Rowantree Designs Giveaway ...

Roberta at Rowantree Designs ...

is celebrating taking her designs to New York ...

for a gig in Brooklyn...

with a Giveaway.

Pop over leave a comment HERE ...

and you're in the draw ...

for a gorgeous Rowntree Design.

My Place & Yours = looking down my street ...

My Place & Yours ...

where everyone is invited to play along ...

this weeks theme is ...

Looking down my street ...

this afternoon looking down my street ...

look what I saw.

Love a peek at what you see ...

 looking down your street or road or avenue.

Simply take a photo on the theme ...

post to your blog ...

then leave a link to your post via Linky Tools.

See you next week.

Leather ... thinking ... flummoxed ... what about You?

My Grandma lived across the road ...

from a tannery at Botany ...

I remember the smell ...

there was never a second thought about leather ...

about where it came from ...

how it got there.

The Lifesaver had to go to NSW Leather Co ...

so I went along for a squizz ...

there was wall to wall, room after room of leather ...

bags, mats ...

shelves of leather in every colour imaginable.

My brain was on overload at the creative possibilities ...

till I turned round ...

... had that been a cow or a bull?

The leopard we saw was printed as it's "protected".

 We saw leather that was "not protected".

Bill who looked after us ...

remembered the Botany tannery ...

he told us there used to be five tannery's in Sydney.

Bill gave me an armful of remnants ...

wearing my new leather boots ...

I left there ...

entranced from a creative perspective ...

sad from an animal lovers perspective ...

totally flummoxed.

Love to hear what you think.



A Divalicious Sunday ...

'Petty Cash' brunch ...

bargains galore ...

lovely ...

 bleached white beautiful ...

a bone a la naturale necklace ;) ...

see that gorgeous little iron ...

... now it's mine ...

along with a little vintage box of numbers ...

plus a middle eastern brass necklace.

Sunday with the Diva = bliss.

My Place & Yours = TINS = cake tins, storage tins, a collection of ...

This weeks theme is ...

TINS at my place ...

cake tins, storage tins, a collection of tins ...

The Hack Saw Blades plus old tobacco & cigarette tins ...
full of nuts, bolts, screws and old hardware were my Dad's ...
the four smaller ones on the left are from my collection ...
the tin with plums is from Fee ...
the beautiful green one held chocolates ...
the brown one at the back is an old army tin.

Drag out anything that's tin ...
give us a glimpse of tins or something in a tin at your place ...
let your imagination run wild ...
paint tins, food tins ...

This TIN idea came after selling an old Namco dripping tin online ...
I'd been lugging round for years ...
 thought it was worth nothing ...
it sold for over $16.00 ...
tins have been on my mind.

Don't take it all too seriously ...
you're invited to play along ...
love to see any tins at your place.

CQ Needlebook Round Robin continues ...

Before ...

after ...

it's gone to the next embroiderer ...

Peggy's keeping tabs HERE

My Place and Yours = My Glass ...

My Place and Yours ...

this week is ...

MY GLASS.

Do you have a favourite glass that's just yours,

that you love drinking from ...

that you get a smidge irked when someone else uses it,

or doesn't rinse it out if they did???

Come play along.

Please take a photo, post on your blog ...

then sign in via Linky Tools below.

Here's My Glass ...

it's crystal ...

13 cms tall ...

holds about 300 mls ...

everything tastes better drinking from my glass

AND ...

it's the last one of a set of four ...

my daughter gave me for Christmas ...

hint, hint.

Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair Darling Harbour ...

sun was shining at beautiful Darling Harbour ...

Sydney Craft & Quilt Fair was happening.

Loving Prudence Mapstones Hang Up challenge.

It was a lovely afternoon ...

busy but not frantic ...

lots of lovely vendors ...

none of the usual pram haters ...

as we've experienced at Rosehill Craft Fair in the past!

Loads of new and inspiring ideas ...

plenty of bargains ...

excellent eats & plenty of seating.

All was exceptional ...

especially finding bargain priced ...

out of print and back copies of my fave US magazines ...

BUT ...

 I left the bag in the cab.

Say a little prayer the driver turns them in will you?

What's he going to do with ...

Quilting Arts, Fibre Arts, Cloth Paper Scissors, Metal Clay mags ...

 everything crossed that the 20 magazines turn up!

You'll love this years show!!!

Sunday Snippets = my week without words...

Hope your week was a marvellous as mine ...

see more Sunday Snippets = their week without words ...HERE

Remembering my little bro Brett on his birthday today ...

My little bro, Brett in Vietnam 1966 with 103 Sig Sqn.

Cancer took him away, miss him more each day.

Hope he's up there enjoying a few coldies with his mates.

 

10 June 1946 ~ 27 October 2001.

♥

My Place & Yours = School Days : yours or someone near & dear ...

My Place & Yours.

Each week a theme will be up

for you to create a post on your blog

then link it back to here via Linky Tools below.

Everyone is most welcome to play along.

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The theme for this week is ...

School Days :  yours or someone near and dear.

Randwick Girls High ~

Class 3A ~

Mrs Gunn ~

1959 ~

I'm front row right hand side.

Wonder where these girls are now?

Looking forward to seeing a school day memory ...

please leave the link to your post below.

De-cluttering continues ...

off and away!

My Place & Yours = Meet my Pet or our Pet or the family pet ...

My Place & Yours theme this week is ...

Meet my pet ~ or our pet ~ or the family pet ...

whichever applies to You.

Meet my pet = Blossom!

Before Blossom I had Pearl. A gorgeous rescued, grey stray.

Pearl died with pancreatic cancer so I asked the vet to watch out for a replacement puss for me.

When I got the call ...

It was love at first site, nothing has changed.

We live like two old maids ...

she's very much a scaredy cat, does not go outside ...

hides when anyone come in ...

but when it's just Blossom and me ...

life is Bliss!

My Place & Yours is for everyone.

Love it if you'd play along each week ...

simply by leaving the link to your post below.

Please show us your pet or pets or family pets ...

even if it's a pet rock or a teddy bear you love and adore!