Sneaky Peakie & December OPAM Winners!

Happy Friday to everyone out there in blogland! It's a typical summer day here on top of our 'hill' ... the sun is shining, it's a steamy, humid 29 degrees, the cicadas are deafening and the fan is whirring. Aaaaa ... SUMMER! How I love you! :0) I'm enjoying the last few days of my holiday before I have to go back to being a grown up on Monday ... SIGH!!

I'm back from my sleep-over play date in Brisbane with my Bestest-Buddy-Since-We-Were-Nine Lynette ... and I had so much fun that I didn't even think to take ONE photo - OOPS! :0)  So I'll just tell you that we had a lovely time and I found some GORGEOUS new treasures that I'll share with you once I get some good photos of them.

So ... now that I'm back home, I've finalised the last OPAM monthly tally for 2015. What a WONDERFUL year of creating we have all had! :0) Thank you all SOOOOOO much for joining my GORGEOUS Partner-In-Crime Sweet Peg and I for One Project A Month again last year. It is always so inspiring to see the projects you are all working on and finishing - you are all such clever clogs! :0) It's also very humbling that you all invite us into your lives. While we started OPAM as a way to encourage us all to take time to be creative and finish some of our many projects, to take time to catch our breath and enjoy simple beauty wherever we find it ... it has become so much more thanks to you gals. You've shared your triumphs, your mishaps, highlights, lowlights, laughter, tears and heartbreak. In short ... you've let us share your lives and it's been an honour. :0) THANK YOU! And it goes without saying ... but still needs to be said!! ... A HUGE THANK YOU to Sweet Peg for Co-Hosting OPAM again with me. We make a pretty good team, my Sweet Friend! :0)

Now, looking at the final tally for December, all I can say is ... we were obviously all busy bees in the lead up to Christmas! Tee! Hee! Hee! There was a total of ...

475 FINISHES!

WOWSERS! :0) Well done everyone! That gives us a 2015 final total tally of ...

4,133 FINISHES!

OH! MY! GOODNESS!! Well done to you all! There must be a lot of empty space in people's sewing room cupboards now ... right?! Tee! Hee! Hee! Maybe not! :0) OK ... drumroll for the announcement you're all waiting for. The December winners are ...

MICHELL K

&

GRETHE

Congratulations, gals! Email me with your snail mail address and I'll pop a little something in the mail for you soon. For all of you who've added finishes to your list over the last 12 months or made some good progress on longer-term projects ... WELL DONE to you, too. :0)

Now, as I've said, Sweet Peg and I WILL be running OPAM 2016 and we hope you'll join us again for a fun, low-stress nudge to be creative. Sign up will be at the end of the month so stay tuned to both my blog AND Sweet Peg's blog to keep up with our news and be ready to get creating. :0)

Before I sign off, I thought I'd share a little sneaky peakie with you of the project I've been working on. Do you remember I said I was playing with this layer cake ...

Well ... it now looks a little like this ...

This is part of the centre panel of the quilt that I've put together ... there are a couple of borders and maybe some more applique to play with before it's finished. I'm off to the first  of our Sit N Sew evenings for 2016 tonight at the Quilters Angel, so I'll grab a couple of supplies to get working with on the weekend ... the last weekend of my holiday freedom! SIGH!! Ah well ... I guess if I want play money to keep buying fabric, I'd better go back to work next week. :0) Whether you're still on holiday for a bit longer, back at work already, or like me, counting down your last days of freedom ... I hope you're enjoying 2016 so far. I think it's going to be ...

FANTASTIC!! :0)

Til next time ...

BEAR HUGS!
CHEERS!
KRIS