done and dusted!!!!!!!!!

I have just posted my final essay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't quite believe it. After 3 years of study it is all wrapped up and only the student loan remains, but really who care about that! :)

I am just so pleased it's done. I won't know what to do with my self. But actually I do, I have so many things I have not done and put to the side because of my study. The biggest has been my fitness and my craft. I just have had no spare time for these things because nagging in the back of my mind was always  the next essay.

I have a list of things I really really want to do this term so here goes:

My fitness!!!!!!!!! it's quite hard to believe i actually used to be fit, in fact i actually used to run often an hour a day!!!!!!!!!! I have put on 5kgs this winter and while the weight does not bother me the fact that i don't fit my clothes and fell all gross does. So in the weekend I brought some new running pants (don't lie I know you all do it too, buy new gear when you begin your new exercise kick :) and I will be using them 2moro morning.

Reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have so many book I can't wait to read. I LOVE reading but really just felt guilty and didn't have the time cause of all my massive loads of txt books. I have some wonderful Alexander M'Call-Smith books just waiting for me....yay.

Quilting: I have the best quilt ever to finish. Last christmas I made me and my sisters memory quilts out of fabric from both grandmothers, mum and my stash. I finished theirs but not mine!!!!!!!! and i can't wait to get it done. My sewing machine does not have a quilting foot so it's the old school way and all done by hand. 

My room: tama made us a new bed and bedside cabinets and that inspired me do give our room a mini makeover. I have started with making a great cushion and finding some fabric to re cover a lamp but there are so many things yet to do. I need to remember to take before and after pics too!!!!!

My rose garden and vege garden: It really is so so so bad. It needs some tender loving care, it is terrible!! poor garden, not a lot of weeding or pruning NO tender loving care, so that is a must!!!

I can't wait to get started!!!!!! perhaps after a good nights sleep

Koro Tama

Well Tama has become a Koro (granddad) for the first time!!! kind of.... One of the boys he has worked with for the last 6 years has had a wee baby girl. It's very cool.

So I decided a quilt was on the cards!!!! I made another rag quilt. I really love how quickly these babies come together. By babies i mean the quilt not the actual baby :) I had already cut the fabric out a couple of weeks before so all I had to do was sew it up.

It only took a few hours and I am really pleased with the results. This time i decided to do the same fabric on the back. But... since it is pink and white stripes I alternated each square so one way the stripes go up and down and the next across.

I also sewed a new duvet cover today!!!! will have to wait for the pics tho :)

The back of the quilt

Quilt in a day!!!

So a good friend had a wee baby boy and i knew i wanted to make her something really nice. I had got some super cute fabric with mice and cherrys on it and decided I would create something using that.

So I decided to make a rag quilt and wow how quick and easy are these babies!!!! I was so stoked with how it turned out and think this will def be my top pick for new baby pressies.

The whole thing took prob about 5 hours, which is not too bad.

The thing with rag quilts that make them look all snugly and nice is the great fluffy edges. I washed this one twice to get the edges fluffing up, but the more it gets washed the better it will look!

The back of the quilt

Heart with the babys initials

Heart with my initials and date, don't you just love blanket stitch!!!

A close up of the nice fluffy seams

quilt pics to come....

Made the coolest quilt on monday!!! thats right it took only 1 day!!!! My camera is being an egg so will have to wait to get the pics up aaarrrggghhh, but it is lovely and now safely in the hands of a good friend and her new baby boy.

stay tuned........