Mug Rug Swap

My R&A Block Swap friend Leah
is organizing a fabulous
MUG RUG SWAP
Get yourself over & join in! Love this .... made by Leah!

Training it!

I've been in a creative slump but I have been 'thinking' at least ....
about being creative ... just can't seem to get my act together!
Been spending lots & lots & lots of time playing with this precious little boy ...
he's a fantastic 'cuggler' at the moment ...
The block buildings unfortunately are never left standing for long!
The train track however is "the" favourite .... currently!
enJOY your journey!

A Dozen ...

Today 12 years ago

... Craig & were married ....
Today we went out for lunch ....
... with the 2 year old in tow ....... the 2 year old had not had a sleep!
... Considering that ... it went quite well!If you know Melbourne???
- you might just be able to spot where we went!?

Whirl Baby Whirl ....

I love these cutie Whirly Gigs that we've been making in our
Red & Aqua block swap this year ...

I will be glad however when we have finished as these teeny tiny ones
are a bit fiddly & I have made heaps ....
making x2 quilts for our cabin!
Aim high I say!

Having our Block Swap at Bron's place this Friday ....
... looking forward to her show n'tell ....
She's made some bigger WG's too ....
(stole her pic below!)Mine went into a certain new niece's
(whom I haven't yet met!)
little quilt!
and my blogless friend Louey
has also made extras with a different neutral background ...
Love Love Love them ....
I will make more at some point ...

Home is where the HeART is ... ?

I have meant for so long to pour out in words about our current life's journey
....but somehow found it hard to actually do
.... if I sat with you over a bottle of sparkling rose it would be alot easier ...
You know that we have sold our house recently
& you know a part of the story that led us to this point

... on Sunday Craig & I will have been married 12 years
(& if our Wedding photos weren't all packed away
I would go to the trouble of scanning one for you!)
Life - Marriage - Property - Living - Loving - The Journey ...

Well we have but a few weeks to finish packing up the home that we came home to as a married couple & that we changed over time to suit our needs & taste, the home we brought our much longed for baby boy home to and he has called it home for 2&1/4 years ...
HOME where we've argued, cried, celebrated, relaxed, entertained, been creative, laughed, .... & loved ...
I keep doing things & every time wondering if it will be the last time?
I am such a sentimental chick....

Home also for our doggies: Bronte & Pepper, our feisty Jack Russell's ... sisters, & man they quarrel when something gets under their skin! P & B are now 9 years old .... will always be able to work that one out as they were born almost to the day of "Sept 11"

We found a house on the market a while ago that made us take the plunge, literally jumping in the deep end..... to get our house on the market .... decided that it was too close to power lines ....
... Then we lost our hearts, hook, line & sinker over another house that I really just took Craig to see to show him perhaps what we could do with a house with great 'bones' ....
Hmmmmm
Seemed we very nearly got it .... but were pipped at the post!
Just like some football matches hey!!??
Anyway - the way I look at it ....
... something better suited will be around the corner ...
I'm just having lots of trouble waiting!!!!

Tomorrow my Mum flies back to the East coast, USA ....
(anyone live near Harleysville, PA?)
My youngest brother & his wife and their 3 children live there.
Ann has lived with a major heart condition her whole life & has since she was a teenager had a pig's value keeping her heart pumping .... after having her 3rd baby only a few months ago... her heart is now failing her. This day was always coming .... "Some day" .... Its here & all our hopes, prayers & wishes are with her as in the next few days she is headed into surgery .... Yes - the surgery is critical
.... as is the way her heart will accept the new value
... but the recovering is going to be long & agonizing...
Her gorgeous baby girl .... she won't be able to cuddle ....
So take heART in the blessing you have in health ....
... a prayer for Ann if you would??

I'm a bit lost in my own home too ....
So much is packed up & not here ...
... I did move my sewing machine back & sewed together all the blocks from our Purple & Green 2009 swap last night & this morning... I even took some photos but then the camera battery died ... so no pics ....
... got to get out of this non-creative funk I have been in!!
Hasn't helped that I haven't had my usual resources!
and had a different focus .... I know every new property in our search areas & when it comes on the market ..... craziness ...

So struggling with where we are headed & wondering where the rest of 2010 will take us ...
... haven't decided when our next IVF cycle will be ....
Thought it best not to try while in the middle of packing boxes ....
Keeping my head up .... and we have a weather forecast of more glorious spring days ahead! Yay!

Cuddle the people you love & hold them close ...
I promise I will be back more often with more uplifting, creative journeys to share ...
Edit: Thankyou for all your lovely comments!
I really am a glass half full kind of person ....
... I was a bit tired last night when I posted this!
Blessings....