Bribery & corruption .....

Yesterday I tortured my kids and made them do this:

So this arvo they're playing Wii and we're having take away for tea.

Yep, bribery.

Remember the red quilt ??

It's still coming together.

Almost there.

Even tried a bit of machine quilting this time with my newly purchased walking foot - what a clever person to have invented that!

Quilting purests may "tut-tut" the mixing of hand and machine quilting - are there rules for this stuff? I'm still making it up as I go along. (might even do a class this year .....)

Have to finish it soon as I have a plan for the next one....will keep you posted!

Stuff

Life is full of stuff.

Good stuff.

Great Stuff.

Crappy stuff.

Amazing stuff.

Wonderful & breathtakingly beautiful stuff.

Heartbreaking stuff.

Really hard ugly stuff.

To my special few (you know who you are), thanks for helping with my stuff. You are amazing and deeply appreciated. xx

Thanks everyone for popping in and checking out Ohjoh during the year.

Have a lovely 2011!!

May your stuff be of the good variety

Jenny

Still Getting Festive

A production line on the table with big kids creating and a 4yr old sprinkling glitter.

Hand made christmas cards (yes Mum didn't get it together to buy some) for the school kiddies!

Our floor will shine with blue sparkles for months

(which may be saying too much about my housekeeping skills ...)

Hope there are sparkly creations at your place too.

Jenny

For the teachers...

A trip to Amitie today and the thankyou presents for teachers are all done!

Foodie goodies wrapped in tea-towels for kinder all wrapped and waiting (so I don't eat the Turkish Delight!) and for the two most wonderful primary teachers in the world (if only we could have them again next year.....) a little linen tote bag to ferry around their teacher stuff.

Now onto the next project ......

Getting Festive....

3 kids + 1 hole punch + a couple of pairs of scissors + coloured paper + a piece of string

equals

Lots of mess (or if you're a kid, lots of confetti that is still following me around the house)

and

a really pretty snowflake garland (which is not that relevant to a Christmas in Australia as it is currently hovering around 30 degrees C - and my kids have never even seen snow!) but all are happy!

Circle Work

Many years ago "circle work" involved my 2 brothers, 1 V8 Kingswood, 1 paddock and lots of dust. Not as much dust these days ...

Tea-towels for Sunday's market.

Pop down to Mulgrave Makers Market and Farmers Market on Sunday (8am - 1pm) and say hello!

Cheers

Jenny

One market done ...

Mulgrave Makers Market - done!

A lovely day. Well done to Sue and Fi for organising it so well.

Not looking at the sewing machine for another day or two .... then starting it all over again for the next one on Nov 28th.

If you're in Melb come on down - it will be big!

PS How do some of you girls keep on top of the whole blog thing (note it's Wednesday, the market was Sunday and I'm just updating now)? I'm hard pressed to get a weekly (well, sometimes fortnightly) post done. Is there a secret ? Are your children fed? (joking of course!!)

My Creative Space...

I wish it was like this...

but it is a crazy mess getting aprons and skirts finished for Sunday's market.

If you're in Melbourne on Sunday head to the Mulgrave Makers Market from 8am until 1pm. They also have their weekly Farmers Market on at the same time so you can get some fabulous fruit & veg and heaps of other yummy goodies. (I'm hoping the sausage people and Benny's berries will be there - Yum)
Make sure you say hello!
Hopefully I'll have some stuff finished to put on the rack.....
Check out lots more creative types at Kirsty's

My new friend - the red quilt

It's a new friendship.
We're still at the polite, get to know you stage and probably both wondering if we're going to "click".

We haven't seen each other very often as other things "come up" and our get togethers have been getting postponed. Maybe we can make some time this weekend .....

I do love her chooks!