More Arrivals and Something Special...

Some gorgeous fabrics from the very generous Anna have arrived safe and sound, I will use these to make some Huggles for the cause. Thanks heaps Anna for the fabrics they are just perfect.

Another safe arrival came just yesterday all the way from the USA from Karen.

Isn't he just adorable...one very lucky little boy or girl in Ethiopia is going to fall in love with this little fellow.

Thanks so much Karen for such an amazing Monkey, he will be a blessing.

Ladies please keep those Huggles coming, we have just over a month left before you need to get the Huggles in to go in the prize draw... so far we have 4 people in the draw and 7 prizes...odds for a prize are pretty good.

I also have to say that my dear husband has been working very hard lately to save up for a little treasure for himself, but was very disappointed when yet again he was not paid properly (he works for QLD Health who has been having pay problems for over a year now).

He went off to work this morning thinking that all hope of getting himself an Ipad 2 was lost...But I am able to work wonders with the budget and managed to find exactly what he was after for a good price.

So when he gets home from work tonight after a long and very busy 12 hour shift guess what will be sitting on his desk...

I am sure he will be very happy, he deserves it...


Off I go now, to my sewing room to see what amazing creation I can come up with...no doubt it will be a little Huggle creation...


Happy Stitching everyone...

Amanda

Whoo Hoo...More Huggles Arrive

I am so thrilled ladies and gents...look at the cute little Huggles that have flown all the way from South Australia...they must be tired...OK well maybe they had a little help from Australia Post...thanks so much Pip for these Gorgeous Owls they are so beautiful and very unique I know the children will love them so much.

As Pip tells us on her blog a group of owls is called a Parliament...this implies that those in parliament are wise as owls ???

our tally now sits at 44 Down 56 to go ...how are you all doing out there with this challenge??

Remember to email me here for my address and give yourself plenty of time for the post to reach me before the last day of August.

Ladies if you live outside of Australia or find the postage on stuffed Huggles is just too high, please don't let it be a barrier for you, send me an email and we can work something out. I would not want anyone to miss going in the draw because of those reasons.

My Birthday Money from  my on-line CRAFT group

how did spend it??? well my parcel from the States arrived yesterday and I was so happy, don't you just love your postman when he brings you something nice...

Two gorgeous bag patterns, a yard of Swiss Chocolate Lovely Lotus Fabric and a fat quarter bundle of Espresso Swiss Chocolate fabrics by Amanda Murphy for Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

Awesome fabrics and I can't wait to try out the bag patterns...this may only happen over the school holidays so I better get a move along.

Oh and I still have birthday money left to buy more fabrics, when I get a chance to have a really good look and decide what fabrics I love the most.

Keep up the fantastic sewing you all are doing, I hope life is good for you as well.

Happy Stitching

Amanda

Huggles Arriving Already...

Wow some of you gorgeous Ladies are fast off the mark...I came home to find on my doorstep a parcel from the lovely Sandra with 6 Huggles hiding inside...along with a $10 donation toward stuffing...thanks so much Sandra I am extremely excited about all these darling Huggles going off to Ethiopia in a matter of weeks (10weeks even).

 I also received these gorgeous Teddies from Lucky and Maria,  7 from Lucky and 4 from Maria...Lucky (Leanne) is co-hosting this challenge so she has opted out of going in the draw (as do I) so more of a chance for others to enter...

I am so excited as these darling little Huggles are arriving on my doorstep, I can just picture the sheer joy on the faces of the children who will receive them.

thanks so much for being in this fantastic challenge and helping bring great big smiles to faces of very sweet little children.

Happy Stitching Ladies...

Amanda

Huggles for Ethiopia Prizes Galore...

Yep you read the heading right, there are prizes galore...
Myself and Lucky are having prizes for those lovely people who send in Huggles...

What is a Huggle you ask...a small soft toy made with love by you...
Pop over to my post explaining Huggles for Ethiopia so you know where these little darling Huggles will be going in September.


if you had a look at my last post you will read the details about the Challenge to make Huggles and have them get to me by the end of August...this post is about the lovely prizes and entry details...


Entry...
to enter for the prizes all you have to do is make Huggles and post them to me so that they reach me by the last day in August...Please be mindful of postage times, if you are overseas it may take 2 weeks to get to little ol' me so plan to send them at least 2 weeks before the draw closes...


At 6pm on August 31st Lucky and I will draw our prizes, we will have all entries in a bag and pull out the winners. you must pop in your email address with the Huggles so we can notify you if you are one of our lucky winners.


The exciting part is the number of times you are entered is entirely up to you...if you send 1 Huggle you have 1 entry...if you send 10 Huggles you have 10 entries and so on...
Please make sure you go to my previous post to read up about what sort of Huggles are good to do and even get a couple of patterns.


Don't worry if you have already sent me Huggles, I know who you are and you have gone in to the draw already..


Prizes...


You will need to go to Lucky's Blog to view her prizes, but as for the prizes I have up they are as follows...


1st Prize...

Tone Finnanger Book- Fabrics and a few Embellishments

2nd Prize...

Autumn Coloured fabrics

3rd Prize...

Black, White and Red Fabrics

Blog & Link Prize...


We will also have a prize if you Blog about this and link back to either myself or Lucky...you can also put a link up on Facebook which will get you entered in the prize draw...you must leave a comment on this post with your link so we can put you in the draw for that prize...which is...

Tone Finnanger Book...

Well I am pretty sure I have covered everything, but in case I have missed something I can always pop back here and add a bit...


Thank you ladies and Gents out there in Blog land for being so giving of your time and talents to make these Huggles for such gorgeous little Children who so deserve a small token of Love from us...


Happy stitching...

Amanda

A Season of Huggles- A Challenge.

June, July and August are going to be Huggles season for me I have decided to have a challenge to try to add to the Huggle numbers for our Ethiopian Compassion children.
if you are not sure what I am talking about have a look at this post.


There will be prizes...


Starting on the first day of June...
There are a couple of ways to do this, you can either make up as many complete Huggles as you can and post them to me, or make them up fully (including face) and send them to me without stuffing and I can stuff them here.
every person who makes them and sends them goes in the draw for a prize at the end of the challenge...
I will have 3 prizes...More on this later.


On the sidebar of my blog you will see a tally for how many Huggles we have so far and how many we need...please keep an eye on this, I will put the numbers up as I receive them.


I am also going to have a Huggle-Fest in the near future, a get together to sew together some Huggles...keep an eye out for this too, you may not be in the area but you may know someone who is and would like to meet up and sew for a cause.


Keep an eye out for future posts regarding this challenge.


to sign up please leave a comment on this post or if Google is still playing up please send me an email here... once at my profile click on the email word below the picture to send me an email.


Ladies Please think about doing this challenge, it will help some lovely Compassion children in Ethiopia. there will be many pictures of your Huggles being adored by the children after September.


Happy Stitching

Amanda

New Fur-Baby

This is "Cosmo" our new Fur-Baby...isn't he adorable

Cosmo is 8 years old and needed to be re-housed because his loving family moved out to the country and their home had no fencing. they were very sad that they had to leave him with family members here in town, but the family in town already had 3 dogs so it was an impossible situation...We had been looking for a dog for ages  but waiting for the right one to come along.

Cosmo is a purebred Miniature Poodle and has an amazing personality, He was considered a "Special Needs Dog" because of some quirky little behaviors. when alone he becomes very distressed and cries and yelps...He fits in well because we have someone home 99% of the time. 

the photo above shows Cossie before his haircut on Tuesday have a look at him in the photo below...a little bit of a difference.

We are so happy to have Cosmo as our baby, he has a loving personality that really fits in so well with each of our family members even the Cat "Aetius" who has always felt he is the king of the house...when they first met Aetius was a bit put off but by the end of the first week He was quite used to Cosmo and now they close to sitting together on the couch to cuddle and warm up together.

Thank you for dropping by and meeting Cosmo, I will post more pictures as time goes by and Cosmo has more adventures with us.

Big Hugs

and

Happy Stitching

Amanda

Mothers Day

Our church decided to cancel the second service on Mothers Day and instead hold a morning tea for our Ladies. It was a ticketed event so the Ladies had to get their tickets in advance, but some were still available at the door.

The first service was fantastic and then we flowed out to the cafe for our special Ladies event. we provided the usual coffee and tea for after the first service, but in a different location to normal, in the Foyer.

What a fantastic morning we had at church for mothers day, a group of our men were our waiters for the morning, they served us well. they were dressed in black pants, white shirts with gloves and a pale pink cloth draped over their arms (just like real waiters) to mop up any spills I guess, I am not really sure of the original function of the cloths for waiters, I assume it was a tea towel used to mop up messes or carry hot plates etc But for aesthetic reasons we had them, I sewed them up on Saturday, the day before Mothers Day...I have sore shoulders from hunching over the machine...

Our waiters lined the entry and guided us to our tables as we arrived. they all looked very presentable...Did I mention even some of our Pastors and Elders were waiters...

If you look behind our smiling waiter you will notice the Band that we had playing for a good part of the morning, they sang quite a lot of classics from the 50's and 60's even some Elvis, which went down very well with the Ladies.

This was a morning tea our Women's Ministry put on for Mothers Day  and we had around 40 Ladies who had never been to a church before, or not to our church.

We had 150 women who had such a fantastic time,  we ate scones and sipped tea or coffee that was served to us by our lovely waiters.

We had our "Hands Up" people there (deaf community) they were served by one of their own wonderful Men who has the ability read lips as well as sign, which was quite helpful for us to be able to serve the Ladies well. you can see the interpreter signing the message to the "Hands Up" group.

Our guest speaker was Kelly Chelsom from Perth in WA, she was so amazing. 

She spoke about a slogan she has seen often in Asia "same same but different"  which tied in to life with her children and others. 

She shared about her boys and their personalities and how we treat people by the same measure of love but differently to suit their personality types. for instance, how you discipline a child who is tender hearted is different to how you discipline your head strong child.

she also talked about Grace and Mercy and how it is disappearing from society and how we need to bestow those gifts upon our fellow man...of course she is perfectly correct.

What a fantastic morning for so many beautiful Ladies...I am so grateful for the efforts of many people including the Maitre de  my Hubby...

If you are celebrating Mothers Day in your country today (or yesterday for us) I hope you have a fantastic Mothers Day and that you will be blessed beyond reason.

Many Hugs and Happy Stitching

Amanda