KATE'S WEDDING 30 APRIL 2016

This BLOG post has been a long time coming so before 2016 ends I want to BLOG about our daughter's Wedding, just warning you this post will be photo heavy.........

It was the Wedding of the year, Kate organised 90% of her Wedding, she likes to be in control, like her Mother !!! LOL..... I had to practically beg her to give me some things to organise.... Kate was the happiest bride I have ever seen, absolutley nothing fazed her on the day.  The week leading up to the Wedding we had LOTS of rain, the morning of the Wedding we had heavy down pours but we all remained happy.  The Wedding ceremoney was in a Chapel so we knew we wouldn't get wet.  The rain stopped for us to have photos before the ceremony and for everyone to enter the Chapel.  During the ceremony it poured down and looked and sounded so beautiful, to me it was a sign of our loved ones in Heaven raining tears of joy.....  Then after the ceremony the rain stopped for them to have the most beautiful photos taken.......  Kate and Josh started dating when Kate was in Grade 12, she was just 17 and Josh was 21, now 11 years later they have become husband and wife so NOTHING was going to spoil the day.........

Kate having her hair done and enjoying a champagne.  Kate doesn't drink champagne, this is the first time ever I have seen Kate drink champagne.....

Kate always has this most beautiful smile on her face and her Wedding day was so exception.

Kate and I ready for the big day.

Kate and Pa (her Dad) before getting into the limo...

Arriving at the "Arabella" Wedding Chapel, Buderim.....

                                                     Kate and Josh after the ceremony.

                                                   Me and my two beautiful daughters.

                                                                           Kate and me

                                                        My Mum, Kate and me....

                                                                       Our little family.

                                                               The beautiful couple....

                                                        Kate and her beautiful Bridesmaids..

                                                                     Taking a stroll

 
                                                     We've finally done it....

                                 Josh loves his fishing, having a little fish after the ceremony.

The Best Man and Groomsmen not believing Josh is finally married....

                                  Kate with her sister Rebecca, on the left and their cousin....

                                       This is one of my favourite photos outside the Chapel...

                                                    Wedding cake and Wedding cupcakes

                                                                 Cutting of the cake..

                            My beautiful girl, me and my new son in law....

                           LOL a funny photo of my BFF and me at the end of the night...............

                                               We all had a wonderful time......

Cheers to the end of 2016....

Kaylee

SECRET SANTA SWAP 2016

Here are the photos of the wonderful gorgerous gifts I received from Sandi for the Secret Santa Swap 2016 organised by Cheryll

This is a lovely block keeper .....

How lovely is this hanging of a Penguin Christmas stitchery ....

A lovely zippered pouch with embroidery threads, sewing thread and ribbons.

A gorgeous Nutcracker fabric tote bag ....

I mentioned to Sandi I would love a new pin cushion, how cute is this, I don't know if I can bear to put pins in it though as it's so cute. 

Two lovely tree ornaments...

Thank you so much Sandi for all of my gorgeous gifts.  Thank you Cheryll for organising the swap.

Cheers
Kaylee

BAH HUMBUG SWAP - NO FUSS SWAPPERS

This is the Bah Humbug swap gift I received from Nor..

These are my gifts wrapped inside the gorgeous Fabric, I will leave the mug rug in my craft room to use as this is my first ever mug rug. I have used my Christmas mug several times.. Thank you so much Nor...

These are the gifts I sent to Anthea of Hibiscus Stitches.

I enjoyed the few swaps I did with the "No Fuss Swappers", they are very easy and enojoyable... The Christmas swap was no exception, the swap consisting of four items, being - A home made Christmas mug rug, a Christmas Mug, a Christmas fat 1/4 and a Christmas treat.  This was a very enoyable swap, thank you ladies....... Looking forward to some interesting swaps next year too.....

Cheers
Kaylee

MY VINTAGE KITCHEN

My Vintage Kitchen was a 2015 BOM by Jenny of ELEFANTZ.. I managed to stitch each block last year however I only sewed it all together recently.  This is my "My Vintage Kitchen" completed.

I just love it hanging in my kitchen. I replaced it this morning for the next few weeks with this lovely

mini quilt hanging which I received in a "Christmas In July" swap last year. 

Happy Sunday everyone

Cheers

Kaylee

NO FUSS SWAPPERS - "BAH HUMBUG" SWAP 2016

I have joined the "No Fuss Swappers" for the last 3 swaps which have been lots of fun, also they are an easy swap to participate in.  The latest is the "Bah Humbug" swap, I received my parcel quite early this morning, I have to wait 16 sleeps till I can open it.....
I love the fabric wrapping, thank you Nor....

I have posted a parcel to my partner Anthea, I can't show you the goodies I sent to Anthea just yet as she is, quite coincidentally a Bloggy friend and reads my posts.   I will put photos up after14th December when Anthea has opened her parcel. 

Happy Monday everyone.

Cheers
Kaylee

PROJECT 48 QUIILT BLOCKS - A LITTLE CATCH UP

Over the past few weeks I have been doing some catch up sewing on my P48Quilt Blocks in between doing some secret Christmas sewing for two Christmas swaps.

This is Block 22, this block took me 9 hours of sewing, unpicking and sewing and that's not counting the cutting out as I had precut a lot of the blocks waiting for spare time to sew them. I didn't enjoy making this block however I very happy with the completed block.

                                                                         Block 23

Block 24, this one was very challenging and also took me a long time to complete, I needed to watch a tutorial (a couple of times ) to learn how to sew the white pieces into the block......

Block 25, block piecing and some hand applique.

                                                                             Block 26

                                                                           Block 27

Block 28, this is a needle turn applique block which took me quite a few hours to complete, there are 3 petals to each flower. My fingers were cramped at completion.

                                                                        Block 29

Block 30, this took me a little bit of time, I'm not real happy with this block but I'm not doing it again.

Block 33, I enjoyed doing this block. Yes you read correctly, I am missing blocks 31 and 32 which I still need to do.

Block 34, this is another needle turn applique block as well, I really suck at it, this block took me several hours to applique and if you look closely I only have a few of the leaf ends in points.  I know you will be shuddering when looking at this Michelle. It's my first ever attempt at needle turn applique and I looked at a LOT of tutorials first but I'm still bad at it.  I am NOT including this block into the quilt however I will hang onto it.  I would like to do more needle point applique (maybe I need a few lessons from a professional).  I can look at this in the future to see how far I'm come - fingers crossed anyway.....

Block 35...... I still have to catch up from here to block 41 which came out last Friday.

I hope you're all enjoying the weekend and the weather - looks like we're into summer now.

Cheers
Kaylee