I can't believe so much time has passed since my last post!!! Does anyone else seem to get lost in timespace like me?......Summer is not conducive with me to get much done due to our extreme heat we have.Spare time is either in the pool or at the beach.Today it is raining heavy due to the trough from the cyclones up North Queensland so I thought it would be a great time to catch up!!
Well I was one of the unfortunate ones who participated in a swap-worked hard on the parcel and then it NEVER made it to its intented mortal in The Netherlands (someone must have received it as it never made its way back to me!)So I sat down and commenced to make another one.....hope Anita likes it!

I made a set of rose buttons out of polymer clay baked in the oven so are fully washable.I also made an Angel out of beads.These are so easy if anyone wants to make them-just ask!They are great for suncatchers,attached to scissors or even with a ring added to go around your wineglass when having a girls night or at retreats!!!

Love the Rose fabric in this basket,stitchery done with varigated threads.(my mortal loves red and pink together!!)

A small pillow for pins,needles or brooches.

Some of the parcel goodies-even has a mugmat and quilt labels.I do so hope Anita enjoys these and finds them useful to her.
Christmas was a very low key event in our family this year as my son was getting married on January 8th up in Hervey Bay.As our family had to travel great distances we all decided our family time would be the wedding and not christmas!
Leading up to the wedding had been 10 days of tropical storms causing the bride much anxiety as it was to be an outdoor ceremony.It rained up to 3 hours before the ceremony was to start and then the sun came out in force with warm winds to dry out the ground.The ceremony was so beautiful and as a mother I felt so proud!! This is my first child to be married---the rest did it all backwards(the home and children and maybe oneday a wedding!!!! Sound familiar?)

The bride looked so beautiful and radiant,my son looked very dashing in his Al Capone suit! The day before he had a HUGE head of curls and a beard and threatened to keep them for the wedding!!!!! The bride was so thriled on the day to see him at the ceremony well groomed!!! Another of my sons was a groomsman(far left)

The proud Mum with her children!!!As usual I am in Blue!!!!My new DIL is a lovely girl and I couldn't be more happy-----she even loves to learn all the crafts I can teach her!!!!
My son asked me to make the wedding cake as I love delving into this craft as well.They wanted a 3 tier mudcake,top white chocolate,middle caramel mudcake and the bottom a dark chocolate mudcake.I found the most beautiful recipe on the net for these,very easy and super moist! The recipe can be varied to make all types of mudcake without much fuss-a real hit and works.The bottom layer was 14",middle 12" and the top 10"...a huge cake but all went very quickly with 90 guests! If you want the recipe link just ask.

This is how I transported the layers from the Sunshine Coast up to Hervey Bay(3 hours away) in the back of my car

I got to add lots of me to the cake by doing embroidery,quilting and adding beading and veils to it!All the flowers were handmade out of sugar paste too.

The light doesn't do it justice but the cake looked so beautiful.Took me some time to do all the embellishments but was well worth it.Another form of craftwork so even though I haven't done too mush sewing I have been busy.
My elderly parents (77 and 90 years) moved house in the last 2 weeks.They decided to relocate to Hervey Bay.The humidity isn't as bad there! They bought a house up there when we stayed up there for a week in November last year.Their house down here sold within the week so just had to wait for settlement and then began the huge move.My sons and I did all the heavy stuff for them when the removals had left.I stayed for a week with them getting them settled before coming home.felt quite weary for a few days but now am back on track so hence the blog catchup.Will try and get around to reading all your blogs again in the next few days(have so missed doing that).
glad to be back cheers