18 March, 2024

A Baby Quilt Plus Two More!!

I have a niece expecting and it was her baby 
shower last Saturday. As they don't know what they are
 having I made the quilt for either a boy or girl.
I bought a few metres of this Australian animal fabric last year. 
I thought it was very cute with kangaroos, wombats and echidnas.
The fabrics aren't really showing up well, 
they are more gelato colours.
When I was going through my photos I realised
 that I hadn't posted about the twin baby quilts 
I made last year for my lovely next door 
neighbour Chelsea's baby shower. 
It was a couple of days before we left 
for our big WA road trip 
and I just didn't get a chance to blog about them.
They now belong to Bernard and Eugene.
The colour shows up better in this photo.
I bound one quilt in green and the other in yellow
so boys will know which one is theirs.
Noel and I often have the boys for an hour or so 
to give Chelsea a bit of a break. 
They are nine months old now. 
We had them for a whole day a couple of weeks ago. 
I don't know how Chelsea does it on her own! 
That's Chester, their dog. 
We took him for a walk too as he doesn't get out much!
This is Bernard.
And this is Eugene.
Our favourite neighbours!
 (sorry Chelsea and David!)

03 March, 2024

Austin and Paris' Wedding!

 
Introducing the new Mr and Mrs MacDonald, 
Austin and Paris!
Mitchell, Indy, Paris, Austin, Nelson and Rhie.
 Last Saturday was the big day!
 
 Mitchell and Nelson were Austin's Best Men.
 
A lot of you know that I love dresses and always wear one. 
Of course I had to have a very special one this occasion. 
I bought a gorgeous dress back in March last year 
which I just love and then, 12 days before the wedding, 
I bought this one! 
So after bragging to Noel that my dress and shoes 
cost less than his hired suit and I got to keep them,
 I could no longer brag!
 
Their cute little poodle Ralph was the ring bearer.
He even had a little tuxedo! 
It's a bit hard to see but there were hundreds of 
little pearl beads stitched all over her dress.
Noel and the boys waiting for Paris to arrive.
Paris showing off her garters.
These three (one above and two below) are some 
sneak peek photos from the official photographer.
I can't wait until we get to see all of them.
I just love the look on Paris' face in this one.
The little bag Paris carried on the day. 
The ribbon roses are more from my wedding dress.
Paris made all the place settings. 
The little heart is embedded with seeds to be 
planted and flowers will grow.
My Mother of the Groom corsage.
Noel, Mitchell and his gorgeous girl, Steph. 
There's really no photos at the moment of us as a 
family until we get the ones from the photographer.
Paris made these glasses for a bit of fun.
Paris put this little video together.
 
The groom was handsome (I may be a bit biased), 
the bride was stunning, the weather was perfect 
and it was the most wonderful day.
Now I officially have a daughter!
 
It's hard to believe they have been married a week already!

24 February, 2024

Chookshed Stitchers 2024 Challenge - February

It's nearly the end of February and time to share 
our next Chookshed Stitchers 2024 Challenge projects. 
I had listed Project #2 as a mystery but now it is gifted, 
I can share it with you.

This is the quilt I made for Austin and Paris 
on the occasion of their marriage.
Being a modern quilt, I was so out of my 
comfort zone as I don't "do modern"! 
But I have to say I am very pleased 
with how it turned out. I made it for the 
back of their couch, especially for 
Paris as she loves to curl up under a blanket watching tv!

I also made Paris a wedding charm. 
Decided not to make a horseshoe as I wanted to stitch 
the monogram I had stitched onto the covered hanger
I had made for her bridal shower. 
Again I used the same fabric from my wedding dress. 
The ribbon rose was also from my wedding dress.
For Austin, I embroidered a hanky for him 
to have in his pocket at their wedding.
Well, today is the big day!
I'll have lots of photos to share with you.
 
I haven't forgotten about my Scotland 
photos but I've been a bit busy. 
I'll get to them soon!

23 February, 2024

Paris' Hen's Celebration


A couple of weeks ago, we had a 
Hen's Celebration for Paris. 
Started out the day at "Champainting" where we 
painted a Picasso style picture of Paris
while sipping champagne. 
Paris painted Austin!

We were entertained by "Jackie", 
a drag queen who was very entertaining.
Jackie and Paris.

Our paintings! 
We all decided we won't be taking up painting! Haha!
Meg was our instructor and this is the 
painting of Paris and Ralph (Austin and Paris' dog) 
which she gifted to Paris.
I'm so excited to have Paris as my daughter.
Then it was off to The Windsor for High Tea.
A special lemon meringue pie just for Paris.
Austin waiting when we got back home. 
Not sure if you can see it, but he is 
modelling Paris' "Bride To Be" headband.
 
We had such a wonderful day. 
Now for the big one!
 

01 February, 2024

Chookshed Stitchers 2024 Challenge - January

It's the first of February and I'm a bit late to report on our 
Chookshed Stitchers 2024 Challenge projects.
January was project #6 which I had listed as Mystery Project #1.

 
My January project was for my soon to be daughter-in-law, Paris.


Now that I gifted these to Paris at her 
Bridal Shower I can share photos.
 
I made Paris a covered hanger for her wedding dress. 
It is made from the same fabric that my wedding dress 
was made of. My brother and I made my wedding dress 
and I still had left over fabric. I would have happily cut 
up my actual dress to make the hanger as having three boys, 
no-one was going to want to wear it!

I also made Paris a garter to wear on their special day. 
I couldn't find a nice charm so added the drop pearl bead.
My wedding headpiece (above) was also handmade 
using some of these beads so again I 
have added a touch of our wedding to Paris and Austin's.
 
 Deana has now announced our February project number.
Number 2 on my list is Mystery Project #2. 
You may have now guessed that it's something to do with 
the wedding so you'll have to wait a bit to find out what it is!

I haven't forgotten about sharing our amazing 
two month trip to Scotland and England. 
After hours and hours (and hours), 
I have finally got my photos sorted into order. 
When they uploaded, they were all over the place so I manually 
went through my phone and renumbered everything in date order. 
All 4342 of them!
 
Hopefully it won't take me too long but as the wedding 
is in three weeks, I might be a little busy!