Beautiful Weekend

Sharing a lovely sunny weekend with family and friends - Perfect!

A little knitting for World Wide Knit in Public day. (no surprises there)

Strawberry ripple mits

A lovely tour of the Botanical Gardens - there is much to see no matter the season. 

Plenty of people were out enjoying the winter sunshine.

The leaves that forgot to fall

There are some amazing structures and monuments around the gardens.

This monument to Queen Victoria actually has four separate poses celebrating different events in her life.

excuse the finger!

There was cake, well this long weekend is in celebration of the Queen's birthday.

Delicious.

This model of an old treadle sewing machine is animated like the real thing and plays music when you open the drawer. 

A gift from SJ - about 6 inches tall

Hope the sun is shining in your part of the world.

Celebrating...

Ms Nomee is celebrating...

She invited some friends around,

for a little drink.

She even has proof of her age.

I inherited this machine from my grandmother who was a very meticulous record keeper - the receipt is taped inside the back cover of the manual which came with the machine. I really like this hand written receipt which is signed by Mr Reynolds, the printed receipts of today would no longer be legible.

As I use the handy reference book often I am reminded that my faithful sewing machine is now a young lady with lots more stitches in her future.

If you'd like to join the celebrations you can leave a comment here and we will whip up something to send to a lucky someone.

Hope you're celebrating this week.

Welcome to 2010

As the sun set on another year I stopped and pondered 2009 - Lots of change, challenge and crafty pursuits. I'm Happy with that - now I have a new year to look forward to with a whole lot of new adventures. As I started blogging in January of 2009 it seems only right that I should celebrate this month with a giveaway probably in the second part of the month. Thanks for all the positive comments, I enjoy what I make and am happy that others do too. See you round for another year of more of the same.

May 2010 be filled with lots of creative opportunities and more happy memories.

Happy New Year