PIF Winners……

It would have been so difficult choosing winners had I had to do it without the help of Mr RNG……I really wanted to make something for all of you!!!……but, rules of the game say I must choose three so here they are….. Drumroll please Mr RNG………       Congratulations Mrs A, Arlene and Shez. If you ladies could get your snail mail addies to me, I’ll send something to you in the next 365 days *wink*!!!  …. and then it’ll be your turn! Sugary hugs  

PIF Winners……

It would have been so difficult choosing winners had I had to do it without the help of Mr RNG……I really wanted to make something for all of you!!!……but, rules of the game say I must choose three so here they are…..

Drumroll please Mr RNG………

 

 

 

Congratulations Mrs A, Arlene and Shez.

If you ladies could get your snail mail addies to me, I’ll send something to you in the next 365 days *wink*!!!  …. and then it’ll be your turn!

Sugary hugs

 

Paying it Forward.

I was thrilled, last year, to have been chosen by Sue to be part of the PIF (Pay It Forward) fun. The idea of “Small miracles inspiring living everyday” really appealed to me because the blogging community is such a generous bunch,  this gave me a chance to ‘give back’ some of the love I receive from blogging every day! Well, this week I received my parcel from Sue (aka SuperMom, No Cape), and very unexpected it was.  In fact, I’d forgotten about it and I was so excited to pick up a parcel from the Post Office without actually knowing what was inside or why I was receiving it!!! I tore open the packet as soon as I got home and I was so excited to find these beauties all packed snuggly inside…….. there is a sewing companion with a gorgeous little pair of embroidery scissors, a beautiful redworked pincushion, a lined sewing bag with a bound pocket that matches the set and a sweet little pastel fat quarter…….what a surprise!!!….and even more of a surprise, when I turned the pincushion over, the fabric she used matched the rest of the set too!……how clever is Sue??!!! I don’t know how you knew, Sue……red is my all time favourite colour and I adore paisley, so I couldn’t have chosen better myself!!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I love EVERYTHING!!!!! And now it’s my turn to Pay It Forward….. How does it work?

1. I will make a little something for 3 people who opt in to participate in Pay It Forward. International are welcome to join in.
2. I will choose those 3 people with the help of Mr RNG in 24 hours, so at 8am tomorrow morning, August 30 AEST.
3. It will be a surprise and it will arrive when you least expect it….well almost. I’m bound to need to contact you for your address , but I WILL leave you hanging!!!! hee hee
4. I will have 365 days to do it in.
5. To get a handmade present from me, you have to play too! This means YOU pledge to send a little handmade something to 3 readers of your blog.
6. It doesn’t have to be quilty – just handmade.
7. You must have a blog.
8. Once you receive your “little something”, you must post about your Pay it Forward on your blog to keep the fun going – be sure to use the Pay It Forward badge…and please only opt in of you can commit to keeping it going

Fingers crossed and good luck! Sugary Hugs  :O) xox

Paying it Forward.

I was thrilled, last year, to have been chosen by Sue to be part of the PIF (Pay It Forward) fun. The idea of “Small miracles inspiring living everyday” really appealed to me because the blogging community is such a generous bunch,  this gave me a chance to ‘give back’ some of the love I receive from blogging every day!

Well, this week I received my parcel from Sue (aka SuperMom, No Cape), and very unexpected it was.  In fact, I’d forgotten about it and I was so excited to pick up a parcel from the Post Office without actually knowing what was inside or why I was receiving it!!!

I tore open the packet as soon as I got home and I was so excited to find these beauties all packed snuggly inside……..

there is a sewing companion with a gorgeous little pair of embroidery scissors, a beautiful redworked pincushion, a lined sewing bag with a bound pocket that matches the set and a sweet little pastel fat quarter…….what a surprise!!!….and even more of a surprise, when I turned the pincushion over, the fabric she used matched the rest of the set too!……how clever is Sue??!!!

I don’t know how you knew, Sue……red is my all time favourite colour and I adore paisley, so I couldn’t have chosen better myself!!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I love EVERYTHING!!!!!

And now it’s my turn to Pay It Forward…..

How does it work?

1. I will make a little something for 3 people who opt in to participate in Pay It Forward. International are welcome to join in.
2. I will choose those 3 people with the help of Mr RNG in 24 hours, so at 8am tomorrow morning, August 30 AEST.
3. It will be a surprise and it will arrive when you least expect it….well almost. I’m bound to need to contact you for your address , but I WILL leave you hanging!!!! hee hee
4. I will have 365 days to do it in.
5. To get a handmade present from me, you have to play too! This means YOU pledge to send a little handmade something to 3 readers of your blog.
6. It doesn’t have to be quilty – just handmade.
7. You must have a blog.
8. Once you receive your “little something”, you must post about your Pay it Forward on your blog to keep the fun going – be sure to use the Pay It Forward badge…and please only opt in of you can commit to keeping it going

Fingers crossed and good luck!

Sugary Hugs  :O)

xox

….and the winner is……..

  The weather is P-E-R-F-E-C-T  for sewing this weekend…..windy, cold and wet…..just miserable….but absolutely perfect for stitching….so guess what I’m doing this long Queen’s Birthday weekend??? stitching….. ….and quilting…… …and anything else that takes my fancy!!!!  Perhaps snuggling up in the quilts with the rain beating on the roof, hot cup of coffee and a good book!……maybe one of the Sophie Kinsella ones I borrowed from the library this week!!! Which reminds me……I’ve joined with Mr RNG to draw the winner of the PIF giveaway, and after he’d shuffled the numbers, the winner is……………. True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 14 Result: 14 Powered by RANDOM.ORG and who might that be???? Number 14 is…..    Fiona  has left a new comment on your post "Birthdays and a PIF Giveaway": Wow look at all of those goodies - You deserve to be spoilt.  That book sounds like a real barrel of laughs - Some good light hearted humour - We can all do with that in our lives :) Hugs - Fee XX CONGRATULATIONS FEE!!!!!  You’re going to love this book and yep, there is lots of light hearted humour….a definite bright spot in these wintery days! I’ll email you for details of your snail mail so I can P.I.F.…..and thank you to everyone else for entering……I can highly recommend the read if you get the chance!!!! Now….off for that coffee and book and a little bit of stitching!!!! Sugary hugs Wendy :0)

….and the winner is……..

 

The weather is P-E-R-F-E-C-T  for sewing this weekend…..windy, cold and wet…..just miserable….but absolutely perfect for stitching….so guess what I’m doing this long Queen’s Birthday weekend???

stitching…..

….and quilting……

…and anything else that takes my fancy!!!!  Perhaps snuggling up in the quilts with the rain beating on the roof, hot cup of coffee and a good book!……maybe one of the Sophie Kinsella ones I borrowed from the library this week!!!

Which reminds me……I’ve joined with Mr RNG to draw the winner of the PIF giveaway, and after he’d shuffled the numbers, the winner is…………….

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1

Max: 14

Result: 14

Powered by RANDOM.ORG

and who might that be????

Number 14 is…..   

Fiona  has left a new comment on your post "Birthdays and a PIF Giveaway":

Wow look at all of those goodies - You deserve to be spoilt.  That book sounds like a real barrel of laughs - Some good light hearted humour - We can all do with that in our lives :)

Hugs - Fee XX

CONGRATULATIONS FEE!!!!!  You’re going to love this book and yep, there is lots of light hearted humour….a definite bright spot in these wintery days!

I’ll email you for details of your snail mail so I can P.I.F.…..and thank you to everyone else for entering……I can highly recommend the read if you get the chance!!!!

Now….off for that coffee and book and a little bit of stitching!!!!

Sugary hugs

Wendy :0)

mmmmm…..chocolate!!!!

  There’s nothing more a quilter needs than good coffee and good chocolate…….and in winter, hot chocolate is magnificent…..but I decided something more substantial was needed and I made our favourite Gooey-in-the-middle Molten Chocolate Puds ……….mmmmmmmmm This is the type of pudding that when you push your spoon into it, the centre oozes out like molten lava and is rich and wonderful……a high energy food…..YES…… but certainly v-e-r-y delish!  It’s yummy served with cream (you can use the low fat variety…..it DOES make you feel better!) or ice cream (I don’t recommend both…unless you want to jog all night and into the next day LOL) ….and raspberry coulis goes incredibly well with it too! Would you like to make it?  The recipe came from one of my favourite chefs….a Kiwi cook called Jo Seager…..I love her down-to-earth style and her philosophy is “'Minimum effort for maximum effect.'….my kinda lady! It will definitely make you quilt faster after one of these!!!! Don’t forget tomorrow I’m drawing the PIF Giveaway in Sophie Kinsella’s book “The Undomestic Goddess”….I think she’d mastered these puddings by the end of the book!!!! Click here to leave a comment to go into the draw, but remember, there are some conditions, so read the information first! (it’s very easy!!!) sugary warm gooey molten chocolatey low-cal hugs XXX Wendy :0)

mmmmm…..chocolate!!!!

 

There’s nothing more a quilter needs than good coffee and good chocolate…….and in winter, hot chocolate is magnificent…..but I decided something more substantial was needed and I made our favourite Gooey-in-the-middle Molten Chocolate Puds ……….mmmmmmmmm

This is the type of pudding that when you push your spoon into it, the centre oozes out like molten lava and is rich and wonderful……a high energy food…..YES…… but certainly v-e-r-y delish!  It’s yummy served with cream (you can use the low fat variety…..it DOES make you feel better!) or ice cream (I don’t recommend both…unless you want to jog all night and into the next day LOL) ….and raspberry coulis goes incredibly well with it too!

Would you like to make it?  The recipe came from one of my favourite chefs….a Kiwi cook called Jo Seager…..I love her down-to-earth style and her philosophy is “'Minimum effort for maximum effect.'….my kinda lady!

It will definitely make you quilt faster after one of these!!!!

Don’t forget tomorrow I’m drawing the PIF Giveaway in Sophie Kinsella’s book “The Undomestic Goddess”….I think she’d mastered these puddings by the end of the book!!!!

Click here to leave a comment to go into the draw, but remember, there are some conditions, so read the information first! (it’s very easy!!!)

sugary warm gooey molten chocolatey low-cal hugs

XXX Wendy :0)

A little birdie told me…..

  A little birdie told me, you’d better make sure you comment on the PIF giveaway soon……it closes Friday! Click here to enter! good luck and sugary hugs XXX Wendy :0)

A little birdie told me…..

 

A little birdie told me, you’d better make sure you comment on the PIF giveaway soon……it closes Friday!

Click here to enter!

good luck and sugary hugs

XXX Wendy :0)

Birthdays and a PIF Giveaway

Whew, it has been one busy week with a trip back to hospital where I spent my birthday, visits from special friends and physiotherapy galore.  Some sneaky ‘birdies’ spread the rumour and I love them for it…..I had sooo many people wishing me wonderful birthday wishes…..made me feel very special!  Thank you from the bottom, middle and top of my Lots of people said to me,”How terrible, having to spend your birthday in hospital”, but I don’t see it that way…….I got to have a wonderful sleep in, I lay about in bed all day and night, didn’t have any chores to do and every meal, including morning and afternoon tea were brought to me in bed, without a-ny whinging what-so-ever…and no dishes to wash up!!!!  And I got flowers, balloons and chocolates….. and a giant teddy named Toby!  (can you see why I named him Toby????…mm  mmmmm!) It was only an overnighter in hospital and YES, the surgery had much more success than I’d imagined.  Apparently I was only knocked out for about 5 minutes but before I went under, I found the scrub nurse in surgery was having her birthday on the same day too……and she was even born in the same year!   It seems that I am still older than her though because I was born just after midnight and she was born at 4am…..just beat her by thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much!   I knew this because before they put the mask on me, they told me not to go anywhere while they headed off to the lunch room for 5 minutes to share birthday cake……and they STILL didn’t save me any!!!!! No matter, I still had some lovely birthday surprises during the week……  DS brought me some lovely pink roses….he knows me oh so well…. ….and I had a lovely visit from my friend Jenny.  Time just seems to fly when we get a moment to catch up….. and the sweety even made me these gorgeous goodies….a pincushion and a needlecase.  She’s such a talented li’l thing! My friends Gloria, and Robin (no blog) brought me these quilty treasures… (you can never have too many threads!) Look at what delights are inside….. Yummy….I may have to try some of these out! And Lynette knows that a necessity of every quilting gal is … ………..coffee and chocolate!!!!! My dear bloggy friend, Narelle was so worried about me after my operation, that she sent me this gorgeous hanky she’d made to carry with me to remind me her thoughts and prayers were with me………and the card is just rosy!!!!!!  How beautiful is she???? I have had the best birthday ever……a promise of a healthy, fixed knee (if I continue to work at it) and the love of family and friends…..these to me are more valuable that anything and more than all the money in the world could buy! Now, I did mention a giveaway……. my lovely buddy Dawn had been talking to me about this wonderful book she’d been reading and she snuck it into my parcel that she surprised me with here. It’s called “The Undomestic Goddess” by Sophie Kinsella and is the funniest read…..people at the doctor’s surgery thought I was  a nutcase as I giggled under my breath…..I dare to think what they thought when I broke out in raucous laughter!!! Here is the blurb from the back cover……

“The story of a girl who needs to slow down.  To find herself.  To fall in love.  And to discover what an iron is for…….”

It’s a definite feel-good novel that I couldn’t put down….Dawn was absolutely right…..and I, not being one for reading novels, finished it in a day and a half!!!!  She thought I might relate to it…..not the undomestic bit, but the ‘having to slow down’ bit, and I must agree….with having this time off with my surgery, I’ve discovered another side to life other than work, work, work! So we decided it would be a ‘pay it forward’ type of giveaway……Dawn has sent it to me with the proviso that I forward it on to another worthy recipient.   If you would like to ‘win’ this book then just leave a comment and I will pick a winner (with the help of Mr R.N.G.) on Friday 10th June AEST.  There is only one proviso……you MUST NOT break the chain……this book is a Pay It Forward and MUST be passed on to another winning blogger, to eventually make it’s way back to Dawn after 25 people have read it.  If you ‘win’ the book, you must contact Dawn and thank her, then add your name and blog addy to the list inside the front of the book.  The 25th ‘winner’ must contact Dawn via her blog and return it to her.  These are the only conditions for entering this giveaway and must be strictly adhered to for it to work.  Please don’t enter if you can’t comply. Good luck and sugary hugs XXX Wendy :0)