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Here it is...Rose So Sweet!...

I am happy to announce that I have finally finished my new design...Rose So Sweet

 

Here is a close up of one of the blocks for you

 

The 'bling' just sets it off beautifully and am really thrilled with the outcome...better to have taken a bit longer and be really happy with the result!

Anyway, I am about to go and load it onto the new website, so go and check it out.

I am off for dinner with some visitors up for the Textile Festival here in Brisbane.  Julie Wallace from Quilters Barn and her friend Sue are staying with us in the 'Mad House!'  Wish them luck surviving with me and four kids!

Until next time, keep smiling and happy stitching

 

Giggle Club

Hello ladies, this is just a quick note for Giggle Club members.  Could Hanneke Floris, Jeanette Bolseth-Johnson and a lady who pays by direct deposit from the Central West CU and uses the description of "Giggle Club", please contact me via email. 

Thanks

sonya

a unique opportunity!...

Before I release my new project Rose So Sweet!...I have been pondering on whether to post this.  Here at Giggle Buttons we are getting busier and busier...and I am finding it harder and harder to do the shows on my own...so...I am looking for a special lady to join our Giggle Buttons team! 

If you think you have what it takes to work alongside me at some of the shows, then forward me an email at  info@gigglebuttons.com.au.  You need to be able to travel for up to 6 days at a time, and live in either Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne. I look forward to hearing from anyone and I will reply with more details. 

I will be back soon with Rose So Sweet, I am just finishing stitching back to the binding and I will have the image to you!...and I will be writing the pattern over the weekend!

Keep smiling and happy stitching...

Rose So Sweet...

I am currently in Perth, but wanted to share some news...I have finally completed Rose So Sweet! 

As I dont have a camera I cant photograph it for you just at the minute...but when I get home, I will post a photo as soon as I have loaded the new pattern on my website.  I have the pattern half written, so it wont be long!...Here is a sneak peek to remind you of what it looked like.

Well I am off to get some more pattern writing done whilst sitting in my Perth hotel room. 

Until next time, keep smiling and happy stitching,

Maybe Poh!...but it could change...

Just a quickie...our little kitten has settled in well and is making herself right at home.  She is still a bit skittish, but she is so much better than when we first picked her up...

 

It is getting quite cold here at nights now and with not much fur on her little bones...she is finding a bit of warmth wherever she can find it!  This photo was taken last Friday night, I had just got home from working at the Craft show, when I was told that the kitten had jumped into bath, only to find it half full of water...she promptly jumped out...and was shaking (I think a bit of fear and a bit of cold!)  So she promptly cuddled up to whoever would sit down the longest to get a bit of body warmth.  Lucky I had a long top on and I wrapt her in it, much to her content...

Bianca is now calling her Poh, but I am not sure how long this name with last...poor cat, she must be so confused, but she does answer to Puss!...so that might just have to be her name!

Keep smiling and happy stitching,

I have been busy...I promise!...

After having a quick 'squizz' on the computer and noticing I had'nt posted for while!...I thought I should get the fingers busy and type a quick post!...

I have been working on the new Giggle Club project, so I could put it to bed before I left for Perth next week.  Also, the morning I fly in from Perth (on the Red eye! at about 6am)...I then get to have a couple of hours sleep before heading up to the lovely Sunshine Coast for Courtney's Year 7 Camp for 4 days!...As you all may be aware, Courtney has Juvenile Diabetes, and if I dont attend the camp, she cannot go, in case of a seizure or a nasty hypo...so, I want to finish Giggle Club this weekend, so I can be assured it will be safe here at home, ready to be printed off and mum making all the buttons for it! Thanks again Mum...and yes, we have finally decided on what buttons and what colours...its a joint effort...

 

I am very pleased with how it is coming along.  I am up to the last stage and a little bit more stitching, then it will be ready to be photographed.  I also had our local Brisbane Stitches and Craft Show last week, which takes up alot of time to prepare for, so I am a little unhappy that I have not had much time for getting any new projects out, or the ones I am working on, are not getting done as quickly as I would like.

I hope this keeps you all going for a little while...I will try and post a little more regularly, but with our busy show schedule, four kids, 3 dogs, 2 turtles, 25 bearded dragons, a cat and I lost count of how many chickens!...I am not getting as much into a day as I used to.

Thank you to all the lovely ladies who left me get well messages about my feet, yes, they too are giving me a bit of grief!...I got up on them way too early and am now paying for it...I got a small infection in the dissolving stitches on my left foot, and the right foot, is taking its time in 'netting' back together from such a large mass being removed...but the show must go on...there are orders to fill, shows to make stock for and pack for, childrent to be fed....and the list goes on...I am sure you can all relate to some of that.

Until next time, keep smiling and happy stitching