1. Meganne with her huge cat Spanky - he was trying to get away from me - he is just a big scaredycat!

2. I took a picture of me from the position I was standing in looking back to the kitchen.

3. New thread stand that Ray has made - he has made a few and I told him he should sell them. He and Meganne had already thought of that!

The bag next to it is from my SECRET SANTA person. Thanks I'll open it on 25th July, it arrived on Thursday and I forgot to mention it on here.

I wish I was with the both of you. So glad that you had a great time. Hugs DeVon

PS Meganne I love your cat!!

What a wonderful relaxing day the two of you had! It must have been so fun to just set and visit.
Carol

Good thing you had a relaxing time - everyone needs one sometimes. The relaxing day probably did you a lot of good.
Like the pic of thread holder and the ones of you gals (& Spanky!).

Thank you for sharing with us your lovely relaxing day ! Glad for you !

Your right the thread holder should be marketed. He did a wonderful job on the design. The kitty is a big boy. It will take a bit of time getting settled in to her new place so she was probably glad to have a distraction from putting stuff away. Sometimes it is nice just to have fun and not work.

Thank you for sharing your pictures with us.

Meganne....What are you feeding your CAT?...he is beautiful and BIG ... hehehehhe I love cats....
Great pictures of both of you girls....
Hugs
Linda

So thrilled to hear that you and Meg had a great visit - it doesn't surprise me that you were there all day - Hehehe! I love that Meg's hair has grown out so great - wearing a wrist brace - I see - she looks thinner, too. You look wonderful - what is that fur around your neck? Very pretty. What a nice thread rack - Ray did a lovely job and you are right - he could market and sell them. Glad you received your Secret Santa, too.

I am thrilled for both of you.

Thanks for sharing your great time at Meganne's new home. 'Smelling the roses' together is double the fun. You both look really happy.
AlmaG.

Isn't it a pity that Aust is so big. Would be nice to be able to have a get together and put faces to the names. Sounds as though you both had a great day.

I envy you two...being so close that you can just get together ...whenever.... HUGs

excellent!!i am happy for you guys!!

Chris, it is so great that you and Meganne had this time together as "embroidery buddies", and just to chat as friends!! We have such wonderful friends amongst us Cuties! No greater blessing than time spent with a "friend"!!
Angel

I am so GREEN with envy! How great that you have someone close that shares the same interests (and a "Cutie" to boot)!! Thanks for sharing the pictures,you both look great!
Hugs, Nadyne

Thanks for sharing the great pictures! Sounds like a fabulous day. I love the thread holder, too.

This sounds like so much fun. I would have loved to join you. Just too far away. I am glad you guys had such a wonderful time.

Your day sounds wonderful. So nice to just sit and chat sometimes. Meganne will get her house in order. Great pictures. The thread rack is beautiful. Becky

Isn't great to visit and do NOTHING! I don't know how we get caught up in always doing........ A couple of years ago I used to visit my friend on Sunday afternoons (group of us) and it was so nice a relaxing I slept all afternoon! Now it's rush, rush to get home to sew ......... Glad you had a happy day.
Love & hugs to you both

I am so glad you had a good time. I was going to phone but something came up and I missed doing it. So very sorry I missed the oppotunity
Hugs Raelene

8-)

It sounds wonderful and your pics are so nice of both of you. Glad you had the time together.

What a great day you must have had. It is nice to sit and visit, and know that both of you enjoyed your time. Great pictures, and glad that you shared them. Gread thread stand - they are nice to have and use. Hugs

How wonderful for you and Meg. Time flies when you are having fun and that is what it sounds like happened. Glad you two could get together. Hugs, Mary

Sounds like you both had a great day, maybe on the next visit, or two you will get round to the sorting of the sewing room...

Thanks for sharing, I am so glad that you had such a good time. The pictures are lovely!

How far away are you from each other if that is not rude to ask?

Thanks for posting Chris, I'm afraid after driving to Penrith and back the night before and only getting 4 hours sleep, I was really a bit wasted Friday, I was hoping you couldn't tell. LOLOL!!! Caught up on my sleep yesterday though as I slept 'til after 1PM.

I had a truly lovely day and I have to tell you Cuties, Chris is so effervescent I have trouble keeping up with her. hahahahahaha!!!

What she didn't tell you was that she made me a gorgeous pink tea-towel with an appliquéd Strawberries hanger, it is so lovely I found a place in my kitchen to hang it on my stove grid thingy. It's way too nice to hang in the laundry Chris, don't you Cuties agree?

The last time Chris visited she also bought me a gorgeous tea-towel, beautifully embroidered with a colourful rooster. (see pics below) I couldn't find my camera lead to upload the photo's before now.

Aren't they just gorgeous????

The third pic is Chris and Ophelie on their last visit, Ophelie took her first step that day, I was so thrilled to be part of that. :-)))

We sure did have a great get together, Ray even stopped and joined us for some lunch, that's very rare.

We have so much to do, especially since storage is so sparse in this house, at least I got my pantry organised, (Pic 4) but it's all packed in so snugly I'll have to label the shelves or I'll never find anything. LOL!!! I still have a bit more to move around but I'll need the special organiser sections (Ray built) out of the pantry at Penrith.
I may still have to commandeer part of the linen press to store kitchen items as I hate parting with my things and there just isn't enough cupboard space unless I pack things inside things and cram them all in,,,,, but then I also need somewhere to store all our bathroom stuff, ah, who needs linen anyway??? Yeah right!!!

Thank you all for your lovely comments it is so truly lovely to spend time with like minded friends and I believe most Cuties are compatible because we have our mutual love of crafts at the core of our friendship.
Thanks again Chris for such a lovely day and the beautiful tea-towel.
Hugs and roses, Meganne

Lovely pictures - Chris you are so photogenic.

You have doubled, trebled, quadrupled.. the joy by posting here! Thanks for sharing with us.;)

I just found this post. So glad I did not miss it. Thank you for sharing the great photos. Glad Meganne is in her new house. I'm afraid she may have some of the problems that I had with my last move. I had more stuff than space. Hard to get rid of things you have had for years. I will share one idea with Meganne for her kitchen. I purchased some ceramic flower pot and crocks and used them on the kitchen counters to hold all the mixing spoons, spatulas,kitchen shears, pizza cutter ,etc. I had limited drawers to store items in and now they in plain site. Kay

Great Pics!!! Thanx for sharing! Glad you two had a swell time chatting! Hugs, Judy

Oh Chris, I would so loved to have been with the 2 of you. It's wonderful of you to share the pics with us, the next best thing to being there. Thanks/Lillian

Thank you for sharing with us your lovely relaxing day ! Glad for you !