"Cheeky - Come Back!!"

Today we had a bit of a drama. We have a cockatiel named Cheeky, who thinks my youngest son Hamish is his Mum/best friend. Cheeky has the run of the house at times and because it was so hot here today we let him inside to fly around where it's a bit cooler. He's a friendly bird to most, but absolutely dotes on Hamish. Well, as Hamish walked outside the back door today - who do you think followed - Cheeky, and off he flew up onto a very high branch of one of our tall gum trees. Of course we all thought we'd never see him again - Hamish called out to him, Cheeky flew a bit closer - Hamish called again, and Cheeky flew to another branch - Hamish called, Cheeky flew even closer - then would you believe it, he climbed down a tree into Hamish's waiting hands. That's love for you!!! (And guess who was outside with my camera at the exact right time???)

White/Beige 1" Art Squares

No. 3 colour has just been finished - only 4 more to go!! These are the white/beige squares for the 1" art square swap that I am participating in. I still have blue, green, red/pink and white to go......

Herringbone Stitch

I have joined in with SharonB's Take a Stitch Tuesday challenge. The first one being Herringbone Stitch. I found an old piece of fabric which was backed with some thin wadding, and started my herringbone sampler. I practiced doing curves and different sizes - all of these stitches were done with DMC thread. I haven't finished, as I plan on using different types of thread and also sandwiching thread between the stitches - but wanted to post this before the next Tuesday's challenge stitch was announced.

The Deep Blue Sea

I decided to make the page (in my last post) as Sue's page. Sue posted some coloured cling wrap to me, red and blue, as we only have clear wrap in Australia. The background of the page was made with layers of blue cling wrap and various fabrics and fibres. The seaweed is tyvek and the fish I made separately, as I wanted to add more colour to them. I then did a bit of FME on the background for seaweed and bubbles. It will be on the way to the U.S. to Sue tomorrow.....

Cling Wrap from Sue (Thanks Sue!)

The Deep Blue Sea

Look what I got!!

I was the lucky winner of a "scrubbles" from Terri. http://stegart.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much Terri! I won't be able to use it to wash dishes though - it's too pretty. I'm going to put it in a little basket in the bathroom with some pretty soap to keep it company.

My Little Darling!!

My little darling!!!!

While I was making my page for Sue B's fabric book (we are doing a page swap on Fibre Art Friends Group), my little darling was sticking pins in his hands -in his words "just for something to do". Lucky I caught him - who knows where he would've tried sticking them next!!

Sue B's Page (Back of it!!)

I finished Sue B's page, but not sure if it suits the cover that she made, so I'm only going to show the back of it until I decide whether it's Sue's page or not. It's quite shiny and glitzy - I might make it my January journal quilt...... MMmmmmm - let me think on it.

Embellished Bag - No.1 in 2007

My first project and first post for 2007!! Happy New Year to everyone - hope it will be a happy, safe and creative one for all of us!!! Thankyou everyone for visiting and leaving comments on my blog - I really do appreciate it - THANKS!!

I made this bag today completely on the embellisher - no sewing involved! Was a bit of a challenge for me - only broke one needle (@@##$$$&&**^%). Not sure if I like it, but I was on a bit of a mission to start and also finish something - so this is the product of this mission of mine.......