Hi everyone

Been to Orlando and the Kennedy Space Centre, a road trip down to Miami and Key West.

Miami is HUGH, HOT and HUMID. A very colourful city but way to warm for me.

Down to Key West you go over 42 bridges one being 10mile long, I did count them on the way back...lol. That was well worth the visit, a very cute town.

Flew into Las Vegas staying at Caesars Palace on the 22nd floor over looking the pool area, 7 pools all different shapes and sizes.

Saw "Cher" and "O" shows and took a helicopter ride down into the Grand Canyon. All amazing'

Down to San Diego, did the zoo, park and sea world. The panda at the zoo was so gorgeous I have posted a picture of him just laying back eating bamboo.

Off to Los Angeles tomorrow.

My sister arriving here Wednesday morning,so packing my hubby for home Wednesday night,

Sis and I will be flying to Houston Quilt Market for 3 days....

So until next time take care.

Cheers

Kerry

We made it to the USA.

Hi everyone.

I am sitting in a hotel in Orlando as I speak. Ahh !!!!!!

Graham and I arrived in Los Angeles safely on Thursday morning arriving 1 hour earlier then scheduled as we had a good tail wind as a result of the tsunami, so the captain said.

The flight was fine and not near as bad as I thought it would be, I just sat back and enjoyed watching a few movies, reading my book and had a nannying nap.lol.

After arriving at the motel in LA for the night we jumped onto a tour bus of downtown LA, through Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, The Grove, Hollywood, Chinese Theatre, Walk of Fame, Sunset Strip, Venice Beach (we were a little early to see all the muscles...dam...lol) then to the Farmers Market for a light lunch then back to the motel to bed as the jet lag was catching up with us.

We caught an earlier flight out Friday morning to Orlando.

Had a quick look around the Disney Market last night, what an amazing place for kids, then over to Kennedy Space Station today, it was well worth the visit BUT how amazing would it be to actually be there when they launched one of those space shuttles....now that would be a day to remember,amazing.!!!!

Off to Miami tomorrow by car for a few days, one of those days spent driving down to

Keys West.

Well I better sign off before I bore you all to tears...lol.

Will keep you up to date. I will add a few photos the next time, so until then take care.

Cheers

Kerry x

Not long to go now.

Hi every one.

I hope you like the look of my blog....lol...

I was over the black look and have lightened up in both the over all look of my blog and my new designs as you can view down the page....lol.

I am off to America on the 1st of October for a month on holidays, I will spend the 1st 2 weeks touring around Orlando, Miami, Las Vegas, San Diego and Los Angeles with my hubby then I pack him on a plane for home and greet my sister in crime for another 2 weeks !!! yippee !!!.

Marg and I will be spending up big at the Houston Quilt Market for 3 days then fly up to Atlanta and work our way back down through Moultrie and New Orleans.

I am getting very excited and nervous at the same time....

I am taking my laptop with me and hope to find the time to keep you informed with photos of my trip.

This has been in the planning for over a year and an extension of my 50th birthday in January....what a year and what a birthday, wonder what they have planned for my next one...lol.. this will be hard to beat.

Please take the time to scroll down and have a look at my latest designs and what I have been up to.

Take care until next time.

Cheers Kerry

xxx

12 more sleeps.....OMG.....lol

Warrnambool Workshop

Once again I spent the weekend down at Fragrant Cottage in Warrnambool doing "All My Santa's" Quilt Christmas Workshop with a great bunch of ladies.

On the Saturday we did fabric painting on the top panel of my quilt, Sunday the Applique trees in varies forms of Applique.

My passion is needle turn applique which is very time consuming, so it was very interesting to see the ladies whipping up their blocks on the sewing machine using blanket stitch applique and a "little" raw edge applique.

On the way home from Warrnambool between Camperdown and Colac I just had to stop and take a photo of the "Dry Rocks Walls" which run for miles along the sides of the road edging the paddocks.

I know all you crafty people out there can appreciate the skill, time and labour in these beautiful fences.

New Projects

"Cuppillar"

To your left.
I have finally finished stitching the last in my bed runner series and sent it off to the quilters.

"Birds of Paradise"

Thanks to the ladies who helped in the naming of this quilt, the birds are appliqued on last so its a fun bright, cheery, easy quilt to make.

Hope you like it .

"Ducks on Parade"

In this quilt there are nine appliqued and stitched ducks in 5 different styles

and colours. Once again its a funky, bright, fun quilt to do.

They are both at the quilters and will be launched at the AQM in November in Melbourne.

Workshop

A couple of different projects we worked on.
All working hard...lol.. I had the whip out.

Hi everyone.
What a cold & windy old day today. I have been busy doing the bookwork today for our other "Real" business !Yuk! I hate bookwork but it does help pay the bills I suppose...lol.

While I am on my break, thought I would pop in here and show you a couple of pictures from a workshop I did on the weekend with a great bunch of ladies in Ballarat called the "Sew & Sew's". I had 15 ladies in a class doing fabric painting on a variety of different projects. They all completed their projects and were very surprised how easy and what fun it is to do.

Heading down to Warrnambool this weekend for a workshop at "Fragrant Cottage" . We will be doing "All My Santa's" quilt.

I will post a few pictures next week from my weekend at Warrnambool.

Until then, take care.