TURKEY DAY

To all my friend celebrating Thanksgiving day ... I hope you have a great day with family and friends.

We all have so much to be thankful for even if we are living in a different country.

Hope you like my Turkeys - I remembered I had these photos of two notice board displays I did at a gathering some years ago, they were done in paper sculpture quite large and lots of fun to make. 

Must dash.

A HOOT OF OWLS

A hoot of owls.......I thought that was a good title but I am told a collection/gathering of owls is a Parliament.... sounds a bit serious for this lot!   These owls are on the draw strings for the bags to be made up shortly for our junior embroiderers. Their bags have 4 outer pockets and the girls have been stitching the one owl shape using different embroidery stitches on each. I have made the owls in colours they have chosen to go with their stitching.

If anyone would like the patern and instructions email me and I am happy to share it with you.

 Next project.... its still in the planning stage, will share it with you soon.

STOP PRESS- LITTLE OWL

BIG NEWS-
Little owl manage to fly to Atlanta in time for halloween,
 I have received information on the arrival of Little owl, despite the NZ Post office stating he would take 2 weeks to make the journey, Heather has informed me little owl  arrived on Saturday 29th in time to have a rest before sitting ( hanging) on her halloween tree.

Happy Hallows everyone I see the children already on the street here door knocking. Tomorrow All Saints Day is the Special Day in our household.

THE LITTLE OWL IS FLYING TO........

The little Owl is flying to....... well not quite yet he needs to kinow where to go to.
Caitlin checked in on the blog yesterday after Junior embroiderers and declared the winner is .........................................geeky Heather as she is the only one to have completed all the requirement. and those were to leave a comment on the posting and also be a follower of this blog. so Heather contact me with a name and address and little owl will be on his way to you.

 It is school holidays here and we had an extra catch up day for the Junior Embroiderers before the start of the new term, one of the girls was followed in by a younger sister who had a big question to ask?
"How old do you need to be to join  and learn to stitch? " Maree who helps with juniors calls everyone poppet and "H" was truly a little poppet. I asked how old she was and with big pleading eyes she said her age was 6yrs. I turned and asked Caitlin my grand daughter who was at the table stitching what age was she when she started. The reply was "5 years old " So "H" is starting next week. Here is the earliest photo of Caitlin stitching.... she is now 14 and has never lost her love of stitching, another time I will share some of her work that she has stitched over the years.

TRICK OR TREAT ?

I have had a lot of fun making tiny felt owls. and decided to make a few "Halloween Owls" so named for their dark colours!!!  the one shown above has gone to Canada, another is about to fly off to its new home and I have a third one needing a new home to go to.
If you would like to have that one, become a follower and leave a message here. I will ask Caitlin to do a draw for me on October  18th when the junior embroiderers visit, and if the postman does his part the owl should arrive at its new home in time for Halloween.