The Enemy's 21st Pawty!

Hello Peeps,

The Enemy is writing today's blog post because on Sunday it was his 21st birthday (in dog years!)

Woof! I turned 21 on Sunday and The Mother and Miss H gave me a wonderful pawty.

I was sooo embarrassed because they dressed me up as a bee!  (I wasn't allowed to be in my birthday suit...)!

 

 

There was lots of lovely food for the humans that I wasn't allowed to eat!!!  Miss H made a chocolate cake, Master I-Zee, Kit Kat's brother, made brownie and...

...the marvellous Miss Bee made cupcakes of ME!!!

Do you see the resemblance?!

I think Pawty's are fun! But Miss H and the Mother need lessons on how to make a yummy tasting cake for dogs - I wouldn't touch the one they made for me! Not even when it was coated in yoghurt and treats.

 

Love From

Baa. xxx and The Enemy!

Saturday Show: Happy Days

Hello Peeps,

Today's quilt is one the Mother made from Clover &Violet's free embroidery tutorial, found here!

Aren't the colours sooo pretty!

This is one of my favourite ones. Isn't it very coolio?!

The Mother really enjoyed stitching all the beautiful stitcheries.

The Mother decided to hand quilt it with dark blue thread.

The Mother used the fabric on the right for most of the backing but it wasn't quite large enough, so she used a strip of the pink.

 

 

Love From

Baa. xxx

Queen's Birthday Long Weekend

Hello Peeps,

Last weekend was a special long weekend to celebrate the Queen's birthday, even though Queen Elizabeth was born on the 21st of April, which means that Monday was a holiday! YIPEE!

So on Monday the Boss, the Mother, Miss H, the Enemy, and I went for an adventure.

We had a lovely bush walk through the New Zealand bush and found lots of lovely things.

Look at the orange mushrooms.

This tall tree is a totara.

There was a helpful post with lots of information about the tree.

The Mother thought that the moss looked so pretty on the trees.

It was soooo lovely looking at the tree canopy.

This flower is a manuka flower and is where bees get manuka from to make manuka honey. 

There was this lovely horse on the farmland next to the bush who followed us for a while.

Love From
Baa. xxx

Saturday Show: Garden Fancy

Hello Peeps,

Today's Show is one that the Mother has finished in the last few weeks. She started it about 6 years ago and is sooooo happy to finally have finished it!

Isn't it lovely?!

 

It is just a simple square-in a square-in a square. But the Mother just loves it simplicity and coolio fabrics.

 

The Mother found this pretty pink fabric to use for the binding. 

This is the coolio backing that she used.

 

 

Love From

Baa. xxx

Seal Of Approval!

Hello Peeps,

Yesterday (Monday NZT) was VERY exciting. There were two fire engines, several firefighters and a couple of policemen across the street from our house. Our road (which is a reasonably busy road) was closed off. Some of our neighbours across the road and a few houses down were trapped in their house for over half the morning... why?

Well, because a fur seal had wandered up from the estuary and started sunbathing in front of their front door! This is incredibly unusual because the estuary down the road from us is quite far from the ocean.
Miss H arrived at the scene while the firefighters and police were still working out what exactly to do and who to call. So she was able to get as close as the cameraman in the above picture.

She took this coolio picture. Then sent it into the NZ Herald - and guess what? They used it, not only on their website...

 

...but also in the printed newspaper! Miss H feels (slightly) famous. Heehee. 

Later on that morning the firefighters and police used fences and wooden boards to get the seal back to the estuary, and hoped that he would then go back to the sea on the high tide (around 4 p.m.). The Boss (who had been at work during all the excitement) went out in the pouring rain and driving wind at 7:30 to check if the seal was still there - unfortunately he was.

But the excitement didn't end there! At 3 a.m. today (Tuesday NZT) the seal was spotted at the car wash which is located around the road a bit and behind the house he was found at yesterday. Department of Conservation and the Auckland Zoo have now taken him to a secluded beach about 30 minutes away.

With all the seal excitement Miss H just HAD to stitch up a cute seal. He will be used as a quilt label one day. 

The Mother has al these lovely fabrics she is going to use in her next quilt. She just hasn't gotten around to cutting them up yet... so I said I would cut them for her... I can't see why she didn't want me to!

 

Miss H has been sewing her postage stamp quilt together. She is hoping to have the top done by the end of the week... maybe...

 

Love From

Baa. xxx

 

Saturday Show: Flutterby

Hello Peeps,

The rain is pouring down outside and it is dark and cold downstairs. So Miss H had to photograph today's quilt on her window-seat (after removing the cushions and quilts on it!).

I think the quilt look great hung over the seat with me.



The Mother quilted two of the coloured lines with loop-de-loops, one with flowers, and one with hearts. She enjoyed practicing her machine quilting which she is not good at and always needs practice with.



Look! There's a pretty butterfly flying around on the coin quilt.

You would never know that these coolio butterflies were added to fix up a mistake. Heehee - shhh... don't tell the Mother I told you the secret...

 

This is the Mother's favourite binding. She has used it to bind lots of different quilts.

Love From
Baa. xxx

A Posy, a mug, and a bear.

Hello Peeps,

It's late autumn here in New Zealand but...

...the flowers in Grandma's garden are looking lovely.  

 

Miss H made a pretty little posy of purple, red, and white flowers.

 

Several weeks ago, The Mother found her "beary" special Harrods mug had been broken while in storage. She was most upset.

 

After thinking about what to do with it for awhile she finally decided to glue it back together. Sadly it can't hold liquid anymore.

 

But I am a clever sheepie and I solved the problem for the Mother and gave one of her handmade bears a new home.
 

Now he sits happily in his special mug and sniffs his daffodil.

 

Love from

Baa. xxx