QUILT REVISITED!

You might remember this ...........it has been sitting in the bag in the corner of the sunroom for some months now...........it's E10's birthday next week and I am hoping to have the project completed in time. Typical me, I always end up working best under pressure!!

(the photos aren't great quality, I forgot the camera settings had been changed for some TradeMe pics)

I had a little helper while she was waiting to go to bed. She was dressed in her new 'zoot' suit (as we call it, otherwise known as a sleep suit). I can now report that she has taken it off in bed tonight and has resorted to her blankie, which invariably comes off in the night and then comes the all too familiar "Mummy, Muuuuuuuuuummy.........." Looks like it will happen again tonight!

Have lots of other holiday pics to write about, it will have to wait until after the finishing is done.

BAGS GALORE

We've just had a big clean-out in our games cupboard - YIPPEE! I mentioned to our creative E10 that another way of condensing them would be to make bags for the 'little bits' that take up very little room in an otherwise huge box. She had them whipped up in no time......here's a couple of pics:

BEGINNINGS....

We've talked about making E10's quilt for sooooooooo long! Just to let you know it's finally underway and now that I've posted this I will just HAVE to finish it! It's my first attempt at anything remotely quilty so it remains to be seen what the final outcome will be!

The 'Twins'

You lovely girls have been friends since you were both One, when the McG's used to live just around the corner and down a bit. Mrs McG and I used to walk to the park in Buckley Rd (usually via The Piery!) where you, J12 and H10 loved to have fun together. You have continued to be special friends to each other, despite living a few hundred miles apart now. You write to each other via 'The Friendship Book' and whenever our families get together for our special holidays, we hardly see you two. You are off doing girly things together - it's like we still just live around the corner!

We just spent a couple of days with the McG's at Lake Rotoiti. E10, you asked if H10 could come home with us..........as you usually do! This time it happened:-) You had a lovely time together, happy as can be........you chatted, giggled, baked, played games, trampolined, walked, created, read, had a water fight with the boys, went to the farm, had a picnic at the beach, watched 'Because of Winn-Dixie', sang, played the piano and did many other fun things together. We even sewed a patch, which E10 designed and cut out, onto your jeans! It was beautiful to watch you both respect and encourage each other, for who you are.