Feather Stitching

Melbourne, Scenic Sunday, St Kilda, Travel, Travel - Australia, Victoria

Scenic Sunday

22 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Here is my choice for this week’s Scenic Sunday – St Kilda Pier, Melbourne.

Birds, Ducks, Herons, Macaws, Photo Hunt, PhotoHunt, sun conure

Photo Hunt – Bird(s)

21 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

This week’s theme is ”Bird(s)” which is one of my favourite subjects – here are a few I don’t think I’ve shared before (not the full sized versions anyway).

Blue & Gold Macaw:

Mandarin Ducks:

Sun Conure:

And my favourite bird of all time, Mallard Duck:

Queensland, Ruby Tuesday, Travel

Ruby Tuesday

17 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Here is my choice for this week’s Ruby Tuesday – this is a cafe/art gallery we passed when driving around Queensland, taking the scenic route round the back through the highlands between Cairns and Port Douglas … it was an awesome little detour that perked us up for the next stage of driving – I would definitely recommend stopping for a stroll and a bite to eat if you’re ever driving through Tolga.

Blue Monday, Coffee

Blue Monday

16 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Here is my choice for this week’s Blue Monday – anyone for a cappuccino? Sheer heavenly bliss … nectar for the soul … 😀

Tomorrow’s Ruby Tuesday post will highlight the place we consumed this wee delicacy… Don’tcha just LOVE those beautiful hand-made pottery mugs and wooden trays it served in – such a lovely touch 🙂

Lighthouses, ocean, Scenic Sunday, Travel, Travel - Australia, Victoria

Scenic Sunday

15 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Here is my choice for this week’s Scenic Sunday – a lighthouse on the Great Ocean Road drive from Melbourne to Adelaide (sorry, the name/place escapes me right now!).

Friends & Family, Music, Photo Hunt, PhotoHunt, Travel, Travel - Fiji

Photo Hunt – Music

14 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

PhotoHunt | PhotoHunt

This week’s theme is ”Music” and here are some music moments from our time spent in Fiji.

From the left: Joe, me and Akuila

Dokko – the local landowner, and proprietor of the staff kava hut – this was my Christmas present to him … he really REALLY wanted a banjo, bless his heart!

Birds, Ruby Tuesday

Ruby Tuesday

10 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Here is my choice for this week’s Ruby Tuesday – a King Parrot from Queensland.

Charity, Charity Stitching

Scissor fobs for a good cause

9 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

As I mentioned yesterday, I am now selling some of my scissor fobs via an ArtFire store – I have only managed to load up about half of my stock so far (that took me all the rest of the day yesterday), so not all colours and styles are available yet.

The first ten sales will have the proceeds donated to Coral and her family, in aid of baby Timothy.

Timothy ribbon

Timothy was born on April 16th this year and diagnosed with a rare form of Juvenile Leukemia on the 1st of July. The money will be going towards Timothy’s escalating medical costs.

Please do come and support a good cause, and help me sell those first ten fobs! Just click on the ArtFire link above, or the thumbnail below, and it should take you directly to my storefront 🙂

Alternatively, if you want to make a straight-out donation, I’m happy to take any and all donations and add them to the “bucket” to send to Coral. I can accept funds via PayPal (my email is shakatak @ iinet . net . au – just remember to take the extra spaces out).

Also, if you’re able to advertise on your own blog for this good cause, I’d be really grateful – if there’s enough business generated, I may be able to offer the proceeds of more than ten fobs 🙂

Birds, Blue Monday, Macaws

Blue Monday

9 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Here is my choice for this week’s Blue Monday – a Blue and Yellow Macaw … love love LOVE that colour!!! 😀

Beading, Home & Family TO BE FIXED

Blogaversary prize draw results

8 November, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

A thousand apologies, but I’ve been very lax in not drawing names out of a ‘hat’ earlier for the winners of my 4th Blogaversary prize draw. I have finally pulled my finger out and can confirm that the following ladies are the winners of a beaded scissors fob made by yours truly, in a colour of their choice.

Lesley
Mel
Paula D
Kathy A (hope you see this Kathy, as my email has bounced back)

Congrats ladies! Two of you have the same preferred choice, but I should be able to whip a duplicate up (or close to it) 🙂

For anyone interested, I will shortly be adding the remaining items, plus a whole heap more of my fobs, to my ArtFire store shortly and it will then be open for business. Unfortunately it takes me forever to load up one item, so it’ll be a while longer yet before that happens properly. I originally starting setting up an Etsy store, then changed my mind after being charged US$6 just for adding the piccies – ArtFire don’t charge fees, so it’s much better for me if I don’t sell any! 😉

I intend the sale of the first 10 scissor fobs (assuming I actually manage to sell 10 of them!) to go towards a good cause. I am going to donate the proceeds of the fob sales (not including the postage) to help out a fellow kind-hearted blogger, whose family is struggling with the medical costs of one sweet little fella. Anyway, I’ll make a separate announcement as soon as the store has items available for sale!

As well as the blogaversary winners, I can also confirm that the following lovely ladies will be the recipients of a PIF from me some time during the next 12 months. Thanks for the support ladies – I hope you’re not disappointed 😛

I’ll send an email shortly, as I’ll need to ensure I have a current mailing address for you all, and then I have the fun time of starting to choose what to make 🙂