S Grandie has gone home too - all a bit sad as it is so quite for the Boys but we are having a couple of quite days - so I can recuperate if nothing else ... ha ha

Here is how the younger ones cooled down the other day - the bigger ones can't fit into the pot sadly but they can run faster & load their bottles quicker ... ha ha

Nothing beats a good old fashioned water fight ...

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Well I have mentioned the One World One Heart event a couple of days ago but thought it needed a post all of it's own, especially now that I have the logo to go with it.

Please do consider joining in the FUN of One World One Heart - a wonderful world-wide giveaway.

It starts on the Mon 19 Jan & finishes with the giveaways on Thurs 12 Feb so that gives you 24 days to go check-out others blogs. Soooo what happens you ask??? ... well if you click on the logo [in the side bar] you will be able to read all about it but just to give you a bit of a teaser...

If you want to be a player you have to the 19 Jan to make something to giveaway [I joined after it had started last year so, no worries if you are a bit like me & wanted to see what sortta things were being given away...]

Then you just go visit all the blogs to see what lovely item or items are being offered as a giveaway Plus you can have a little LookSee at what sort of things interest or are made by each blogger ... it's like going to a big party and doing some networking in other words meeting other like-minded folks & like at all these sorts of functions you get to meet folks that you get along with/admire forming a blog friendship... I meet some wonderful blog folks at last years event ... shhh ... don't tell anyone but most of the time I went in my PJ's.

There will be a list of blogs on the site to go through & leave a comment if you would like to be in their giveaway - each day more blogs will be added as Lisa, the leader is able to get through the list at her end. No worries once you have visited a blog it will show a different colour so you know which blogs you have looked at. Now, no laughing, as this gets serious when you have a couple of hundred blogs to visit, YES, there were something like 300+ last year so I'm thinking Lisa will get near the 500 or more this year as the word gets around all the bloggers.

I've started making my giveaway already, I'm so looking forward to it so come on along & join in the fun...

Thankful ... for the wonderful blog world of so many givers

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Seem like forever now I have been busy drawing out - from cardboard templates/stencils I've made. Cutting out little flowers etc, using every skerrick of fabric I start to use - those pieces that still have some fusing on them. I know a lot of you draw & cut the image out first on the fusing then iron it to the fabric but I just seem to do it the other way around - that's me always have to be a bit different ... wait a minute I only just read the other day that is one of the things that make an artist ... doing things different or back-2-front...

My flowers looked a bit lop-sided [as I said in the post before] so I decided to use my punches as templates - I must get a bit fussy I think as I like them to look 'right' although not everything in nature is perfect in shape, I know, not that 'mine' are perfect but I think I do 'over' try... ya know what I mean ... I think my girlfriend says I'm being a bit pedantic!!!

Sooo what do I say of my DH when he asks me... 'couldn't really do 'something' with these bits?' ... oooooh cheeky Buggar ... just because it was his birthday ...

Doesn't my inside garden have lovely colour ... in flowers & in circles ... love colour...

I must have enough for 10 Art Quilts I think ...

I knew those Ferrero Rocher boxes would come in handy & with Christmas just gone a new supply ... ohhh the thrill of it all ...

Thankful ... for finding the simple pleasures in my life ...

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Here is the Art Quilt I made my Mum - I hung a calendar off the bottom of it so she can look at it all year ... [Quilt approx 10" X 12"]

A close-up of the butterfly - love the dimension
I got the idea/inspiration from Kellie's lovely ArtWork on Don't Look Now ... if you pop on over to Kellie's she has a free download of the cushion she just had as a giveaway plus the flower patterns ... ummm when I look at Kellie's flowers mine do leave a bit to be desired with their lop-sided look ... ha ha ... adds to the character ... welll that's my story & I'm sticking to it...
BTW Mum loved it ... but then she would ...
Thankful ... for cooler weather - something about an overcast, drizzy wet day, seems to clean & clear the soul & mind ...

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This is a wonderful little poem that I found on Maureen's blog & as DH & I are a tad deaf we both got a real laugh out of it & I'm sure you will too, especially if you have this slight affliction, so I'm sharing it with you all too ... th
It Pays to Listen
When they gave out brains,
I thought they said 'trains'
I missed mine.
When they gave out looks,
I thought they said 'books'
I didn't want one.
When they gave out noses,
I thought they said 'roses'
I asked for a red one.
When they gave out chins,
I thought they said 'gins'
I asked for a double.
When they gave out heads,
I thought they said 'beds'
I asked for a soft one,
IT PAYS TO LISTEN !
Ohh isn't this so true ... thanks Maureen ...
Thankful ... for loved ones that show patience & tolerance ...