Congratulations to Orren and Hagit

Orren our second son married Hagit on Thursday 15th of April. Here are a very few of the wedding photos. These are ones that Liat took, we are waiting for the photographer's photos.
First photo is the wedding ceremony under the Houpah.

        

A close up of Orren and Hagit.

Another close up of the bride and groom.

The ring ceremony.

Orren

Eyal

Shalom

Liat

Left to right:
Yotam (Orren's youngest son)
Topaz (Eyal's oldest daughter)
 Sahar (Orren's oldest son).

Tomer (Eyal's youngest daughter) and Yotam.

Yotam with me.

Shalom and Yotam under the Houpah.

Me.

Topaz, Sahar and Shelly (my brother Alex's youngest daughter).

This photo Shalom calls (him and the "virgins"). This is Shalom with his sisters.
From left to right: Tikva, Rachel, Shalom and Leah (Layka).

Stickpins

After Christmas it came time to open my packet of Birthday Stickpins. On CAPC it is custom to swap stickpins for our birthday. We have to make a stickpin for each member that signs up for the swap. In exchange for return postage to me Anett requested this time a biscornu pincushion in purple. Here is the pincushion I made for her for this years swap. Last year it was a Santa pincushion, also in purple.

Anett made sure that the package from last years swap reached me in time for the 28th of December and here they are. Aren't they just beautiful!

More updates tomorrow, and for now,

Time for an Update

I've been told by several people that it is time for an update so here we go. Now that the Secret Santa swap on my group has finished I can now show my gorgeous gifts. We had decided that it would be a secret swap, they would know who they were sending to but not from whom they would receive. While I was trying to organize the partners I had several requests to swap with me. There was a total of 8 swappers so I thought OK I can do this, so they all got to send to me and I sent to everyone. There was a list of choices that they could request and I tried to accommodate each and every choice.

The packages started to arrive and I put them aside to open on Christmas morning, my fingers itched to open them each time I looked at the packages but my will was strong and I held out.

Here below you can see all the wonderful gifts I received. This first photo is from Linda.

The next photo is from Margaret.

 Next is from Sherry.

Next one is from Sherri.

This one is from Sandee.

Next one comes from Pepper.

 

next one comes from Miet

And so these are all my wonderful Christmas gifts from my very precious friends. Thank you my friends you really made my Christmas special.

Quick swap

I can't believe it's been such a long time since I last wrote, but then again thinks have been hectic so it's understandable.
I caught the flu just over two weeks ago and don't seem to be able to bounce back quite as quickly as usual. Any slight exertion leaves me out of breath so I hope that will cease as time goes on.
Anyway we had a quick swap with the help of Vicki (Tozz) and Jenny (Elefantz). My partner this time was Alison from Australia and here is a photo of the wonderful items I received from Alison.

Thank you Alison and thank you also for allowing me to use your photo here.

 

Fall Swap

This is my gorgeous fall swap from Miet, I absolutely love it and I think it's good enough to eat.

This is the second part of the fall swap, a beautiful autumn fabric and two kits for making necklaces and earring. Aren't they so pretty.

I am going to have so much fun making up these kits, thank you so much Miet.

I still have my summer swap to photograph so that will be put up next time.
Till then,

New Photos

This first photo is of a pincushion I received a couple of weeks ago from Kay and I forgot to take a photo of it.

This is my return swap from Merle in Australia, from the CAPC swap. Isn't that pincushion just a cutie.

 

This is my second pagoda pincushion, top side up.

this photo is bottom side up.

Here is a photo of the two pieces before sewing them together.

That's all for the moment, I have another pagoda pattern I want to try - LOL.

Goodies to show

The first photo is the swap I received from Carla. Look at this amazing pincushion and bag. I flipped the corner of the bag so you can see the fabric on the other side. Isn't it gorgeous.

Next photo is the Hug Swap items I sent to Maria in Holland.

 

and here is my return swap from Maria.

I borrowed Maria's photos for this because they turned out a lot better than mine - LOL. I hope Maria doesn't mind.

Next up is the swap for Miet. I made her one of the "famous" pagoda pincushions. Here is the pagoda on it's own. Here is the full swap sent to Miet.

Because I liked the style of the pagoda, I thought I would try and make one for myself as an early Christmas present. These are the two pieces before joining them together.

In the photo they look a bit orange but they are in fact red.

More photos later when I get my batteries charged.