Archie Mail!

I have to confess to watching ANTM - or America's Next Top Model! I don't know why!  I have also watched the Brit version too - it is pretty awful as people can get very bitchy about each other - well it is a competition and all that!


But when they get a communication from the host model about the next challenge they all shout out Tara mail or whoever!


But I am shouting out Archie mail or Helen mail or even more appropriately Wonder Mail!  


Helen has been a secret squirrel of late and I think she is trying to make me tidy - does she know what a challenge that is??  I told her I chuck threads I cut off on the floor and tidy up afterwards if at all!  


So she has made a fabulous Union Jack thread catcher - I am so thrilled I may actually use it though I will have to then turn it over onto the batting side away from her lovely stitching!  Thank you Helen!  And Archie!

But that's not all - enclosed was some fabric


A daisy print for my collection and sometime project!  I am getting closer to having enough fabrics - I just need to finalise the idea!

A strip of Kona dusty blue!  Well remembered Helen - I checked on my rediscovered colour card.  This is so I can add to my school house Kona sampler - yes before I bought the colour chart I decided to make my own colour chart with every Kona colour I bought - I must get back to that project as I love the blocks and enjoyed making them!  The sampler quilt will still be made!  I think I managed to make one block out a 2.5" wide strip half the full width of fabric - plus the background fabric - so it doesn't take much!




And not only that but she also sent me some pezzy charms -  shriek now 'cos they are brown!  Yup Helen is not a big fan of brown - me, I'm not so picky!  Ok it's not my favourite colour (except in puppies of course!)  but I think it has it's place!  No idea where they will end up as yet!

And here just because I can, a totally gratuitous puppy photo!   Maddie is a chocolate roan cockapoo - though I think chocapoo suits her better!

There may be a few of these to come!   


She is already a cheeky little girl!  And we have heard her voice today - yips, ruffs and quite assertive barks when she thought a dog brush might attack her even though it was playing dead at the time.  We all know how devious brushes can be so I think her's was a wise decision to be suspicious of it!


We are wondering at her preferred diet though - toilet roll - the paper and cardboard, newspaper and yesterday we were siting at the dinner table having our meal when my son suddenly burst out laughing - she was tickling his bare feet - guess she likes cheese then!