The markets in Yarram yielded a $12 bag of scraps… this was bought a year and a half ago not knowing what I would do with it…. There were 5 pieces of odd shapes and a scrappy jelly roll from(again) year ago… an hours work of playing with fabric and enjoying the rhythm 🎶 of my sewing machine 😍 A TABLE RUNNER is born ❣️ 2024 sewing is off to a good start 😊
A project that took an hour to finish on Friday 🎶
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This post of course is about everything Christmas 🎄 my favourite time of year 😍
The Christmas Tree with a difference…. The whole piece is from scraps including the baubles that were discarded due to either being the wrong colour or wrong size for the “Big” tree 🌲
It’s a wall hanging and I’m so so happy 🥰
We see it as we enter the room ! The Room 🥰
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I cannot believe it’s November and we are nearing Christmas 🎄my favouritest time of year 🤍
Well this month has been a bit crazy as we had another ride Rally & this time it was nearly 1000kms away in beautiful Victor Harbour in South Australia 🇦🇺
Needless to say I made sure I had my scraphappy stuff ready but as we got back yesterday and I was with my grand daughter the whole day today including work (which goes with me everywhere) I am running late in posting today !!!
My scraphappy contribution this month is a baby quilt for a little girl who is due this month. She will be my friend’s second granddaughter and I’m so looking forward to meeting her when she arrives. In the meantime she has this quilt to keep her company from her Grandaunty Vera 🥰
The heart in the centre I had made about a year and a half ago !!! I thought it fitting for a baby quilt 😍
Well that’s it for this month & as my crazy season starts I need to make sure I get all my ducks in a row 🤩
Cannot resist adding this picture… “ Just another day at the office” 🥰🥰
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Good morning from the lovely town of Mudgee in NSW.
We are here having a wonderful time on our yearly National Rally with the HONDA STowners Club.
Hubby celebrated his birthday yesterday as well and he had a marvellous time with the ‘loves of his life’… the motorcycles & of course all his ‘OzStoc’ Family 😍
And no I had not forgotten I’d be here when scraphappy day came …. I am prepared 🥳🤩
It’s been a very busy few weeks for me as a friend (I mentioned in my previous post) is going to India and wants to take handmade gifts to her family there … last month I made a few and have been continuing since.
I have made a set of four placemats for one family of four.
The base are some red napkins I have had for a few years now , the top was an organza piece I found in the scrap pile at spotlight 🥰
The second piece is a table runner I made for a very special friend who came down from India to visit her son who lives in Melbourne. She has been a family friend way back and always makes an effort to visit my mum when she comes and she loves all my posts about quilting so I thought it would be a good gift & a light weight gift to give her as she travels back home to Kolkata today.
Needless to say she loved it 🥰
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Gandhi Jayanti is an event celebrated in India to mark the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. It is celebrated annually on 2 October, and is one of the three national holidays of India. The UN General Assembly announced on 15 June 2007 that it adopted a resolution which declared that 2 October will be celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence as he was a non-violent freedom fighter. He is also known as the “Father of The Nation” and this title was given to him by Subhas Chandra Bose for his relentless struggles for independence.
Having visited his shrine in August this brings the whole day into focus.
Another month slipped away .,& what a month it’s been!
Today my scraphappy post is something I’m doing for a friend. She’s heading off to India on a holiday and as it’s close to Christmas she has asked me to make her quilted stuff as gifts as it will be unitand easy to carry.
Christmas prints are hard to come by before the season so I looked at MY Christmas stuff and concluded I had to use what I had already made and reuse & revamp to what she needed.
Below pic used to be cushion covers but now remade into placemats 😍
Well back again we went to see if I could find any records of my Grandad … seeing as he was the last jailer at the prison after the war … But having spoken to a few people at the records department they all said the same thing. Post War records were not kept at all 🫤😓 Sad but I’m not surprised 🤔 This is a memorial to all Freedom Fighters which is fitting 🙏 I did leave a note in the visitors book so having walked the footsteps of my Grandad I have left a mark to commemorate his being a part of Cellular Jail History 🤍
I met my husband in Kolkata & yet our lives were entwined through history through our parents & grand parents!!! My grandad and grand uncles knew Jonathan’s dad when they lived in Port Blair …. 6 degrees of separation take on a new meaning for the two of us !!! Time has brought us together with our ancestors and we feel very Blessed to be able to witness this together 🤍 30 years of being married has a special note to it 🎶🎵🎶
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island, formerly known as Daniel Ross Islands, was occupied by the British Colony during the pre-independence era. In the early 1850s, the British government took control of Ross Island, and the island became the centre of British power. The British ruled on the island for almost 80 years and built a lot of infrastructures like a bakery, church, water treatment plant, tennis court, hospital, cemetery, and many more. In 1857, the Indian Government built a prison on the island where they would send the most dangerous prisoners to isolate them from the rest. Ross Island,Andaman was under British power until 1942, when the Japanese Government took it over. It was just nine months when the Japanese Government claimed the land, but in 1941, the land went through a massive earthquake which resulted in the abandonment of the island. In 1945, the Indian allies reclaimed the property and rebuilt some of the buildings like the bakery and local stores where you can buy souvenirs to recollect the memory of Ross Island. Taking a tour of Ross Island, a charming little island, will take you back in time as you can still see the historic ruins on the islands, which date back to the British occupation. Some buildings are still in great condition, giving you a clear picture of how things were during the British and Japanese ruling periods.
A few hours well spent on this island and we travelled around in an electric buggy.
The island is teeming with deers Fresh coconut water 🤩. There’s warning of coconuts falling off the trees so to be very careful!Trees dating back hundreds of years Youngest daughter having a good time too 🥰
I am in the land of my birth & today India celebrates Independence Day ! How utterly wonderful that I should be standing on the soil I was born into .
My post is a short one as we are in a tiny little town in the foothills of the Himalaya’s called Leh & the internet 🛜 is not good.
We have just finished an epic trip with Two Wheel Expiditions on a motorcycle around the foothills of the Himalayas…. It’s been a dream of ours for many years and we have done it ! I still think the last 9 days of riding is a figment of my imagination 💭 Thank goodness for pics ☺️
It’s called the Land of High Passes and believe me we did some very high Passes…. 18000ft to be exact !
This was the last of the four Passes we did and the air was very very thin!
Before I left I had to do a small piece of sewing to keep me going for the month I’m away from. It’s a simple mat with a sample Dresden Plate I was trying out as I had never made one.
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