Isn't this so sweet - Jake bought me this for Christmas, along with the little ''relax'' sign hanging off it (hint hint I'm sure!) He has excellent taste in gifts!
So I took the hint and in the evenings I have been relaxing, so much so that not much stitching has been done. But I have made a promise to myself that I am going to completely finish my ''Angels Story'' quilt this year - last year I did the grand total of one applique block - how shameful!! So this week I have done this one....
...and almost all of this one....
Before Christmas I did do some stitching for little presents - I had drawn my niece's name in our family "Secret Santa" draw so I thought I would make her up a basket of lots of little goodies - and these were some of them....
I also made some of these for other friends - Barb's button (www.theodoracleave.com) was the inspiration .
Kept up the New Year's day tradition again this year and went for a nice long walk in the afternoon - started out here (on a very well maintained track) ....
and ended up a bit past here (on a slightly more rugged track:) ....
We couldn't do a picnic lunch at the top this time as we left later in the day, but a picnic afternoon tea of lollies was an okay substitute :)) See, that is the great thing about going for a long walk up a long hill - I did not feel a single ounce of guilt for pigging out on lollies at the top :)) Of course it wouldn't be a walk without me taking truckloads of pictures - cute little daisy (in real life this is absolutely tiny)...
... and leaves - fabulous colours....
... and ferns in gorgeous shades of pure green ....
My challenge to myself this year is to finish everything I have started in the past couple of years (apart from the hexie quilt 'cos that is definitely a 5 year project!). But.... there is all this other stuff I want to do as well ....well, I guess that is part of the challenge :) And what else will this year deliver - who can tell??The possibilities are endless:)
See you later,
Jenny
