More yummy food

So as to last post, here's some more treats from Japan...... :) 

This is the mystery one :), we don't know what it is inside.....

It is nougat!! And it is tasty too :) 

It is like a chocolate gob stopper :)

It seems like you make tacos out of them, they wobble like they are rubber hahaha

It's a grape vine of lollies!! Hahaha 

Look like chopsticks.... Taste like chewing gum!!:) which we think it is :) 

Just so cute!!:)

This is the grape vine packaging 

This makes me laugh, like a cartoon story on a chip packet :)

Okay just tried them, ughhhhhhh hehehe

The whole bounty

So now the kids are totally high on sugar, we will go sit and look at photos hahahahaha

Jane

Japan trip

My husband just got back from Japan and got me some cool yummy chocolates mmmmmm 

So I will try the chocolates and let you know how the green tea kit Kat tastes :) hehehe 

Also working in this.....

So this is trying to look like a stained glass window :) it is so much fun to paint again after such a big break while making other quilts. I am loving blending and getting different hues to each colour. So fun.

Last week of school, I am going to enjoy the holidays, I have been sooooo busy these last few months. So will be looking forward to taking things a bit slower. Off to look at awesome photos of Japan and cool GoPro videos :) oh and eat chocolates :).

Jane

Wakfu Done

This quilt is Done! nice and fast :) Now on his bed and he is real happy :)

Now I can keep going on my next project, tree mosaic thingy :) lots of colour and lots of blending hopefully :) If it all works out.

Bought another ebook! I was such a staunch real book person, but it is so cool to have a book on my ipad and I don't have to wait for it to come out in Australia :) It's a Ben Elton book called Time and Time again. It's about.... time travel :) and I am totally absorbed :) Need to get audio books so I can listen AND paint, bliss :)

It's rained here, which is great for the drought, but not great for our plans to go to Kondalilla Falls, oh well another time. It is so gorgeous up there. More time to paint at least.

Jane

Backpack!!

With the fabric that my daughter won, she wanted a backpack. Yes, sure I can do that!! Easy...... :)

So I went and found a free pattern on the net from here. It was a great pattern and real easy to make.

The fabric really makes the bag look amazing :) just love it.

Still working on the Wakfu quilt and it is going really fast. The quilt hoop and sewslip mat are so good!! Now to catch up on blacklist :)

Jane

Finished, but....

Well I finally finished the quilt for my husband's cousin :) felt like it took me forever. But it always feels like it never is truly finished. :). Once I finished the binding, I then spent two episodes of Warehouse 13 cutting off the threads of the back :) it was fun watching the episodes :).

Have a look

My son wants a quilt now with Wack Foo written on it :) It is a tv show the kids have discovered. I am not even sure if that is the right spelling :) will have to work on that :) So I know what I am doing next.

Just had a big storm here and got a huge amount of rain in a real short time. It was so nice and now it is cool. It was so humid today, so the cool change is so nice. The only problem with the deluge is that is has flooded all the trains leaving the city and no one can get home. Bummer. 

Watching Life Below Zero at the moment, such a cool show. It would be fun to live in the wilds of alaska for a few weeks, but after that I would miss so much :) I would get a lot of quilting done :).

Jane

Fabric

Okay, I forgot to let you know that when my daughter won her category, she won $200 worth of fabric from a shop called Voodoo Rabbit. I think that is a generous prize and I love this fabric!!! I mounted some of the fabric on canvas and made pillows and will make her a backpack out of it. With the leftovers :) I will make a quilt mmmmmmmmm cannot wait :). Have a look at the delectable goodies.....

The girls are done by J Wecker Fisch and they are called Handmaids for Quilting treasures. Just gorgeous. The day of the dead fabric is byBaile de calaveras, which I think is the month ofmay and the date of the actual day of the dead which I can't remember :) De Leon design group for Alexander Henry, just stunning too, they have pictures of Frida on them as well. The butterfly design is by Tim Holtz! It is called Eclectic elements and butterflight, that is yummy edible fabric!!

Canvas Wall hanging

Gorgeous pillow, same ladies as above

Another gorgeous wall hanging

Day of the dead fabric

This is part of the Handmaids collection, so original!

Same collection,

Cute pillow

Decided to make a ipad case for my daughter with the day of the dead skulls and inside with the TIm  Holtz butterflight fabric

I need to get some clips for the flap

Can you see Frida?

Each part is so cool!

The handmaids again, so cool

Matching... yum

Day of the dead skulls, haven't even used this fabric yet!

Handmaids again, this is so unique

Close up

Funky skulls

Tim Holtz Butterflight

Well that was fun :) I convince myself that I have enough fabric and I don't need to buy any more :) then I see wonderful fabric like this and well, you want it allllll. The shop Voodoo Rabbit is amazing and I could have spent my savings in there :) and totally worth it too! :) I will be happy to play with the bundle for a while and make something cool out of it all.

In the meantime, went up to Mount Cootha tonight and it was so gorgeous up there. I am a quilters pleasure on instgram where i posted a photo. You just want to live up there :)

I have been reading a series of books on an English village written by Rebecca Shaw and they are cute and a good storyline. It's nice to read something without a lot of violence. When I read Lee Child, it is confronting and in your face. That is what is good about it, but it's nice to have a break from that :).

Loving The 100 Still, great show and can't wait for each new episode. What are you enjoying watching?
Jane