More Nundle 2012

Funny how the weekend just whizzed by!

Catching up with friends, Chooky and Jenny,

 and making new ones...

chatting with Peg and Dale...

catching up on news since we last met, Trish, Bronwyn and Lea...

and even managed some stitching too. 

We attended Sue Daley's Trunk show on Friday night (Peg and Dale loved it)...

this was my favourite... in brights of course!

  Lots of clamshells...

loved these little ones...

And here is the clamshell hussif we started on Saturday...

 Kerry and Sue...

A few more pics still to share!

Cardygirl xx

Nundle and beyond...

 Another year, another Girls day in the country hosted by the always lovely Kerry.

 Each year there are lots of happy faces, LOADS of chatter and quite a few hysterical moments!

Meeting new friends, putting faces to blogging pseudonyms and catching up with friends from weekends past, really it is bliss. Sadly this year some faces were missing due to family commitments and loss...and even a sick child...just the stuff of life really, but we all had a great time. 

Some friends had come a looong way...South Australia, Victoria and Queensland...many hours on the road,

but we were so glad to see them, and they were just as lovely as we imagined!

All that fun and excitement can be really tiring!
Hope everyone travelled home safely...we will have to plan next year!

Cardygirl xx

Spread the news...

...we are about to head off to the Girls Day in the Country with Kerry and Sue Daley.

We will soon be there!

Cardygirl xx

Which layout????

Working with the octagons...which layout do you prefer?

I am in two minds...

as octagons and dots...

or floating snowballs????

 Lots of fun though.

We had a great time with DS at a lunch to celebrate his 21st birthday...

the most beautiful spot...

Bistro Molines in the Hunter Valley...perfect!

Cardygirl xx

Parcels to pack...parties to attend!

 Parcels need to be sent on their way to Tracee, Chookyblue and Lise! Congratulations! My first thought this morning was drawing the giveaway with the help of SB. So many people were keen on Anni's lovely fabric that I measured and found that there was enough for two sets...wish I could have found more so that I would have been able to send it all over the world. Interestingly, two parcels can be hand delivered at Nundle...nice to give them in person to Lise ( who I have never met before!!!) and dear Chooky. Had to laugh when her comment was drawn. It was lovely to read all your comments...I appreciate you popping by and wish I could send more gifts!

And amongst lots of trips up and down the highway, more octagons have been stitched...

 there has been time to stitch some more circles...

and create a 5" diameter Dresden. I have plans for this!

We are heading off today to celebrate a 21st birthday with this young man!

Should be fun!
Cardygirl xx

Hard to believe...

...it is nearly the third anniversary of Cardygirl blogging. We are getting ready to head north to Nundle in a few weeks for the annual Girls Day in the Country with Kerry from The Cottage on the Hill, where the blogging bug first bit! This year our tutor is Sue Daley...paper piecing will be our task...lots of fun...wonder what we will do?

Life remains busy here...meeting builders about the renovation plans...lots of decisions. So I am spending time with emails, trying to do my uni work and having a busy month with family commitments. Not a lot of time to blog, but hopefully that will ease a little.

But I keep putting off something I have had planned since early January...now I am thinking...an anniversary and lots of lovely bloggy friends deserve some recognition! So I am planning on sending off two parcels later next week...leave me a message about whatever you would like to say to me (be nice though!), let me know which parcel you would like in your letter box....

some paper piecing essentials like I have...

or some fat quarters that Anni designed.

 Don't blog about it, just let me know that you are out there listening to this ramble before March 10 and a little parcel may find it's way from me to you! 

Cardygirl xx