Who’d have thunk……..????

  Many apologies for the late posting of my competition winner!!!… my power went out yesterday afternoon and didn’t come on til late last night, when I was well and truly in the Land of Nod! Thank you to everyone who entered my ‘belated’ 2nd Anniversary of Blogging competition….I loved reading all your comments.  Seems us bloggers get our inspiration from a lot of different places but we all agree that most of our inspiration comes from each other in the blogging community…..makes ya feel good don’t it?????  And for those of you who haven’t taken the plunge into creating your own blog yet, that’s a pretty good reason to start!!!!  I know when I first began, I thought no-one would be remotely interested in what I had to say or what I did in my little corner of the world…..but you know what???  This is where I’ve created many lifelong friendships and learnt soooooo much!  Roll on the next 10 years of blogging…..at least!!!!! LOL Ok, onto the winner……… …..now I’m not one for mathematical equations, but being a teacher, I tend to deal with them ‘sometimes’ (LOL), and even though I know all the rules of possibilities and probabilities, my mindset tells me that in a competition, whether it be a raffle or draw or something like that, the first number and the last number rarely get picked out!!!  I never want the first number or the last number in a book of tickets even though logically, I know that they’ve got just as much of a chance of getting picked out as any other number!!!!   Well……  Mr Random Number Generator proved theory right again and threw my ‘logic’ out the window, and he picked the very first comment to win my Colour My World Competition??? Who’d have thunk????? Congratulations Narelle!!!!! Narelle  has left a new comment on your post "Colour my world and yours with a competition!": Hi Wendy, Love all those threads that you have wound and the colours look just great. The photo's are all wonderful. My inspiration on most days come from my morning cuppa and blog hopping to see all the wonderful things that other bloggers have done and then i just want to go and sew and make something beautiful. Hope that you have a great weekend.
Hugs
Narelle Well, Narelle……I hope YOU have a great weekend or what’s left of it!!!!   I’m sure you will !!!!!!  And here’s your prize….. I’ll get it out to you in the mail……………..I sure hope you like it! And my final OPAM finish for September…..just squeeeeeeeeeeezed it in on the 30th!!!! (Had to…it was for a friend’s 50th Halloween party that night!!!! tee hee) The front…….. ………the back…………..(t’was a windy day!!!!)………. …and I sure learnt a thing or two about free motion quilting spider webs from here……. …after which I got pretty comfortable with Free Motion and thought I’d get inventive so I did this….. …and with metallic thread too!!!!!   It absolutely shocked me that it worked……I’ve never had much success with metallics before but this time, it worked a treat!!!!! I had lots of fun….and I know Ralph was just ‘itching’ to try the quilt out too…..even before it was finished!!!!! Hope you’ve had a super weekend with lots of success in the sewing room! sugary hugs Wendy :O) X

Who’d have thunk……..????

 

Many apologies for the late posting of my competition winner!!!… my power went out yesterday afternoon and didn’t come on til late last night, when I was well and truly in the Land of Nod!

Thank you to everyone who entered my ‘belated’ 2nd Anniversary of Blogging competition….I loved reading all your comments.  Seems us bloggers get our inspiration from a lot of different places but we all agree that most of our inspiration comes from each other in the blogging community…..makes ya feel good don’t it?????  And for those of you who haven’t taken the plunge into creating your own blog yet, that’s a pretty good reason to start!!!!  I know when I first began, I thought no-one would be remotely interested in what I had to say or what I did in my little corner of the world…..but you know what???  This is where I’ve created many lifelong friendships and learnt soooooo much!  Roll on the next 10 years of blogging…..at least!!!!! LOL

Ok, onto the winner………

…..now I’m not one for mathematical equations, but being a teacher, I tend to deal with them ‘sometimes’ (LOL), and even though I know all the rules of possibilities and probabilities, my mindset tells me that in a competition, whether it be a raffle or draw or something like that, the first number and the last number rarely get picked out!!!  I never want the first number or the last number in a book of tickets even though logically, I know that they’ve got just as much of a chance of getting picked out as any other number!!!!   Well……  Mr Random Number Generator proved theory right again and threw my ‘logic’ out the window, and he picked the very first comment to win my Colour My World Competition??? Who’d have thunk?????

Congratulations Narelle!!!!!

Narelle  has left a new comment on your post "Colour my world and yours with a competition!":

Hi Wendy, Love all those threads that you have wound and the colours look just great. The photo's are all wonderful. My inspiration on most days come from my morning cuppa and blog hopping to see all the wonderful things that other bloggers have done and then i just want to go and sew and make something beautiful. Hope that you have a great weekend.
Hugs
Narelle

Well, Narelle……I hope YOU have a great weekend or what’s left of it!!!!   I’m sure you will !!!!!!  And here’s your prize…..

I’ll get it out to you in the mail……………..I sure hope you like it!

And my final OPAM finish for September…..just squeeeeeeeeeeezed it in on the 30th!!!! (Had to…it was for a friend’s 50th Halloween party that night!!!! tee hee)

The front……..

………the back…………..(t’was a windy day!!!!)……….

…and I sure learnt a thing or two about free motion quilting spider webs from here…….

…after which I got pretty comfortable with Free Motion and thought I’d get inventive so I did this…..

…and with metallic thread too!!!!!   It absolutely shocked me that it worked……I’ve never had much success with metallics before but this time, it worked a treat!!!!!

I had lots of fun….and I know Ralph was just ‘itching’ to try the quilt out too…..even before it was finished!!!!!

Hope you’ve had a super weekend with lots of success in the sewing room!

sugary hugs

Wendy :O) X

You’ve got to be in it to win it!

Don’t forget….tomorrow I will be drawing my 2 year blogging anniversary competition at 5pm AEST. Seeing as I’ve been buying up big on the embroidery threads in all colours of the spectrum (you can read more about that here),  I thought I’d put a little surprise pack together with some lovely fabric for you as a prize! All you need to do is write a comment, and if you’d like to follow me, that’d be wonderful too!   So don’t hesitate……entries close tomorrow 5pm AEST (and I’ll share my latest finish with you then!!!) sugary hugs Wendy :O) X  

You’ve got to be in it to win it!

Don’t forget….tomorrow I will be drawing my 2 year blogging anniversary competition at 5pm AEST.

Seeing as I’ve been buying up big on the embroidery threads in all colours of the spectrum (you can read more about that here),  I thought I’d put a little surprise pack together with some lovely fabric for you as a prize!

All you need to do is write a comment, and if you’d like to follow me, that’d be wonderful too!

 

So don’t hesitate……entries close tomorrow 5pm AEST

(and I’ll share my latest finish with you then!!!)

sugary hugs

Wendy :O) X

 

Colour my world and yours with a competition!

  A great find on Ebay kept me busy this week organising these beauties…. I just loved sitting there in front of the tv, winding away onto thread holders….but as you can see I ran out when it came to the variegateds!!!!! But it got me thinking……out of all of our senses, I would hate to lose my sight….because colour is such an important thing to me….beauty is everywhere around us in colour and combinations of colour…..I don’t know how I’d manage without it… there’s colour in the garden… ….and in the world around us…on the ground….. and in the sky…..   Colour choice needn’t be so hard if we just look to the world around us for inspiration…..I know, I’d be lost without my sight and the inspiration of colour in the world around me…..I’m very blessed where we live as we have beautiful and varied colour palettes given to us every day in nature that I draw from. Now if you’ve made it all the way through my photos, I have a little giveaway.  I just realised it’s 9 days past my 2nd blogiversary!!!!  *oops* How did I miss that one!? Anyway, to celebrate, if you just leave a comment telling me what gives you your inspiration or what sense you could not live without,  you’ll go into the draw to win some colourful threads and fabric to inspire you too. Just leave a comment, nothing tricky, and you’ll be entered into the draw where Mr Random Number Generator will help me pick a winner next Saturday AEST 5pm .  Make sure you are not a No Reply Blogger though, because if you are, you will not qualify as I won’t be able to contact you.  If you’re not sure, click on the link on my sidebar to show you how. Good luck and I hope you’re blessed with a colourful world too sugary hugs Wendy X :O)