Project 365; Collages 47, 48, 49

Yes, I am aware it has been AGES since I did a Project 365 collage post! Forgive me!
Here are 3 more of my Project 365, picture a day collages {smiles}

Day 185: Out to lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant with some work friends then Coffee and Churros afterwards at Coco Cubano Cuban- Chocolate cafe at Parramatta. YUM!!
186: Work (no smiling here!) Slowly highlighting and crossing things off a to-do list. I'm a paper pusher these days, rather than a people pusher which I was before Jai was born. I miss my people! Paper isn't as interactive {wink!}
187: Having some morning play with Jaimeson before I go to work. I get him his breakfast, then eat mine and pack lunch while he plays. Then when it's time for his morning sleep that's time for me to go to work and I wake Will up and hand Jai over.
188: Look! My big boy loves to stand and watch TV. Honestly, he could stand for hours (always holding something though) if the TV was on!

189: Jai's friend Piet from Playgroup's Monster Party! What a cute hat!
190: My Vintage Sheet Quilt top is FINISHED!!! YAY!!
191: Having some outside play in the sunshine. Oh how I long for Summer!
192: {frowny}. My first Vintage plate disaster at the hands of Will's Mum. I got home to her saying "I messy your plate". Boo!!

193: Farewelling my boys as I leave for work (see how quick my 5-day weekend flies by!)
194: Stopped at Vinnies on my way to work and had PYREX SUCCESS {high five!} A casserole dish, and 2 nesting mixing bowls in Butterfly gold, and a Spring Blossom casserole dish with lid! Score! {chest bump!}
195: Little Boy loves to stand on tippy toes at the TV unit to watch TV! I love his tippy toes!
196: A visit to Granny and Papa's! This was back in July, I know it cos he has since grown out of that gorgeous shirt, and Granny isn't laid up in bed with her back and knee pain!

Phew, well, that's a little catch up! I hope to post more of my every-day pics soon! Is it boring or do you like to see what I get up to every day?
:) C

Playing with my Vintage Sheet Quilt

Well I've had the squares from Mardi's Swap for almost 2 months now, so it's about time I actually laid them all out & had a play! I am going to make a Lounge Quilt, perfect for snuggling up under to watch TV in winter! Our current lounge doona is only a single size & inevitably when both Will
& I are under it, I end up with either my feet or my chest freezing cos it's not long enough! {brrr!} So I've decided on a square quilt, plenty big enough to fit us both snuggly under it! And maybe squeeze Jaimeson in under there too!
The squares are 6x6 inch & I've used 13x13 of them, I cut just a few extra after I laid them all out cos I'd bought some more sheets recently. I do like it! What do you think of the layout? Can you see any of your squares? What's your fave? The view here is from the bottom left corner looking diagonally up the quilt.
I piled up all the squares in their order so it's ready to go. I'm so excited to start sewing now!
:) C

Vintage Sheet Swap

Hi y'all!
Well, it's been a week of posting! Hooray me {party poppers spraying streamers around the room!}
Take a look at this sweet package that arrived after Christmas! Isn't it wrapped so nicely!
Since the awesome success of the Op Shop Swap Swap I participated in back in November (and got Lotti, thanks Lotti!), I decided that swaps are heaps of fun and I'm going to participate in more swaps! Yvette encouraged me to join the Vintage Sheet Swap that Mardi from The Love Supreme was hosting, so I got my Op Shop self into mode and went on the hunt for Vintage Sheets! I do love all things retro and I'm pleased to say I got quite a sweet little collection of sheets together to send off. My phone is being a pain in the butt so it wont let me download a pic of the sheets I sent, so I'll have to leave that for another time. But here are pics of what I got back! Aren't they all so pretty! What a sweet little pile of squares! I sent 72 in total, and Mardi had the unenviable job of compiling all the squares, diving them up and sending them back to us. She did such an amazing job cos I don't think I even got one of my own squares back, and I only got two doubles! What a mammoth task!
So in this swap the idea was to cut your sheets into 6x6 inch squares to swap, which could then be sewn into a quilt-top and you back the quilt with another vintage sheet. Mardi scored pay-dirt this year when she came across a Vintage Sheet Quilt already made up at the Op Shop (awesome score!) and she wanted us all to get enjoyment out of a Vintage Sheet Quilt like she has! I decided I'll make a "Lounge Quilt", not a bed quilt, cos I do love snuggling up under a doona when I watch TV on the lounge in winter, and I know I would get lots of enjoyment out of a Lounge Quilt that is made from Vintage Sheets! I still haven't decided the size, I use a single bed doona at the moment, but I might make more of a square shape for the Vintage Quilt.
The last pic shows some of my fave's from the swap. Isn't the mushroom one cute! Yvette even got an awesome Snow White square. It's totally beautiful {swoon!} I've never seen a cute vintage sheet like that one!
So I'm really keen to get sewing and put together a gorgeous Vintage Sheet Quilt! Mum is gonna have to help me when I get to the batting and backing (thanks Mum {hugs!}) as I've never completed a Quilt before, but in the mean-time, I'm pretty sure I've got 'sewing the squares together' in the bag!
:) C
Edited to add:
Ah Ha! My computer bent to my will! Here are some of the sheets I sent, I had a few others but these were within reach! Me likey! Did you get any of my squares?