Sydney Graffiti..You struggle to look out of the train window on a cloudy day. But it is framed by the artwork of a presumably younger creative spirit.

5 days in Sydney without the internet….. It’s rather a sobering experience.  However, I’m back on track. The photos shown are some of the wonderful textures I photographed as I wandered around beautiful Sydney.

An interesting block

Newsletter No 1. We strive for perfection… It makes us uncomfortable if the points are not perfect… I wanted to share this old block with you. We don’t get to see too many here do we. It’s hand pieced and no doubt cut painstakingly with scissors. Sewn on the bias, and the creator doesn’t care…

New Years day is Over.

Newsletter No 1. Hi all, have you recovered from New Years day?…. We had a family lunch, I watched a chick flick and then I played in the swimming pool with Grandson Kodi.What more could I ask for? I just want to say thanks for the feed back on the newsletter. I really appreciate it….

Newsletter No 1.

Happy New year. It’s still HOT…. but it’s made me keep indoors and get stuck into some work. The illustration below are till images from my aggy plants outside the shed window…. I have had a love affair with the shapes of the buds for many years… Here in the hills the budding of the…

it’s HOT

I’ve been a bit slack with the blog the past few days….however, work has taken precedence as I push to pass a deadline.I have written 4 new classes and they will replace some of the older ones.2008 brings a new newsletter for subscribers and I have been lazy with the member pages so that will…

Christmas day is over.

Christmas is over for another year. It was a wonderful day, fun, exciting and absolutely exhausting. Every year, the day after the event, I make a promise to myself not to do it again the next year… but time erases the amount of time and energy needed and we do it all over again, and…

It’s raining…and my Doves are making the most of it by bathing in the pools of water gathered on the roof their Dove Condo.

A Stitch in Time

Being There A Stitch in Time, the Mother of all Quilters Photographs by Sarah Wilson and Narration by Michael Hall. One of my peers put this information to the list and I thought you might like to see it. Michael Hall is a Senior Editor with the Texas Monthy Magazine and he followed his Mother…

Christmas is upon us.

Don’t you feel smug when you’ve purchased all your Christmas presents, and they are sitting nestled under the tree.? It always reminds me of when the kids were little. I remember the physical exhaustion and mental stress. Most Christmases would find us  traveling from Adelaide to Tasmania on the overnight ferry. It meant packing the…