Scotland Part 1

This is just some highlights of our time in Scotland. We went to some gorgeous places and saw some amazing sights.

This is an amazing old abbey that we stumbled across in Loch Awe called St Conan's Kirk Abbey.

Inside the Abbey.

Urqhuart Castle.

Urqhuart Castle.

Isle of Skye.

Isle of Skye.

Isle of Skye.

Highland Cattle.

Highland Cattle.

Glasgow Cathedral.

Glasgow Cathedral.

Edinburgh skyline taken from Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

More Wedding photos

My son and I going to the Castle.

Signing the registery.

In the grounds of the Castle.

 

On the balcony in the Banqueting Room.

 

Treasure with an ancient sword.

OUR WEDDING!!

Eilean Donan Castle is really beautiful and is known as the most romantic castle in Scotland and it certainly deserves that title.

This is the Great Hall where the ceremony was held. It was a very grand room.

This is the horse and carriage that took us to and from the castle. It was a great trip.
The day was amazing and truely wonderful.

The Scottish Quilt Championships 2012

We happened to be in Edinburgh while the Scottish Quilt Championships was on. We went to see what the quilts were like. They were gorgeous and many were hand quilted.
This is the Grand Champion.

A close up view of the Grand Champion.

A Japanese Quilt

 

 

                                                    The best Miniture Quilt.

This is me shopping.I did have some fun shopping.

Most of the fabric is the same as we can buy in Australia but did find some different fabrics.

Dubai

The plane waiting at our stopover in Singapore. We had a 1hr stopover there. They made us get off the plane and sit in the lounge. Treasure decided to have a sleep.

We had a 3 nights stop over in Dubai. These are some of the sights of Dubai.

Jumeriah Mosque.

Burj Al Arab Hotel.

Atlantis on the Palms on Palm Island which is a man made reclaimed island.

The city from our hotel's roof top pool area.

The deser safari tour that we went on.
The sunset was beautiful.

No more work for a while!!!

I am on holidays and am so happy about it.
So glad I don't have to go to work for a while!!!

We are off to UK tonight for our wedding later in the month.
Yes I have agreed to marry Treasure, he does too much for me to lose him.

We will be in Dubai tomorrow for 3 nights.

Watch this space as there may be photos of the wedding at the gorgeous Eilean Donan Castle.

Hand quilted Quilt

A few months ago I decided to go to learn needle turn. There were 6 classes to teach different ways of doing needle turn. We were to do 6 blocks and then we could make a baby quilt out of it.

The 1st block was hearts.

The 2nd block was an apple.

The 3rd block was a duck.

The 4th block was a beehive.

The 5th block was a moon and stars.

The 6th block was flowers.

I really enjoyed doing the needle turn and intend to do more in the future.

We all decided that we also wanted to learn how to hand quilt as none of us have ever done any handquilting. We then had 2 lessons to learn how to hand quilt.
I really hated the hand basting as I pin all my quilts and then machine quilt them. I'm not really enjoying hand quilting the quilt but I am going to perserve with it.
I have also given myself a time limit of 5 years to have it finished as I don't think my son or Treasure's children will have any children of their own for at least 5 years.
I really love the border fabric of owls.