Share your country swap

I took part in Share your country swap. The aim is to send 5 things that symbolise the country you live in / were born in. I was paired up with Lee-Anne in South Africa. 

I wanted to send a few things that weren't to nic nacky but more practical and that were actually made in NZ (sadly this is much harder than you think)

 Here are the items I posted

100% pure NZ Wool- The Make Cafe

Pink Sistema

My favorite - Ecostore soap

Whittakers chocolate 

NZ calender 

For something made by me I crocheted using a dishcloth pattern adapted to fir in a hoop and then hand stitched it on to grey NZ merino knit fabric in the embroidery hoop. Love how it turned out!

my package I sent

It was so excited to get post from South Africa and was delighted with a package full of wonderful goodies- Thanks Lee-Anne!

Such an awesome swap thanks Kimberly for organising!!

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Birthday Fat Quarter Club

I signed up with 9 other lovelies to be a part of the Birthday Fat Quarter Club.

The basic idea is on the person's birthday you send a fq. My birthday was first on the list of 10 lovely ladies this year!

It was very hard to have packages waiting for me and to NOT OPEN THEM till my birthday.

I was so spoilt to receive such wonderful packages (chocolate and fabric!!!) and all of them with a cute note and a happy birthday!! I was even lucky enough to get the same fq of fabric from 2 different ladies.

from Leonie 

from Angela

from Leonie

from Angie in Western Australia

from Juliet

from Lisa

from Fiona

from Cat

Feeling very loved by such wonderful ladies!!! Now getting ready to send post to the next lovely on the birthday list.

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Project Life 2014 Week Eleven

This week was my birthday week! I had an awesome birthday and was very spoilt from the boys. I am really enjoying this warm weather when we have had it but trying not to think about the cooler weather coming our way.

I asked Master W if he would like to draw something and he was super happy to use my special pens. He drew me a nice angry birds picture and wrote his name.

week 11

I am really enjoying seeing the binder slowly fill up with complete pages

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family moments

Every night we read to the boys before bed. We are currently 90% of the way through reading the BFG. The boys are loving it and of course hearing the word whizzpopper is of course hilarious!! The sun setting in the evenings at the moment make our bedroom glow. A perfect space for night time reading.

I finally managed to get a photo of us all together- such awesome memories.

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Project Life 2014 Week Ten

This week has had the worst rain in 100 years it was reported. We thankfully got off lightly- we still had a back yard of water and front yard flood but it was okay. We were safe and warm.

Many of the photos this week are weather related. I was so glad when the sun finally came out and the rain stopped!

Week 10

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Project Life 2014 Week Nine

Finally getting around to posting and finishing week 9's pages. The week was a little bit busy with Master B's 7th Birthday and his hulk party

I got ahead of myself and went and got photos printed on the Saturday afternoon and left 2 6x4 spaces free for 2 photos from the Sunday and a space for writing about the week. The downside is having to wait a whole week to print out the two I needed with the next week's photos.

Week 9

Feels good to have it up to date!

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