Fermented....... Not Demented!!!!

I FOUND THEM!!

2009-12-16T16:13:00.000-08:00

This is Ken's daughter, Lisa with hubby Jim and the girls just after decorating the tree. I don't know what I use, I just put things together and if it looks okay, I'll do it. This is a lovely photo of Jocie and Dacia. I did paint small angel wings to put on this LO but as usual, I have put them in a safe place.

This one is my favourite. I felt very clever after doing this. Reminds me of Jodi's work but no where near as good. Did I do okay Jod? Have to get into scrapping again. I really enjoyed doing these. I have photos of the pistol club but flowers wouldn't be appropriate. I'll have to find some guns or something like that

JUST SOME PHOTOS TO SHARE

2009-12-16T15:19:00.000-08:00

this is the Gunnedah Pistol Club's presentation night. from left, Wayne, Ken and me. I presented the trophies and was quite honoured to do so. I received a trophy as well. Yippee. This little bloke was at the club a couple of weeks ago. Isn't he gorgeous? His mate, (male) fell out of the tree when the branch broke. They were fighting. Luckily, the wild life park owner was there. He took the sick one back with him but sadly the koala died. I was about 3 feet away from this one.

This is a layout I did of Ken's new granddaughter, dacia. The pink cardigan really stands out on the black and white background. I knitted the cardigan.

I do have some more but god knows what I did with them. Thought I uploaded them but.....I'll have to do them again. I don't know what materials I use, just what Jodi giives me and try to copy hher layouts. ha, ha, ha.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas, a safe one, a great new year and 'see' you all in 2010.

SOME LAYOUTS I DID

2009-12-16T15:18:00.000-08:00

KNITTING AGAIN

2009-11-17T01:10:00.000-08:00

Hi all, here is my finished project. I think they are beautiful even if I say so myself. All ready for next year's show here in Gunnedah.

This is a photo I took of the moon the other night. I'm trying to pratice my TAFE skills. This was taken without a flash at my back door. I helped Jodi today decorate the Year 12 Formal. Jod always does a great job and I was more helpful this time. I didn't make one mistake!! Very proud of myself. Okay, that's it until I see you agagin. Don't know what I'll do next. (must have pressed a wrong button or something) :) I do have some baby knitting to finalise. Have to do that.

MORE KNITTING

2009-10-29T23:35:00.000-07:00

Hi all, this is the little doll I was talking about not so long ago. Here she is ready to be dressed. Ken named her, Eliza because she is dressed in period clothes. Not much to look at is she? Here is a close up of her hat and curls. I honestly didn't think she would come up so sweet.

Here is the finished doll with carol book and all. There was a fair amount of work in her but I do enjoy creating them. I'll start on her brother, Jacob, next. He is also sweet.

Well, that's it for now folks. Ken and I are making plans to go caravaning next week for a couple of days to test things out. The Warranbungles, can't spell it. Joe our dog has to be put in a boarding kennel as no dogs allowed. It will be an experience for us. Cheers to all. x

A day on the Range

2009-10-25T22:40:00.000-07:00

This is a table decoration I made for an engagement party last week. Jodi took Emelia to the Jambaree (?), so I took over the job. There were ten of these for centre pieces and one big bunch for the cake table. Jod was pleased with my work. Now, I have put two of these on but what can you expect from a demented biddy. I meant to put another photo on but the heck, hey. The bloke who used this target put three .22 shots into the one hole. Not bad shooting. Won't happen again for a while.

It's worth seeing again don't ya reckon?

Here they all are admiring the work plus scoring. They are all a good bunch of blokes.

Had our AGM yesterday and I was nominated to be scorer. Ha, ha, now I'll have big scores. lol. Only joking. I will be getting at least one trophy at presentation night. There isn't a Veteran Ladies section so I have to shoot against women half my age or more. Not to worry, I'm there to enjoy myself and be with Ken.

SOME HANDICRAFT

2009-10-12T17:40:00.000-07:00

Can't start at the top. Damn. This is the little soldier in Santa's sack. Jodi loved him when she saw it.
Here is Santa with his sack of toys. I'm going to put some candy canes in it as well. Knitting these toys is really my first love. To see the little characters come to "life"
I knit dolls from 3inches to 24 inches high.

Now this is "Flossy". I made her fr0m scratch. The actual doll and her clothes plus her hair. She has a pony tail. The hair is sewn on strand by strand. She does have black shoes on but they are hard to see and also they are supposed to have laces. I'll do that later. I'm doing this for next year's Gunnedah show. I have another knitting project to do and it is beautiful. A little girl and boy singing christmas carols. It will take me about a month to complete but I'll have them up as soon as finished. I also have some baby knitting I have done for the show. The CWA ladies here, were shocked to see an outsider win the prizes last year.

This rose is my favourite, Oklahoma. The petals are so rich and the perfume is beautiful. These are what I want on my coffin when the time comes with a touch of baby breath through them. This bush is at my back window. Don't worry Jod if you can't get them, I won't know will I? :)

Thanks to the ladies who wrote on my blog. I didn't expect it.

I'M BACK ON THE AIR

2009-10-11T23:13:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Jodi, again, I'm back if anyone is interested.

I did this LO of my Father a little while ago now. This is a close up of the words I wrote. Journalling, it's called isn't it?

This photo was taken of my Father at a wedding with his third wife. I cut her out of it. It's the only photo I have of him.

And this is of my baby with his baby, Zane. Zane is almost 4 months old now an a beautiful baby. He is so much like his Dad. Jodi took this photo when Zane was only a week old.

Now, for some news on my pistol shooting! I have improved so much but only in the past week or so. I have won three trophies so far. I am the only woman shooting lately but my points have are deserving of a trophy so I don't feel so bad about accepting them on presentation night.

We have a visiting club from Gosford coming up this Saturday and there are women shooters. Ha, ha. Now we'll see just how good I really am.

Ken bought me a new .22 and it's great to handle. I actually shot some tens and nines. Very exciting for me.

Well, hopefully, I'll have some photos for you to look at next week with our visitors. Bye for now.

Thank you so much Jod for your undying patience with me and this bloody computer

SUNDAY ON THE RANGE

2009-02-21T21:52:00.001-08:00

This is how Ken and I spend our Sundays. Ken has been a pistol shooter for years but I am new to the game. Here he is shooting the 25 yard service match. See the smoke coming out the barrel of his pistol?

Here I am doing the same match. There are different stances in it. Lay down, sit, kneel, standing. Five shots in one target in so many seconds. Too hard to explain but great. This is me in action with my trusty 38. lol.

This is sitting as you can see, with my elbows resting on my knees.
I'm allowed to do that as I'm classed as a veteran.

And here I am about to lay down to shoot.

This is a target from an earlier match today, using a .22 pistol. i hit the black 7 times and only 2 in the white and one went somewhere. I scored 273, more then doubled my last score from a previous day.

I really enjoy this sport and the people are so good and understanding, especially Ken.

Will let you know how I progress. See ya.

BABY KNITTING

2009-01-31T19:46:00.000-08:00

Here is my lastest piece of knitting. A jacket and bootties for my new grandson(?). I think the stitch is called feather and fan.

A close up of the bootties. Awww!!! aren't they sweet.

And here is the jacket. I haven't done this type of knitting for a long time. I had about three inches of it done a made a blooper, threw thw whole pattern out, so had to undo and redo, so I decided to make the bootties first as they never had as many stitches. The jacket had 161 st to start off with until I reached the armhole as it was all done in one piece up to there and then divided for the two fronts and back. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out.

This LO is of my sister's granddaughter, Emma Rose. I've had the photo for a while now and only thought of a way to do it the other day. I tried to give the impression she was laying in a tree, hence the "rockabyebaby". The heading is "Princess Emma".

FOUNTAIN OF LOVE

2009-01-21T22:29:00.000-08:00

This fountain was in the grounds of where my nephew was recently married. It had rose petals floating around inside and the water trickling over the edges. Beautiful. I had to do a LO of it.

PHOTOS OF WOLLONGONG

2009-01-18T01:18:00.000-08:00

Here are some photos I took of Wollongong while down there. This is "whale rock' but looks more like a dolphin to me. It is near the Nuns' rock pool. Apparently, years ago, the Nuns would swim here. i couldn't get a photo of the pool as i would have fallen over the cliff. lol. Now, this one is quite obvious. There are five islands off the coast of Wollongong very close to each other. The island have names and this one is called, Toothbrush Island for obvious reasons. I'm not sure what the others are named but one could be rabbit or Goat. A lot of fisherman do their angling around these rocks.

This is a view of South Beach from the lookout. I did a lot swimming here when a kid. Never went out deep like these people though.

Ken spooted this pelican sitting on the lamp post and wanted me to take his photo. Each time I thought I had him face on, the little bugger would turn about.

I would like to have had more photos to show but.......Look Jodi, I worked it out how to do the writing to match the photo. Hip, hip, hooray!!

SISTERS

2009-01-14T19:46:00.000-08:00

Here we are with my baby brother, Robert and his wife, Sharon. I do believe this is the first photo of us all in many a year, ever since Jodi's wedding I think.
My sisters 'loved' Ken but as i told them, he's not for sale. LOL
I'll upload a couple of photos of Wollongong later. Cheers for now. Oh, all the best for the new year, whoever decideds to read this.

It's been a while since chatting on my blog but I have been quite busy. Truly! What with Christmas, visitors, etc.

Ken and I went to Wollongong last weekend for my nephew's wedding. lovely one too. We stayed with my baby sister, Jean and my eldest sister Jacqui. I hadn't seen them in almost three years, since moving back to the bush. It was good to catch up on the latest.

Here we are, all dressed up just before we left for the wedding at Albion Park.

AWARDS NIGHT

2008-12-19T22:58:00.000-08:00

Here is Ken's daughter, Lisa with her husband Jim and daughter, Jocelyn. They are coming up for Christmas and should be a really good time. Jodi and family will be here. It's a gathereing of the clans for ther first time. Here is Ken receiving his award from the Pistol club. He came first in the Veteran events. He'd come home each Sunday and tell me he never do so good, the fibber. I'm going to have a go at it next year but will go with Ken tomorrow to have a look.

This little loke was curled up with his Mummy at the Wildlife Park.We could actually pat them! The park is really a great to visit for a day and have a nice BBQ as all facilities are there.

THANK YOU MR RUDD

2008-12-17T12:23:00.000-08:00

i too would like to thank Mr Rudd for his generous "christmas" gift. It is a big help to all I'm sure. Ken and I have wanted a cuppacino machine so, we bought one. On the gift card we have written, 'to Margaret and Ken from Mr Rudd.' I can't take a photo of it as yet as the lady at Beta Electrical gift wrapped it for us so it is under the christmas tree.
I hope everyone enjoys the gift they received from the Government.

XBOX FANATIC

2008-12-10T19:52:00.000-08:00

Stu, my SIL, sent me an email, asking if I could make this for Josh's eighteeth. The email consisted of what looked like, a drawing in black and white.
So off to the newsagency I went to get graph paper to work it out. I had no idea the amount of crosses involved or the size of material. i said to Stu, I may not be very good with computers but I can sew. I can't find the photo he sent me, at present but I'm thrilled at the way it turned out. Anyone who has done cross stitching realises you start at the centre of the picture, not top to bottom. I have graph paper all over the place with crosses spelling words and a control box. I hope Josh likes it. It is stitched with a lot of love.

HANDYBAGS

2008-12-03T17:30:00.000-08:00

I wanted to do some more of these lovely little bags, so Ken bought the material, cut them out for me and i did the finer work on them. We definitely make a great team. They look so pretty in 'real' life. Jodi likes the stripe one best. I think Santy might deliver it to her but don't tell her, it's a secret.

KING PARROT

2008-12-01T15:52:00.001-08:00

Good morning all, Well, we finally had a visitor today. Ken built a bird feeder a while back now and also a birdbath to try to encourage the more exotic birds to our yard. We get plenty of sparrows and stalins but not this these ones. So, here is our first king parrot visiting. Isn't it beautiful! I'll have to do a LO.

2008-11-29T23:01:00.000-08:00

These are photos taken of Mullibah Lagoon later this afternoon. As you can see, the water has risen since Jodi u[loaded her photos of it. This is how quickly waters rise.

FLOOD waters

2008-11-29T22:37:00.001-08:00

No doubt you have seen Jodi's photos of Gunnedah in flood. I thought I would add one on as well. This is a photo of the two bridges just a bit out of town on the way to Tamworth. The waters hadn't gone over them but I think it will as the helicopters are still monitoring the rise. Flooding is very sad as you see homes with water in them. Jodi's shed was enough. The slushy mud is dreadful and I said to Jodi yesterday as we cleaned the shed out, 'imagine this all through your home.' I do hope no homes are affected. Roads are blocked in the bottom end of town as the water rises. I suppose that is why we are called the flood plains. As the poem says, Droughts and flooding rains. That's us for sure.

AT LONG LAST!!

2008-11-29T22:30:00.000-08:00

Ken and I drove up to the local lookout to veiw the flood waters and this little bloke was there in his tree having a nap. Ken has been here in Gunnedah for just over twelve months now and often tells people, "Gunnedah is suposed to be the koala capital of the world and I'm yet to see one." Well, he did today and was quite excited about it. The koala was more important then veiwing the flood waters for a while. People were there snapping photos of him/her so, he decided to wake up for us! Isn't he cute?

HANDYBAG

2008-11-29T22:26:00.000-08:00

This is the Handybag I made up the other day. It is very pretty. I purchased the kit from scrapwithv. Very easy to assemble.

STACEY the BRIDESMAID

2008-11-24T15:23:00.000-08:00

Stacey is Ken's granddaughter. (she is in the LO of the Pittman family) very grown up now though. Very pretty girl. She was very keen to scrap book whilst here for a few days but the interest died down when she returned home. Maybe I can get her interested when she sees this LO.

KEN'S FAMILY

2008-11-24T15:14:00.000-08:00

This is a LO I did yesterday of Ken's (my partner) family. I have met the girls who are young adults now but yet to meet Julie and Steve. They will be here for Christmas and also his other daughter and family. i am going to do a LO on them asap or I'll be in big s@#^* otherwise, so Ken said. I have a nice photo to use.
He is looking very forward to his girls coming here. Jodi, Stu, Emelia and Josh will be here as well and hopefully, Gary and Kell.

TED AND BEN

2008-11-21T19:38:00.000-08:00

Hey there Kosmo, Here is the photo Mum has been promising you. That's me laying down, the handsome one. Benny just won't stay put long enough to get a decent photo. He spoils my image, ha ha. Not sure if I told you this but Mum and Dad refurbished our home. They built us a lovely home but when the rain and wind came the other day, they were worried about us, getting wet and cold so, they put extra walls up and have shade cloth wrapped around our yard to keep the weather out. It is so snug now. No need to bark at night, not that we did, we just played in the gardens early of a morning waiting for people to get out of bed and feed us. They have come up with a way to try to keep us out of the gardens, they put our droppings in it!! Does keep us out though. Nothing worse then smelling your own,.@^! Anyway Kosmo, must go now. Say hi to Beaver for us.

WEDDING DAY

2008-11-21T19:27:00.000-08:00

I noticed that a few ladies do a LO of their wedding day so decided to do one of myself. I was 22 years old. I have changed a lot since then. This photo is 43yrs old.

LOVE ALBUM

2008-11-20T16:18:00.001-08:00

Not sure whaere to write here but I see it automatically pops up to the top. The album is starting from the back page but at least I uploaded it this time. Hi, hip, hip hooray! You are such a great teacher Miss Jodi, in more ways then one.

This is the LOVE album I completed yesterday. i am quite pleased with myself.

MY BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL

2008-11-14T22:10:00.000-08:00

This is a LO of my Jodi at 5 months old. Wasn't she gorgeous? I was so thrilled that she had curly hair. When she was born, like all other first Mothers, I thought I was the only person in the world to have a baby. The women would say, look at her, she thinks she's the only one that ever had a baby. I was so thrilled and happy with myself. I asked other Mothers who had given birth to their second or third baby, how could they love another baby as much as their first. They told tell me, you will see when you have your second and third. They were right, I had that same feeling again and again.

My mother in law came to the hospital in Narrabri, where we lived, to visit, with my husband. She nursed Jodi, admiring her and then she said, ohh, she's got Margaret's horrible big hands. That was a punch in the gut to me. If only she could see what those hands can do now. My Mum and step Father came up from Wollongong to visit us and Jodi was given all the praise that a normal grandmother could give her first granddaughter.

When we went back to the house after leaving hospital, I wasn't alone anymore, I had my darling little Jodi to take care of. Jodi has been a wonderful daughter to me and also my best friend from a very young age. I can honestly say, we have never had a fight in 40 yrs. I feel it would destroy both of us if we did. She is my inspiration and guiding light and I love her dearly.

I wrote a poem for her when she married Stuart. I will post it on next time.

I just hope I can upload again.

2008-11-13T23:37:00.000-08:00

Well, I managed to get a photo uploaded but not the one I wanted to. Poor Jodi, I am so frustrating to her. The trouble is, I know how to do it...must be the way I store the photos. I have printed all the info Jod to file, with all the other messages from you.
Well, it's been a busy day today, finishing off the painting. No more till after Christmas.
Will write later as have to get dinner ready. Bye

TESTING, TESTING, 123

2008-11-13T23:25:00.000-08:00

OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR

2008-11-13T01:19:00.000-08:00

Problems with uploading. The photos must be too big! I will conquer this in time.
Hence, no photos as yet. I will take them again tomorrow and see how I go. Jodi will be so so frustrated with me. I can do it, it's just that the photos must be too big as they do upload but won't come up on screen.
So, what did I do today? I helped Jodi decorated the Year 12 formal party at the services club. It took us 5 hrs! It looks really great. The kids should enjoy themselves, popping balloons at the end of the night or doing other things with them.
Then Ken and I went down town to buy some food. Yesterday, at Franklins, I saw these beautiful white Angel teddy bears. I couldn't resist, so I bought one. Only $10. Emelia is starting to collect teddies now so I bought her one today. She doesn't know I have it for her. I'll give it to her next time I see her. It's not a Christmas gift.
What my intentions are, when I can get photos uploaded is to brag about my kids when they were babies. "The ravings of an old woman." The kids are so beautiful truly. They are 5 months old in their portraits. They hang above my computer. I'm going to get a frame that holds 6 photos so I can put my grandkids up on the wall with them. i have 5 grandchildren and one on the way, so need a 6 berth frame. I like to look up and recall funny little things they did as babies. For starters, Jodi loved her dummies and she called them, her gi gis. G as in goat.
Don't know where she got that from but gi gi was the word. Matt always thought he was a man even before going to school and loved to work with the council men. Gary was a perfect baby. Beautful little boy. He loved his He Man dolls but if I called them dolls in front of him, boy would he go crook. They are men, not dolls Mummy, he would say. He still has them and the Castle Grey Skull Castle.
Well, that will do for tonight. Sorry no photos but will endeavour to get some on here. Nigh night all.

HEY KOSMO

2008-11-12T23:04:00.000-08:00

Hey Kosmo, My Aunty Jodi told me that you would like a friend, so here I am. My name is Ted(was Teddy because I was so cute and cuddly as a pup but now I'm grown up a bit). I have a little brother, Benny. We are lab cross with a silky but Mum seems to think our Mum slept around as Benny is nothing like me. He is more sausage dog with lab in him. Mum says that he is like thwe pltypus...all the pieces left over were put into him. But he is adorable and I love him. You will see when Mum learns to upload photos. She's still having a bit of trouble doing it.
Our Dad gave us our first of beer this afternoon and boy, is it yummy! Tried to stick my tongue in the neck of the bottle and almost had to smash it to get out!
Anyways, Kosmo, I'll be talking to you more. Just wanted to introduce myself to you. Ted

AT LONG LAST

2008-11-09T00:39:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm finally on my blog site, thanks to my DD Jodi who came to the rescue this afternoon. I wasn't expecting her either. She must have sensed I was having trouble. Nothing unusual for me whn it comes to computers and tricky things to do. Thank goodness these machines weren't around when I went to school. It was hard enough with Math and those pounds, shillings and pence.
Now I can tell who ever wants to read my ravings on. This will be so much fun. Lets hope I did this correctly first off. Sooo, here goes nothing. See ya. x

2008-11-08T22:42:00.000-08:00

COWGIRL

2008-11-08T20:37:00.000-08:00

Emelia came to visit last week to introduce us to her new horse, SOLO. He is beautiful.