another mothers day post

Happy Mother's Day everyone !

My kids bought me an odd set of cup and plates from Vinnies

and a ball of wool in my mothers favourite colour , just perfect !

My brothers and sisters and all our kids have a cup of tea at

11.00 am on mothers day in honour of our mum and nan .

Although we are not in the same room we all are together in spirit.

We are spread out all over Australia and New Zealand

and there are lots of us .

This is our second time doing this and although it has

a tinge of sadness it brings us all together

and I know that my mum would have loved that.

So yes I am always a little sad on days like this but

so very grateful for my family .

Enjoy your day !

Love you mum always xxxx

and yet

still working on this .....

can't wait to be working on this.....

really should be working more on this......

and yet I spend a lot of time looking at things like this .

sometimes

Sometimes life gets a bit blah ,

sometimes it feels like it's all the same

sometimes it feels like some things are too hard

and then I see in all that normal life the really , really special stuff

 I just need to remember where it is .

insert pin here

I'm hosting a pincushion swap on my facebook page !

Very remiss of me not to let you know here in case you wanted to be in it too.

The only thing is you must be a facebooker.

I won't be swapping this pincushion of mine , I really do need a big one as

I tend to just throw my pins in the general direction and hope some

land in the right place . 

Even if you can't join in on facebook you may need a new pincushion anyway.

Here is the link to lots of tutorials on Tipjunkie if you need some inspiration . 

Thanks for visiting , nice to see you !

blatent beg for votes

Yesterday was the close of entries for the Feather Your Nest

competition over at Stumble and Stitches .

So of course when did I get my entry in , late yesterday.

As always I was running late and had so much trouble

getting a half decent photo of my new laundry curtain .

I think I took at least a 100 photos and in the end

I submitted one after I hassled everyone in the house

to help me choose.

There are 73 entries and they are just fantastic !

There are judges and prizes and everything .

If you have a sec and you'd like to vote for my entry

I'd really appreciate it . Really .

You can find all the details here .

Thanks so much .

welcome , farewell and congratulations .

I really hadn't forgotten about drawing a winner from the last post.

I've been a bit preoccupied with normal family life.

Our dear old male cat named Flower in the photo below

had been very sick and died last week .

I adored this cranky old thing and miss him terribly .

I even miss him stealing the cat food and making a mess .

My daughter went to work the other day and just so happened  to

find this little ginger cat that was living in a shed at the back

of one the pubs and was supposedly feral.

I'm beginning to have my doubts that it was really feral as she

is the most laid back kitten and has just fitted in here so easily .

In keeping with the weird cat names here this little girl has been named Wally.

                               We also have another female cat named Stinky Ralph because

well just because she lets off a big stink .

Anyway I had better let you know who won the copy of Zoom

it was Sas , hooray !

would you please contact me at clarebower AT bigpond.com with your details.

If you are disappointed you didn't win you can find my patterns here .

Thanks to everyone else for flying over xx

oops I should have had a giveaway

Silly me it has been a busy few weeks and time has just flown by .

Recently I released my softie pattern for Zoom , had my wedding anniversary

and my 450th blogiversary and didn't even think about a giveaway .

So better late then never ~ this is a giveaway post , hooray !

To win a copy of Zoom you just need to leave a comment on this post .

You don't need to follow this blog , you don't need to live in Australia .

I would really , really love for you to blog , facebook or tweet about this

so much so that I'll give you extra entries .

If you would like more details on Zoom or any

of my other patterns look here in my shop.

I'll draw the winner on Thursday .

Thank you for your interest , this giveaway is now closed .