Yesterday my darling little people let me sleep until 9am! Which was good considering I never went to bed until 3am - my husband is away - hence no restrictions on the time I spend in my sewing room at night.

So when I finally dragged myself out of bed I found the kids sitting huddled together playing their Nintendo's. 

This isn't so unusual as these toys are still very much a novelty - Santa was very generous this year. However, what made me feel all warm and fuzzy was ... on closer inspection I found that were posting to each other using the game's internal wireless 'chatroom' - check out their messages I hope you can see... how could I not be delighted with this?

Even Josh got in on the act ... I am sure that somewhere in that scribble he is pledging his undying love to his siblings!

Other than usual life stuff for the most part of this last week I have been machine quilting Jessica's Christmas quilt and yesterday should have been no different but a girl can only take so much of the same thing!

So I pulled out a pattern I bought sometime ago from Patchwork House in Hawthorn and threw together some sugarie sweet' scraps and stirred it all up and just look what we ended up with ...

Before...

After ... YUM!

I even had time to start a little something else ...

I plan to make a series of these pictures to decorate the walls of Jessica's bedroom.

But today I need to get back to the quilt ...

Regards Kellie

PS. I am having some trouble with the word processing ... I am sure I will get the hang of it ... surely it can't be this hard ... so sorry for the jumbled apperiance.