Ohhhhh dear, normal service will resume as soon as possible.

 

For the last couple of weeks I have been unable to see any of my information, including blogs I follow etc. on my BlogSpot dashboard.  I know that for quite some time I have had SPAM comments and have duly identified them as SPAM and not published them.   Also, my usual IP would let me quite happily read my blog but not my dashboard and when I went into my e-mail account and opened mail a message would pop up telling me that something was wrong and that the programme would close down – grrr,

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No excuse really, I should have written sooner.

 

Oh gosh, here I go again – apologies to those of you that follow my antics here at the shop.  There really is no excuse apart from being busy – really busy, even on days when I am supposed to have the ‘closed’ sign up.

Last weekend was a prime example… two ladies were here, when they arrived at the shop I was already serving a customer.  It had been a morning of chain customers – you know the type, they are like tag teams, as one leaves another arrives.  Anyway

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It’s Been A While

 

Whew, it’s been a while since I last wrote a post and as my lovely customer friends tell me, it’s about time I wrote another.  so, here goes…Oh, by the way – sorry, it’s a bit picture heavy.

These entries could be all over the place and totally out of sequence because that is roughly what life

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I am still alive and kicking, in case you were wondering.

 

Oh my goodness I hadn’t realised just how long it had been since I last wrote a blog post – and yes I have reprimanded myself sternly and whacked myself with a wet bus ticket too.

I can’t really blame any one thing for my tardiness but I will have a go at spreading the blame around

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Just in time for OPAM 2012

 

The last stitch in the last quilt for 2012 is done – this quilt has been hanging on my sewing room design wall for at least a year, probably closer to 2 years.  So with OPAM to be updated and nothing I can share at the moment I got stuck in and finally finished it.

A number of years ago I saw a quilt like this and couldn’t find a pattern for

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How to spoil a girl

 

How do you spoil this girl?  Easy really, you sign up with Chookyblue’s S.S.C.S and get a gorgeous girl, Annette  from Jindi’s Cottage as your secret partner and taa daa, instant spoiling.

Annette went well and truly to the max when she made my gorgeous little ornament which I have hanging down on the shop Chrissy tree, along with her gorgeous tags.  The little Snowman looks very comfortable surrounded by baubles, tinsel and a little swansdown just to add

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Updating

Somebody please tell me where the last month has gone.  I’m sure it was only last week when I wrote my last post – not last month!

So much has happened and yet nothing has is if you know what I mean.  My first bit of news is that I got a big parcel in the mail from my SSCS partner.

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I just have to share…

 

A couple of weeks ago I was browsing through an on-line auction site just having a look/see at what treasures people were offering for sale.  As I was looking at goodies under the ‘Antiques’ label I didn’t expect to be purchasing anything.  Well, that changed and I got lucky and had the winning bid in the auction -  woo hoo.

I really like collecting ‘old’ things.  In the house I have a healthy collection of old brass objects, some beautiful big bronze figures that I collected when living in Asia and

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Back to Normality, sort of

 

I have to share my latest ‘finish’ with you first today as I’m just so flipping pleased with it.

‘Sherbert’ is what I named this particular quilt as when I was describing the colours I wanted to use I suggested the colours of the sherbert that we used to be able to buy many moons ago as children.  So, without further ado may I introduce ‘Sherbert”

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Scraps and spares.

 

Last year Chookyblue organised one of her SAL’s and this time it was a small Christmas ‘stitchery’ quilt “Tis The Season” by Natalie Bird.

About that time and not long before it either the city of Christchurch was rocked by a couple of nasty earthquakes. These shakes un-nerved a few people and even doing what appears normal to many of us became almost impossible for some while others just couldn’t concentrate even on the simplest of tasks.  It was because of a combination of these things that one of our

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