It is HOT 45 degrees

It has been so hot that I have not managed to do much as I just get sticky and sweaty and its revolting. We have a bit of cloud which means humidity and the air con is not making a lot of difference, well I suppose it is but its still over 30 degrees inside.
So these photos are to make me think I am cool.
The sun spots I have had burnt off my back have got to the itchy stage too and well nothing is madly comfortable.
I have sewn sequins on 31 charms, and I think I have a few more to do. then I have to edge them and I cant find my eyelet setter or the ordinary eyelets so I have been half heartedly searching for them in my over heated work room.
I had to go into Victor this morning and at 10 when I came home it was registering 45 degrees on the outside temp on the car. It has been terribly hot and the weather bureau is telling us it will be 40 until Sunday. One hardly bears to think about it and of course the radio which I have on to let me know if there is a fire any where just keeps carrying on about how hot it is and what the latest temperature is and I have no doubt they are in really cool air conditioned comfort.

Out to dinner and the catch of the day

Yesterday was Australia Day, and we went in early for the ceremony in Victor, then did various jobs, had a walk over at Normanville prior to collecting the liquid nitogen I took the picture of the red sailing yacht there, and then out to dinner at Tabby and John's, a beautiful night and brilliant food, Tabby's John had excelled himself.
Millie was having a lovely time wandering around outside and being given wizzy's by big sister Celina, the one of her looking up is after she had sat down about 4 times trying to get her legs back. Then sitting on Celina's back and sitting on Mum. Spot the dog is usually in attendance.
The fish John had caught on Sunday when he went fishing, a very colorful lot, the red mullet was for Oscar and so was the flat head as he was a bit small but the whiting and garfish were for us. Wonderful.
Last night there were a million stars out, amazingly clear. Today over 41 degrees and cloudy and hot and humid and horrid. We are about to have at least a week of this. I am so glad I have organised not to go any where.

Patchwork hearts

I have been making hearts, this one is for a friend with cancer in the hope of getting her through it. I have been having a lot of fun doing them, very simply, a base of fabric, I used tea dyed cotton, then torn strips laid over the top and sewn on with some fancy patterns from my machine. I made a template out of freezer paper and after a tiny bit of free motion sewing I folded the new cloth over right sides up and sewed almost all the way around the edge, placing a piece of folded ribbon in to make a hanger, left a tiny bit and stuffed it, sewed up the hole I stuffed through and then made a bow from some fancy threads, added a charm and some beads and that was it. Effective and fun and easy to make.
I made a tag from some rusted paper I had made.
Tomorrow is Australia Day and we will go to the ceremony in the morning in town and then a walk on the beach and we have to get something from Yankalilla then collect my dolls and go to John and Tabby's for dinner, sounds lovely.
What is not so lovely are the high temperatures they are focasting for next week, just hope some idiot doesnt light a fire.

Millie and Mason and the Tour Down Under

I am terribly tired, I have had a heap of sun things burnt off my back which are uncomfortable, last night I went into a Zonta gala opening of the needlecraft exhibition and although the hat parade was great it went on for far too long. I was up early this morning and went in to the market and then had a walk along the beach, all very fine then I raced home and made a salad and changed and over to Pt Willunga where we got onto the tail end of the peleton to get to where we were to have lunch and then went downto the esplanade and watched the last run through and as my camera was home took the race with my mobile phone. All very exciting for a couple of seconds. A lovely lunch. home and I now want a sleep!

Reef rockpools and people

This family were having a lovely time walking on the exposed reef when I went walking a few days ago. the rock pools were looking quite interesting and the tide was low.
I have been to Adelaide today to see my mother, she seemed ok, but tired. John had a meeting at Flagstaff Hill golf course beginning at 9 and so I found my way down to get petrol etc at Mitcham and then on to see P and then up to see Mummy and finally found my way back to Flagstaff Hill to collect John a bit after 12 and then home, doesnt sound much but then it was home and feed the dogs cat and chooks as well as organise dinner.
Tomorrow will be busy with my dolls for the Zonta show having to go in and then the tour down under stage to watch, it will be fun but I am itching to do some more of my ratty tatty papers course that I am doing on line with Dale Rolleson of the Thread Studio. Class 2 has silk paper making and I love making silk paper.

Altered book closure

We have been doing an altered book in Maggie Grey's class and my book has sat there for ages waiting for me to finish making the wrap to go around it. I had made part of it and made the utee tiles, I just hadnt finished getting it all together and today I finally made the cords and sewed it all together.
Trying to get a few things finished as I am feeling rather snowed under.
I spent all of the day moving paintings around so that the new one I bought would have a good place to hang. I have so many paintings that some almost reach the ceiling, so a lot got moved to new places, which is fun and is almost as good as new furniture which I dont have a hope in h... of getting.
Then as so much was dusty I did a thorough clean of all the surfaces so I am now hot and dusty and tired. With any luck it will last another week.

By my back door

This lovely verbascum self seeds a bit around the garden, it has been so dry not many are flowering well but this one is in a pot by the back door where it gets regular water. Absolutely gorgeous, it closes and shrivels a bit when it gets very hot and then suddenly looks good again. It has been very hot here today.
I am struggling with a small book that I am attempting to make out of a table napkin, slowly getting there, but Tabby and Millie came for dinner tonight and this morning I had a physio appointment so not a lot has got done, the story of my life at the moment.
Millie has been entertaining us with a new "face" and is an absolute sweetie, I finally got the old high chair that I was supposed to paint out of the shed and it fits without the tray under the round cedar table in the kitchen so she was very pleased to graze off our plates, garfish and salad followed by ice cream and freshly stewed apricots from the tree in the orchard.
We seem to be in for a hot spell for a while, typical when the Tour Down Under is about to start.
Fine for our fellows who are used to training in the heat but difficult for the overseas ones, we have a finish in Victor on Thursday which we are going to watch,we always like to see The Tour when it is here.