Celebrating With Friends & OPAMERS!

Hellooooooo! How is everyone? Hopefully you've all had a wonderful week. Things here are still busy ... But we're starting to count down to our much-anticipated holiday, so we're hanging in there. :0) And this weekend is a long weekend, so there's an extra day to fit home stuff in ... YAY!

And it got off to a rather social start as I helped one of my Friday night sewing buddies, Chriss, celebrate her 60th birthday. Chriss popped around yesterday for a relaxing chat, cuppa & lunch so we could have a little play with watercolour pencils on fabric. There MAY have been more chatting, cuppa & lunch time than colouring, but that's OK, right?! :0)

Then today a group of Friday Nutters ... Er ... NIGHTERS! (Tee! Hee! Hee!) ... Met up at a local coffee shop to further mark Chriss's milestone birthday ...

Here's our motley crew ... Or as many of us as were free to gather. You can see the birthday girl rockin' her tiara on the left. Now, despite her insistence that she didn't need presents ... Gail was a bit sneaky & organised a birthday box. We all had the chance to decorate the box with sharpies & pop a 'little something' inside ... Ie. Most of us chose fat quarters ... Cos you can never have too much fabric, right?! :0)

Here's Chriss looking slightly gobsmacked ...

And here she is with her birthday stash ... Fabric, pretty cards, sweet notebooks ... & even some funky socks. And since it was a birthday, there had to be cake, right?

Chriss's look of amazement when she saw the GORGEOUS creation from Gail's kitchen. Would you like a closer look?

Isn't it amazing?!! Gail has created each of these icing flowers with her piping bag & placed them perfectly to create floral abundance.

Chriss asking ... "Do I really have to cut this?" Well ... She did ... Eventually! :0) 

Then she passed it back to its equally gorgeous creator to cut into portions ...

YUMMO!!

Thank you, gals, for a wonderful time of celebrating not only Chriss's birthday, but also the fantastic friendship circle we enjoy.

And after all that socialising, I'm looking forward to the next couple of days being stay-at-home-and-sew days. :0) Which (fingers crossed!) will result in another finish for my OPAM list. OPAMers ... Have you updated your sidebar tallies & emailed your monthly total to me or my GORGEOUS Partner-In-Crime Sweet Peg ? Well ... Get hopping, cos we've just about run out of September. And don't forget Sweet Peg & I take turn about to do the prize draw each month, so you need to check in with both our blogs. I've not heard from the last few winners I've drawn, so don't miss out!

Right now, though, I'm off to make a cuppa & put my feet up to enjoy the long weekend. Whatever you're up to this weekend, I hope you get to spend some time with your special people doing things you enjoy. Til next time ...

BEAR HUGS!

CHEERS!

KRIS