ozzie aftermath and more usa photos

After 4 days without power I nearly went mental in the heat and humidity, I went to Margs for some respite, she had the air con on :) Thanks Marg, you are a life saver! Fortunately we had no damage, although the slab did absorb some of the water and we are on a hill !  Onto other things, hubs is going to be in the US again in July, I would love to go with him, but would need a teenage sitter for a month, her brother will be busy studying in the city. So I probably wont be able to go :((

I loved it there even though they drive on the wrong side of the road!  The mountain ranges were extraordinary! Here are some photos of the trip through Death Valley on the way to Las Vegas.
There are loads more but i cant find them on the silly mac, grumble, silly husband has put them somewhere obscure.

Even though Death Valley is all dirt and the occasional tumbleweed, its still impressive although I am glad we went through in winter :)  It was chilly, we were glad to get back in the car with the heater on !
Its hard to believe we had our ski jackets on there, and here we have had the aircon blasting !

Well other than that not much is new, I have been sewing a little bit, but i get annoyed with myself when seams don't align properly, and then have to get up and walk away, otherwise i would do a psycho on the fabric, my patience is low at the moment ! Hope you are having a productive week, and hopefully i will be back soon :)

Ozzie

After months of drought cyclone ozwald has hit bringing wild weather to our coast, we have had so much rain its ridiculous ! I think our climate is changing, there have been such extremes, if its not bushfires its flood. I woke up to such gale force wind i thought the roof would fly off, luckily its still on ! It certainly put aussie day celebrations in the can up here.
Blogger doesnt seem to cooperate, again, with adding photos although i am using an ipad, so not sure if this makes a difference.  I'm not sure i like the limited functions of the ipad, but it is convenient to have. Its a good day to sit and sew, i have a few things to get on with, providing the power stays on, im not much of a hand sewer ! So happy weekend to all, hope its nice where you are :)

Happy Australia Day !!!

Good on ya Dick !!

San Fran to Lake Tahoe

San Fran 

Museum of Fine arts, funnily enough there is no fine arts displayed, its a science museum which we thought was odd

Japanese Tea Gardens

very funny!

Lake Tahoe

 Drop dead gorgeous mountain range around Tahoe

 There was so much snow, this is in a town at the base of the mountains!

hehe, we are a photogenic couple!!

Its absolutely stunning country all around Lake Tahoe and the drive to Vegas, thats next...

Party in the USA !

We had a fabulous time over in the USA, what an amazing country ! I will definitely be back, we did the west coast from LA to San Fran and then over to Lake Tahoe and down through Death Valley to Las Vegas, over to the Grand Canyon, back to Vegas and finally Disneyland in LA for New Years, it was a blast ! I loved San Fran, it has different areas to visit, it looks so lovely on the bay, and we had beautiful weather although it was cool. And no trip to the US is complete without a visit to Vegas ! We had fun, saw some funny shows, ate loads of great food and wondered about looking at the displays. But there is nothing that beats the sheer beauty of the landscape, the stunning mountain ranges, the Canyon, and snowy pine trees   God bless America !

Tram ride San Fran

Lombard St San Fran

More photos Later :)

Winner of blog hop give away

There is a winner for the 8 fat quarters, this goes to Lynne from Never 2 hot 2 stitch, congratulations Lynne you can now start another project!!
Hope you had a merry christmas, the photos are from Hearst Castle in San Simeon, it was impressive :)

Shopping mecca !

Well window shopping that is! Rodeo drive prices are not for the faint hearted!  I got a cheap T shirt there, it was $50! LA is a blast, loads of fun things to do, we saw The Hobbit at the Chinese theatre and had dinner at Hooters ! The boys liked that ! I could spend a lot more time in LA :)

Blog hop party give away

Michelle from Quilting Gallery is having a birthday party blog hop and we are hosting a give away to celebrate, yay! 

I have some delicious goodies that you can have a chance to win, all you have to do is leave a comment and click the follow button, that's it and you are in ! This should be fun :) 

I have 8 lovely charm squares that are just waiting to be made up into something beautiful. 
Good luck and dont forget to check out the other party goers at Quilting Gallery :)
 the larger font is a result of my deteriorating eye sight, dang it ! 

I'm still here !

I am still here, I am wondering if I will be able to work out how to do this move properly, I think I will need someone to help me! In the meantime I have had a busy week with work and there has been a couple of xmas parties, we had our sewing group lunch at the shop, it was lovely to see all the ladies together. Tomorrow afternoon our ICU has a boat cruise down the river, so that will be a lovely way to     celebrate :) So not a lot of time left for blogging! I am putting together some pinwheel squares in some fresh coloured fabric, so that will keep me busy also :)
Anyway hope you are having a great weekend and find! some time to relax before the xmas rush!

I am moving

Its official I am moving to word press, I have set up the migration, but just need to tweak a few things to get it right, so you still get my posts, and I keep my reading list, but then I am done :) hope you will be patient with me while I do this ! I may need some tech help ! Anyone ?
Its hot as hell here, yesterday topped 40 c even the hospital air con didn't cope to well in the corridors, thank god the patient rooms were fine. Its a bit cooler today, 35c and tomorrow will be a chilly 28c !
Hope your day is going well and hope to see you over at word press soon :)
The address is http://ablogstar.wordpress.com/
i hope this will work