A Little Christmas Freebie and Show and Tell

It seems that this year my designing mojo has gone on a very long vacation without me. I have no idea if it's coming back but I get a glimpse every now and then. It reappeared briefly when I wanted to gift you all a little drawing for the Christmas season. I loved doing it and I hope you enjoy stitching it.

If you look under my sketchpad on the sidebar and click on the drawing you should be able to download it. Please be aware it is for your personal use only.
Happy stitching! I am planning on stitching it myself too.
I have some very Christmasy Show and Tell from friend Joy in Bundaberg. Joy stitched my "CHRISTMAS MEMORIES" Quilt and it is just lovely. I have her permission to share it with you all.

Lovely work..

Thanks Joy for sharing your lovely quilt.
Christmas deco stitching continues here.....

Making a nice little pile. Nice and relaxing to do.
Secret sewing.....a bit of binding coming up.

Love that birdie fabric and love the project.
Very nice mail came this week.....a managed a great bargain on these books from a legendary Australian artist,  William T. Cooper. Sadly no longer with us but his fabulous legacy and inspiration remains.

Loving devouring these pages......art has been happening. You can check it out OVER HERE
A showery afternoon here.....very nice for a curl up and some reading.

Namaste and Blessings Michelle xxx

Back to Stitching

It was quite a week last week and one I enjoyed immensley. I love our Botanical Gardens and after arriving early on Sunday morning for the last day of demonstrating at Australia Wild Art exhibition (you can see my piccies HERE) I took a quick wander through part of the gardens. I thought I would share some photos with you.

I love the peace down at the lake.

Little juvenile Water Dragon was enjoying the peace too....

I also love this sculpture outside our Planetarium.

Lots of striking textures along the path too....

Pretty Ginger bloom peeping out.

I never encountered another soul and it was just lovely.....

It was such a joy to wander past the Lotus and water lilies each day too....

Now believe it or not I have managed some stitching....well just a teeny bit.
Christmas stitching is well under way. These are Christmas decos for a later in the month.....better stitch faster lol!

That's me caught up.....time for a cuppa!
Namaste and Blessings Michelle xxx

Busy Days

If you read my art blog you will know what I have been up to...you can click HERE to read about it. I have been quite busy.
Sewing wise seems to be lots of Secret Squirrel stuff.

My clamshells have been getting some attention in the evening and another row is nearly complete.

They are so relaxing and it is very slowly growing. Never tire of looking at all the different fabrics represented in it.
As I have been out at The Mt.Cootha Botanical Gardens I have snapped a couple of piccies on my way to and from the car.

Its such a beautiful place for an art exhibition. I bought home some lovely merchandise from there.  Beautiful cards! I prefer Aussie made cards whenever I can and I had a very hard time choosing......

Ok must fly.....Nana and Miss E have a date at Prep School.....wonder what we will learn today lol!

Namaste and Blessings Michelle xxx

Nearly Done

Good morning to you all. It is a beautiful morning here.....sunshine and blue skies. The showers we have had have been very welcome however. It's been lovely to see the dry crunchy brown lawn almost magically turn green. I think the birds loved it too as I had a family of blue faced honeyeaters in my Jacaranda yesterday.  I spent some quiet time just watching their antics....too quick for my camera. But they were in there. For my overseas friends they look like this....

Meanwhile I am stitching the last little block on Gardener's Journal.

The last few blocks were polished off during the week.

I have truly enjoyed stitching these blocks....trimming and assembly not to far away.
It is the time of year when secret stitching is underway and I am participating also.

This week was time to catch up with the girls for stitching and even though our ranks weren't full we had a lovely time. Friend Ann gave me a book to read.

It was a strange tale and I am still deciding whether I liked it or not....interesting certainly. And I have to say it flowed so beautifully, it was over before I knew it! Does that ever happen to you? Not loving a book but you can't say you didn't like it either ......hmmmm! This author also wrote "The Girl With The Pearl Earring" and I seem to remember feeling the same way about that book too....has anyone else read it?
Books certainly can evoke responses in us can't they.
Must go I have laundry to get out in that beautiful sunshine.
I wish you all a relaxing weekend.

Namaste and Blessings Michelle xxx

Fruit and Vegies

The combination of wet weather and the motorcyclist in the family's favourite weekend on the calendar.....Motor GP round at Philip Island meant Hubby was not budging from a front row seat in front of the telly Lol!
We were there in person last year.....the memories of freezing are still fresh.

So it was a perfect opportunity to stitch and draw to my hearts content. Gardener's Journal is really coming along and just as well I  love my "fruit and vegies" as these vegies were a bit tedious by the end....

The Orchard block.....

I decided to lay all the blocks out not in order but to see them all together. They are so pretty. Even if I say so myself.

I spent quite some time on Secret Santa projects too......which have to remain a secret of course! 
I also cannot keep my hands off this......but ssssh don't tell my friend Fiona *wink.

Ok that's it from me.....must fly.....art day and a new project in my brain....hopefully I can successfully get it from brain to hand to paper lol!
Have a lovely day friends.

Namaste and Blessings Michelle xxx