Altanta

We had an uneventful flight to Atlanta, and settled into our beautiful historic hotel on the 18th floor in the middle of town for the next 2 days.

Can you believe after Houston we still managed to visit 4 quilt shops in the area and found something to buy at 3 of them lol.

Visited the beautiful botanical gardens where they had a scarecrow exhibition, it was just fantastic.

Headed off to Savannah stopping at the "Whistlestop Cafe" for fried green tomatoes for lunch, it was soooo pretty driving off the main highways.

Arrived at Savannah just on dusk, it looked amazing, big oak trees backlit by lanterns with Spanish moss hanging from them. It was so interesting as it is such an old city, there are no tall buildings, maybe 14 stories would be the highest.
Our hotel room is a lovely corner room with balcony and a view of a beautiful church across the road.

Please visit again soon as went stopped off at Moultie and then on to New Orleans.

I will have to bore you with a few pictures from the AQM in Melbourne a couple of weekends ago in between my trip.

Well I better move as I am in the designing mood and have started a new project this morning. Will give you a peek prview of that as soon as I have something to show you in colour...lol.

1. Take care chat soon.

Cheers

Kerry x

Houston

Hi Everyone

We finally made it to Houston.

OMG What a fair !!!!!!! HUGH !!!!!!!

Marg and I arrived Thursday afternoon, dropped off our bags at the the hotel and off to the show. We were there for 4 hrs and only did 2 aisles.

Spent all day Friday and Saturday spending up BIG....OMG....the antique quilt stands, there would be at least 8 of them with a variety of quilts and prices.

Marg ended up with 2 gorgeous 1930's quilts and I ended up buying 3 ,the price on the Suffolk puff quilt, I just couldn't walk away, two were 1930's and one a 1890's.

...Yummy...

The Market.

Two of my Antique Quits

Marg in bed with one of her Antique Quilts.

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.