silver lining

After the fire, many of you already know, I had to replace ALL of my Tupperware.

Yes. ALL of it.

It was a hard job ;)

My happy place :D
And no, it didn't look anything like that pre fire!
Almost worth the drama. Almost xox

When life gives you lemons...

....buy an over locker!

A complete splurge post fire. Simply because :)

Hope you are all having a good week xox

meet Jessica

Jessica is Miss 9's first Blythe doll!!

We are both over the moon with her. Although this photo doesn't really show that. More hurry up so I can open her mum kinda photo! 

So beautiful!

In the fire we lost all the girls baby dolls and accessories. So when the money come through they had a choice of replace them or choose a new doll. Miss 9 immediately screamed "BLYTHE PLEASE!" And she knew which one she wanted too, 'Urban Cowgirl'. 

Needless to say Miss 7 now wants one too! This is after she had a complete meltdown when Miss 9 showed her Jessica's eyes change! Totally freaked Miss 7 out! But she very quickly got over that and we were straight onto the computer looking for one for her. However she appears to have tastes like her mother.....expensive!

We are all looking forward to sewing for our new friend! First up, a quilt, of course :) xox

One packed of jelly crystals made up fits perfectly into 4 Tupperware snack cups!

And in other news.....I think.....the insurance claim.......IS FINISHED!! 

I think xox

Frustrations

Frustrated that the insurance claim IS NOT finalized!!

Frustrated because that means we are living with furniture we can't use, waiting to be sanded and refinished. Which also means we cant unpack a lot of stuff.

Frustrated because I can't use my front door.

Frustrated because we don't have an Ikea and Bunnings had to special order in my storage for my stash. 2 week wait. Probably longer. So I'm living with my stash looking like this.

Frustrated because my beautiful red lounge is STILL sitting out the front waiting to be taken away. Along with all the other claim stuff.

Frustrated that I don't seem to be finishing anything at the moment! You know when you have so much on the go and nothing is getting done!? So frustrating!!

Frustrated that all I HAVE finished this month re sewing is this...

Which, although it is cute, and posted for the {sexy} hexie swap isn't much.

Frustrated that my machines are waiting to be picked up but because the insurance isn't sorted they are sitting there......all alone......waiting for me.

Oh and the washing! Frustrated that for the past 3 weeks, I have been averaging 4 loads a day because of all the new linen and towels!! And on more that one occasion I have had to re wash because there is a bird that likes to poo on my linen. True story.

And one last frustration. My beautiful, clever 9 year old has been replaced by some pre teen back chatting, rude stranger.....not sure the insurance lady can help with that.....or the pooping bird xox

Edit: It has been over 3 months 3 MONTHS since the fire!!

An update and some hexagons...

Good morning! Again, been awhile.

Thanks a bunch everyone for you kind words of support. It has been a hard month. Warms my heart to know you guys are all here cheering me on.

House update : At this stage we will be back in at the start of July. We have great temp. accommodation and school holidays start at the end of this week so no more frigging driving!! Woohoo!! Here is how it looked after they filled the skip bin

Yesterday when I popped in they have the ceiling in and painting has started.

Now for the fun stuff!!

I have been hexing up a storm! Decided to make a 'fire' quilt. Which is just a quilt made while in accommidation by hand lol! I've used black as the back ground, because, well the house was black with smoke. And the charm pack I have used is Blush. It was gifted and sighed 'This one is not smoky, love Fi' Thanks Fi :) 

btw did you see what Fi made me?! Stoked!! LOVE it!!

Crappy pictures. Still no camera so these are taking with the still broken iPhone. Sigh!

It's only little. I'm not completely crazy;) I was thinking of adding some smaller hexies in between the centre blue centre one and the outer ones. Now I'm not so sure. What do you think?

And because I had so much fun hexing those up I made these. 

They will become a story book quilt for the kids! And you all thought I wasn't doing anything ;) xox

Good News, Bad News?

Hi!! How are you all?! Oh I have missed you all!! So what do you want, good or bad?

I'm going with good news first.

Sew it together was awesome. I don't have words or as pictures to describe how incredible it was hanging out with such amazing chicks. I think once I get 'back on line' I will pinch some peeps pictures and tell you about some of my new bff ;)

Now for the bad news....

 

While I was in Melbourne, we had a kitchen fire. Everyone is ok! Thank god! But my house......not so much. We are in temporary accommodation for at least the next 4 weeks. Hence why I am blogging for the first time in nearly 2 weeks. So I'm blogging from macca's and hopefully will be back on line with mobile internet thingy soon. I can read emails with my still broken phone but am not so good a replying. Bit tricky with such a small screen ;) 

 

And just because I told the lovely ladies at sew it I would post pictures.

 

View from the front door

Kitchen :( 

Black smoke everywhere but the bed rooms :( Including all over some quilts, fabric, stock etc. And it doesn't want to come out :'(.....

Sorry about the quality. The pic were taken with my iphone.

So. That's that then. I must run now and drive the 1/2 hour to school for pick up and then 1/2 'home'. 2 hours in the car every day. GREAT!! xox