Images of Melbourne

The first is of Dale and Ian Rollerson and their Thread Studio site at the Australian Quilt Convention at the Royal Exhibition Building. I think I may have been one of the first customers and there was no one there so a good opportunity to get the photo. I spent a lot of money there and really didnt seem to have all that much to show for it when I got home but I did buy the double trouble dvd and a couple of the Fibrefusion books I didnt have, and for their size they are expensive but have lots of lovely ideas that one day I just may put to good use. I also saw the Connections embellisher challenge that Dale had organised. Lots of lovely stuff there only I had trouble reading names.
The next photo is of a city building through I think a plane tree in the Carlton Gardens, I was rally pleased with this shot. Then the but of a huge coastal banksia just down from where the children live and finally the smoke with a cumulus cloud above it taken from the Cheltenham railway station on Monday afternoon. There was a smoke haze over the city the whole time we were there and I was glad we were near the sea as there were fresher winds there.
Lovely to see the children and grand children, we all came together at night while we wandered around and didnt do very much, just a nice break and John got quite a lot of rest as his stitches have been uncomfortable.

My diary finally has a cover

There is something about going away that makes one finish something that has been hanging around for ages. I always cover my daily journal but this year I hadnt quite got around to deciding what to do with it. I had begun a wrap that was in a quilting arts I think when we had a Grumpy week end in June and I finally looked at this bit of pinned fabric and thought, right length, so onto the machine and within a couple of hours it was finished. I dont usually put a wrap closure around them but I had this bit left over so on it went. A bit big at the moment but I like to tuck all sorts of news items and things in the ends of my journal so it will fill by the end of the year, infact I will probably have to move the little bee button.
Last year I did brown paper on calico and it lasted all year well with quite a lot of being taken with me so I hope this one will as well.
Quite warm, I think Melbourne will be too so I hope I have the right clothes and I am taking enough to keep me happy if we decide to do very little.
Adelaide is supposed to get back up to 41 again on Friday and John is a bit worried about being away on Thursday too when it will be 39, we get back on a latish flight.
We are trying to water what bits of the garden we can as the sprinker system is not working due to the repairs to the dam, not that there is much but the pots and shade house are a bit of a worry.
Looking forward to catching up with the children and grand children and also actually seeing what Dale has to offer on Thursday, mail order is fine but actually looking is better!

Suddenly in need of a necklace

I made this today, I have been wanting a dark coloured necklace for a while and came across some of these beads, had the others and it was made. I am really pleased with the way it looks on.
I went to the market this morning, walked on the beach and did some shopping and finally came home.
Tabby Celina and Millie for dinner tonight, gosh Millie is growing up fast and is so funny.
Trying to get ready to go to Melbourne on Monday.

Froth and bubbles

I saw this on the edge of the beach the other day, it is rather deceptive as it looks as if it is at a totally different angle.
Any way I have not done any photos, no walks, just work and that is boring. When I went to look for something I needed I couldnt find it, my work rooms are in a mess and I have lost a muse somewhere.
I just hope that when we go to Melbourne I will feel so much better and be able to get on with all the things I need to finish for this exhibition.
I did sort of nut out the invitation today and I went boringly to shop, I think I am getting to that late summer fed up feeling and just wish that either I didnt have a garden because I cant water it or that it would rain, just at the moment in buckets would be great.
The fire near us I havent heard what or why it was caused but we hope for no more of them.

Images of Victor

I am feeling as if my week is catching up with me and I just want to sleep. We have had a cool change and that could be another reason, but horror of horrors there has been a fire to the south east of us, luckily the fire is not coming in our direction, in fact it is so cloudy I cant even see the smoke but apparently there are firefighters so with any luck they will get it out. I just hope we dont have a fire bug in our area as that is the second one in that direction.
I took these photos on Monday, was it only Monday! I seem to have been flat out all week and today thought it was Friday, but no I am a day out.
We are getting ready for our Mix It Up exhibition over Easter and so we had a meeting today to get the invitations organised, that is my job so I hope I dont make a mess of it.
John had a rather large piece cut out of his back yesterday as the mole they cut out last week was a nasty, so they have had to take more, and there are now a couple of others they think look a bit suspect. I hope all is ok, it has given me rather a fright.

Easy beaded flowers

I was busy yesterday with Gaby and Mason who came out for part of the day and no photos taken, how silly but we had fun and Gaby went home with a bracelet she had made, only trouble is she has been bitten by the beading bug again so I now have to get her some supplies as she gave all the others to younger sister Celina.
I began making these easy flowers and I will see if I have time to finish them and make a beaded base to put them on.
Adelaide today and saw my mother who is very tired but on the whole seemed better and I seem to have won the battle of the underpants so that is one thing, but the battle of getting a loo she can get on and off with two things to hold on to is still to be won. Honestly at 96 you would think the powers that be would think of these things, and the carers are not listened to, stupid as they are the ones who know what people in their care want.
Still hot, still a long way to go before we have rain I think. We are having more trouble with water for stock as another dam has had to be cleaned to get to the pipe that was so choked with silt it wouldnt work, and finally the big dam is being cleaned out, that one ran out of water a week or so ago.

A bit of this and that

We walked this morning because we hadnt yesterday, we cleaned the house instead.
I saw these ducks which I think are chestnut teal standing in the stinking mess near the mouth of the Inman River, with no rain it stops before it goes out to sea and there had been a lot of sea weed on the beaches and in the river itself, they seemed quite happy for all the smell.
I took the next photo from the back gate and it is the poplar in the house paddock, the green are weeds, it is as dry as dry.
Next I have been playing with printing on disolvable paper and sewing it, using a resist and then dissolving it. I thought this looked an awful mess and the following photo of the fish is what it should be, but all the colour went. So I sprayed it with my lovely moonshadow mists and it looked a bit better, not like fish at all but better. At the moment it is not sewn onto the bit of silk paper, just sitting there to see if I like it.
I do quite like the really organic look but if I tried to get that look I bet I would fail dismally!