What a great week it’s been!!!

First of all a great big thank you for all of your wonderful birthday wishes - you're all so lovely and you made me feel so spesh!!! I've had the best birthday ever!!!

Finally I can come clean!! I was sworn to secrecy ….. couldn’t tell a soul!!! My gawjus DD1 Tahlia has been here in Brissy with me all week :o)!!! She had to go to South Australia for work for a week then she flew up to Brisbane for a week which was great cos I got to spend my 50th birthday with her!!! We went to lunch at a lovely restaurant on the bay – and since it was such a lovely day we ate outside :o). But today she headed back to London ….

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no tears though cos she’ll be back with her partner Luke for Christmas ….. YAY!!!!

Well I did manage 2 squeeze in 3 OPAM finishes for October …

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Some little covered notebooks … perfect for gift giving and so easy to put together :o). My first projects on my new Rosie!!

Before I go I thought I’d show you a piccy – since it’s Halloween and all – of my gawjus DIL Alicia (right) and a couple of her friends all dressed up as vampires for a Halloween party prettiest vampires I ever did see ;o).

What a lovely wedding!!

Well it's taken me a while to be able to write about it ... but Brooke's and Lewis' wedding was just beautiful!!! The boys looked very handsome in their kilts and I'm sure you'll agree Brooke was a gorgeous bride!! Tahlia (DD1) and the other bridesmaids were also a picture in blue :o) - here are Tahlia and Brooke at the reception - they've been friends for about 17 years, isn't that lovely :o). ... and I rather like this one of the two of us :o). I think Darryl and I scrubbed up pretty well for the occasion too ;o).

We had a lovely weekend and tomorrow will be Ross (DS) and Alicia's (DIL2b) wedding so I'm super-excited about that!!!

I got a wonderful surprise in the mail yesterday!!

The gorgeous Kris from Tagalong Teddies sent me a parcel of goodies!!! What a treat!!! Kris and I have shared some fun emails since 'meeting' in blogland and we did a little 'mini-swap' between ourselves since Kris didn't receive her parcel from the Secret Angel Swap.

Look at all the fabulous goodies she sent me!!!

The little bag is gorgeous, the stitching is so neat and even and the little cup and saucer on the stitchery has my name on it!!! Don't you also love my cute little heartshaped pocket - hmmm could they be Bronwyn Hayes stitcheries (???) yes, I think they are!! Kris knows I love her designs :o)!! I have different sorts of tea (mmm cinnamon, sounds yummy!!) and coffee (always a welcome pressy) and some Sharpie pens (Sharpies write on EVERYTHING I'm told!!) a lollipop (DD2 has her eye on that!!) a very pretty notebook and an adorable Chrissy Decoration with my name on it!!! Cool!!! Thank you so much Kris, you made my day!!!

As I mentioned before, we've got another big weekend ahead of us as my wonderful Son Ross' wedding is tomorrow!!!! I'm so looking forward to his and Alicia's big day I'll probably get no sleep at all tonight!!! They really are a perfect couple and I know they are going to be so happy together :o).

I'll be back real soon with piccies .............

So until then,