I'm Back!!!!

Well its been about 6 months since my last post and oh so much has happened!! So for a brief rundown here we go...We moved about 25km out of Wangaratta with the intention of purchasing 100acres to build. We had the opportunity to also live in the house from the people we were going to purchase the land from so in my last post back in July, we were packing to move. And we did move out there but after a month or so we were already questioning whether it was the right move. Matt and I had always pictured settling into the bush somewhere and just loving it, but although we still love the bush and camping etc, we realised to live on a farm day to day was not what we wanted, we are way to social and actually love having neighbours around us.

So after a serious lunch with Matt one day, we decided to pull out, luckily we hadnt signed anything and the people we were buying from hadnt started the subdivision so all worked out okay, although a bit stressful for us working it all out!! And then we had to move again, the second time in 3 MONTHS!!! With 3 kids and now a dog, we already had the cat.

But all has worked out okay in fact, fantastically now. We have down the complete turnaround and started looking at blocks we were looking at when we first moved here in a little town called Oxley, which is much closer to Wangaratta and has a great little community with lots of neighbours, a great restaurant and little corner milk bar the kids can ride to and wineries close by.

SO we have bought an acre and a half there, all settled before xmas, so it is all ours, yah!! And we are putting the finishing touches on our house plans at the moment and have signed with a builder to start building in a few months.

So in all this time of madness and emotional rollercoasters we had a busy time in Oct/Nov also with 60th's 80th, wedding, hens/bucks, moving, all in a space of 7 weeks!! So hence the way lack of blogging. But I have been managing sewing in between all this madness and so will start putting more pics up over the next few days.

Below are pics of the quilt I made for Matt's dad, Tony for his 60th birthday back in October 2009. He loved it which is great, so hard making quilts as gifts but I made it in colours to suit their bedroom in the beach house and it went perfectly.




So stay tuned for some more pics over the weekend, I haved finished new quilts for all my 3 girls, more bags, flower girl dresses and I am off now to finish Gemma's sunhat...
Until then, Ren xx