Christmas decorating

Love butter churns for decorating!

Mike brought me this reindeer while I was away!
Love him-very, very cute!

Have you noticed????

Have you noticed that I have been missing in action?  Well I have a couple of good excuses and this all started about 6 weeks ago!  I have been chauffeur for my Mum and Dad as my dad needed some tests done for his heart. So this meant a few trips to Hamilton about 4 hours away.  And after the second lot of tests it showed that my dad needed open heart surgery - really scary as my dad is only 63!  The valve needed replacing, I must admit it did surprise me and as in any surgery there is always risk so the thought of losing him so young did put me on my butt-for a wee while!  But I am pleased to say surgery went well and after only 7 days in hospital he is home, a little slower than normal but making a fast recovery-this is one emotional roller coaster I don't want to ride again for some time! Also in the last 6 weeks the farm owner who owns the land we lease decided to put it on the market, which has left us without a job and home from the 1 June 2014. We have been cleaning up as we had a few open days when anyone who is interested in the farm, can come visit the farm and look through the house.  So it was a mad dash to finish Christmas decorating before I took dad for his op as well as making sure that the boys in my life kept the house tidy as I was away for 2 of the open homes!! 

 We also decided because farm jobs and lease farms are like hens teeth at the moment to put the cows on the market-which sold within a week-everything is happening so fast! it has us in a tail spin.  So now we are looking for new jobs!  To be perfectly honest, I just can't wait for the new year to rock on!  Which is a double sword for me as this is my favourite time of the year!! But hopefully by the end of the week we will be back to some kind of normal as it will be the last open day! 

 This is a really long posting, so if you are still with me, thanks.

Hope everyone has a great week, Michelle.

SSCS parcel arrived!

Well my parcel has arrived and it so exciting!!  But sorry ladies I can't show my ornament as I think it is in my main parcel!

I did open the smaller gift thinking it was my ornament but it was chocolate and sorry I didn't take a photo, it was just what the doctor ordered so I ate it!!!!
Enjoy the weekend, Michelle.

Nicky's Birthday

This is what I made Nicky for her birthday this month and now she has received it I thought I would share a photo with you.  (It is a glass plate, tea dyed doily, tea dyed flowers, some pearls and a cream plate stand.)  I thought it was very cute especially on my old cream scales!
Enjoy your Thursday, Michelle.

SSCS is now done!!

My SSCS parcel is all wrapped and will be in the post this afternoon!!!  It took a little more time than I planned but that was only because of the farm and my lack of organising my time!  On the weekend we did our shearing of the ewes and only the lambs left to do!  Boys dagged them so they are already to go!

 By the end of the weekend with the heat, we and the dogs where pretty tired!

I hope you are having a great week,
Michelle

Last week was our wedding anniversary, it's hard to believe I have been married for 21 years!  Time does fly!  Above is the gorgeous card my mum made us - she is very clever!  As for me I was spoilt, Mike got us tickets to fly down south to Nelsen for the weekend at the beginning of December!  I am excited for two reasons, I love Nelson and the other is we will be staying with my bestie Nadine!  It will be so great to catch up and ooh I almost forgot the shops!   But my boys gave me the biggest surprise, they brought me 3 calves, I call them panda calves because that's what they look like........................they are so mad CUTE!!!!

So some help on name suggestions ladies would be greatly appreciated???????  Still busy on the farm but will be weaning some calves this week, so slowly things will slow down!  On the craft front I am working on SSCS but almost finished so then I can start on other projects, as I have had some new patterns turn up and am so excited and want to start on those!!!  So I will finish with some docking photo's, we have now finished the docking which was pretty full on, we got a milker but still had to come home and feed calves, which doesn't sound that bad, but the trip home was 3 hours, so feeding was a little late and boy did the calves let me know that I was late!! ( lucky they are quick to forgive!)

Have a great week, Michelle.

Almost missed it !

Yep on Monday for some reason Claire was on my mind while feeding my calves, so when I got home I gave her a quick ring, I thought we were meeting on Tuesday for our KHS Halloween/Thanksgiving, but no we were meeting on Monday!  So it was a mad dash to get ready and luckily for me I had done my project on Sunday!!  But when arriving at Claires and keep in mind I was late, no-one but Claire was there!  This got Claire thinking maybe I had the right day and she was a day early????  But we were put at ease as slowly one by one everyone else turned up.  Claire had done her sun porch up for Halloween and it was very cool !

Claire also put the most delish lunch on, roast chicken, cinnamon and spice roasted potatoes, kumara and a broccoli,bacon salad and then to top it off pumpkin pie and yoghurt!!! (NO TEA NEEDED!!)  and the table looked gorgeous as usual,

Claire also made each of us a yummy cinnamon sugar scrub! thanks Claire!  Below is Claire's project for the month, this very cute Halloween bunting-not sure where she found the time??

Nicky didn't have time and Michelle some how found time to make a pillow front, when finished is going to look fab on her new church pew which we will see next month.

And below is my witchy shoes and tin.

As you can see from the photo below we love going to Claire's and relaxing, I am so pleased I did ring Claire on Monday morning because I would have been so disappointed if I had of missed it!  I so look for ward to these meetings.

Hope to show some stitching soon, but I am working on some secret sewing for Chooky's SSCS.
Michelle.