When Julie Came to Jersey

I mentioned a few weeks ago that my wonderful online friend Julie was coming from Australia to meet me here in Jersey (via a week and a half trip to England). Well she came!!

 

It was to be our very first meeting in person, following two and a half years of friendship though our blogs, facebook and email. And I can honestly say Julie was even more wonderful in real life, I just love her!

 

It's a weird feeling meeting someone for the first time, and yet knowing so much about them and feeling like you know them.  But we very quickly overcame our nerves, and I think we chatted non stop for 4 days.  Poor Ian, Julie's husband, he was probably glad to get on a plane back to Oz just to get a moments peace!

 

And oh what fun we had.  I have very few pictures because I did too much talking.  We did lots of sight seeing, (for my Jersey friends, we covered most of the West of the Island) and lots of our time revolved around food - just look at our delicious lunch :-)

 

And that evening, after home made cakes made by my daughter that afternoon (damn, I forgot to take a picture) it was all round to ours for cheese and wine.  Yum!

 

The next day, after more chatting, relaxing and lunch, we headed into town for a lovely meal.  Oh and here you can see Mr Candy, aka Pete,  my lovely husband.  He's usually a bit shy and doesn't feature  often!

To accompany our delicious meal, Ian insisted I have some of this...

Which was delicious and warming, as you can imagine ;-)

If you were wondering whether any quilting was going to feature in this blog post, then hopefully I won't disappoint.  Here is a little mini that I made for Julie, who, back in Oz has just finished building a brand new home. 

(I had planned a separate blog post about my quilted house, but I was still stitching the last stitches just hours before Julie's arrival, so I ran out of time).

 

Julie treated me to some wonderful gifts too.  A gorgeous silver bracelet, that I will treasure forever, and no less than 3 Australian Patchwork and Quilting Magazines.  I'm still enjoying reading them now, and I shall tell you more about them soon.  I would be interested to hear your thoughts on  different P and Q magazines and how they compare to the UK ones too.   

 

So now Julie and Ian are back in Oz and I am so thrilled and delighted that we got to meet after all this time.  I know that thanks to the internet, we wll be friends forever.

 

 

Sarah x

 

Linking up with:  Crazy Mom Quilts

 

A Terrible Week and A lovely day

It's not been the best of weeks.  My daughter has been off pre-school sick for 3 out of the 5 days so all activities and socialising of any kind has gone on hold.  For me that's tough!  (I would just like to point out that she is much better now).

 

So yesterday, in a bid to banish cabin fever and enjoy the continuing blue skies, I went for a little drive, and with the children asleep in the back, I stopped along the way to take a few photos. 

 

 

 

 

Thank fully the week has ended well.  More than well in fact because for the first time ever, I have met one of my blogging friends in *real life.* Sue of Just Sew Sue happens to live a mere 15 mins away, and having met through our respective blogs, we thought it high time we met in person. 

 

Well I am so glad we did.  We had such a lovely time chatting about quilting and fabrics, and blogs and designers and shops...the time just flew by.  I was lucky enough to see Sue's long arm quilting machine, as well as lots of examples of her beautiful work.  Damn I should have taken pictures!  Do hop over to her blog and take a look. 

 

So now that my mental well being has been restored, I feel better equiped to face the day tomorrow with the children while my husband has to go into work. 

 

Oh and I finally managed to print out some labels, and they aligned themselves correctly first time - it really was a better day!

 

 

 

Sarah x

 

PS I did actually have a little sewing finish as well.  But I shall share that over the weekend, once I've had a chance to photograph it in the garden :-)

 

Feeling Brighter

In the last blog post I said I would share with you the little gift that I made for my husband for Valentines day.  Since then, the whole family, myself included have been hit by none other than the sick bug!  It relentlessly spread itself from one family member to the other, and I seemed to have it worst of all.  Suffice to say, not a lot of sewing or blogging for that matter, took place over the weekend :-(

But here we are now on Monday morning; I'm feeling better, my daughter has returned to pre-school, my son is asleep and the sun is shining.  All in all things are looking up.  

So where was I?  Oh yes, the Valentines gift.  This is what I gave my husband, I personalised a new, fluffy, giant bath sheet. 

 No more too small scratchy towels for him! 

And before illness struck, I was able to photograph a couple of the sets of commissioned bunting that i made last week.

Doesn't the sunshine and blue sky do wonders for photographs?! 

On Sunday, after a weekend of confinement, the only decent thing to do was to go for a little drive round the island and get some much needed fresh air.  I am so glad that we did because the views were stunning.  

Overlooking St Ouens Bay

The Lighthouse at Corbiere

It really feels like Spring has arrived.  I hope to get out and photograph more of beautiful Jersey in the Spring, it's days like this that I feel even luckier to live here.  

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Sarah x