Christmas Helper.

When the present were all opened my beautiful ginger boy had to join into the fun and play with all the Christmas paper just like little kids would do. The first photo was taken when Rusty (Cat) saw the face of a cat on the cat calendar sitting on the floor near me and it was looking at him. Very Scary Rusty!!!!! My DS 23 had to take a photo of me in my PJ's with no make up etc. Great one Matt.

Christmas Tree

It's Christmas morning and all the presents have been placed under the tree last night ready for the big day.
What a great day we have had opening presents after breakfast as DH and DS 23 could not wait as they were hungry. Weetie's was on for breakfast. Quick and easy.
Then down to opening the presents that DH handed out to us all.

Fabric Atc's and Postcards

Here are a few of my cards that I have made this year for swaps on my online groups. Rainforest butterfly , Purple passion and a Christmas Postcard

Here is a link to some beautiful images

Lisa Vollrath has some free printables starting 1/12/2008 at

http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/

Thanks Lisa for the art work will be great on my printable fabric to make cards.

Hugs Mandy.

Christmas gifts.

I am happy to say that I have been crafting the last two days.

The bits for the white card holder have been sitting in the draw of my cutting table for a few years and I found them last weekend when I was moving things around so here it is finished. Early this morning I purchased the bits to make my mortal her December gift. My DS Scott (21)likes the red one best he told me a short time ago as the white stands out he said. Males!!!!!!!!

I am happy with both of them.

Potted love

The pretty plant in the blue pot is called Tranquility and its in the photo with the three plants before it was repotted.

The blue trays have all my little repotted plantlets in them.

The photo of the stand with the black cats on top was taken 10 years ago when I had lots of plants and that stand is one of the largers ones. L 4'x W 2' x H 6'

African Violets are my second hobby if you have read my blog before you would have seen my plants and my little furry boy Darcy. The pretty plant in the pink pot is called Party Time.

Here is the result of a days repotting of my AV's last month on the 18th October. So here's some of my newly pot plants.

My DH is a electrican, thats why how I have a great lightstand for my AV's.

Five years ago I had a room full of these beautiful plants on three stands the other two much larger than this one.Time, family and my other craft's made me down size the growing of AV's.

Summer Dress

In the last few years it is hard to find a cool summer dress that is made of cotton or poly/cotton.

So I been shopping at Spotlight and purchase dress material and patterns and have made my first dress for a long long time.

The blue dress is made from poly/cotton blend and I have use the McCall's 9 pattern and dress G.

The weather today was 35c was just right for a cool dress.

Scrappy blocks

I have been playing around with some fabrics that I once used to make some bags and have bits left over. I have made these blocks using 2 1/2" stripes from the fabrics and hope to make a large quilt as I have lots more cut ready to sew. The blocks are 10" finished.

The blocks are fun and easy to make and have a diamond pattern when joined in the corners.