Gorgeous Orange

Finished the Time Heals art quilt and have already sold it too :) very exciting really :). From something that I thought was childish, and still think that in a way, to selling three of them :) very cool.

Watches and time pieces instead of leaves....

Her heart is stitched/healed together with time. I will take a close up shot so you can see it better. She has a nose too, you just can't see it due to my fantastic photographic skills.

I decided to make something different instead of another Felicity design. I used a piece of fabric that I had dyed ages ago. It really makes me want to dye more fabric, but it is a bit tricky and expensive when it goes wrong :) I thought that I might try using my fabric paints and wet the fabric and see if that gives the same effect. I have so much paint so why not try it. 

This design is of a big leaf with mosiac type patterns inside each leaf. I am so in love with this orange. I haven't used it as I love it so much. I can't replicate it as I hand dyed of course. But there is no use to it sitting in my cupboard either. So this will get me to experiment with the paint. 

It is real hard to see the design. Will take better photo's again :) I will start painting and it will be easier to see too. Can't wait for that. Now for a break in cooking for me, take away :) mmmmmm.

Jane

Nearly Done

I have nearly finished my next Felicity piece, this one called Time Heals. I just need to put the binding on it.

I will get a better shot once it is binded :) 

My signature tree, with time pieces

Her broken heart, pieced back together with time

words throughout the quilt

It has finally rained here and hasn't stopped for days. It has been very nice. Had to catch the bus to school for a couple of days due to the rain and the second mode of transport being a motorbike :) so the kids thought that was fun hehehe. The second day we arrived at the bus stop to Fire engines and the electricity truck, all the fuss was over a gorgeous Chevrolet classic 1950's car that had ploughed through a fence and hit the house. The car didn't look too bad, just sad to see such a gorgeous car damaged at all. Not sure about the house, poor owners. So that was more fun for the kids :) 

Going to do some cooking tomorrow, a baked cheesecake that sounds divine, from a Mrs Fields cookbook and some biscuits and a wicked chocolate cake. Yes I am still trying to lose weight :) I am still doing my extra exercise every week. This week was walking home from school. Took me a very brisk 45 minutes. 

Was going to go for a bush walk this weekend, but due to the rain, we will do that another time. Will take the kids to Daiso instead and we need good church shoes and donuts :). That still sounds fun. Would rather bush walk, but the other idea is great too :)

Now I need to work out whether I am going to do another Felicity and get all the idea's I have for her out on fabric or do another design I have.... I know, so important and complicated. My life is full of hard decisions.

Jane

Felicity Again

I finished another Felicity art quilt and it is now up on Etsy  waiting for someone to buy her so she can feel loved :). I am having so much fun doing these and it is nice and quick getting them out. I still want to put together a huge quilt with triangles all over and full of soft reds, pinks, greens and whites but the thought of how long I will spend on this quilt and time away from making more Felicity dreams stops me :) cloning would be handy wouldn't it?? I would make about three of me, one to clean and cook, one to make big quilts and the other to be a perfect mother. Bliss.

I got my paints, so quick and they are divine!! Have a look at these gorgeous colours! And the gloss and shine to these paints are amazing! It doesn't come through the camera, you need to see them in person to see how yummy they are :) I will be spending all day tomorrow experimenting with these gorgeous paints.

Bright greens, gorgeous yellow and a copper colour mmmmmmm

Red!

This black is actually called gold black and even though the photo doesn't show it too wel, there is gold flecked through this black paint!!! suuuuper coooool

You can see the sparkle to this paint, weirdly the photo has shown this as blue even though it is a gorgeous purple.... really need those photography lessons :)

The name of this gorgeous paints/inks...

I actually did ramp it up on the exercise front this week and wohooooo I can see results already!! I know I am slimmer and I feel great that I did something I said I would do! :) it hurt real bad riding the bike but it was worth it :) will do another ramped up exercise week again and will have that great body by my birthday :)
Just read another lovely Maeve Binchy book. They are great reads and so relaxing, need more of that :).
Jane

Pretty Stuff

I dream of a garden filled with flowers and trees and swaying branches :) dappled sunlight and cookies on a plate near a gorgeous garden bench. Food is always involved hehehehe. So since I don't even have one tree in my yard, I will settle with flowers instead :) so I am starting to fill the garden sloooowly with flowers. I bought three terracotta pots and about ten different flowers and two bags of soil and it cost me $80, not too bad. I have tried to grow flowers from seed, but it has been so dry here lately that they didn't grow :(. I will try again now that it has rained just a little.

Here are the gorgeous flower pots....

Had this one already, this has daisy's and petunia's that are having trouble growing due to the lack of water :) My yard is bare :) will try and plant a tree.

Now for some quilting stuff :) I am nearly finished with my next one called My Heart! and am loving it.

In her hand will be pieces of her heart that I have sewn onto the wash away and there will be shattered pieces on the floor. Poor girl :) It gets better for her :)

I'm really loving her hair in this one, it isn't flying around the place as she is down and sad.... Also she has boring flat shoes with no bows to show that she doesn't care right now :)

I finally bought the most amazing fabric paint that I have wanted for so long!! I have a few colours already and have used all the gold and it is the best paint I have ever used. I am so excited to get these paints. Have a look if you need some fabric paint :) soooo gorgeous, and I am very curious to see what the gold black looks like :) I bought some more wash away from Kraftkolour as well as it was half the price as any other place I have found it. And I got some thinner as paint gets thicker over time and I can just add some thinner and wohooo I can use the paint again. Getting so excited about the most mundane stuff :)

Made some choc chip biscuits for the first time in moooonths!!! I have decided I am going to have to relax the diet just a little and up the exercise. I have been obessing over food this week and don't want to get too bad. Choc chip biscuits are a good start :) Next is choc chip hot cross buns hehehehe I am going to do my interval training twice in the morning and then throughout the day go for a killer bike ride up a huge hill in my area :) here comes a better body by my birthday :) dreams are good right??:)

Jane

A First!!

I have had watery eyes for awhile now, and I have gone to the doctors and gotten drops and that helped, but as soon as they ran out the watery eyes came back. So I went to an eye specialist and I have dry eyes :). I do not have enough oils in my eyes. So the doctor pulls out a needle and say that he wants to squirt some salt water in my tear ducts!! I got a bit nervous and he said 'oh don't worry, it's a bendy needle'. Oh well that's okay then. Made me feel so much better. I wish :).

So he inserted a needle into my tear duct!! Ughh, thankfully it didn't hurt too much, the yucky part was then he turned the needle once it was in my tear duct to get the right angle :) At least it was over very quickly and since this procedure my tear ducts have been so much better. So there's a first :) tick it off my list, needle in my eye :).

So Your Heart for My Heart is on Etsy now. I am loving her dress :) and I have started another one already and love the sky on what I have done. Feels good to like my work :).

My daughter has finished her quilt, with the help of her friends hehe and I have done a bit of piecing on the ends and now I will put it together and start sewing :) should be fun. Seriously I cannot piece at all!! I think I might buy a online class on piecing just so I don't feel so inept :).

each symbol for the cartoon characters

 Darren Shan

 Robin from teen titans

Danny Phantom

Dipper from Gravity Falls

Jack frost from The Guardians

Addicted to house hunters and house hunters international :) it is so fun to watch people pick apart houses over the tiniest things :).

Totally enjoyed my first week at home alone with school back :) bliss.

Jane

Sold!!

Well I sold An Easy Way to Get Love!! So excited, here I am thinking it looks like a child's drawing :) And I sold Dream Tree too. Good timing for back to school and about another ten bills as well. I get so excited every time I sell something :) someone actually likes my stuff AND gives me money too!!:)


Finished the next Felicity in the series, it was slow going as the kids have had friends over and all I do is feed them and then clean up after them all. Fun. But they have fun and there is no arguing so give and take :).

Will have to fix that eye, :)

 So now just to bind it, I find it hard to match a binding colour. I used to just bind  it in some funky gold I had but I ran out and the fabric shop I go to get all sorts of different stuff in and not always the same. Will have to look again for something tomorrow.

Then one of my wonderful friends went back to the U.S, so sad and not fair :) Helped clean her house and then when it was empty it looked so nice and clean :) of course, so I came home and did a huge declutter and went through the kids rooms and just cleaned everything!! Now it feels better and when the kids go back to school (wohooo) next week I can relax for a few days before having to clean again. Ha ha ha funny. Dreaming. Nice.


Went shopping and there was no chocolate on special!! What??? I never buy chocolate at full price $4.80 for a block of chocolate? No way! So I have to check if there is any stashed at home or keep going back to the store waiting for a special :) This is news people!!. This is important.

My daughter wants to make her own quilt and she has designed the quilt top up and will start drawing on it tomorrow and then paint, we will then go get the backing and wadding which thankfully is on special at my local quilt shop. Said daughter said well then we should be done by the end of the week then mum once you've done your stuff! hehehe I wish I was that quick or had a long arm and it would be done that quick :)
Dinner, what a chore!! off I go...
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