31/12/2016   Photo a Day   Celebration

I have been lucky enough to have been on a Harbour Cruise one New Years Eve but this year I will be celebrating home alone, however next week I am going to Sydney to see my family for Christmas and to meet some Scquilters at the Pennant Hills Pub.

30/12/2016   Photo a Day   Anything you like

Giving Luke a birthday cuddle

29/12/2016   Photo a Day happiness is....

Summer I just love this warm weather

28/12/2016   Photo a Day  Drink

I drink lots of water I just don't drink our town water , Yuk!

27/12/2016   Photo a Day  Super

I have had a couple of these frozen meals containing 'super foods' and they are OK

26/12/2016   Photo a Day Last thing I read

25/12/2016   Photo a Day   Something New

Today I am going to quilt his Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt and it will then be a new quilt for Tom and Jayne's new Caravan which they pick up in one month.

I am having a quiet Christmas Day on my own and have lunch organised , Oysters and Prawns with some salad.

24/12/2016   Photo a Day  Something to be happy about

A new book received in the mail this week I just love Jacquie's quilting

23/12/2016   Photo a Day    Food

I am going shopping very early in the morning to buy some seafood for my solo  lunch on Christmas Day

Feeling Sad

I'm feeling a bit sad today as it would have been Macy's 16th birthday , it is now 4 months since she died.

22/12/2016   Photo a Day  'tis the season to.........

21/12/2016  Photo a Day  Pop

20/12/2016   Photo a Day  Three

Auditioning threads before quilting this lap quilt for a friend's birthday earlier this year.I used the variegated one on the left.

19/12/2016   Photo a Day    Nature

This is nature and erosion at it's best Wave Rock Western Australia

New Outfit

This is the  outfit I bought Luke for his birthday last week.

18/12/2016   Photo a Day  Something green

This photo was about a week ago and now the hydrangea is the palest pink ,but I love this green/pink mix.

17/12/2016   Photo a Day  Fruit

Yummy  locally grown cherries

16/12/2016   Photo a Day  Breakfast

Very dull this morning Sultana Bran and Orange juice

15/12/2016   Photo a Day   Tree

The tree in my courtyard shades my house very well in the summer months

14/12/2016  Photo a Day   Fun

Monday Patchwork Group celebrated Christmas this week.

13/12/2016   Photo a Day  I hear

The sound of summer in Australia

12/12/2016   Photo a Day  Decoration

Some more of my Santa collection these ones are the Jim Shore Santas

11/12/2016   Photo a Day  Jump

This train is called the Bathurst Bullet because it runs a daily service to Sydney and return and in about half an hour I will jump aboard the a day in Sydney to celebrate my Grandson's birthday.

That is the only jumping I do these days.

12/12/2016   Photo a Day  Simple

This hexagon quilt is really very simple just strip pieced ,I made this one from a jelly roll.

9/12/2016   Photo a Day  joy is......

 Having good friends such as Judy

Happy Birthday Little Man

Today my Grandson Luke turns one and I am going to see him on Sunday.Yippee!

8/12/2016   Photo a Day    Something Red

I have a collection of Santas these are the ones that play music

7/12/2016   Photo a Day   Outside

The Hydrangeas love the dappled shade of my courtyard

Another birthday

Today Millie turns five today

Iain Andrew McDougall

My brother Andrew b.6/12/1953  d.30/09/1977

This photo was taken at the park in Mosman in 1954 and is Mum with Andrew,Louise and myself.

6/12/2016   Photo a Day  Bookshelf

These are my patchwork and quilting books

5/12/2016   Photo a Day  Beauty

A small part of the gardens at  the Palace of Versailles, I much preferred the gardens to inside the Palace which was too rich and over ornate in my opinion.

4/12/2016   Photo a Day  Selfie

Photo a Day

I have been very slack with my photo a day not posting since October but  the best laid plans of mice and men!!!!!!!!!
I have decided to just restart at the beginning of December

1/12/2016   Photo a Day   lunch

Chilli crab cooked by Steven

2/12/2016   Photo a Day I enjoy

I enjoy catching up with cousins as our family is very spread out

from left Greg Doyle (Brisbane), Jayne Riley (Gawler SA, )Christopher Boswell  (Wagga Wagga) ,Paul Doyle (Picton NSW) Bronwyn Chapell (Denliquin NSW) and myself from Bathurst.There are another thirteen spread all over Australia.

3/12/2016   Photo a Day   Morning Sky

Early morning in north west NSW

The end of a generation

Kathleen Mary Boswell nee Doyle 23/02/1926 -21/11/2016

This is a very young Aunty Kath my mother's younger sister and the last sibling of the five Doyles of that generation.She has not been very well for a while but she did leave suddenly last night.

She was a wife, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother , a great grandmother,a

bookkeeper and an excellent golfer.

She is now resting in peace with her late husband Uncle Ernie

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month

19/10/2016   Photo a Day   Food

This dish is called Schnitzel O"Driscoll at the Irish Pub in Bathurst , it is a schnitzel with garlic prawns on top. 

30/09/2016    Photo a Day  Go

It is now spring and it is freezing here in Bathurst so I an't wait for another eleven weeks we GO to Steven's place in Townsville and all these ripe Mangoes.

29/09/2016  Photo a Day  Stop

I wish the rain would stop not just for one day as the pattern seems to be lately, the ground is waterlogged and again there are flood warnings for the Macquarie River.

28/09/2016   Photo a Day  This season

In spring the cherry blossoms around Bathurst are beautiful.

27/09/2016    Photo a Day  Create

I created this quilt about 7 years ago , I designed it, machine pieced and quilted it and I am proud of it.

26/09/2016   Photo a Day   Free

 I received this catalogue in the mail last week and it was free , I have watched lots of Jenny's tutorials on UTube and I have bought a template from the business but this family have turned a small town that was suffering into a thriving business and tourist destination for Quilters. How does one win the lottery so I can visit Hamilton Missouri?
And dreams are free!!

25/09/2016   Photo a Day  What's inside?

I wonder what is inside this box? it can't be opened until three months from today and I wonder who will own it then?

24/09/2016    Photo a Day   Dirty

I think you could say this tractor is dirty,the photo was taken near Bathurst last Wednesday

23/09/2016    Photo a Day   Macro

Although the snowdrops were late flowering this year they are still going strong.

22/09/2016   Photo a Day  Square

I made this quilt from a collection of nine patches so there are lots of squares involved.