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More Farmers Wife Quilt blocks

For the past month I have been making Christmas cards and gifts for friends and family so my Farmers Wife Quilt blocks having been sitting in zip lock bags waiting to be sewn.

Blocks cut and waiting!

So I did some sewing- and here is what I made!

[10] Bowtie

[81] Snowball

[92] Streak of lightning

[69] Practical Orchard

[4] Basket Weave

13 blocks I have made so far!

So I have been busy- 5 blocks made in 2 days- and one extra I have made and posted for a friend for her Farmers Wife Quilt- I hope she likes it as much as I do!

[29] Economy

So 13 made 98 to go! Going to start cutting more blocks out. I have 8 page markers for the next bunch to do, but not today as Master W has now been unwell for 11 days and counting so feeling grumpy and less patient from the lack of a full nights sleep which aftershocks have also have not been helping when they wake us in the night!.

Hello New year!

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With the new year here- hello 2012 we ask for a safe, un eventful, less grumpy, family filled, more patient, less shaky, happier year!!

With a new year I have started a list a 30 before 30 list- note my list is lacking things (I only have 15 things on my list at the moment) I will post it once I actually have 30 things on my list.
Here are a few blogs I have taken inspiration from larakate.blogspot.com and dayinthelifeofacreativemummy.blogspot.com

I also went through my Google reader and have un-starred a huge stack (1000+) of things I had liked over the past year and never done anything with SO I went and put them into a document with a label and the link and its now organised for the new year.

Things to make in 2012
Things to make for Christmas
Inspiration

This will also make things easier to go back and find the link- even when I make things from Pinterest I can add them to my document and mark them off when I make them (or delete when I dont want them)

I am starting the year being organised and with a LONG list of things to make. And to start off the new year I just ordered these Hexagon template/paper templates from kiwiquilts. Excited to start!!!

Also if you can think of anything to add to my 30 before 30 list please post a comment.

Happy 2012!! And on a side note- what one word would you use to sum up your 2011? Mine would be - eventful!

bye 2011

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See you all next year in 2012!

The gift of new friends!

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Just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to a new friend for this book, and its awesome to meet another Christchurch blogger! Its so awesome to up-cycle and re purpose/ re gift things- I just really love this idea!

Make sure you check out her blog!!

Enjoying the family

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Now that Christmas is finished and our tree is down. Since its not even the end of the month (we normally put it up the 1st December and take it down the 31st December) the tree was taken down because we were using the umbrella stand for our tree as the stand that came with the tree broke as we put the tree up. Its been really really hot here and we needed the umbrella up outside- bye bye tree see you next December. It was a great idea to use it for the tree- the tree stayed standing through the aftershocks!

Now we have spent the last few days outside enjoying the shade of the umbrella and admiring the garden and I have really loved having Mr B home and the boys playing so well together but also have had the boys with temperatures which isn't so fun!