Mojo might be making a stitching comeback ...

Wow ... we had such a great weekend away!!

I arrived in Adelaide on Friday late afternoon, dropped my bags off, waited 35 minutes for a taxi and headed into the city for a little bit of shopping and then met up with the girls ... Midge, Jeannie & Ingrid. They did a bit more damage on their credit cards and then we went to Lemongrass, a Thai restaurant on Rundle Street for some yummy tea.

Then we decided to hit a wine bar, I think it was called "Distille". Entertaining to say the least ... mainly for the people watching and shoe checking out ... all the girls had very high stilettos on!! It was like it was a competition amongst each group to have the highest ones!! Then we were a bit offended by the lady who commented "Your not from Adelaide are you". How rude ... just cause we went to a wine bar with lots of shopping bags ;-)

Then we headed back to our unit for a coffee and hit the sack.

Saturday morning we were up and ready for the Inspired Stitches to start. A big line up and then we arrived in the light and bright room were we would spend two days stitching and laughing and meeting lots of new people.

Our teachers ... Rosie, Melly, Leanne & Janelle

The kits were bought and then the decisions started ... what were we going to start on ... Janelle solved our problem as she came to our table first and offered to show us Needle Turn applique. Janelle is such a gentle, kind, patient and encouraging person !! We all managed to finish our piece before lunch.

Our table with our finished needle turn.

Eventually it will be made up to this ... a notebook cover and glasses case ...

After lunch we started on a bit of stitchery ... projects by Melly and Rosie.

Rosie's projects.


Melly's projects.

I didn't start on Leanne's projects but here is what they were ... gorgeous stitched doilies ...

At the end of Saturday's session we head back to our unit and eventually decided to get a taxi somewhere for a cold beverage!! The helpful driver, who Midge thought looked like Imran Khan!!, took us to the Holdfast Hotel at Glenelg. It had had a major renovation since the last time I had been there and looks great!

Then another taxi back to our venue at Westminster College for dinner in the Boarder's Dining room. Very enjoyable and we got to have a great chat with Rosie, Leanne and Melly.

Once dinner was wrapped up we thought we would head back to the Holdfast for a drink. Lots of laughs, story telling and fun was had!!

Sunday morning saw us needing a bit of the following ...

Sunday's session saw some stitching, many many laughs and a bit of purchasing from the shop. I bought two lots of fabric to make quilts for Hannah ... no pattern as yet but a few ideas!!


The lovely lady at the front on the left very kindly took Midge and me to Camelot Studio, a scrap shop treasure trove on the way to the airport. Quite funny as she thought it was open until 5pm but we got there at 4.30pm and the man was shutting up. By the time we got to the front door he had disappeared - imagine 3 desperate shoppers peering through the glass and knocking to get some attention!! Then Jenny suggested we knock at the back door ... which she did and Mrs Camelot came out and let us look around the whole shop for about 3/4 hour ... so kind of them!! We all managed to spend a few dollars ;-).

Then off to the airport to meet up with the other girls and have a cold drink and hot chips!!

All round a fantastic weekend with amazing friends!!

There are a few other photos but I have promised that I wont show some of them on the WWW!!!

Inspired Stitches ...

Only 2 more sleeps until I leave to head to Adelaide to attend Inspired Stitches ... with Ingrid, Jeannie, Midge & Ann!! Getting very excited!!

Can't wait to meet the designers ... Leanne, Rosalie, Melanie and Janelle. Janelle is also a scrapper so that is fab too!

Need to pack my sewing kit and case!!

Plan to take my camera and take a few snaps and maybe do a mini book on my return!!

No scrapping being done at the moment as I am working and going to Pt L on the 2 days that I'm not working for appointments!!

Sheoak Craft Cottage scrap night ...

Today ...

was Jack and Lachlan's first game of football together!!

Jack was very excited ... I had to get up at 8am as there was so much noise and when I got to the kitchen Jack was ready ... all dressed in his guernsey, shorts and socks!!

Lachlan just wore normal clothes to footy but once he was allocated a guernsey he was excited!!

Lachlan sat on the bench for the first half and then at half time I said "run over to see Mr S. ". At first he ran slowly but as he got closer he was at quite a speed!!

Neither he or Jack got a touch but they were very excited as their team won by three points!!

We all waited at the shed door for the 'B' graders to run out and then they walked in and sang the team song!!

Jack and Lachlan wore their footy clothes for the rest of the day and just went to bed in them ;-)

Finally some scrapping ...

A couple more photos ...

Easter 2009 ...

We were lucky enough to be able to use John's Mum shack for the Easter weekend. We usually complain about all the stuff we have to take but we had a great weekend!!

We had friends for lunch on Good Friday, joined up with some friends for a great BBQ tea on Saturday night and had family for a BBQ lunch on Sunday.

One of the views from the front verandah ...

A little bit of unsuccessful fishing ... this one was too small

Enjoyed a couple of cold glasses of this ...

Had a couple of these ...

Enjoyed some of these ... Coffin Bay oysters

Ate too much yummy cheese ...

Easter bunny made a visit ...

Hannah finally started to enjoy the sea water ...

Climbed a big sand hill at Long Beach ...

On the whole ... had a great weekend!!!

First olive harvest ...

A few years ago we bought 3 Kalamata olive trees and planted them out near our clothes line.

Today the boys and I harvested the first crop!! Only one tree has fruited!!

We got 1.4kg.

I found the pickling method here.

Wish us good luck!!

In about two weeks we should be able to taste test them!!

Jack at the moment ...

Jack is 7 1/2 ...

• he loves sport ... especially football and cricket. He can be found playing it, talking about it, watching it on TV at any time of the day!! He will watch any games of it on TV even on Austar when it is from the 1980's!!
• he is a good reader
• he is quite tall for his age
• he is not fussy about what he wears at all and never has been
• his favourite meal is schnitzel, except he prefers the butcher shop ones to our home made one
• he will eat peas at a push, carrot, prefers fruit (grapes, waternmelon, apples, strawberries)and salad (lettuce, cucumber, raw carrot) though
• loves playing games on the internet ... Mathletics and Stick Cricket are the favourites at the moment
• he is a lot like John in his personality ... a bit antagonistic
• lots of people tell me he looks a lot like John too
• he has an interesting teeth arrangement at the moment
• he has quite olive skin
• he can spit it with the best of them but doesn't do it to the same extent as his brothers!!
• wants to play cricket in the next season for the Cummins Scorpions
• he will be playing his second season of minis this year in Ramblers

Lachlan at the moment ...

Lachlan at 6 ...

• he loves Lego, happy to play for ages with it making creations. Gets extremely upset if anyone touches the creations or wrecks them.
• he enjoys the PlayStation
• he isn't a big meat eater, use to love fish, chicken etc but not as keen now
• his favourite meal at the moment is roll ups ... tortillas with yoghurt, cheese, lettuce, cucumber.
• he can be a bit particular about his clothes but not as much as when he was younger
• he follows Western Bulldogs in the AFL, has done for over a year now.
• he loves sport ... cricket, football especially
• he is very sensitive, just last night went to bed very early upset because John had promised to get him a packet of footy cards and forgot ... Lachlan was devastated!!
• he takes a while to get over something upsetting
• he is very affectionate
• he is very cheeky
• he has curly hair, especially if it is a bit long

Rohan at the moment ...

Rohan is 4 ...

• he is a very fussy eater. At tea time he always wants fish (King George whiting) ... he would say he wanted it every night if we asked him!! He might eat a hamburger or a sausage or a roll up with grated cheese but really that is about it. Very frustrating.
• for breakfast he likes toast or crumpets but sometimes doesn't eat them.For lunch he always attempts a sandwich!
• loves to drink juice or pink milk (strawberry quick)
• he is very determined once he makes his mind up about something
• he loves Lego
• he is very sensitive, becomes upset at the littlest things
• he is very caring
• he can often be heard singing, little songs that he makes up
• he is a story teller, not so much at home but with his uncles and auntie and cousins ... some very amazing tales we get relayed to us!!
• has long eye lashes
• always needs a belt on his pants!!
• he has a very good memory for things we have done or places we have been
• he is my baby boy
• can be a bit particular about what clothes he wears

Hannah at the moment ...

Hannah at 2 1/2 ...

• loves to decide what she is wearing ... doesn't really like wearing jeans, prefers dresses, skirts and shorts.
• loves pink ... her cup, cutlery, clothes, lollies etc!!
• when she puts on a new outfit or one that she thinks is "pretty" (her words!!) she walks out to show the boys ... "modeling" as she goes ... a little pose here, a little pose there!! Looks hilarious!
• if the boys put on a footy guernsey she wants one on too!!
• she likes to wear her "sneakens" (aka sneakers) even if it isn't apporopriate (according to her mother!!) with any outfit ... I hide them sometimes when I would prefer her to wear other footwear!!
• is a fussy eater at dinner time.
• plays really well with Rohan
• likes to wear clips in her hair, if she finds a headband at someone else's house she will put it on, likes necklaces and bracelets too.
• likes to draw
• looks very intensely at reading materials as if she can read!! Saw her doing it with a brochure at the bakery the other day ... looked so funny. She has loved to "read" things from a young age (from about 6 or 8 months!!).
• always wants to wear "knick knicks" (aka knickers) over her nappy

Hannah ...

Just had to post a photo of Hannah last week after leaving Granny's ... she had found Nana T's old handbag and pearls!! There was a black evening bag as well!! Very glam hey!!

Hi ho everybody ...

Well I had a lovely trip to Adelaide on the weekend ... shopping until I nearly dropped!! I mainly needed clothes for myself and Hannah, the boys got a few bits and of course the mandatory present which is requested if John or I go to Adelaide!!

The boys had requested ... football paraphanalia!!

Jack ... a Geelong guernsey ... very expensive and luckily I didn't find one in his size!! So a cap and a few football cards and a football book were the substitute!!

Lachlan ... Western Bulldogs shorts and socks ... again no luck so the same as Jack.

Rohan ... no specific request so he got a Hawthorn Hawks cap and a packet of footy cards and a footy book!!!

The caps are quite nice, bought them at the AFL shop in the city. Not loud colours either.

Hannah was very happy with her Fairies book!! So far she likes the clothes I have shown her ... she is a little particular but so far I have talked her into each item so far!!

Enjoyed a yummy meal out with friends at Chianti Classico on Hutt Street in the city, with a very entertaining waiter ... I was trying not to laugh when he was describing the dishes!!

Finally ...

I have got most things re-installed on my computer!! Hooray!!!

So some computer journaling could be done!