Time Is Now My Own :)

What a school holidays!! It rained most of the time, so it made it real difficult to get out and about. But I made sure we were doing something nearly every day. Which meant that I was absolutely stuffed :) Monday they went back to school. I went visiting teaching in the morning and then cleaned the house for the rest of the day. Every day when I pick my son up asks me what did you do today mum?? (how gorgeous) and I told him I cleaned the house. What else?? he asks ha I wish there was time for something else :).
Anyway, over the holidays I dropped my quilts off to be judged - whooo!! here's dreaming that I place, I don't even care that I come first, 2nd or 3rd would be unreal. Prize money is $500 for 1st $200 2nd and $100 for 3rd. Not bad at all. I read a blog of another quilter quite regularly and in her blog today she mentions that she is judging the qld quilt show, hmmm she is very very good, so that means her standards are really really high, hopefully mine reach hers. :) They judge and let the winners know tomorrow... won't be going anywhere tomorrow. Oh and while I was driving to drop off the quilts, middle child tells me that she feels sick, two seconds later she is throwing up out the window hehehehe. I told her good girl for chucking out the window :) poor thing.

Look at this

My wonderful father in law made this for me. I have been searching the net for months and months to find one of these - extendable table- and they are a quarter of this size and at least $120 - $150. They are perspex instead of wood. Dad looked at making it out of perspex but he said it was insane the price they wanted. I love the look of wood anyway. It is 70 cm long and wide!!! Any others that I looked at were only 30cm w/l.
I covered it in clear contact to make it nice and slippery for the fabric and put gromets on the legs so it wouldn't slip on my glass table and it is the most perfect thing EVER :) I love it. It makes sewing 1000 times easier. As they say, I don't know how I managed before :)
Here is some of the tree in progress. I have done minimal stitching on the tree trunk as I wanted the paint to be seen still and all the different colours on the tree. Have a look.

Here's some of the leaves. I debated whether or not to stitch a whole leaf design over the organza in case I lost the sparkle of the fabric, but I did some with lots of stitching and some with outline only and it looked so much better with the whole leaf design. So here's to weeks of stitching thousands of leaves, and that's only in light green :). I am really enjoying though.

Well, on other matters, we watched Knight and Day - so much fun! It was definitely worth watching. Then we watched Robin Hood and that was brilliant. The acting was amazing. I think Cate Blanchet was fantastic. I am waiting to see The Sorcerers' Apprentice as that looks fantastic too. AND Survivor started and wow, I absolutely love love love this show. The first two episodes and I am laughing, holding my breathe and covering my eyes in shame for what they do. SO much fun.
Jane