Want Rain ?

Every time we have planned to go for a bush walk to a gorgeous mountain near us it rains!. So if you want rain, I will plan to go bush walking :) I am thinking positive thoughts that it will stop raining in about ten minutes, the sun will come out and it will all dry out till Tuesday morning :) Then it can rain. Alas, this does not look likely. Instead I will go shopping, bummer.

We have school holidays at the moment and we were going to take the kids to the great barrier reef, but then we decided we want to go to the U.S so we are saving our money for that. So we have planned something for each day of the holidays. We have gone to the museum and the science centre, hmmm won't be doing the science centre again,

Funny shots at the science centre :)

 then the beach

 - it even clouded over for us then!,

animal show,

Bearded dragon

Python

Squirrel glider

Sugar glider

Barking owl and it really does bark like a dog :)

Shopping with their allowance and bowling. We went to a helicopter show that was a bit of a fizzer but still cool to see the helicopters.

So going for a bushwalk tomorrow is about the only day we can do it. You watch, it won't rain for the rest of the week :). Some farmer really needs this rain and I am whining :)

I found a fantastic looking vintage shop the other day and so I am really looking forward to going back and having a look at the gorgeous goodies.

I have done the painting on the Leaf.... not sure what to call it, maybe something with Mosaic in it.....

Okay, so I went and made dinner in between, scrumptious enchiladas and potato bake mmmm and we were discussing cosplay and dressing up and I said that if I was hot I would be wonder woman and my son says " but mum wonder woman is skinny!" hahahahahahahahaha he just kept on playing on his computer :) soooooo funny :)

Found a good author that I am enjoying, Hester Browne and have found some fun shows on Hulu. Rehab Addict is fun, it would be great to be able to use all sorts of tools and be gorgeous and skinny as well as do up houses to look amazing :) that is what I will be when I grow up.
Tired, had sick kids and have been up all sorts of hours and times looking after them. Sleep.
Jane

Finished and the Next One

Well I finished 'The Easy Way To Get Love" and have just listed it on Etsy. This is the first in a series of ideas that I have for this lucky woman :).

Here's the beginning of the new one, her dress is her thoughts and feelings....

So in their hands will be their hearts that they are giving to each other and on her dress she is already dreaming of a white picket fence and a house and the ring... it is a bit hard to spot, can you see it?

Where as he is not thinking of anything like Felicity, he is as free as a bird :) with not another thought on his mind. Trust me, that really does look like a bird :)

School holidays must be over right?? It's been 6 weeks already hasn't it? The kids had some friends over yesterday, in total I had eight kids here... no fighting so it was good really :) Just felt like I fed them all day. I had just finished lunch by only half an hour and my son came up to me saying" I missed afternoon tea, I want afternoon tea!!" what on earth???? it was 1:30!!! Go play with your friends!!

Today was one of those boring cleaning most of the day days. Took oldest daughter to the optometrist for the final payment and it was more than we were expecting!! Plus the contacts weren't working as well as they were supposed to and we had to buy other stuff of course. It gets me a bit down when all this money just pours out of our account. So many more things to pay for too. But I think that we are blessed to be able to pay for these contacts so our daughters eyesight can be helped.


The whole family hopped on the Wii the other day and it had been a while since I do the Zuzanna workouts and my husband who eats whatever he wants and does no exercise AT ALL, at all, and you know what??? He lost 4lbs whatever that is in kilo's from his last weight ages ago!!! Me well I have lost 4 kilos in 5 months!!! seriously. It is soooooo frustrating!!. But again with the positive thoughts :) I am healthy and strong... doesn't help when I want to eat chips and not gain weight.


I read a book a few months ago that I told you about called The Monuments Men about WW2 and the art theft recovery by these 7 men and I just discovered today that they have made a movie of this incredible book and it has George Clooney and Matt Damon in it!!! Holy heck wohoooo :) the book was amazing and now I can see it in film with a couple of hotties :).
Off to relax and read a good book hopefully :) wish I was eating chips too but here's for a flatter tummy :).
Jane

Sore

Wow!!! Did a workout this morning, and it hurt!! And it hurts every time I get up :) I know I am losing weight when that happens. I have even done this workout before but that didn't help :) My butt better look great that's all I think of when that pain kicks in:)

On other news, I went to sign up to be a member of QLD quilters again, only so I can enter the show, you need to be a member, and went on the website and found that the entries had closed to the show this year and I had missed the deadline by 5 days! :) So on the bright side I saved myself $100 in joining and quilt entry fees. So now I am uploading those quilts onto etsy  so I can sell them and feel even better than if I had won a prize, and that is a big IF :).

So now I need to work on taking a better photo than this.........

Hehehhehe straight would be good :) And some cooking classes too would be good, I have lost the ability to make a decent meal!! Last night I made a really yummy chicken casserole in the slow cooker and I used a chicken curry recipe base and it didn't seem that hot. But then we sat down for dinner and wow, it must have fermented while in the slow cooker hehehe it was spicy! Yum But spicy. but too spicy to eat with enjoyment. I just don't cook like I used to. I totally think it is because I have cooked every night for the last.... well 30 years as I cooked most meals when I was at home, even as a kid. So the consensus is - I am over it. :) Wish it was that easy hey.

Anyway, for a break I am going away with a friend for a few days soon so I am really looking forward to that, No cooking there!! no way!!:)

That cool author I mentioned last post, Dorothea Benton Frank, well I read another book and loved loved loved it. Now I am about to try a Jim Butcher novel, it sounds great.

Oh and I made some deeeeeelicious choc chips biscuits, quick come over and get some before we eat them all and then I get up too early in the morning and work them off :) all that pain for a choc chip biscuit mmmmmmmmmm
Jane

Feathers

Ok, so I have finished the hills and I think they look great. I am really happy with this piece and I love that feeling of getting something right :) Now the judges at QLD Quilt Show have to feel that way too :)

The fields, just having waving lines over these

Forgot to share this a few weeks ago, we went a friends place and they keep snakes as pets :) and the youngest had a hold, very brave really :)

On the weekend we went to the beach and it was a spectacular day, middle of July, our winter and it was warm and glorious. Middle child loving being at the beach and searching for shells

What a vista.....

This path goes for many kilometres and winds it way along the beach, so many people bike along it, how pleasant does it look :)

 I love how the sun glints off the water, beautiful

The kids pretending this was quick sand :)

Love love love shells

One of my most favourite things to collect at the beach is glass, and I love how it gets smoothed and worn from the sand and the water. 

Did some more Zuzka yesterday and I think that was the most painful exercising I have ever done in my life!!! I have back muscles that hurt today!!! Sweet, there goes those back rolls of fat:) I have lost weight again this week which is huge for me as I haven't lost weight in so long. So more of those punishing workouts for me :) some of them I actually enjoy. 

Off to do some more geocaching. We want to really increase our number, we are woefully low and so we want to hit 50 very soon :). 

Jane

Thread

I have found another place to add to my list of places to travel to one day. This place....

Oh my does this look glorious?? I think so. It is called Berneray in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and I want to go there. Now would be nice :) but oh well, staring at these pictures at my desk will do. What's on your list?

Shock horror that I opened my blog about something other than quilting!! Back to it!! If you can't tell from my blog I love thread. Really love it. I dream about and look on google for drawers and units to store thread, mainly these units cost more than my thread is worth :) reality does not factor in dreams, and then I dream about owning every single colour in the marathon thread range as well as the superior thread range and how much money I would need for all that :) details in a dream are very important. So anyway, reality again and I love having so many different coloured threads to blend and make the quilt as good as it can be. These are the blues that I used for the sky. There was one more but I put it away and in typical fashion can't remember which one it was now :) 

 Gorgeous aren't they!!

Sky finished.....

 Gorgeous little feather

And these are the greens I am planing to use somehow on the hills etc. Still working out how to do it. Would love to do it the same as the sky but want a difference too. So still thinking... could take a
while :)

Oh and we placed another geocache on the weekend and that was so fun and we found one too, need to do more of them you forget how much fun it is. But our geocache got six people trying to be first to find the cache and three of them turned up at the same time :) So our goal is to really get out there and go for lots of walks and adventures and find lots of geocaches. Give it a go, it is so much fun. 

I have also started doing this again, she used to be called body rock and now has gone out on her own. Her workouts are the best and so to lose the jaba the hut chins I am giving myself 12 minutes of pain every morning and then some mornings going for a walk straight after. Legs are jelly, it hurts to get up after sitting but I feel Amazing!!! So strong  and confident, I know it sounds like a sell but I really do. I feel so good that I can do these workouts. Go me :) Come and join me some time, it would be fun to work out together :) No chocolate today, that hurts just as much as the exercise hehehehhe but I am trying.

Jane