The Big Day

Well, at last the big day has come.I am up early in the dark waiting for Ian to come home from work.The van is packed ,Jacques de Lapin is safely stowed in his little tin in my bag and the house sitter is still in her warm bed. All I have to get through now is farewelling the animals and we are off. It has been hard saying 'catch you later' to the local family but am looking froward to seeing the Brisbane crew-specially Mahli and the new Princess.
Must turn the computer off ,grab some brekky and be waiting when Ian gets here.Catch you on the road.

The Travellers

Today I received the most gorgeous parcel from an Etsy friend - Julie Blanchette.This little bloke is going on our travels with us. I have named him Jacques de Lapin . He is just beautiful and is already checking out his new home. Thankyou Julie.I am so chuffed to have one of your amazing bunnies .Keeping him away from Mahli in Brisbane might be tricky but he is miiiiiiine.

Great excitement

Friday was a very important day with the birth of Grandchild number 6. She is a gorgeous little girl (an unbiased opinion ) weighing in at 7 lb 6 oz and 51cm long. They are both still in hospital as Wendy had a caesarian but she hopes to go home tomorrow.Hopefully by then Little Ayla will have sorted out some sort of sleep pattern.

On the way back from Melbourne a couple of weeks ago,we had a bit of spare time ,so took the Great Ocean Road route.So beautiful,with huge views and uncommonly calm.Usually there is wind and big seas ,but this day we could have waterskied over the horizon.We stayed at Port Campbell where I had a meal so delicious I won't forget it in a while.Then dropped into Port Fairy for a ham sandwich at the wharf.A lovely trip ,with unusually good weather.

Busy,Busy,Busy

It is school holidays here at the moment and our five year old grand daughter has been visiting lots.So I have still been sewing and working and she has been helping and making her own gear with the scraps.It does slow one down a bit ,but we have still managed to come up with a couple of dresses and a few pencil wraps.We also have multitudes of 'outfits' made of tiny scraps of fabric sewn together in very unique ways by Nanny!Unfortunately they have gone home with the designer,so I can't share photos of them with you.I have some pics of the dressses though and some boots I have been knitting ,so will share them with you.

One of my favourite shops

Today I want to show you one of my favourite shops. dressurdolly2 is full of the most gorgeous dolly clothes I think I have ever seen.They are so well made and such good prices.It is run by Pattie and if you would like her lovely stuff then convo her to organise overseas shipping.It was hard to pick favourites but I have grabbed some of her photos to show.Her shop is at

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6922977 I hope you enjoy looking at her gear as much as I have.

At Last

I have had such trouble getting into Blogger.Now I'm here I'm not sure what to blog.Wasn't really prepared to actually get on!!Have got some photos to share .This was taken across the paddock from our house at about five o'clock one night last week.It was amazing,the fog was rising through the paddock and the sun was setting behind.So beautiful.It happened for three or four nights in a row.Scary really because it should be raining like hell every day now.