I have been busy...just absent from blogging!

September YOE was a MOUSE theme.  Here is my Mouse, but it kinda looks a bit rat like too - made using a bright sock, some buttons and my very first attempt at applique!  My partner Sandy loves herbal teas and pumpkin seeds, so I sent her the kind you can eat & the kind you can grow.

My August Octopus arrived a little later - but my swap partner Kim did a beautiful job on her Octopus for me, and check out the seashell seahorses hanging she made for me too! I can't wait to hang this in my bathroom.

And here are some other goodies she sent me: ribbon, material, Santa apron, cute birdhouses. Feel very spoilt!

 

 

I have also been kept busy making Christmas and baby gifts.  I'm getting in early with my Christmas and gift giving organisation as by Christmas I will have 6 weeks left till baby #2 is due.  And I know I  will be hot, tired & uncomfortable by then.  So sorry can't share with you just yet what I have been making as my family & friends read my blog.

It's Spring here & the past 2 weeks have also kept me busy in the garden, weeding mostly - after all the glorious rain we had over Winter & now some sunny days the weeds are popping up everywhere.  My DH is busy rendering our planter boxes at the moment - he too has been inspired by the sunny warmth on his skin.  It's too hard to resist been outside during Spring - my DS & I spend most days outside now, he loves roaming, playing in the sandpit, emptying my weed bucket and filling it back up again, playing with our Golden Retriever and following me everywhere!

So I have a couple of swaps to finish up before the end of the year too - in particular 'Swap with a Difference'.  I have 4 partners to make for & I finally found what I want to make, so I've got my material & about to start making.

Have you been busy getting ready for Christmas?  Any great gift ideas to inspire me some more with, particularly for men...always hard to buy/make for.

We have also been enjoying some weekend drives - this shot was at Lake Eppalock, Victoria that quickly rose to over 50% with the recent September rains.

This was taken at Trentham Falls, Victoria. It was overflowing for the first time in years! We had a lovely picnic there with my parents, it was still a bit chilly then.