What a bargain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well after many un returned phone calls to my sewing machine repair man to whom has my singer 7422, i have decided to go and buy another sewing machine, so i could finish my 2 quilt tops i have on the go.
much to my suprise i went to a garage sale at the retirement home in boyne island, i picked up a bargain, i found a Bernina 530-2 shes 54 years old but she runs like a dream and the stitches are perfect in which i also got 12 different feet for the machine, and I LOVE the fact that it doesnt have a foot pedal, it has a arm that you move to the side with your right leg. it is fabulous!!!!!!!! for the bargain price of $15 i got it home set her up and she sewed perfectly for me so i was able to continue with the quilt top for my nephew, he is 13 years old and he loves all the quilts i have made and was constantly asking me when are you gonna make me a quilt.
well after a breif chat with mysi from quilt chat on what type of pattern i would use that would suit camoflague fabrics. Mysi then sent me a email with a quilt top she had designed i presume on EQ.
well i have almost got the top finished and i am soooooooooo over the moon with how this machine runs.

my top 25 fav songs on my ipod.

ok peoples remember that i am only turning 28years old in july so dont pass too much judgement on my choices in music,.
do tell me what is your top 25.

25. Bull Roarer - Midnight Oil

24. Black eyes blue tears - Shania Twain

23. Wrapped around your fingers - The police

22. Alone - Heart

21. Walking on the moon - The police

20. Rain - Dragon

19.(glad im ) Not a kennedy - Shona Laing

18. Heart of stone - Cher

17. Bette Davis eyes - kim carnes

16. We dont need another hero - Tina turner

15. I cant tell you why - The Eagles

14. Money cant buy it - Annie Lennox

13. Dont stand so close to me - The Police

12. Island in the sun - weezer

11. Cold - Annie lennox

10. Victim of love - The eagles

9. Stand near me - creed

8. how you remind me - nickleback

7. sarah - starship

6. burn for you - john farnham

5. suspicious minds - elvis

4. WITCHY WOMAN - the eagles ( i sing this song as loud as i can ) lol

3. Im on fire - Bruce springstein

2. One last breath - Creed

1. ONLY YOU - KEITH URBAN ............ this song just makes me melt.

some ink

well peoples following the trend of cat scratch diva i too have my share of ink, i would like to show you the following picture of a tattoo that i have at the moment.The first one is of my baby Griffin,which is on my left arm shoulder/bicep.
some of you may ask what is a griffin? well here is a breif description ""...originated in Greece and has the front legs and head of a giant eagle, but the body and hind legs of a lion. Like sphinxes , griffins are often employed by wizards to guard treasure. Though griffins are fierce, a handful of skilled wizards have been known to befriend one. Griffins feed on raw meat." At times, it is portrayed with a long snake-like tail. In some traditions, only the female has wings. Its nests are made of gold and its eggs resemble agates. Pliny believed griffins came from Northern Russia; Aeschylus thought they originated in Ethiopia; and Bullfinch wrote that their native country was India. In its body, the griffin is blessed with the speed, flight, and penetrating vision of the eagle and the strength, courage, and majesty of the lion."

i will show other pictures in future posts.

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

i have had a terrible week peoples!
my second love of my life has crashed and burned!

my 2 year old singer 7422 after putting 4 rows of my pineapple blossom quilt top together decided the light was going to die, so i emailed singer to find out how much it was going to cost me for a new blub , the man there informed me that i cant just replace it myself as it is a LED with a circuit board on it has to be replaced by a techinican :( i thought to myself this morning i will plug it in and see if it really has just blown or just playing up. when i plugged her in all the lights on the left side of the machine beeped at me and now will not sew or anything.
i rang the shop that sold it to me and he said no it isnt under warranty anymore and they no longer have their shop his wife now works for LINCRAFT and he still does servicing from home, i told him what it was doing or rather say NOT DOING, and he said he has never seen a singer with out a normal bulb in it before, needless to say he said if it is in the wiring it is going to cost me a fortune to get it fixed .
but never the less i am dropping it off to him in the morning to see what he says.
do i get it fixed ???? considering the machine cost me $400 brand new or do i just save up and buy a new machine? if so what brand of machine do i try next as the one i had before my singer was a janome and i burned it out in 12 months. so i wont try a janome again and i dont really want to go computerized again as they seem to be more expensive to fix.

on a nicer note it was my babys 4th birthday today so we had cake and sang songs all day , and i let her run amuck all day, she is so tired from it all she went to sleep at 5pm this afternoon.

MANDY MURPHY??????????????

mandy murphy are you still in the world of blog?? i was looking back to my first post and noticed a message in there from November 2007 that i didn't know i had.
If you are out there mandy murphy please contact me again if you still have problems with you pinnock. i will photo copy the instruction manual for you and send it to you ! please forgive me i don't know how your message had slipped past me.
just slip me a message with a email address and i will get back to you as soon as i can . thanks heaps hefty.

dust 'n' oil

well after many many many weeks of not sewing anything other than curtains and taking up pants for dd.
i dusted off my machine gave it a kiss and gave it a clean and a small oil. and i went to work.
i changed my blade on my cutter. pulled out my ONE box stash , i kid you not, i have no excessive fabric collection, (not that there is anything wrong with fabric collections) i just feel i havent been quilting long enuf to obtain a large collection or do i ever feel i have enuf money just to go buy fabric. I am a NEED only person. As with anything in my life i am happy with just basics and happy with what i have got, as there are some out there that dont even have what i have.
I'M far from being rich or well off , most of the time we have had only enuf money for bills and basic groceries, to get us thru to the next pay day.

Any way back to the thing i was actually posting about.
i decided to finally start a new quilt, and because i rarely have much SCRAP fabric left , i decided to cut 2inch wide strips and 3&1/2 inch square calico squares. any ideas yet as to what i am making?
well to put you all out of your misery i will tell you.
THANK YOU TO BONNIE HUNTER AND QUILTVILLE i have been looking at this pineapple blossom pattern for almost a year and finally decided to tackle it.

As life has been pretty hectic lately and things dont always go as they seem or as planned. I have come into the fortune of some ME TIME cause, Now it is just me and dd here at home i dont have to wait hand and foot on a pain in the butt male anymore.
just how long will i get this ME time for i dont know, depends on how long the Male takes to decide he wants to come grovelling back cause he doesnt want to wash his own clothes and look after himself anymore.
and with that , if that time comes, I WILL be laying down the rules that i WILL have ME time and the world does not revolve around HIM.

I will get off my soap box now lol and yes i seem a bit cryptic at the moment im not one to just spill my guts so if you can figure out my cryptic messages then you will be on the same page, right track, with me. lol anyway

I got 32 9inch blocks done so far dont ask me how many more i need to do cause i dont know , i always just keep making them until it looks like enuf and then i stop and join it all to gether , this one is for my second sister she has wanted a quilt for a long time, and i do think she will be the most grateful for having one of my quilts as she sees with her own eyes how much work goes into one.
i have offered to teach her basic quilting and she said Nope not my cup of tea, she doesnt know how i have the patience to sit for hours and sew when i cant stand hearing my dd whine and whinge at me for 20 mins about something.

she laughs and said maybe i should have gave birth to a sewing machine not a baby. lol. sewing machines dont have attidudes or voices or tantrums in the shopping centre. sewing machines dont whine at you , im bored, im hungry, im sick. GEE I REALLY LOVE MY SEWING MACHINE.

heres some pictures of the crochet blanket i am making and some of the pineapple blossom blocks that i have completed.
have a good one !
cheer's heft.

I'm still alive and kicking.

Hello world, Yes I'm still alive and kicking, I'm still in one piece and still in the same place lol.
Things here are OK, the only thing i have been sewing lately is curtains. and gee i think my singer desperately needs a service before it gets to the point of no return.
She doesn't seem to like rubber backed curtains at all.
And she has also been sewing denim and corduroy as it is coming into winter here and my dd whom is 4years old in June, has put on a considerable amount of weight she now takes a size 7 pants around the waist and the only problem with that is she is still the height of a 4 year old so i have to cut off about 3 inches off the bottom of all her long pants and jeans :(. funnily enuf the doctors inform me that she is not obese , thank god! but he did say how ever that if she gets sick during winter it wont knock her around as much as the average kid cause it wont harm her to not eat for a few days the doctor laughed and told me she has plenty in reserve for her body to survive on. I guess that should make me feel better but compared to all the other little kids around here she is allot tubbier than the rest of them.
I guess if i don't let it get out of control she should be fine, I am trying to get her to eat healthier food but that is a task in itself. I'm thinking if i maybe plant a veggie garden that mite encourage her to choose the better foods with allot of my pushing.
darling lily also decided to cut her own hair when i was out hanging out the washing on the line 2 weeks ago and mascarared her hair right in the front i was so furious i almost cried cause she climbed up on my office chair and onto the computer table to get my scissors then she cut her hair and also decided to cut the cats hair as well not badly on the cat but she informed me that the both needed a hair cut and because she saw me cut auntie lou's hair she wanted hers cut too.
apparently i did it when i was a kid which isnt hard to belive because all my barbie dolls had crew cuts now i know why my mother also told me when i was about 8 years old i had a facination for cutting the bottoms of my t-shirts so i hope i dont have to deal with that one when she gets older.
Love always Tracey.