We wish you a Merry Christmas 🎶

We wish you a Merry Christmas 🎶🎶

We wish you a merry Christmas 🎶🎶🎶

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 🥰

Here are the links for everyone who joins ScrapHappyfrom time to time (they may not post every time, but their blogs are still worth looking at).

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera(me)
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa,
Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

Here’s to a Blessed Christmas & a Very Happy New Year to all of you 💝 See you in 2024 for lots more Scraphappiness 🥰

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 🥰

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 🤩

Here are the links for everyone who joins ScrapHappy from time to time (they may not post every time, but their blogs are still worth looking at).

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, me
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa,
Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

SCRAPHAPPY DECEMBER IS NEXT ♥️

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 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.

Here are the links for everyone who joins ScrapHappy from time to time (they may not post every time, but their blogs are still worth looking at 🙂

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera,
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa,
Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

Cannot believe it’s 2 months to Christmas 🎄!!!

Here’s to ScrapHappy November and all the wonderful things we will be making & posting 🥰

Till then my friends… have a wonderful month ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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.

We live in a very Blessed world 🌎.

🙏

Good morning 🥰

It’s that time again !!!

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 😍

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Edith
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa,
Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

Here’s to the next month & hoping I get time to finish a quilt that’s been in progress for a while now !!!

Above are the names of all the wonderful scraphappy bloggers to enjoy 😍

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 🎶🎵🎶

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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.

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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 !

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.

Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Edith
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,Debbierose, Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa, Lynn, Tierney and Hannah

Above are the rest of our ScrapHappy family ❤️Check out their posts too ❣️🙏

Until next month my friends… NAMASTE 🙏

Hidden away deep in a steep valley in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, Walhalla was once a rich gold mining town with over 3,500 people calling it home. Now it is home to just 20 or so permanent residents.

Gold was first discovered in Walhalla by Ned Stringer in 1862, in a small creek running into the Thomson River. Ned quickly laid his claim and word spread of his find. With the lure of gold to be found the town quickly grew, becoming a thriving community. There were 10 hotels, 3 breweries, 7 churches and over 30 shops. Walhalla was even the first country town outside Melbourne to have electric street lighting, courtesy of the boilers which generated power to run the machinery in the gold mines.

The railway arrived in 1910, just a few short years before the closure of the mines in 1914. Ironically, instead of being used to bring new buildings to Walhalla and grow the town, the railway was used to remove many of the buildings after the mines closed.

For many years Walhalla slept virtually abandoned in its deep valley.

Today many buildings have been meticulously recreated, including the Mechanics Institute, the old Post Office, Fire Station, and the Corner Store/Museum. Take a stroll up the main street past the original stone retaining wall and the fire station straddling Stringers creek, and explore spectacular views of the township from the tramline walking track, once used to transport ore carts.

Hear about the lives of Walhalla personalities like Catherine “Kitty” Cane, a sly grog tavern owner, and Doreen Hannan, the Postmistress who refused to leave her post staffing the town’s communications while a bushfire threatened Walhalla.

WALHALLA is in a time capsule as far as I’m concerned. We have visited this place four times in the last 30 years and nothing has changed. The town has been beautifully preserved and is kept meticulously.

Till we meet again 🎶

It’s that time of month again and we are officially into the second half of this year!!!

Life has been crazy busy as always and again my quilting projects are kinda on the back burner coz’ of grandbaby duties…… not that I’m complaining 🥰

These two scrappy pieces were made experimenting with my new machine when Kate was here. I’m glad I sat and did some experimenting at the time seeing as I’ve only been able to do some FMQ on a few pieces getting ready to assemble another quilt….. let’s see when I have time to finish that one !

Well here’s to the next month of ScrapHappiness ❣️

Here are the links for everyone who joins ScrapHappyfrom time to time (they may not post every time, but their blogs are still worth looking at). The list below is the most current one I have, so if you’d like me to update something, let me know in the Comments. Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Edith
Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,Debbierose, Nóilin, Viv, Karrin, Amo, Alissa, Lynn, Tierney and Hannah