Reminiscing today

With the Houston Quilt Event fast approaching I become reflective. This Event has shared so many wonderful things with me and I consider it the pinnacle of my year in this industry of Textile Art. It’s an Interesting life. You just never know what the future holds. I think we all have times in our…

A Photographic tour of a small tour up to Purgatory Mountain

What is it, We Hot springs are a result of melted snow and rainfall trickle down cracks in the Earth’s surface towards it core. After travelling thousands of feet, it reaches a point where it can’t go any further, so it begins to move back upward, using its intense heat to dissolve rocks and anything…

4.23 am and the body clock is out of sync.

A 16 hour time change, the body clock is not working right and I can’t just lay in bed and think, so I’m up and quietly working on my computer. Hot milk has been consumed and in a while I will probably lay my head on the lounge and sleep until the grandies come down…

Leaving home is hard.

I have 100’s of people with great expectations resting on my shoulders relying on me and if I leave just one thing out of the list it could be a disaster. On the other hand, once I’m in the plane and in the process of travel, it all fades into the background and I just get on with the journey. Sometimes it’s a week journey, sometimes a month and often 3 months with multiple projects to juggle.

Artist in Residence – around the world

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An Aussies perspective of an American Mall.

There are quite wide cultural distances between we Aussies, and Americans. Things we say and do and of course due to the huge population in the USA, everything is BIG. Sometimes that is a little daunting for the average Aussie tourist. I wrote this a while ago but it’s still relevant today and it’s part…

I wrote the book.

As a child I read everything I could get my hands on. Little did I imagine I would ever write one of my own, let alone two.! Now in my 70’s I’m working on 3 at the same time. Today I found a note of how I found the time to write the Alphabet Book….