Quilting Owl

This has not been a good month for me!  I was sitting at my desk in the studio last Sunday designing a new project for my Sunday Stitchers and things were not working too well when I suddenly got a new idea.  Well I reached down to pick up a new piece of paper from my recycling heap when the chair took off and I crashed into the desk.  The next thing I remember was waking up lying on the floor in extreme pain.  Peter eventually found me and rushed me into the Emergency Department at Cairns Hospital where I was well looked after.  After a day and a half he got me home where I will hopefully make a full recovery once I get over the shock and pain of it all. As I said this has not been a good month and I lost another friend to cancer - rest in peace Wendy. Till next time Frances

I have spent a lot of time over the last few days looking through some very old photos and picking out the ones with my sister Anne in them and thought I would put up some of them as a tribute to her.  The first was taken in the hallway of our old family home just before she married John with me as one of her bridesmaids. Here she is sitting on the front fence at home with our niece, Maree, who was the first grandchild for my parents and then 21 or so years later with Maree's daughter, Melinda. Here is a photo of the six of us (the "Deakin girls") at Margaret's (No 1) 50th birthday celebrations Anne with her husband John taken the same night Another family outing and this time to celebrate Tricia's (No 2) 50th birthday I just love this photo because it was so typical of so many family gatherings at home when a group of us would always end up around the dinner table having a laugh. We miss her already but she will be in a heart...