Late for the party!

Chooky was so kind and invited us all to her Chookshed's 3rd birthday party this past weekend...it was an actual and virtual affair... I understand too much champagne was drunk by some but it does seem some progress was made on different projects.
I was the one who kept getting to the door, then had to turn around and head off again - at one stage I thought I was never going to get there...
BUT I DID!
And I was the one still sewing while everyone else had gone home - however being Queen's Birthday weekend and today (Monday) a holiday, it still felt like I could get away with a bit of late partying!
Bits and pieces were the order of the day.....

First of all I finished off and bordered my March Calendar Bear
(Yes, we're a bit behind here in NZ!)

I made a few flying geese... a bit of an in between project to work on
when I'm bored hehe
Don't worry I don't get (ever) bored but sometimes it's nice to have a
change of scenery.

Woohoo cut out this new quilt!! Yummo French General....

...even made a start on it!

And I had a think about this project... it's our Tuesday Medallion Mystery at
The Country Yard. We set rules for the next round each month.
I'm supposed to be a month ahead of everyone else so
thought I'd better get onto it.

All in all it seems I got a fair bit done so I'm glad about that - thanks so much Chooky for having us all to visit...and Happy Birthday to the Chookshed!! Any one who wants to see who else was at the party, here's Chooky's link-up post and to see more hi jinx, just click *here*.

So what slowed my partying down? On Saturday I was at work at The Country Yard. The Northern Quilt Shophop has been on over the past few weeks - 8 shops took part; each made a quilt... people registered for their favourite/s and then had to visit each shop to collect all the blocks. It was a lot of fun..we met a lot of people! Our quilt was called Love in Paris - you can see it on Leeanne's blog.

And more of the weekend was taken up with farmwork... we had a VERY early start on Sunday morning... had our last milking for the season and took the girls out to the back of the farm. The track was a bit greasy with rain overnight but it's quite a nice walk.

Not such a good photo but the view was awesome!

A few stragglers

Their new home until calving time.

And a bit later on the fully laden milk tanker got stuck in our driveway, it's a little steep out onto the road and with that bit of overnight rain he slid sideways as he tried to turn. A long wait and an hour with the towtruck and he was finally on his way. (And our letterbox, fences and trees are still intact!)

Lucky it was the weekend as he was right across the road blocking it - there would have been 3 hours traffic backed up!

 This coming weekend we are having a few days away, which we are looking forward to..dairy farmers often have winter holidays when the cows are dry! It will be nice to catch up with a few people and of course my priority this week will be sorting out a new car crochet project :-)

 See you next time, 

happy creating!

 ♥