31st of march

this layout was for a number challenge on purplescraps I got ink pink and Stitching. The ribbon on the border is sewn on with the sewing machine. no tape

this challenge was looking through a window. this is the view from my craft room to outside with the 2 outer images from the kitchen window.

this challenge was you had to use 5 ribbons. i sewed them all on again with the sewing machine. this is my dog Micky, she is a girl and the best rabbit hunter i have ever had

this is a handsome couple - i wonder who they are???????????? Black and white Challenge from a sketch.
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Gee how did i get to the end of March?? who knows. My Birthday has come and gone. I had a good day with my Mummy, we went to an Antique fair. And had a lovely meal at the pub.

I got a dishwasher today, wow i don't know what i did before i had one - oh yes i did, the sink kept filling up with useless dirty dishes that's right.
and the maid was too slack to come in and wash them.!!!!!!!

that's all folks, see you next time.

Interesting Question

I got asked this question this morning, just thought i might share it with you

Gosh Julie. I have two rubber stamps. Not Negotiable and a revolving date stamp. I think yours is incredible. How do you find time to do quilting etc along with all of your other activities.??


and this was my answer

well I just make the time, who cares if you can't see thru the windows, the dirty dishes are getting higher, the washing smells, the dogs look hungry, can't see the floor thru dirt, and everyone has to make their own meals. ?? Just fit it all in when I can, I don't work, I have my own craft room, don't really care for talking gossip with the backstabbers, and like to keep to myself.. And of course love the Internet. Well that is just my life, hubby is good to me, as long as I have spent 5 minutes tidying up just before he gets home from work. Then all is fine.?? No seriously I just enjoy creating. I have a few thousand stamps I get them all cheap from ebay. I do the junk shops, and sales and bargain bins. Rarely ever pay full price for anything.

I just do it, probably like someone like yourself playing golf, you just make the time to do what pleases us.

so have a great day peoples

look what i made

OLD FASHIONED COLLAGE ON AN A4 SHEET OF CARD

Hi look what I have been up to. I have sort of been working on this for about 6 months. didn't quite know what to do with it. i finished it this afternoon. - well it is an a4 page made with rubber stamp collage. It gets cut up into 9 ATC's and swapped. see i found a purpose for one of my experiments. pity i can't keep it, but ti have it on file. i will get another one in return.
thanks for looking

The Cooking bug

well, my mum nearly fell off her chair when i told her i made plum jam - I will let you in on a secret

I haven't had the cooking bug for about 8-10 years now. See my husband is one of those that likes the woman chained to the sink - don't tell him i said that?? So of course I rebelled??

One day the gas bottle ran out on the stove, so that was the end of my cooking days, gas bottles are about $100. for some reason, not sure what - we never got around to getting a gas bottle for about 3 years. i cooked on a portable electric hotplate and the top of the coonarra for those years. So my passion for cooking was left by the wayside. I always wanted an electric stove, and last Christmas, a year ago my 19yo son bought me an electric stove - took about 6 months and $500 to get it installed. the first thing i did was cook lasagne, and went out for a bit come back to spilling lasgne all over the bottom of the stove, not quite sure why it didn't burn the house down? and it damaged the enamel on the bottom of the oven.

Any, just recently a couple of weeks back I git given a beautiful bag of black plums, so what do you do with a bag of soggy plums from sitting in the sun in the car all day? well, i had never made jam before, so i made up my own recipe, put the plums in, cover with sugar add a little water and some freh lemon juice, and a couple of hours later we have plum soup.? and an hour more to pick out the pips and the skins well that's what it turned out to be. jamsetter my friends tell me is the thing to buy. But it is nice anyway. So I ventured onto the bag of nectarines, chucked them in the sale way. spent more time picking out the pips and the skin. but anyway they were nice heated up with icecream.

Then I my 19yo son again gave me a bread maker for last christmas - giving me the hint i think. so i bought the breadmix, yeast, bread improver and ventured even further into why i stopped doing this cooking things years back? well, they told me the chooks will like it? Nice while it is hot or just warm, but no good the next day. I am trying to improve the fine art of breadmaking, might have to google it?

T'was other son's birthday yesterday, i didn't have the ingredients to make a cake so I made him damper the first time i even ventured into damper, gee i'm getting good he loved it.
Flo Bjelke helped me cook a terrible batch of toffees, so we threw them out and Margaret Fulton helped me make a JAW BREAKER batch of bright red toffee. I had just finished making them and hubby comes in and says I am the expert toffee maker - see he used to make it for his younger siblings and his children when they were young (before me). So anyway I passed the task with a big tick.

I have been busy making Atc's cards, and a bit of scrapbooking, lately i went to a class last friday and found this brilliant cards stock with squares punched out - the easy way to make a mosaic. I have been experimenting, not showing you yet til i have mastered the art OK.

That will do for today - I have got more to brag about but, better get some of the housework done - well maybe NOT.

See you asll in my next installment of my life

Have a terrific Monday

thanx to Emily

Ok I have been bad and Emily gave me a stir up. So what has been happening in my life well, nothing really, here are some pix of my recent ATC's i have made

months of the year 2008

old fashioned valentine

pirates

newsprint travel collage

i still have more to load on, but give me time, i can't make and tale pix at the same time. i am working on spiders atm, .

http://community.webshots.com/user/unicornsjulie?vhost=community

apart from that, well a big limb came down and smashed my shade house to smithereens. I had 4 baby ferrets, sold 2 already. Dylan's mate had a car crash and is in hospital in Melbourne. Gareth had someone smash his windscreen with a rock, so I have no car or ute for a few days til we get a new one. Brock hates going to school I am having so much trouble getting him out of bed. Paul is getting better after his slight stroke. He had another episode at work the other day, so has decided to give up drinking - NEVER HAPPEN???????????? The male sheep are in the freezer, yum. We had a bat inside the other morning, don't know how it got in but it found its way out the front door.
Oh! we went to Troy's art show in Melbourne a few months back
here is a painting of his. Hubby thinks it is him

I finally have my wedding and engagement rings fixed and on my hand, on the right of course!! I had to have them cut off my ring finger in 1996, that is how long it has been since i wore them THANX MUM.

that's about it, when i think of more i will update again. bye bye

HAPPY NEW YEAR

I was gunna send you something hot and sexy for Christmas but the postman told me to take the stamps off my arse and get the F#@* out of the post box

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

hope Santa brings you what you want for Christmas

JULIE

I got tagged by my great friend MARGARET Thank you isn't it lovely.
It's arrival made me feel very special.


have a great day all.


Christmas wishes to everyone, i hope Santa brings you what you want

13th December - Look out for SPOOKS

good to see people looking at my blog, i have had the most visits ever in the last few days. So Thanks for Looking

It's my Blog I can write what I want to...........

Thats my lot for this evening, bye for now

Steely Dan concert

I was lucky enough to get a ticket for the Steely Dan concert in September, my best friend bought 2 tickets for Rohan her hubby to go to the concert, you know the one i made the quilt for?? Well Karen didn't want to go after hearing their music she decided she didn't like them - so here comes Julie - i will go, and yes it was a great night, we went to Gopals the hari Krishna restaurant in Melbourne YUM YUM. then did the walk to the tennis centre along the yarra. i had to sit and have a rest half way, and was sitting on a bench seat looking at the water and got the fright of my life, this silly bicycle rider came passed me and frightened the
out of me, i felt the wind of the speeding rider pass my face, i screamed of course and everyone looked. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
the concert was fantastic, it was great to listen to their songs and take me back in time. the only song they didn't sing was Rikki don't lose that number. I wanted to reflect what was happening at that time in my life. Isn't it funny you - well i can- listen to a song and remember what and where you were at that time it was a hit.

so that is my post for today, have a great day. Julie

I have been tagged by Chelle, Thank you for my award. It's nice to win things.

Ok, where was I last post.

We, hubby son and me headed off to Port Vincent South Australia for a few rushed days. 12 hour car trip, wow is it a long way or what. I was lucky enough to meet another of my cyber mates on the way over, Chelle you are a gem, and your family ROCK. Great to have met you. the little Nissan Pulsar ran like a dream, the only thing happened was the wiper blade blew off in extremely heavy rain, and we had to stop to fix that.. the trip through Adelaide town was a bit difficult, there had been a truck accident and we were diverted from the main road, so we got lost of course, only ever having been there once before, we spent half hour, driving around and around, going in a ll diresctions, until i mentioned to hubby, "why don't we ask someone" Dah. well he did, we were on the right road as it turned out, to get out of the city. "T'was hubbies turn to drive" dumb bumb..................................................
when we finally got to our destination, we had a lovely time partying with his family for the weekend, a few of the boys went midnight fishing off the pier., this little black duck slept the night away. Brock cut his foot open on razor fish, he took his shoes off, in the water after being warned to leave them on. Men have no brains. We went for a great walk along the beach on the Sunday, I love the beach. Then traveled the long trip home Monday.

updates

Kaye - Nikki - me - Emily - Julene

gee, am i the worst blogger or what, august was my last reply. i have done so much in that time, i will have to look at my calender and catch you all up on the gos.



for a start, i went to a scrapbooking retreat for our forum purplescraps, in september, what a hoot, we had so much fun, it was awesome. especially to finally get to meet my cyber friends face to face. here are the girls, i will have to find another one because Melinda is not in it. I haven't labeled all my pix yet they still have numbers, sorry Mel. I learned loads of new techniques, like painting chipboard, using Bling. BLING BLING HELLO

I will load on some of my layouts i did while in Bendigo, not tonight though.

I picked up 3 of the girls at Tullamarine, we traveled in the little red DEVIL - my car - well we squeezed in. funny as, you had to be there. LOL we drove up to Bendigo, and stopped for lunch at St.Arnaud at a lovely bakery for lunch YUM. Then we headed off again, to be pulled over by this silly old man in the middle of the road lost and looking for directions, Me the country chick pulled over and gave him the directions, I hope he found where he was going because I was only guessing.????? The girls thought i was crazy, stopping for a stranger, but i would do it again.
We stayed with the lovely Kaye, and talked all night like young school girls. We all felt like we had known each other forever, it was a fantastic weekend.
it's getting late and we are having a thunder storm, so i will sign off now and the next chapter will be soon i promise.

Julie

The three quilts are just the tops, I haven't got around to making the sandwich yet and sewing them together. I take things at my own pace, but I have til the 20th September to have the 3 of them finished. Mind you the tops have been finished for a few months now, nothing like rushing is there??
I have another one made too, for my niece. I should get them all done and out of the way so I can start on some more. My oldest son wants one made from fake fur, in animal fabric, i have it all there just need the motivation to do it. Not too sure how it will sew up as it is varying thickness's. I might just do it in squares, not sure yet. This one is a challenge.
OK bye for now and have a great day.
BTW Thank you everyone who has left comments for me.

This one is Mathew's his other son about 5 or so. The butterflies are ironed on with edging in rik rak and I have done some embroidering with the sewing machine and by hand.

This one is for his son Daniel he is about 8 I think. I loved the fun in this one. I used lots of rik rak, and ribbons and sewed some buttons over the fantasy thread panels in the middle. Fantasy threads are all sorts of things like fibres, ribbon, cotton, left over fabric and then sewn over with invisible thread, with the feed dogs down. I enjoy making these different things.

This quilt top is for Rohan for his 50th Birthday 3 months ago. Looks hard but I found it quite easy just triangles made into squares. Ro is my best friend Karen's lovely husband. We are going out together on the 20th September to see Steely Dan in Melbourne. Can't wait. We have always had the same taste in music, Karen is more the real older type 50's and 60's.
Sorry I have put these on back the front, don't know how to change it.

I enjoy making quilts for other people and giving them away. I have made quilts for my kids. Brock's is folded up in the cupboard. Mine is on my bed.

I love working with bright colors.

Any way thanks for looking and talk soon. all the best Julie

Mickie's puppies at 1 week old 2 weeks ago

felted sea scene

This is my first project with my new Janome Expression needle felting machine, not a good picture as i am a terrible photographer. I had so much fun making this too. I needle felted the purple background from a knitted vest i made that was a failure, i can't knit either. Then I added various fibres and felted them down to create the scene, then put vlisofex over it and heated it with the heat gun and sewed and glued the bits and pieces on. This is going to my Auntie Maree.

This is the quilt I made for my Mum earlier this year

I made this for my mum earlier this year, she cried when I gave it to her. I loved working on it.

update on my leg

well i still have a lump on my shin the doctor says it could take 12 months to completely go away, i have no pain anymore. Very lucky to not have broken my leg, I have a knee replacement on that leg, well both legs really, so lucky it didn't displace. I can walk Ok on it and all is well, the scabby bit has not healed properly yet, that should clear as the lump goes down., or so the quack says.
Oh and Dylan the 18yo has moved out of home, well the shed., and split up with his girlfriend, i still see her as we were good mates.Life has changed a bit around here, now I just have Brock to look after, well he looks after himself being 13 and going on 30 and all.