Big dog park

 Took a drive to Beerwah on the weekend to visit this big park. Lucy enjoyed it and met a couple of other dogs there. 

Cant see them from photo but there are play equipment fod the dogs to run up and over, even a tunnel. Lucy chased a ball for a bit. Her version of ball playing is ran after it, grab it and come back a little. She waits til someone comes to get the ball off her. 

When she had had enough, we walked back into town about 800 m and had coffee. We took Lucys travel bowl and water which she used but there were dog bowls and water at the cafe. We see that on a regular basis now.

Busy sewing week.

 One of the members was making book bags for Christmas but life got in the way and she didnt get them all done. They were cut out including Christmas puctures to put on the front. 

I had made a heap of them before so offered to finish them. Quite a bit of red fabric left over so I made a two year olds dress. Thought I took a photo of it but no, I didnt. Made two dresses this week using the police uniforms as the facings.

Then I moved on to shorts.

The three on the left were all made from pillow cases, used the last pieces of the two police shirts that I bought home. The two on top left have a dark pocket made from a polo shirt.

I had a piece of stretch material to make a Tshirt with neck and sleeve trim. 

I have also been making coloured panels out of the left overs to make quilts.

Banana Benders Hotel

 I had an apt up the coast last week and we decided to leave earlier and have lunch at this pub. It is nearly four years since our last visit.

It used to be an Ettamogga pub with an old jalopy on the roof, when it changed hands, the new owners couldnt get the license for Ettamogga so they had to change the look of it.

They went for an Aussie beach theme with kangaroos and koalas and surf boards.

Koalas and kangaroos

Huge light fittings made from different beer bottles. 

Flags dolphins and surf boards, there were a set of four above our heads, swinging as a fan.

Lunch out is good but I need to study the menu more, Warren ordered the seniors fish and chips, I choose an entree of chicken kebabs with a peanut sauce.

Warrens meal arrived with a small pavola, all part of the seniors apparently, he did offer me some but I declined.

Christmas stockings

 

These are the stockibgs I made for Uniforms for kids charity. I was given the red and green fabric plus sone fabric with the decorations. I drew out a pattern, doubled the fabric and then drew around it straight on to the material. The white ones with ginger bread men on was a table cloth that I bought cheaply at a bargain store. 

Made 28 stockings and 14 drawstring book bags. This week, I bought home some dark polo shirt fabric, probably make shorts out of those.

Book Bags

 This fortnight for uniforms for kids I am making Christmas stockings and book bags. I was given some red and green fabric and Christmas themed fabric.

They also gave me some scrap material. 

There was some talk about needing book bags with handles and drawstrings.

These are what I have made, great looking fabrics. The longest is making the handles.

So much thread of my floor, time to vaccumn again tomorrow, I only use the stick not the head to suck up thread and sometimes cut offs of fabric

Uniforms for kids

 Bit of a strange name but it is a charity that I have become involved in. I went alobg to a meeting/gathering and the founder happened to be there that day.

She is a retired police officer and she was cutting up her uniforms after retirement when she had a lightbulb moment. The fabric could be used to make kids clothes. Uniforms esp of police officers need to disposed of properly to avoid being used improperly.

Badges and insigina must be removed but the materials can be used. I came home with two police shirts to use for clothing, supposed to be 50% but a frill, pockets etc is acceptable.

A largèr sized dress using the button up plackard, saved me doing buttons and pockets.

Pillow case dresses with added frills

Shorts with pockets

Also made draw string bags. These will be used either as laundry bags or filked with goodies for disadvantaged kids.

The clothes are sizes 2 to ten.

The group mets every second week for a couple of hours, I have been to two get togethers now and each time I have helped stuff toys. One member takes the T-shirt fabric and makes soft toys. First lot were small bears with Hug me written them. This weeks were white snowmen with embrodered faces.

I came home with red and green fabric with a request for Christmas stockings

Lillys in the garden

 Our lillies are flowering everywhere it seems. We only gave three flower beds and there are lillues flowering in each of them.

This bed is actually Lucy's bed and Sherrols. We put it in years ago, bought thd bricks and good soil, it was going to be our vegie patch. We didnt think about the size of the bricks so it is smaller than we wanted. 

We planted out and waited for vegetables to grow. Great healthy looking tomatoes, then they died. Our neighbour over the back at the time, told us that there had been a large tree in what became our yard. Contractors took it out and then poisoned the ground before they built our house. 

We didnt use it for any other vegetables. Lucy likes to lay in there when its hit and she sometimes digs a little to get to the colder earth.

Warren had taken out a tree in the foreground and he put the tyre there to protect the hole that it left.

Plants seem to be growing okay in there now but still dont want to use it for vege.