Saturday, 21 March 2009

Currently reading...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling.
The seventh and final book in the series, the only one I have only read once before! In fact it was my desire to reread this a bit more slowly and carefully that led me to rereading the whole series. For some reason I couldn't read the last without having read all the others first!

In crafty news (yes I have remembered this is suppose to be a crafty blog!), look out for a post a some stage today about fabric and my new project!

Monday, 16 March 2009

Currently reading...

A Respectable Girl by Fleur Beale.

Yet another library find. This one comes off the young adults shelf. I quite like a lot of young adult authors actually - the quality gives me hope for the kids coming through.

And I have to report, I failed! As I feared, I was unable to read more than about 30 pages of The Butterfly Effect. Even those 30 pages took me the better part of 3 days to struggle through. I found it clunky, hard to follow and with no direction. Sorry!

Saturday, 14 March 2009

Three cheers for Busy Thimbles!

Last Thursday I ordered some printable fabric from Busy Thimbles. I've bought stuff from them before and found their delivery time to be excellent. So anyway, Friday this week rocks around and still no fabric! I shot off an email asking them to check on it and they tell me parcels sometimes go missing and they will resend it again! How cool is that? Thanks Busy Thimbles!

Check out their store, they have some scrummy stuff!

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Friday, 13 March 2009

Currently reading...


The Butterfly Effect by Pernille Rygg


Gosh I'm ripping through them at the moment! Easy to do when a lot of your reading list is made up of children's books! This is another library book picked up on a whim. Will be interesting to see how I go with it as it is a translation from Norwegian and I generally haven't had great success with translated books. I tend to find the writing clunky and difficult. I choose to believe it's due to the translation, rather than the author. I'm sure in their own language most of these books live up to the potential I originally see in them.

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Currently reading...

The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket

I had a lot of sitting around waiting today which means I managed to finish The Hostile Hospital. Knowing I had some more waiting around to do (they joys of living on an island and time between events not being long enough to warrant going home!)so I headed to the library and borrowed the next book in The Series of Unfortunate Events books. The good thing about children's books - they don't take long to read!

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Baggu's of Goodness!

Yet another wonderful giveaway care of Grosgrain. I love the look of these eco friendly bags. If I win one, I will be the hippest shopper in my area! LOL

Pop over to the website and see if you can bag one for yourself!

Finishes!!

Yep, I have two finished items for March! OK, the plan was for them to be finished in Feb, but it's such a short month, it threw me out completely!

I will apologise for the photography. It's very cloudy here today and the wind is blowing thanks to Cyclone Hamish. While we are not in the direct path (thank goodness!) we are getting the effects of the edge of it! It has caused us a few problems though - our ferry to the mainland broke down half way over this afternoon and was blown onto a sand bank! It's been stuck since 1.30 and is unlikely to be floated again until a few hours after low tide, so won't be operational again until after 6pm! Thank goodness the barge is still running so we could get home, but that does it's last run at 5. May be a long wait for those coming home from work tonight!

First up the rocket quilt. I'm thinking of calling it Rocket Dreams.
I looooooooove the backing fabric for this quilt! Thanks Kelly for finding it for me! My darling hubby has taken one of the bit rockets off the bottom and done some computer wizardry so it's just a blank outline that I will use to label it. I do wish I had used the backing as the binding as well, but I ain't changing it now!

Secondly is the Sudoku Quilt. It will be called Sporting Sudoku. I did toy with Sportin' Sudoku, but as both myself and his mother are teachers, I just couldn't do it!
No picture of the back of this as it is the same as the sashing and the binding. Have I mentioned before how much I love this quilt??

Finally, while I was outside photographing the quilts, I discovered this little gem hidden away behind the kids playhouse.
I love the colurs and shape. Simply devine!