will you look at this!!!

Have a looksee on over here at Lori's blog, what a wonderul place for inspiration, this is a must see place to visit - indeedee!!

She has so many wonderful places to visit, so many tthings to show you, you will be there a while, so make a coffe, settle in adn hop on over...

And look at her giveaway while you are there..

new beginings

well, we are off to Twizel tomorrow night after the days work, YAHOO

Rowing man starts his new job on Tuesday, after such a harrowing week and weekend,

Friday, one of the locums organised for working Tuesdays, sent Rowing man an e-mail - yes did not even have the decency to phone!, and said that he was too burned out and was unable to do the locum that had been arranged - how do you manage to find a locum at such short notice, when there is such a shortage anyway!!!!

anyway, to cut a very long harassed and extremely stressful story very short, Rowing man, after many many phone calls, managed to find another locum to work Tuesdays for him for the next 4 weeks at least....

so tomorrow after work (likely to be about 7pm), we will head off for Twizel for the next week, wel,l back in town next Sunday afternoon (lateish).

soooooo, maybe not able to check up on any postings, or bloggings or e-mail maybe, depends on what access I can manage, Rowing Man takes his PC and we have remote wireless access, but he is usually busy himself, and by the time I get a looksee it is ususally close to home time so I don't bother... we will see, so maybe I will hook on and maybe not...

anyway, if I don't, I am sure that I will catch up with you all anyway,

have fun, Shiree

T'was the night before Christmas

and all through the house…..

not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse….

her sugarplums have been folding and packing and finally they are ready to show you this…

pop on over to Helen's blog... this is her newly released BOM.

Isn't this just the most wonderful Christmas Quilt ever!

oooohhh the wish list just keeps on growing, look at all that wonderful stitching, my fingers are trult itching!

have fun, Shiree

F.R.I.E.N.D.S...

my F.R.I.E.N.D.S swap parcel arrived from Joan this morning, I was upstairs in bed feeling very sorry for myself, tucked up with a horrible head cold (not often at all that I do take to my bed, but my body was quite achy!) - having a duvet day...

caught out by the Fedex delivery man - who gave me one look, stood well back, and with a very long arm, handed over the little thing for me to sign, then turned and ran as fast as - maybe he was thinking swine flu - who knows..

anyway - look at all the lovely goodies that Joan has packed in here, I am really blown away - THANK YOU Joan!

F - Furry feline friends

R = Redwork Supplies (Joan has been peeking at my blog!)

I = Inviting body lotion and bath soap - shall have fun with that - spells relaxing to me!


E = Everything I might enjoy - y0u betcha!


N = Nurses lunch bag - how cute is that?

D = Dyed by Joan - some lovely fabrics which I will certainly have F.U.N with


S = Sewing case - which will certainly be well used..


... and look at all these cute tags -



So a really BIG thank you to Khris as well for organising this swap - what a wonderful idea.

Need to get my swap parcel for Joan finished - everyone just seems so organised. I still have some time left, and will get it in the post very soon....

check out this giveaway

pop on over here to Sheree's blog and check out her great giveaway -

She has some absolutely simply awesome SCRAPS!

..and just check out her blog anyway!

surely a recipe for some great fun!!!

and another postie parcel..

isn't the postie just so wonderful! It is so much fun and ever so exciting to pull up into the driveway, and see that something, just one little thing, some days maybe 2, or 3...

I am in 3 paper bag swaps, yes how is that for being really greedy! It just seemed like such a great idea, and it still is..

all nicely wrapped in a brown paper bag, and tied up with.. string - uhh no I mean fabric! ( I could just burst into song here, but you would not hear me anyway),

what have we got here... all blue - one of my favourite colours..

and the package unfolds, WOW - look at that butterfly will you,

and these buttons - how so cute!

well, yesterday's snow has all disappeared, every last little single flake, not a crystal left to be seen, although maybe still a little left about the town elsewhere,

otherwise, all gone.... until the next snow fall

Have fun, Shiree

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow....

this morning we woke up to this...

can you see below the tree to the smattering of snow on the ground?

a fine dusting of snow powder over the whole garden...

not quite what these little chaps are used to

and I will not be sitting here at all today

and now it is snowing again,


what wonderful big flakes

It is much worse in town apparently, and certainly if we have this amount of snow settling out here where I live, then it will be bad in town. Work has been closed down for the day, and everyone that did manage to get in has been sent home. This type of snow throws us all into chaos as believe it or not, we are really not used to this weather, and are not really geared for snow, Dunedin being all hill suburbs 'n' all, getting of those hills is a big deal

hmmmmm, now what shall I do with the day?....