A Return to Simplicity.

Yesterday while I was waiting for my groceries to arrive from Woolworths I decided to whip up another goody for my  Birthday Love Stash  hosted by Wendy. Now I don't usually like too much brown but while out shopping on Friday I found some in a craft shop and put together several pieces and made this bag. This was very easy to make and I whipped it up in a couple of hours. Woolworths were late yesterday! Inside has 3 pockets for keys and phone. DIL loves earthy tones and I am very happy to have this ready for her birthday. While I was walking out to take a photo of the bag I noticed tiny purple and white flowers among the lawn  grass! I do believe they are weeds or at least native things but they were so lovely with busy bees (the bees are bigger than the flowers) cruising through them I couldn't resist taking a photo and sharing with you. Those brown leaves are gum leaves! They are so cute and tiny!  ...

I have at last completed the quilt for Aidan's birthday. The darling little fellow was quite happy to wait for it to be completed and didn't nag too much! LOL! I did a lot of in -the-ditch quilting and some stippling so that I could get it to him as soon as possible. He loves it and the older grandie has put his order in. Thank goodness his birthday is at the end of the year. Now to find some Star Wars fabric!

I have at last completed the Christmas Album from Natalie Bird's book Tis the Season. I just love it and I have used a lovely range of paper from My Minds Eye called Lost & Found Christmas. It is such a lovely range with so much  glitter there was very little embellishing to be done, or so I believe at this stage anyway! Front Cover, now with ribbons and jump rings. I have used a few sample photos to show the pages, so you will see them repeated often. As I am going to put this aside until the end of the year and use it for Christmas 2013 I don't have any photos to put into it yet but wanted to show what it may look like with pics included. Pages with pics and maybe a journal card here and there. Glad this is finished for now. I still have to mat the photos and make some journal cards when ready to use for Christmas 2013.