Started but not finished

I spent most of the morning doing the dishes and putting them away on my own as John had gone fishing, why we had four courses last night I will never know, or why I decided it was the best crockery, glasses and cutlery but it was fun catching up with friends and celebrating Robynn's Birthday.
A pretty basic menu. Oysters Rockerfeller, whiting in foil with salad and buttery potatoes, chocolate self saucing pudding followed by cheese and John's quince paste. A couple of nice bubblies to start followed by some good wines.
So after all of that I decided I needed to get some work done for Grumpies next week end, cut out a chicken wire crown, painted some laminated tags, re painted some laminated tags, and then proceeded to make an awful mess of them, cut out a foam core figure which took much longer than I thought it would take, painted the wire crown and then sat at the embellisher and made these two pieces for the embellish stitch and enrich work shop I am doing. The first is supposed to be of the Bluff and Wright Island taken from the photo I took last week. The other is just how to get a nice base of fabrics on foiled felt with chiffon over the top.
These need some hand stitching so I hope to get that done over the next few nights.

Wet walk

I took these photos this morning just before the rain came and we got quite wet. I think if you click on them to make them bigger they will look better.
There was quite a high tide and not many people around at 9.30 in the morning.
we had a warming cup of coffee and came home.
There were a few pelicans and other odd sea birds around the new excavation for the boat launching facility, the rocks came from it as well, lovely textures.
I spent the rest of the day cleaning the house as we have 4 extra for dinner tonight. It is an oyster and whiting night.
No time for textile stuff but perhaps tomorrow as John is going fishing, although here it drizzled on and off all day so he may get damp.

Gifts from a friend

I went over to see Wendy today and she gave me these which she had bought in America, I love them both, the earrings are of silk, painted and mounted onto vinyl board and are by Suzanne eBllows and are absolutely gorgeous.
The figure she bought in New York at a place that sold trims and I love her too.
A busy day, up early so I could go over to see Wendy, and had a wonderful look at the diary she kept while she was away and all the other goodies she had bought.
Back to get the shopping done and it is freezing cold still and the animals are fed and I am inside feeling a bit tired.

Beaded fabric beads

It has been blowing a gale and cold and with heavy showers, just like winter! For which apart from my aches we are very pleased.
I have been making these fabric beads for the Grumpy week end, not sure if they will go in the goodie bag or not but I had the bases made for ages and decided to finish them off, tying knots has not been the best but I have then secured them with a few stitches and beads. I have just looked and you cant see any beads! The top lot have them I can assure you but the bottom are still waiting for me to do them tonight.
I have spent most of the day cleaning up my work rooms as well as the dining room table and every where else I have thrown stuff.
I did manage to get some foil on felt last night but decided not to get on to that today but do what had to be done in the house.
This is a large house and I must have walked miles.
Managed to feed the dogs and bantams between the showers but was rugged up for the snow I think.

Victor Harbor Buildings

I am not sure of the origin of the first one, it was going to be demolished but now seems to have a reprieve, I just like its odd architecture.
the second one is the old tennis club house but it now only has a few courts on one side and the volley ball is on this side. The Tennis Club has moved to the oval so this was left right beside the sea.
We had over 13 mm of rain last night and high winds, I went to beading and came out and was wet through before I had got to the car and it was an interesting drive home.
Today I have pottered around and not much has got done, my joints dont much like this weather.

Luscious flowers and jigsaw bits

Not a lot to put up today as we spent all day in Adelaide having hair cuts, seeing my mother and buying towels at the sales. I did also get some pansies a friends Birthday present and some transfer paper to have a go at doing some of the stuff in Maggie Grey's book 'From image to stitch'.
I go to beading tonight and it is wet and cold outside.
The flowers are part of The Embellish and Enrich class I am taking with Dale Rollerson, I just love these flowers, all done on the embellisher.
the jigsaw pieces have been gessoed and some painted and some had impasto gel and a couple texture paste and then stamped and painted and the others just painted and stamped. I did this after I wasnt very impressed with the not very deep impression I got on the others. These are fora challenge on expression Studio to use stamps and jigsaw pieces. I may use these after I drill some holes in them for buttons.

Holiday Monday

As it was a holiday today and we had decided not to go to McLaren Vale and the rain which fell all night had cleared up we went for a walk late this morning.
we dont often walk this way as there is not much of a path, behind the bowls club and the old tennis courts and the play ground towards the crocket lawns and the Yacht club. Here the sea weed builds up and looked like sleeping elephants.
The view as we walked back towards the town, cold looking and then the Anchorage where we stopped for a cup of coffee.
Home John cleaned out his sock drawer and threw out old shirts while I clipped off the buttons and made more of a mess sewing up my doll I am doing on an on line class.
The bottom scan is of another sample I have done for the other on line class I am doing with the embellishing machine, I watched Port get done yesterday and hand sewed this up. Both great time wasters!
Tomorrow we are going to Adelaide so not much from then I wouldnt think.