Cathron Country Designs

The Lucky winner is....

I have e mailed the lucky winner and asked them to let me know their pattern choices.

Thank you to all who entered........

New dolls.....

Here are my latest two cuties... I haven't thought of names for them yet... But I do love them.... I will write the pattern for them very soon as well... What do you all think......???????

                   Any suggestions for names would be fantastic.....

Blog Hop

My prize for the blog hop is 10 free e patterns from my e pattern range. All you have to do is join the blog hop and leave a comment on my blog. Click on the Blog Hop button in my side bar........ all info re the blog hop can be found there.

My full range of e patterns can be found on...

Please click on the names and it will take you to the pattern sites.

Pattern Mart

Go to the site, click on All Designers in the Search for Patterns on the top right hand corner....... I am listed under Cath Walker... click on my name and then click go and you will then be taken to all of my patterns.

 The Pattern Cupboard.

Go to the site, click on Our vendor shoppes. A box will drop down and I am listed as Cathron Country Designs. Click on that and it will take you to my patterns......

If you are the lucky winner... which will be decided by random generator... just check out my patterns and then  tell me which ones you would like.......

3 More days.....

Yes only three more days and the blog hop will start and I will list what my give-away will be. So make sure you return and join in all the fun.....

Would you believe we have been flooded in again... Yes twice in a week. Finally got out on Thursday morning and went under again on Saturday night. But thankfully the water was gone off the road by yesterday afternoon.

I am still stitching away here.... so no pictures yet to share... but this morning I have decided to paint so I will finish my latest two dolls and do some other painting that I have ready to go..... Tomorrow I will post pics of the two new cuties.....

New sidebar button.

You may have noticed the new button on my sidebar. Yes I am entering a blog hop. So please pop back on March 8th for more information on this wonderful quilting adventure.....

There will be lots of give-aways... so make sure you return and join in the fun......

Another memorable day.....

Recently we had another memorable day where I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing 22 years ago. It was last Monday... our baby turned 22... how time flies......

So what did we do to celebrate... went to the movies and had lunch at our favourite eatery in Ipswich Mall.

The movie we saw was Handel and Gretel Witch Hunters... Boy was it good... we loved it.

A bit of swearing in it and would you believe that Hansel, due to the fact that when he was taken by the witch as a child and was forced to eat a lot of candy... was a diabetic......

We also saw four trailers for upcoming movies   Jack [as in Jack and the bean stalk]    GI Joe..... Bruce Willis and the Rock... what more could a woman want.   The Last Stand with Arnold Swachnagger Spelt that one wrong for sure... LOL     and the last was the latest Die Hard movie... once again Bruce Willis... they all look fantastic and I want to see them all........

We are off to Toowoomba today to celebrate a combined party for our youngest and second youngest birthdays. We were going to have a lovely picnic in the park... but rain is forecast so it may be at our other daughter's place.

February is a busy birthday month for us... Our youngest grand daughter is on the 1st, my youngest sister is on 2nd, our baby is on 11th, our eldest grandchild is on the 14th... she turned 21, our eldest grand son is on 17th and so is my Mum and she is a twin...our second youngest is on 24th.

I am making some new dolls... Just have the faces to paint.... so pics will be on here very soon.

This doll Lacey Christina and Bindi is now ready as a pattern... $7 for an e pattern.

Well I am off to do a few other things on my computer before I have to get brekky and then off to Toowoomba.....

Finished something else.....,

Well I have made something totally different for me... it isn't pretty but is oh so pactical. Hubby has been buying bits and pieces for his camera that he got for Christmas and he has a really beaut camera bag with all these compartments to hold everything. What did I make for him... a little pouch to hold his remote for his camera. This way they don't just roll around in the bag......

He is rapped with it... I have to make some more similar to hold his new lenses.

Anna-Mae and her Toy Kitty...

This pattern is finally finished and ready for sale. $7 for an

e pattern.......

   Just e mail me if you would like one. Payment can be by Pay Pal.   Aussies can also pay by direct deposit.

Water has almost completely gone now... but boy does it smell..... we finally got out of our yard today... though I did go for a slide in the mud right in the gateway..... never hit it though... Lucky...

Have fun everyone.........

 

A Special Day....

It's only on special days that we can remember what we were doing years ago... and for us today is one of those special days. I know exactly what I was doing 41 years ago today...

Yes it is our wedding anniversary...... and boy have we changed... LOL

But from that day 41 years ago... we have now aquired all of this...... a wonderful family....

 

I wouldn't change one day of my life... even the downs shape us into what we become... and I am happy with who I am....

Seeing as we are flooded in, hubby and I spent the day yesterday pulling apart our very old photo albums... we will scan and digitize all of the ones we are going to keep. Some wonderful memories came flooding back... excuse the pun... LOL

Hubby is cleaning up the old photos in Photo Shop and they are coming up really good.....

Still flooded in here, but the sky is blue and cloud free so today at long last we can wash...... The laundry is so high a kangaroo couldn't jump over it.

I will enjoy our special day even though we are flooded in... I look on it as lake frontage so it makes me feel better. And we are dry, well kind of... LOL...  The water never came near our house... I thank the person who chose to place the house here... we have stayed out of the water in all of the floods.

Flooded in again.....

It was only a week or so back we were all watching the State burn up with devastating bush fires... now this week we are flooded.... again.....

I took these pics early this morning... since then we have had to move our car and big trailer as the water was getting very close. Water is now in the house across the road and where he parked his car on the embankment on our side of the road... well the water is now just about to get inside his car as well....... 

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I will keep an eye on the water level and if need be we will have to move more stuff to get our car and trailer further up the yard.

At least we went grocery shopping on Saturday morning so we are OK food wise... The poor cats are going stir crazy being inside all the time......

Thank goodness we haven't lost power so we can still be on our computers..... but everything is so damp..... feels like chicken and vegetable soup weather... so I am off to make some.......

I have finished another doll... a different kind of doll for me... I quite like her... will make a few adjustments before writing a pattern for her......

Plus I have also finished one for the magazine... Oh come on you didn't think I was going to show you all of her did you...??????

Time for me to do a water check and start the chicken soup....

It's been too hot to craft.....

But I have to get back into it all again..... Though we haven't exactly just been sitting around doing nothing. For Christmas Hubby got a new camera and Photoshop Elements 11. Then after Christmas we got him his own computer... I could never get on mine... LOL

Hubby has been teaching himdelf PS Elements 11 from a DVD he bought from the States... He is getting pretty good and this is only after a few days... I am so impressed... He did this.....

The doll that is sitting at Xavier's feet is the Kooser that his Mum had when she was little... yes I keep everything.... LOL

So everyday we are on our computers working away... I have been making bew siggy tags... I finally added my new drawing tablet to my computer and it is soooo good... I also have a new mouse a Razer... This mouse is fantastic........

Today so far it is quite nice... so the plan is to make two dolls today. One for Patchwork and Stitching and one is an idea I have to make either a pixie or a fairy doll.... I will see how she turns out... I have also written this one up as a pattern.....

Anna-Mae and her toy Kitty...... $7 for an e pattern. I need to buy new toner for my printer before I can have hard copies available... and trust me new toner will be around $800 for my printer... not cheap...LOL So at the moment it is only e patterns.....

Well I had better get off here if I am to get started on the dolls...

Have fun everyone.........