EARLY MORNNG SUNRISE ON THE 26TH OCTOBER 2010

It pays to be up early sometimes.

These photos are of the sunrise I was lucky

enough to witness this morning.

Our eldest is home on Uni holidays for a couple

of weeks and working. He starts early, and like

a good Mum (or a stupid one) I am up early to

get his lunch packed, then start on everyone

elses lunch.

I just happend to spot this beautiful sunrise

this morning. I only wish I had the time to

have gone for a walk to really enjoy it.

To do that I will even have to be up earlier!!!

150 Year Celebrations in Beeac

This weekend just gone saw a great weekend in

down town Beeac. There were aroung the 2,000 people turn out for the day on Saturday (could

have even been more.

The celebrations on Saturday started with a street parade at 11.00 a.m. This is my hubby

driving the 40 year old farm truck in the parade.

He was as proud as punch to be part of it.

These are the old tractors that were in the

parade. Of course there were lots more

things, too many to put up on here.

Then at 2.00p.m. there was an official

opening of this beautiful windmill park, which

the community have been working on for a long

time. Beeac is the home of the windmill. There are 6 windmills, one for each family that made

windmills.

On Sunday after a church service and a bbq lunch

at the Golf Club, I went and had a look at this

beautiful garden. A lovely way to finish the

weekend.

The weekend started with the opening of an art show and an official lauch of a book.

The whole weekend was a real buzz, and even

though I was not born and bred here, Beeac is now home for me, and it was a fabulous weekend.

SIMPLY RED

This is my latest quilt called Simply Red
because it is a very simple nine patch design
and I have used a lovely red fabric for the
nine patch. Pattern is available now.

CREATIVE COUNTRY THREADS VOL. 11 NO. 3

Creative Country Threads Vol.11 No 3 is on the shelf now. You will find this one has my cute little Santa in it. Hope you like him.

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN

Isn't Spring a lovely time of the year. Every

thing just looks so fresh and beautiful,

especially after all the rain we have had this

year.

This is where I live down on the farm.

And now that all the daffodils have

finished, the bluebells are flowering

nicely.

One of my favourite flower are pansies.

Look at the happy little faces on these

panolas.

I love having pots of pansies and panola around

the garden this time of the year.

PLAYING WITH STAMPS

For those of you who don't know, I am also

a Stampin' Up Consultant, and just for a little

bit of fun I have been covering Journals using

some of the latest Stampin' Up Designer Series papers. This one uses Newsprint. The lower right hand corner has a small piece of embossed paper that I dragged across the stamp pad to add some colours to the flowers. I embossed the paper with the new "Big Shot" and I can't wait to get some more designs. It is so easy and so much fun.

I covered this journal with paper from the

Love Letters Designer Series paper.

I cut the birds out using the new Two Step

Bird Punch. These new punches are

amazing to use too. I then tied various ribbons

and lace down the spiral of the journal. The

black and white striped ribbon is from the lovely

range of Stampin' Up 1-1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon. The other ribbon is

out of my stash and I just thought it went

nicely and added a bit of variety. The Lace is

out of my lace tin too.

Both journals come blank from Stampin' Up.

I have also been playing with some bookmarks

and using one of the new hostess stamp sets

called Because I Care. This is a lovely stamp

set, and is available to you if you wish to host

a workshop and qualify for a Level 1 Hostess

Set.

This just shows you a closer picture of the

beautiful flower stamp, and once again the

beautiful black and white ribbon.