Handmade Pizza Oven

My friend Michelle has a new oven.

Her hubby made this great Pizza Oven last year in their court yard.

He Googled and Youtubed and set to work.

Very clever indeed!

Still needs to put on some render,

but it has been getting lots of Pizza Action

And here it is in full swing,

cooking a sweet pizza, Nutella, Banana and Marshmallows

I think we need one too.

I'll add it to the list

I'm off to a local bloggers catch up :-)

Have a great day

Jacqueline.

Maybelle's Quilt

This is Maybelle, 11 year old daughter

of my lovely friend Bianca.

On the 31st October last year, Maybelle was diagnosed with

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Bianca belongs to our Stitch and Bitch group,

even though she does not live here anymore,

she is still considered one of the girls.

So, one night in November, while stitching and bitching

we decided to make a quilt for Maybelle, together

First we met at Michelle's,

everyone bought along pinks and greens from their stash,

Louise bought her Drunkards Path template

and we started slicing and stitching

Next session was at Louise's house.

Here's Judy stitching away

And Louise, pressing seams

And here is Bianca and her 4 chickens,

I snaped this photo when I visited them up in Darwin last year.

While stitching away at this quilt,

we were busy chatting about Bianca's family and Maybelle's journey to date

Taking Shape

Another session, at Sandra's home this time,

pinning the quilt.

Next job was Michelle's, to make the binding

Then the quilt was passed on to me to machine quilt

Then I passed it back to Michelle and Sandra,

who took the quilt on a summer holiday to South Australia

with their families and started stitching on the binding,

then completed the binding back home.

Bron, who now lives in Melboune, sent up the label that she hand stitched,

Then I stitched it on...

And finally finished!

We were all very happy with the finished product

and each of us could easily have snaffled it for ourselves.

It was delivered to Maybelle a few weeks ago,

thanks to Granny Di the courier. 

I can not even begin to imagine what Maybelle and her family are going through,

the chemo, the hospital stays, the emotions, seperation from her friends and family.

But Maybelle is one Tough Cookie, very wise and mature for her young age.

Maybelle has a long road ahead,

but she is going to kick Leaukemia's Butt!

Bianca's cousin is participating in the 

Leukaemia Foundation

Worlds Graetest Shave

you can find Skye's page here 

 Bianca's friend and children are also participating in the

Leukaemia Foundation 

Worlds Greatest Shave

you can find Nita's page here

 Jacqueline.

Day 28 - Royalty and Rockstar

Last year we went to a "Celebrity" dress up 30ish Birthday.

The husband went as "Ozzie Osborne" and I went as "The Queen"

Thought this was a timely post as we have

royality visiting the counrty at the moment

Here's "Ozzie's" homemade stash

The birthday girl, Amy, "Lady GaGa" and her

hubby, Adam, "Gene Simmons"

Lady GaGa even sang a few songs for us :)

Heres "Blues Brother", Ray and his "Hollywood Want-To-Be", Lisa

"Amy Winehouse" also made an apperance

As did "Uncle Arthur" and "Dame Edna"

And, I just had to include

"Fred and Wilma"

You know when you get that invitation to a fancy dress do,

my usual reaction is - oh shit - I hate these things,

but once we sorted out what we would go as it,

it all came together easily and looked forward to the big event.

A great night was had by all, and

thanks for the use of the pic's Amy :)

See you tomorrow

Jacqueline.

Day 26 - Game Set Match

Twilight Tennis started tonight

Very casual affair

Here's a happy snap of my team mates, Michelle and Louise

(sorry girls, but I can't take a pic of myself playing!)

We did'nt have a win - but we had fun :)

See you tomorrow for

Blogtoberfest

Jacqueline.

Day 24 - Liesl's Throw

Back in August, my friend Liesl had an idea.

But she needed someone to put it all together for her.

It was her mums birthday and she wanted to make a quilt/throw for her.

Liesl bought a lovely wool waffle and a nice fine wool fabric for the back.

Liesl had relatives send her pictures, letters and quotes,

that they would like included on the throw.



The quote on this one says...
If your kids are giving you a headache,
follow the directions on the asprin bottle,
especially the part that say's,
"keep away from children" 



Then Liesl arranged the images using her computer,

then printed them onto fabric, then passed them onto me.

One relative sent a bag of buttons,

which we used to join the 2 layers together

She also sent fabric strips all pieced together,

which I made into binding

It's made to fold in half long ways,
and sit across the bottom of the bed

And here is the only (very bad) shot of the finished product.

I wish I had taken some nicer shots of it.

It's lovely that so many people contributed to Liesl's project,

it was such a personal gift.

See you all tomorrow

Jacqueline

Day 22 - Champion Exhibit, Ribbons and Stitching

I went to Stitch & Bitch this afternoon, Michelle hosted today.

Michelle's First-Born, Mr 9 showed me his

Spent Shell Hut he made to enter in the local show

It's amazing, so much detail and lots of recycling!

A very well deserved Champion Exhibit.

He has also been very busy showing sheep with his uncle,

he is gathering a very big stash of ribbons.

When I was growing up, my family showed horses,

we had lots of ribbons, but theses one's are just so soft,

Michelle has been busy sewing all the ribbons together

Here is a cushion for Mr. 9's bed,

I love the colours and the texture of the ribbons.

Now Michelle is busy sewing some more into a throw for his bed

And, this is what I took along to Stitch and Bitch,

some boats, fish, pirates, rockets and robots,

and lots of aqua.

I've had a very productive afternoon,

hopefully these will turn into some new

Buntings for the shop this week

Enjoy the rest of the weekend

See you tomorrow

Jacqueline

Day 19 - Judy's Quilt

Back in August, I decided to join in on a little quilt-a-long,

you can read about it here.

I also asked the girls at

Stitch and Bitch

 if they would like to join in too.

Judy, Michelle, Sandra and Louise have.

Here is Judy's quilt.

She has used Sugar and Spice Textiles,

Spotlight Christmas Basics,

And Flurry-Kate Spain of Moda, which was

purchase here

Judy set off at a cracking pace

And, here is the almost finished quilt.

And, I do believe she finished sewing on the binding tonight!

And here is the back shot.

Mine - well, I still have 3 blocks to sew together,

Sandra's is basted

Michelle has the top pieced

And not sure where Louise is up to.

Great job Judy!

See you tomorrow - 3 minutes to spare tonight - but I made it :)

Jacqueline.

One Year Ago - Weekend Rewind

This weekend I thought I would join in with

Multiple Mum over at And Then there Were Four

doing a Weekend Rewind - letting an old post see the light of day again

This weeks theme is This Day Last Year (or thereabouts).

So I am linking up a post from this time last year,

Our trip over to Dayelsford

where, we caught up with

Kate  

who is now on a trip around the country,   

Abbe 

who has now had a little bub  

Bianca

who now lives much closer.

What a lovely day out!

Jacqueline.

Warm Pics

I am freezing today, so I thought I would share some

images I captured at some nice warm Bonfires last spring

At a relatives farm, we cooked toast and had homemade jam.

The boys looking grown up, chatting around the fire.

This is one we passed down near Casterton

It was huge!

Happy little people sitting around the fire,

out at Bell Farm

Toasting marshmellows out at Bells Farm

Watching the fire being lit at a relatives farm

(the prep bear, Jack, was vising from school)

Have a great Thursday

Jacqueline :)