Bleached velvet

These are a couple of bits of cotton velvet that we bleached using cheap rubber stamps and household bleach. We did sort of neutralise the bleach with a rinse of vinegar. I dont know how long these would last but the effect was lovely. I think one I will do some more embellishing on, and one will go into my samples book.
Cool and damp feeling today although no actual rain. I have finished the washing and vacuumed and dusted the house, the numbers of small dead flies was amazing, with the damp and warmish weather they have been breading up around the calves, disgusting.

Book pages

We are adding pages to a book of the techniques we have done during our week ends. these are two of mine, a few more to be finished. the first is my mixed media piece roughly taken from Bery Taylors book using various things and the second was rose petals sandwhiched between vliesofix and then fiddled with with a stamped saying across the centre which you cant see very well. I made a mess of the stitching on top so more or less saved it with some threads.
I am tidying the house today, getting stuff put away. John has meetings again and I have walked this morning, all looking fresh and green after a bit more rain and the sown paddocks showing where the seeds have germinated. Washing on and I have beading tonight so something we can grab in a hurry for dinner, probably a casserole.

TAST whipped and woven stitches

I quite like the whipped but wasnt too good on the woven stitches. Not something that I think I would use a lot of but interesting to do. I thought this looked like some sort of galaxy!

Grumpy womens week end, Mambray Creek

I am home, a five hour drive from
Mambray Creek to home some through drizzle in Adelaide, and home to cold and wet. Which is good as we need more rain. So do our friends at Mambray Creek. I took these photos while I was having my early morning walks, and didnt take a photo of the mad mob who was there, so busy creating! The number varied but up to 7 women on any one day.
It looks very green, and the red in the background is the colour of the ploughed earth. The shadows were really longer than I thought and I kept on meaning to go and take photos in the afternoon but somehow the days got away from us.
Not long enough, on Friday we drove up and then started making our greedy goddess bags, out of all things pet mesh which I had to get from Bunnings ( a large hardware store) who thought I was quite mad. Any way the bag was fun to make but I was up until after midnight, far too late for this e...... lady!
Next day we were really into creating and designing "stuff" from various books etc, I taught silk paper, then some one else did rose petals under vleisofix, I showed what you could do with a hot glue gun and making designs on both stamps and baking paper, then colouring them with acrylic paints and rub ons. Etching into velvet with a soldering iron and attaching synthetics. I really cant remember how many things we did.
Out to the local little pub for dinner and the locals had to put up with a gaggle of women in masks. I think they quite enjoy this yearly upheavel of their quiet little pub. The food was excellent too, Pt Germein you did us proud.
Sunday we stamped on velvet with bleach and had a lot of fun, I showed how to melt nappy liners, Wendy made tyvek bubble and how to make beads, We fitted so much in and it was great.

water water

I have just come back from my evening walk with the dogs and we went down to the creek and dam that is our biggest supplier of water and this is what we found, overflowing dam, water chuckling and gurgling, frogs croaking crickets singing and as I walked back I took the photo of the sky, with more rain about to begin.
After such a dreadfully long dry period this is music for the soul.

ATC and inchies

I made this atc and the inchies to take up to the Grumpy week end, I am not sure if my inchies are quite finished, I think they need a small something else. Amazing how many inches you get out of a not very big bit of fabric!
the atc has a hot glue shape (hot glue drizzled onto baking paper in a vague shape) painted and then treasure gold over the top, supposed to represent a woman but she doesnt look very grumpy. Quite the reverse.
Absolutely pouring with rain at the moment and howling winds over night. This is Australia, drought one minute and wet the next. Not helping the stock at all who were in not such good condition due to the drought but at least we have paddocks seeded so hope for grass. Mud will be the next problem. I find I am standing under the shower and enjoying it instead of rushing in and then out again. I actually hope the creeks flood, then we know we are recharging the underground water.

Rivington Sunsilk

This is the Welsh B filly who was Supreme Welsh at our foal show over the weekend.
she shows all the promise her much older sister has, Her sister Sunday has been many times Supreme Champion. We have waited a long time for another filly like this to come along.
A nasty windy day at the moment, I am going to beading tonight so am getting this done a bit early.
Tired after yesterday's time in Adelaide.