Merry Christmas!

Wow what a year for us here at If Only I had Chocolate.

THANK YOU to my bogging friends who all make my life even better with your comments and generous spirit.

Sarah

Puddings

Awesome - the cards are made and sent. Just need to print the family letter and send the rest tomorrow. Better late than never. Gifts are all pretty much done - just need to wrap a couple. Cooking finished. Puddings were offered to class mates rather than cards.

Brilliant - how good is that? To be honest - to good - waiting for that OH DAMN moment...

Breast Check Reminders Update

Please watch this before you read the rest of this post. (Thank you Leanne for the link).

I have been doing Breast Check Reminders for some time now. I had intentions of setting up a separate blog to allow people to receive reminders to check their breast. It is something we just cannot be complacent about. However I have since discovered there are a few other sites that already do this. It seems silly to make yet another site.

SO sign up for one of the links below to receive a friendly email to check your breast. Best to sign up to check your breast five - eight days after you have started to mensturate - or if these are irregular or if you have begun menopause check the same time each month.

Just to take this one step further can you please email two friends (JUST TWO) and ask them to sign up then ask them to email two friends to do the same. Imagine how many people we could get to be reminded to check their breast!

I will continue with my monthly checks here on this blog as well.

Don't forget men also get breast cancer - I found a link for them...

Here are the sites - go and sign yourself up for one.

Check your boobies

Breast Self Exam Reminder

Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center

UNDU Buddy Check

FOR MEN Breast Check Reminders

On a lighter note - watch this - I laughed so hard I cried.

65 Roses block finished

Do you recall the 65 Roses post?

I have finished my block! DONT panic - they are not due till mid Janurary. So start yours after Christmas and contribute to a worthy cause...

November Breast Check reminder

Yup it is that time again.

Did you check last month even with out a reminder?

Life is Beautiful

Helen at Hugs and Kisses is having a giveaway of a pattern I WANT actually make that NEED. I have had sneak peeks and have been drooling over it. Little does she know I have been waiting patiently for this moment! Shhhh don't tell her.

She has asked us to quote a quote. Do you think this baby sleep deprived fuzzed brain mother can come up with something creative? Of course she can... a good old one that struck me the day I heard it...

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” - Lin Yutang

Finished scarf!

Two posts back I told you about the Warm Women's Project.

The Little Man modeled the scarf - which will be sent the end of this week.



I am really pleased I managed to contribute to such a worthy need in this busy time. I bought the wool (I think it is alpaca) from a lady who spun and dyed it well over 15 years ago in a country town called Bothwell in Tassie's Central Highlands. I love the feel and personality of this home made wool.

65 Roses

I saw this at Curly Pops and decided I will join in.

Kathreen at Whip Up is organising a quilt block drive for Cystic Fibrosis foundation in Australia. All the details and the pattern can be downloaded from here . It is 4 5 inch blocks sewn together and one of them with an embroidery or applique supplied (or you make your own)

I know you want to join in - go on....

Helping hand...

I saw this on Clutterpunk and would really like to make at least one by the dead line. Gina explains it so well here

"There are a bunch of refugee craftswomen living and working in camps along the Thailand/Burmese border. They make and sell lovely stuff to earn a wage and support their families, and the great news is it's fair trade. But when December/January rolls around, they get cold, which can cause illness and other disruptions to their work, and therefore their income. Claire @ Warm Women wants to do something about it, and she wants people like you and me to help out by making a scarf to send along to our chilly Karen refugee friends."

Can you do one as well? Here is all you need to do (copied from Warm Women)

Take Part
Instructions & Rules

1. There are hardly any of these.

2. Register to take part by sending a quick hello email to warmwomen@hotmail.com. I will only really need your name and email address but if you have a website or blog you want included on this blog, feel free to give that info too.

3. Make a scarf.
- Design? Up to you.
- Size? Up to you (keeping cosiness in mind).
- Construction materials and method/s? You guessed it – up to you.
Be as creative as you like.

4. Send:
- Your scarf;
- Your name (sample tag coming soon);
- A photo of you and/or the scarf in progress; and
- A copy of the map (coming soon) marking your location and linking it with the destination already marked
to me (Address to send to will be provided when you register). I will put all the scarves together and send them to Thailand.

5. Scarves need to be received by me no later than TUESDAY 1ST DECEMBER, 2009.

How does your garden grow?

I saw this tutorial - making fabric flowers on One Pretty Thing and had to make them!



Jo really liked my rose fabric flowers so I made these for her craft room...