It was a super day.

Mr Kaiden is 6 months old and dressed in his finest koala suit. Big brother kodi doesn't like his photo taken Savannah kept us busy extracting her from the highest point of the play gym and back fence Matisse loves swinging and playing tea parties Tilly climbed high on the play gym The boys, Kodi…

Drapplique Letters….was this the beginning of the Alphabet blocks…?

I actually did these for Alex and Ricky ….2007!!!! woow I spent part of the day doing the drawings for  a couple of Medieval blocks…. for some friends. They are only 6" blocks… so it will be interesting to see how they come out. I've never done them that small before. via pamhollanddesigns.typepad.com

“MMMMM” they said…. the kitchen smells like Russia…

I am tempted to sit at the machine. I feel the need to draw something. I have so many ideas I need to get down in fabric and discipline states that I have to write a program for something else before I can play. But the body would only let me sleep, do the washing…

Almost home….. enjoy each day.

I'm sitting in the Qantas club in Melbourne. I'm savouring, yogurt and poached fruit, toast and vegemite…. it's just those small things that are so important..Heaven…. We've been traveling for 36 hours so far and a shower makes such a  difference.  It seems like I will have a welcoming party at the airport and I'm…

Leaving on a jet plane

Demonstrations in the streets and zocalo… today they intensified and I'm sort of keen to leave. Unexpected Festivals, in the street. studying textiles…. walking, walking, walking… filming, photographing and walking, walking, walking. The bags are packed for a huge trip home  -  and there is the sadness of a friends passing this morning. I purchased…

Is it really 6th of June? The year is almost half way through and I've achieved so much this year but when I look at what I still have to do I get dizzy. Somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind something is telling me to take life a little slower…. but it's hard…

Take a walk through the city of contrasts.

This is just a small part of what we saw yesterday afternoon…. the serenity of the hotel and the churches and the cacophony of sound at the demonstration… right outside our door.    Leaving Mexico city. Past the volcano that erupted yesterday…. and we arrived in Oaxaca at about 2.00 this afternoon. It was very…

A new fashion, orange lips.

Hmmmm, I wrote a long blog yesterday and lost it….. Grrrrrr. The internet is spasmodic here… How about this ceiling I photographed yesterday as a quilt….? I would use a light grey background and the colored fabric will be cut exactly the same shapes as the bricks.. What fabric would I use? The color of…