Progress

 Best catch up on my stitching projects. A few weeks ago I completed Part 5 of the Owl and Hare Hollow BOM.

I was also working on this liberty scarf for my daughter for her birthday.

I am still enjoying all the paper piecing for Amanda's stitchalong on Instagram.

Lovely to see Brenda's show and tell last Thursday. This bag looks amazing It is a pattern by Wendy Williams.

Brenda has also finished this lovely needlecase!

Stitching weekend

 Last weekend, the Wednesday night girls enjoyed a lovely weekend of stitching. We didn't go away but met each day and had a very special time. Thank you Anita and Deanna for organising this for us. We enjoyed the venue and the food and the little special touches that the ladies provided for us. 

Deanna even brought along a little shop!

Family

 A few weeks ago we headed to Sydney to see Beauty and the Beast. It was fantastic and the three of us had a lovely time in Sydney. 

This is the view from our very flash apartment on the 66th floor and there were fireworks in Darling Harbour too.

Here we are catching the train back to Ma's place.

A week before that our school has a fete and it was very exciting to see Benny playing the clarinet in the band.

And a few pictures of the boys.

Cruising

 We headed off last week on the Royal Princess for a cruise up to Port Douglas. We enjoyed a very relaxing time on board. Books were read and a bit of stitching was done and it all went well. We were just a little disappointed in the food this time and some of the new things on board but all in all it was still a good holiday. We ended up staying on board in Brisbane as it is a long way into the city and in Airlie beach and Cairns as the tender process was long with such a big ship. In Port Douglas we took an excursion to see the outer reef which was very good.

Bruce enjoyed the snorkling.

This was the glass bottom boat, which was like a submarine. It was great to see the coral and fish.