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Hi All - I have sneaked on here quickly - I have to go make dinner in a mo .... here are a couple more pics of the Tree for all Seasons embroidery. though the colours look a bit washed out in the "complete" view! I have been busy in the studio painting bobbins today ... it is that time of the year when I spend all morning bobbin painting and then try to get some time in the afternoons to do the "fun" stuff. I took all my goodies which I brought at the Craft Fair last Saturday to my lace group yesterday and got to drool over them again and so did my friends! One of them went to the Craft Fair and didn't spend any money other than the entry fee.... no idea how she managed that !!!! I think she must be ill haha!
Hi All - I Had a great day at the Craft Fair on Saturday - Caught the train at 8 am, one lace friend already on it and we acquired another 3 a few stations closer to Perth... It was a bit showery but as we were gonna be indoors so we weren't all that worried. I went off and snoofied around the stalls for a couple of hours before settling to demonstrating some lace.
I succumbed to buying 6 more little bags of Angelina fibres.... 4 packets of "Textiva fusion foil" (had to Google it though to see what to do with it haha! - now know it is Angelina fibres when they are whole!) also a little bag of dark blue silk rods, 4 bags of little lace "flower" motifs at $2 a bag ...bargain and very useful for Crazy Patch. I also got a pack of 10 sheets of fabric that I can put through the ink jet printer...a metre of sequin braid that I may use on my Egyptian piece... I had a quick look around the Quilt Show and there were some wonderful quilts there .... I got home at 6.15pm thank goodness I had put the Slow Cooker on in the morning with a chook and Vegie soup ...mmmmm it was soooo yummy as was the glass of Vino! I spent some of Sunday, Yesterday and today - making a quilted bag for my new Asus Eee PC to go in ... I am very pleased with how it came out and will take a pic when I next wield the camera!
The two pics here are some close up shots of a needlelace and embroidery piece I made a few years ago titled "A Tree for All Seasons". It was started in a Lace Guild workshop and as usual I designed it on a rather large scale so I had a lot less to show than the other students by the end of the week! haha! but I am pleased with how it ended up looking. It is mounted on a "Silk Hankie" which I got from Dale and "mist" painted it for colour!
Hi - well I have finished the Crazy belt ...late yesterday afternoon ... I took it along to my embroidery group (this morning) "Stitchety Grubs" and they all loved it (one of my friends was tempted to pop it in her bag haha!) I have been madly working on completing it as I wanted to wear it tomorrow for the all day demonstrating at the big Craft Fair here. Which is a good thing to have a deadline ... it meant I got on with it (finally!).
I haven't actually taken some pics of it finished but hope to on Sunday and once I have finished showing the early stage pics on here will put the latest ones on. (It really isn't that long a length haha!)
I have a piece of bobbin lace to take for demo-ing tomorrow... it's all packed up ready to go as I have to be out fairly early to catch the 8 am train (I have to chuck all the ingredients in my slow cooker before I leave for a chook and vegie soup so it'll be ready when I get back at whatever time in the evening! -so hence the early start!)
I noticed on my Neo Counter that I have acquired some visitors from yet more countries ... do feel free to leave a message ... I have only ever had a maximum (per blog entry) of 5 and I would like to break this by the end of the year! Thank you Susan (Artybliss) bless you - you always leave a little comment which I greatly appreciate! :D Thank you :D
Plus all you other visitors - if you do leave a comment it will give me a link to come visit your blogs! :D
Well I have to do a few bits and bobs that I have just thought of for tomorrow (to look out my Lace Guild Group badge hmmm hopefully it is in my "Tallboy drawer!"
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Here are the next 2 pics of my Crazy Belt .... Today I finished all the embroidery and have pinned it together with the backing fabric - ready for me to sew on Thursday ...can't do it tomorrow as I have Lace day ..... I also finished my Garden theme "thingie" which will be on it's way to Susan in USA imminently.... I took some pics and will post them once Susan has received it! I am very pleased with it! gonna have to make another for myself haha! How often does that happen to us?
I now have my Neo Counter back on my blog (I lost it last year when I updated) and I notice there are quite a few new visitors from countries who I have never had visit before ... Hello to you! and welcome to my blog.... If you would like to leave a comment I would love to hear from you and hopefully come and visit your blogs :D
Hi -I took daughter and her friend from next door to the Domestic Airport this morning ... they have flown up to Karratha to visit a school friend who works at the mines up there. Karratha is around 1,500 kms North of Perth and it took them 2 hours to fly there!. They have gone for 12 days ... I had a text message at lunchtime to say they had landed safely and that it is 32°c there ...It's not too bad here ... a few showers this afternoon and around 22°c but we are having cooler nights around 8°c! brrrr ..The gas fire is on low most evenings now ...winter is on it's way! I have been experimenting with my new camera and was able to take quite a few pictures of some of my crafty stuff so you will at last see something in the next few days ... I have been working though of course not this morning as I was doing the "Mum's Taxi" thing! I am having trouble loading pics on Blogger - it doesn't want to co-operate :(
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Happy (Aussie) Mother's Day to all - My kids gave me an ASUS Eee PC yay! but as I had to work in the studio this morning and was working on my crazy patch belt this afternoon - I haven't had a chance to set it up yet! I did get a chance yesterday to have a "play" with the new camera which I got 10 days ago! (I have taken some pics of the crazy patch belt and will try and get around to loading them on this computer this week).
I had trouble with MSN today ... it wouldn't recognise me and then bumped me off! I don't think the virus checker we have is that good! methinks something has gotten under it's Radar!
We had rain yesterday ...got soaked when I went grocery shopping but it held off today when Dear Son was playing his footy game (Aussie rules footy).
I have managed to reload Neo counter back on this blog (at last) I lost it last year when I changed to the newer one (from Template to Layout!). My goal this year is to have a blog entry with more than 5 comments on it! I regularly visit one ladies and she has an average of around 14 messages each time ... :-(
I also reinstated the "Bloggers who embellish" which I also had before the new blog upgrade ... however when I filled out the "form" I couldn't see the "banner" (I assume this is the logo) so only have the wording grrr! There didn't seem to be anything to click on at step 2 when it said select the banner!
Am now not feeling brave enough to try and join any others "ring surf" thingies! :-(
Well I did have Neo counter now it has gone and the standby logo is back ! sheesh!
I know, I know, here are a couple of old pics taken back in March with the old camera I still haven't had a chance to "play" with my new camera which I got 6 days ago!!! I did take the charger out and charge the special battery ... and had a quick squizz through the instruction manual! on Monday whilst the man was putting in a new hot water system as our other one died last Thursday after 15 and a half years - and yesterday I went out all morning looking at the prices for an ASUS Eee PC (Dale lad me astray telling about her new one on her blog hehe!)
As it is Mother's Day here in Australia this Sunday my kids are giving me it! I managed to get one with the Microsoft XP loaded on it rather than the unfamiliar Linux that the first shop had. It was a little dearer but had the Mouse and a soft pouch and a 4gb SD card as a bonus ...so worked out the same price more or less!.
I also got a little external hard drive for it! I just have to wait until Sunday to receive it then try and find time next week to get it up and running!
As for these 2 pics - this was the sunset when Hubby and I stayed just down the coast at a hotel right on the beach front back at the end of March. CALM (Department of Conservation and Land Management) had been having a "burn off" (burning off the bush in preparation for next summer and the possible "bush fires") so there was quite a bit of smoke lurking in the sky all that day! it resulted in a beaut sunset!
Hi All - I have just been visiting a friend's blog where she has posted that she has been blogging for 2 years ... I suddenly realised that I too must have been near my 2 year anniversary - and yes! I missed it! :( It was on the 19th April! I also added up the entries and I have done 129 with this one so I missed the 100 mark too! Oh well! Happy Anniversary to me haha!
Here is a pic that was lurking in a folder in this computer - a piece I did ages ago (for C&G) it was an exercise in layers (fine materials). I have been working on some bobbin lace this afternoon whilst watching a new DVD (Miss Potter) I had seen the movie when it was out at the cinema's with my bestest galpal ... she always laughs at me 'cos I get teary at sad bits (OK I confess I am a blubber bum! - I even cry when there are sad adverts!) it still made me cry! even though I knew what was gonna happen! hehe! Our gas storage water heater died last night so this afternoon I have been taking kettles and saucepans full of water down to the bath in the main bathroom - we have ordered a new one but it won't be here until mid day Monday! The water heater was 15 1/2 years old - it was installed when we built this house - so did very well as they really only have around a 10 year life apparently! It's amazing how you miss something like that when you haven't got it!
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I went to the city today (as it was the last day of the Easter school holidays for Dear Son ) and I had a look at a new camera I am interested in .....I will now get myself organised and go and buy one sometime this week... However I did find these two pics of some ATC's I made the week before last ... the Lavender and Lace ones ... I cut up a cushion which I had embroidered 16 years ago and I made up some tatting to match ... the others are some painted linen fabric (which I did years ago and found in one of my "stuff" boxes!) and I cut and appliqued some of my "Fluff felt fabric" (left over bits!) in the shape of leaves and sewed on some hand made bobbin lace, oh and of course sequins and beads! hehe!
Hi All - went to take a pic of a weed in our garden - hubby discovered it down the side of the house ... has very pretty leaves so is probably extremely noxious! anyway my Olympus camera didn't want to play :-( didn't matter what I did but the button you depress to take the picture did nothing it pushes down and you can hear the camera trying to do something but nah! zilch!
It is 5 years old now and I have been thinking about getting a new one but then decided that this one worked perfectly well so why would I now it doesn't ... I will be going out this week to get one. I had an Olympus mju410 and am now looking at and Olympus mju840 (released in Australia in February - so quite up to date!). I was painting a bobbin order this morning and this afternoon I was working on my competition piece (for next year) whilst watching DVD's... I have the lettering to do on those bobbins tomorrow morning (after the ironing - yik!) and then I will take the piece of bobbin lace off the pillow which I completed today ...gotta let it rest for 24 hours- whilst the threads relax! LOL! :-D
Hi - Hooray - Blogger let me load my pics tonight though it took 38 seconds each one rather than the usual 12-15 seconds! Anyway here are a couple of ATC's I made. Last Friday I went to the monthly West Aus Lace Guild Lace Day where we were having an ATC swap .... a few ladies participated ... one of which I hadn't swapped with before .... and I got 2 others from a couple of other friends who have been getting addicted to making them haha ! I have led them astray! I still have these two (they were the only ones just with embroidery - no lace on) along with quite a few others. I had a great weekend - Saturday I had my fortnightly Lacecargot Lace Group meeting and Sunday was my 23rd Wedding Anniversary and hubby gave me a pearl necklace (Pearls from Broome) ...I will try and get around to taking a pic of it later this week (along with some pics of my new ACT's, both the ones I made and newly swapped ones). Yesterday I didn't get much in the way of "fun stuff" done as I had bobbin orders to paint and today I spent 4 hours altering my sons friends Footy shirt (Aussie rules footy that is and the shirts need to be fairly well fitting so that the opposition can't grab handfuls of them) ... I had also altered my sons last Friday and on Saturday morning! Glad that's done phew!
I tried to load pictures on last night and again tonight and blogger is not doing it so will try again tomorrow! hmmmm
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I had a busy end of last week preparing for the Wire Bobbin Lace Workshop over the weekend which went really well ... I had 9 diligent students who all progressed well. The weather was beautiful 28°c on Saturday and 30°c on Sunday though we were in doors working we we had the door open and we were able to sit outside amongst the Gum trees at lunchtime in the warm sun to the accompaniment
of the birds... I did manage to fit in (at the end of last week) the beginning of the ATC's in the pic.... and I finished them off this afternoon as they are for swapping at the Monthly Western Australian Lace Guild "Lace Day" on Friday. Th top two were made using some old fabric I was given a couple of weeks ago (grotty print but fairly textural) which I painted with Lumiére paints, added some "grass" long stitches and some little tatted "Flowers" and also beads and sequins. The next 2 are crazy patch with some more of my tatting - including the butterfly (love doing these ... they are so quick!).... then the bottom two are velvet with shiny butterflies (I bought a bag with lots of these in in 5 different colourways) and also with tatting and sequins. I am part way through making some more of these 3 series as there is to be a swap at the Australian Lace Guild Conference in Brisbane at the end of September.
Hi All - Just a quick note to say hi ...yes it's my Birthday today and we all went to Fremantle for the day even though it was persisting with rain all morning! I have had a busy week in the studio preparing for the Wire Lace workshop which I am teaching next weekend ... and I have been sharing my computer with our young UK visitor in the evenings so I haven't been on here as much as usual. Off to have some Rosé bubbly ......and chocolate ... of course haha!
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I have been really busy the last 9 days ... went on a bike ride on Easter Sunday with friends... first one for me in over 18 months! We did 20 kms (12.5 miles) down to East Perth and back up all along the river (Swan) which was lovely and it wasn't too hot ... a nice breeze ... though I had "Biker's Butt!" after - tender botty! I felt like I had done a great achievement though haha! The first pic shows a Kangaroo and Aboriginal sculpture (apparently fairly new according to my mate who bikes around this route a lot)... The Aborigine is back towards the right though he looks a bit in need of the loo! haha!
In the second pic- I am usually the person behind the camera ... but thought I would need photographic evidence so here I am! haha! :-)
We have a visitor from UK staying for 3 weeks so I have hardy been in the studio so nothing crafty done this week except I did go to Lace group on Wednesday and did a bit more tatting for new ATC's (There is a swap at next month's West Aussie Guild Lace Day!)
I probably won't get too much in the way of craft stuff done the next 2 weeks though I do have some bobbin paining work to fit in... no fun stuff :-(
Hi - I hope you all had a great Easter and lots of choc haha! I have had a busy family Easter and haven't had a chance to do much in the way of crafty stuff! ... just a bit of Tatting!
Anyway here are a couple of pics ...some painted commercial lace (which I was given a while ago) and some Tyvek which has now been heat gunned and I will be incorporating it into my Stitchety Grubs Embroidery group piece (my theme is Egypt) more on this as it progresses!). They were painted with Lumiere paints ... love them 'cos they are shiny haha!
I recieved a new ATC early last week from Ati (thanks Ati) and I will dig out the camera and take a pic to show you.
