tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128499048618675842024-03-14T05:36:06.045-07:00NO SCRAPS TOO SMALLSusan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-54963517255839352922017-06-18T20:17:00.000-07:002017-06-18T20:17:31.110-07:00Life as we know it...<span style="font-size: large;">I have another blog post almost ready to go....and then life happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No rambling excuses, just life, and the upshot is we are moving house. Yes, there we are planning in our heads how we move on in retirement, and we up and put in an offer on a new home.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there has been a mass cleanup and we wait to finalise sales and settlement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As result of life, I have been a little unsettled, so one morning I arose early and asked my husband if he would like to take a stroll down to the beach so I could take some photos.....he said "yes!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My husband is not always a patient man and he doesnt usually like to dawdle when I want to take photos......but on this occasion he did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The light was just perfect, a dull and still winters morning. This was what greeted us when we parked the car by the Mordialloc Creek. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An obliging local allowed me to get his best side. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this is what my husband doesnt always understand, the need to take random photos.....I just find these things fascinating, little details and splashes of colour and texture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The colours just draw my eye, and I look to weathered and battered objects as to me they show so much character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is me being arty like.....a stray orange piece of twine hanging off the pier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The water was so green that day, hard to describe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So having walked to the end of the pier and back we went for a delicious pastry and coffee......and I felt a little more settled....for now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We celebrated Easter, and ate a traditional treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Although these buns appear in the shops immediately after Christmas. I will not allow them to be eaten until Good Friday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These were prepared by my husband who has discovered the delights of working with yeast. He gets very excited to see the dough proving and loves creating delicious meals for the family.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mind you I did it all for the first 30 odd years of the marriage, but I do really appreciate that he is now retired and so willing to <strike>take over </strike> I mean co opt the cooking.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of course now he thinks he could appear on one of those reality shows, oh Lord spare me the competition. I mean cooking is hard enough without being harshly judged!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I may not watch the shows, but I do buy the books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Except for this one, this is where I store those precious tried and true recipes. My own cook book creation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I artistically tear out pages from magazines and promise myself to attempt the dish one day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And of course there are the books that are all about the pictures...they seduce your eyes and are virtually impossible to recreate in real life. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But I can still look at pretty things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one that would be saved from a fire, or settled in a divorce court....should it ever come to that....which will be the twelfth of NEVER....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I bought this when I left home as my mother had the same book and there were many delicious meals made from this. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A good cook book is one where you take more than one or two dishes from it.....and for our family this is the one.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My son has copied a few when he left home and wanted to cook his favourite "Honey Chili Chicken" yummmmmm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Which leaves me to ponder the whole cooking, quilting thing!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">NO, don't run away, stay with me on this one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you cook like you quilt? Is it all about the recipe, collecting the ingredients, recreating the exact same dish?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Or is it about a quick glance at the pantry, or fabric stash and throwing it all out there and creating your own dish?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is it all about traditional quilting, tried and true recipes or is it modern, new flavours, breaking rules and seeing elephants amongst the flowers (just seeing if you are still reading Ms Daisy)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have really thought a lot about my creative side just lately. I have made a few quilts and wanted to stand out just a little, find my own groove and style. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But time and time again I would flick through a quilt book and be off taking a recipe and recreating someone elses dish. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am trying to be OK with however I end up.....at the end of the day I want to be happy and fulfilled and however that occurs I will be grateful. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have ideas for creative quilts and now realise that without going through the basics how does one learn to go on and create your own tasty dish or quilt?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now on a completely different tangent. Our gum tree has burst into bloom....and now we have the beautiful parrots visiting our garden. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you see him?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Look closely................these parrots are the most wonderfully camouflaged. They have green backs and the most gloriously coloured faces and breasts. Which I discovered gives them incredible camouflage when being viewed from underneath. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is there.....look just above the flowers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There surely you can see him now?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The blue and orange may see to stand out here, but when you look up at a bird in a tree, the blue is the colour of the sky and the red and orange look like flowers or the old leaves which turn from green to russet. They are noisy parrots but shy. I had to sit quietly for some time and be patient. So glad I did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still actually in the flowers having a snack...see if you can spot him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then he saw me and left. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found this feather and you can see how wonderful these birds are. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nature is just so amazing, I never cease to admire its beauty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greetings again.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">now as I was cogitating about books, I thought why not discuss the other books that feature in my life. My craft books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have grabbed those that I would deem as my "top shelf" items, those I look over regularly and inspire me to one day try to emulate those quilts that make me smile and "spark joy"in my brain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Firstly however this book makes me a little wistful when I look through it. Kathreen is no longer with us, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love that quote..."you will either love it or hate it".....because that is what happens when I try to break those rules that float around in my subconscious. This book is a little gem and I treasure it as such. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have followed these two quilters (Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke) since the early days. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Even though they have struck out on their own now, they still both have great ideas, each so different but each appealing to my eye. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So now they are independent I can have twice as much fun with their designs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took this design from Kathy and tweaked it a little to make a gift for my boss, who happened to be a priest. It could not have been more perfect!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I fell in love with this book after seeing other quilters review it on their blogs. I was not disappointed. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The possibilities are endless, and the instructions on how to achieve that ever so slightly wonky look that I adore are fantastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then "improv" was the buzzword, again it tapped into those quilts that just grab me by the heartstrings. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I do really melt when I see and touch those antique quilts that these are based on. The fabric feels as though it holds the makers heart and soul within. I know it sounds a little OTT but that's just how I feel. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its as almost as if I can converse with the maker, feel her pride or boredom or frustration or sadness vibrate from the past. Did she think about her life as she sewed, did sewing give her solace or industry? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These were some of the first books I purchased. Applique was something I picked up quite quickly and I ran with it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To me this duo are the applique queens, and please do argue with me and let me know otherwise! But until then I will always gravitate to "Piece O Cake" for applique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now talking of artists....I actually got to fly to the Texas Quilt show and meet up with the author of this next book. Not only that but got to share a room as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its a long story but it was quite adventurous of me to embark on that trip.....which was a 50th birthday present to me.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was a gift from my children....well in that I said to my then 10 year old daughter....."I am buying this book and you can put it under the Christmas Tree for my present"...... or something like that. I think she actually bought it...neither of us can remember the exact details but I have had this for at least 12 years now and the designs are still modern and refreshing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not normally a fan of wearable patchwork but I would wear this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had these even before I could quilt, a great record of traditional quilts. I remember my first attempt at a double wedding ring quilt from this........very ambitious , lets not say too much more about it..... I have improved a little since those early days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">......or here!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As I was going through the books I saw these amazing homes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once upon a time, we embraced quirky in our homes and gardens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note the glass bottle wall, stuck with plates, and those shells!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A question was posed on a friends blog......how do you treat your books?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well some would say not really well.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am breaking a lot of rules here but I am being brutally honest, I lay them open on the page. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However I NEVER turn a page down and crease the paper, that was drummed into me by my librarian father. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That was the ultimate sin.....and what I am doing here was a close second.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My daughter is an avid reader and buyer of books so when I have run out of material I ask her what she has for me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then I get to read some very eclectic titles. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Note when I borrow books from other people I do not lay them open willy nilly. I am very respectful of books that have been entrusted to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I will grab whatever is handy to act as a bookmark.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This being a very sweet card from my husband. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(must remember to take that out before handing the book back...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This book is quite funny, as I know a few lazy folk. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The story is patchy but well worth just sticking with it for the human observations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there are the books that I would take with me on a desert island. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I actually dont own a lot of books, I beg and borrow and then return them. Strangely I have a fabric library but have whittled down books to a select few. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This was a story that was a theme through my childhood of searching for strong characters, those who struck out on their own and made their life independently of others who sought to control them. This was an outstanding book of its time published in 1963 with a female hero, who fought her Victorian father for the right to an education.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whats more it was set in my hometown of Melbourne Australia!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are some of my other keepers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Three Men On a Boat" makes me laugh out loud.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Gormenghast" has the best descriptive passages of pure writing I have ever experienced. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I think Mervyn was on strong substances when he wrote this, its bizarre but so well written. I identified with the hero being ambivalent to inheriting a title, it was just so angst ridden...but I saw his pain. I recommended it to a family member who hated the character, thought he was weak and soppy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I was hurt, it felt personal. I really fall in deep with some books and sometimes its a risk to put it out there.....like a piece of your soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I can only imagine how writers feel after bad reviews. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" made me sob...which was awkward as I was reading it at 3.00am...as I do when I cannot sleep.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"The Dark Room" opened my eyes to the German experience of WWII. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As a child of English parents I only heard one side. This is a great human perspective of what it was like to live as a German then and now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Wind in the Willows" my only friend as a preteen...I read and reread and reread....I never stopped returning wishing I too could escape on the river, find a true friend like Ratty....oh this book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its very broken and precious I have upgraded and bought a new copy but it doesn't feel like this book....this book holds my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">AA Milne a complete delight. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Loved this poem</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loved Winnie The Pooh....he often made me laugh, and Eeyore....well I only have just understood him...and I adore his melancholy...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was given a lot of secondhand books as a child, read this a lot. Fairy Tales are actually quite gruesome and these were no exception!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Found these at my local thrift shop. They bought back memories of school reading. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"cough, cough" I was actually a very advanced reader and had progressed from all set texts by age 8...was often just sent to the library and told to pick whatever I wanted! But I still have fond memories even so. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">These texts are just so Australian...whereas my home reading was almost all English. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello, .........calling from the other side.....if you listen to Adele's lyrics you will appreciate what I am trying to convey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been on the other side, just trying to put myself back after my many worlds were somewhat shattered. I have allowed myself a period of mourning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have lost many things, some physical, some spiritual, some things I never had but thought I did......and in my quiet place I saw how many other things I still could count as blessings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stuff is just stuff, I am not mourning stuff, stuff doesnt make you happy.....but it can be caught up in the grief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But from the other side, I see calm and beauty and a new happy. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I was fortunate to have people close and from afar reach out when I was low, people like Denice who has empathy and a kindness that just made me feel less alone. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My friend Denice has a cool <a href="http://weesied.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">blog </a>that I stumbled upon and we exchanged many an email. I felt safe telling her my story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the things we lost was my husbands father. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another anniversary was marked. I am blessed to have a strong silent and practical partner in my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we married and I saw him waiting for me in the church, a strong feeling of peace descended upon me, and a voice in my head said...."You are home now"....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many events over many years culminated in a last outrageous act of disrespect, bullying and scapegoating. I had to walk away from and mourn a very dysfunctional family dynamic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So in my quiet place I sat and looked at the simple things that are around us. Saw beauty where ever it was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly I hit a slow patch, but not...I mean I was churning through projects in my head somehow it meant that my hands didn't catch up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It felt like I was a busy ant preparing for Winter, I dithered and darted trying to get things under control before the weather closed in. It is madness because I live in a climate that is quite benign but maybe I have ancestors that lived in snowed in cabins and it reverberates in my DNA. Who knows, I mean the one lesson this life has taught me is we think we know but we don't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And again....yep I was playing with 1/4 inch hexies and they found their way into the circles. Bit proud of that I am!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This represents the </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A day we remember all our service man and women who served in wars around the world. Represented by the Flanders Poppy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A piece of Australiana</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found this fabric in the stash, cannot decide if those blobs are sheep or clouds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was also back in April getting seeds in to grow some veggies. Now I am not working I cannot afford seedlings....not really.... but to be really effective and a proper gardener I thought I would try the seeds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those specks of green are my French carrots. They are a little gourmet variety and I had to grow them inside first and then transplant. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They are tiny, and as I fretted about them, my daughter quipped..."Mum they are FRENCH carrots, therefore they will make an entrance only when they feel like it" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first signs of my peas....there see...I found myself each day bum up head down searching the soil for any sign that things were growing. Its quite exciting.....do I need to get out more? Or am I just only now discovering what life is all about and channelling the curiosity that children find in the everyday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The broccoli had to be caged it is so wild and rampant. No of course not but it did keep the neighbourhood cat from digging it up. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Self seeded pumpkin. My compost always delivers some surprises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dreaming of Spain, I finished covering this pot with broken tiles and realised that quilting with scraps of fabric is a little similar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And finally.........I was challenged to take a photo of nature each day for ten days. This was what I discovered in the cherry tomato punnet. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I got the macro lens out and really nature in all its guises is a fascinating thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Linking up with Audrey at <a href="http://quiltyfolk.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Quilty Folk</a></span><br />
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<br />Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-5008548931928515592016-04-04T22:29:00.002-07:002017-10-24T14:36:15.658-07:00March Circles and Life<span style="font-size: large;">Wowsers I thought time flashed by when I was tied to a quarterly accounting schedule in my past life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I (in my past life) had to account to the government all the sales and tax collected less the depreciation, wages and purchases to arrive at a figure that we either owed or needed returned....don't ask me I was just the book keeper!!!! Anyhoos the months whizzed by and each quarterly reporting period seemed to get closer and closer together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 31 days has March!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am still managing to find the fabric each day that speaks to me, some days I will pass over a piece because its not doing it for me. Then the next day it will shine and that's the fabric for that day.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No rhyme no reason, just is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have subtle background differences and I will also make a conscious decision on them. I fully intend to have this quilt emerge in a chronological order. A lot like a diary. Good and not so great days. I have had a few. :-(</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was made from crumbs that I rescued from my scrap bin, I wanted to see how small I could go. I enjoyed tinkering but have realised that small crumbs can result in a muddy colour.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">From a distance it just doesn't translate, it looks meh...muddy and confused. Lesson learned.</span> <br />
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This was an extremely painful day, the day my sister sold our family home....somehow she neglected to tell me she was doing this.....a long story, and a very dysfunctional family. It hurt like he## but it has taught me that I have survived and I wont go back. This quilt will be testament to my personal journey.<br />
I chose the words "kind" and "love", and the fact that now I have had "quite enough" of the bullying and abuse.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This has been a long dry start to the year and rain is required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And I bought this fabric to make a shirt, never looked good as a garment and only really shines as a focal fabric. Again lesson learnt, but I do still love the design. Perfect for this project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Back in 2011, I started collecting strips for a project.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tadahhhhh.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now honey, could you please hold up this quilt so I can photograph it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">OK, step a little away from the door, more into the deck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah that's good...I would have liked to close the screen door and position it somewhere else, but I was only given 2 mins to get this done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> No, thanks honey, wont keep you much longer, looking good...1min 30 secs down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Thanks!!! and with that he runs back inside drops the quilt on the table and scampers back to his man cave....you have to time these things and act fast folks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I am mighty pleased with this creation, the planning took a long time, the execution was steady and there its done and done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The left over strips, perfect for the dolls size postage stamp quilt, wall hanging...I may actually get that quilted sooner rather than later.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> You know I never see all the loose threads and lint until after I have taken the photo. I am blind to them, which explains my less than pristine home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Could not for the life of me get this shot in focus, may be the light, maybe my bad eyesight. But I loved this project and could see a full quilt made this way maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> What I do in the evening, bright huh? Bought this to do on the plane when we were travelling now I must finish of course. Watching "House of Cards" on Netflix.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I know I must be the last person on the planet to be watching (OMG...can you believe that Frank Underwood!!! No don't spoil it for me I have just got to the bit where he is being nominated to VP. I am sorry if you have no idea about the side shoot of this conversation but I do love a good script and intelligent acting.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I also decided to add this to the list.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Great progress is being made. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is more but I think we will leave it there for now, go make that cuppa tea now.</span>Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-1694456754624966872016-03-24T23:45:00.000-07:002016-03-24T23:45:25.202-07:00For my pal Ms Daisy....because she asked so nicely!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">After you have torn your eyes away from the ceiling, you start to take in small vignettes, details.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There is still a place for the traditional features, harking back to the history of churches, stained glass, Gothic windows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then you look towards the altar. I found this so beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a Catholic church, so the crucifix looms large. But I found the figure of Jesus more in the spirit of new beginnings, than the agony of death. The figure is already looking upwards, striving to reach heaven and be with his Father. The canopy is also adorned with a rich harvest, a promise of new life. (phew that was philosophical wasn't it but it was how I felt)</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sun comes out to play, casting light onto the pillars</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each side of the church is adorned with stained glass, one side being coloured primarily in greens and blues....the natural side, new beginnings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are the doors to the other entrance, whereas the doors we entered were pretty and natural, these were more austere.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They were textured to look like carved wooden doors but they are heavy cast bronze.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have forgotten exactly what the words mean, but if my memory serves me right I think it is religious expressions written out in all languages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are now standing outside the doors looking up over the entrance. A complete contrast to the other side. Here we have the Passion of Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This was commissioned and completed after Gaudis death, the artist has looked at drawings and concepts that Gaudi had started on and interpreted them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">St Peter, refusing Jesus three times</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Judas with his hand after accepting the coins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a clever mathematical thingy, every line adds up to 33, the age Jesus was when he died. There were some other clever maths symbolism to do with dates but I sorta zoned out a little....as I always did in class too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The artist made one of the statues with Gaudis face....and the soldiers helmets have a reference to the design on some of the chimney pots on Gaudis buildings</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got to see a reconstruction of the workroom where Gaudis genius was translated to plans</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really struggled to get the best shot of this building. But this was the school house Gaudi had built for the workers children. He could quite legitimately put up 4 slab walls, peaked roof. Quick and easy. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But no! There were no straight surfaces, the walls and roof undulated. Again no computer aided design, I don't know how the bricklayers managed it. The roof has steel beams.....again how advanced was this man? There are only one or two pillars inside so floor space is maximised. The children must have been so happy to work in this magical space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Under this magnificent church is the original church. A window allows the visitors to peek in to what is still a working place of worship, this is where the regular parishioners come to seek peace, and light candles for this extraordinary man, whose crypt is placed where he lived and died making this world a little more beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Quite an appropriate Easter posting. I hope you enjoyed the tour. </span><br />
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(I guarantee these are all my own pictures....except the two I did get from the internet.....because I could not illustrate the whole beauty of that school room)<br />
I encourage you to seek further pictures, you will probably see more professional shots but this is my online diary, and my interpretation of a wonderful time on my holiday.....thank you for joining me here.<br />
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on and on about the genius of the architect and the reason I travelled
halfway around the world...(lets face from Australia everywhere is
halfway around the world)...to see this particular
site...sight....building...monument...church....wonder of the world!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the official front entrance of the church, the scale is massive but also intimate....you may be able to see as there is a human reference there bottom right hand corner.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was an attempt to get a longer range shot, I am standing in a park opposite the church. The lens I took that day does not do landscape panorama.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the pinnacle over the entrance, the tree of life and the doves are all ceramic. Not painted but glazed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You see that dash of colour, that is part of the gates in this entrance. This was just recently installed, and are known as the rose gates. This side of the church is dedicated to nature, new begininngs.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The gates were exquisite, and were completed by a Japanese artist to continue the vision of work started by Gaudi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are cold painted bronze</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is another door way, the colours are more autumnal</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we entered the tour guide asked us to look up. These sculptures were also completed by the same artist, and you may notice the features on the children's faces are Asiatic. This church has bought together so many artists who have all left their personality which makes this place incredibly inclusive and international. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A small detail on the gate, I couldn't tarry too long there were queues of people behind me....wanting to take selfies!!!! Don't get me started on selfies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seriously, have you ever seen such a ceiling?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The light floods in through clever placement of skylights, this was during the day and there was no artificial lighting used. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a small detail that Gaudi would certainly approve, you look back towards the entrance from inside the church, and this detail becomes evident. You wont see it from the outside only from inside. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I took a bazillion pictures, and I will spare you a complete avalanche because I want you to appreciate the wonders not get bored and flick through.....hey I am guilty of the same thing on other peoples blogs...I get it, if its not your passion or project...you will flick through...........</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This church was a passion of mine, there is more to see we have only just stepped inside, until next time lovely people....you have been warned. LOL. </span><br />
Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-13949727861359399082016-03-04T19:42:00.001-08:002016-03-04T20:18:37.426-08:00February review<span style="font-size: large;">Well here we are....end of February.....another whole month, a twelfth of a year....a leap month....you get the picture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These little circles of mine are counting down my year, and its quite a process now. I have read the wonderful blogs of the other participants of this challenge and the wisdom and varying styles is wonderful to observe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am not preparing my circles ahead of time, but I did spend a day cutting and preparing the background squares so I could just grab a square each day and hunt for the fabric that speaks to me in that moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did fall behind for a day or two as life got in the way of the routine, but I made it my job to at least select fabric daily even if I didn't sew it on the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am writing the date on the back of the squares and I don't cut the fabric away from behind the circle as some have told me that essentially weakens the quilt.......now don't all talk at once, I respect each and everyone of you and what ever method is best is the one you will swear by.....this is mine....smiley face....:-)...smiley face!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This has been a whole lotta fun. You know all those slim strips of fabric that we get when we square up fabric before cutting? I saved these as they were often the full width of fabric, and then proceeded to wrap them around the clothes line rope. No particular pattern or design in mind, just wrapping the fabric around the rope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are many tutorials and youtube videos to illustrate. Its a little like a cross between potting and sewing, you angle the bowl up as you want to create the sides. You can do it gently and get a shallow dish, or more steeply and you get a bowl shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am seeing more of these in my future, I have a thing for baskets and bowls. I also want to try other methods and styles. In fact once I did contemplate joining the basket weavers guild to learn more about that magical art. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You know what? Nothing to stop me now, I think I will do it!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am glad I got to see this in person, if you love design and creativity this will not disappoint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Detail of the space over a doorway.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">From one side it looks muted, when you enter the room and look back the light coming through illuminates the whole beauty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The finish on the columns is hand painted, made to look scaly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A light fitting....I could see this in my home very easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Detail of the mosaic work....hours of artistry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More chimney pots</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">These were covered in glass mosaic tiles, some neutral in colour others very bright.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The thing about this work is of course it wont fade in the harsh Spanish sun and doesnt need painting each year or so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There I spared you the hundreds of snaps and distilled it into the best ones.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you enjoyed the beauty. </span>Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-54185880975120320432016-01-31T20:31:00.000-08:002016-01-31T20:36:46.227-08:00In which I go dumpster diving for fabric....<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">....well more like rummaging in my own kitchen bin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the title of my blog suggests I like scraps and they can be pretty small and still useful in my book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My darling daughter has, over the years, discovered her sewing skills and with the explosion of pretty young things making craft groovy she is motoring along and sewing a great wardrobe of simple tops and pants for her working life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This girl of mine has simple but expensive tastes and being single, not owning a car and still living at home as a student she can afford to indulge a little.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thus she has purchased yardage of Liberty to make a few tops, and being an awesome person passes on her left over scraps to me so I can add them to my stash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine then my surprise when I open the cupboard to ditch the soggy teabag in the bin when I espy colourful fabric scraps IN THE BIN!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luckily there were no soggy tealeaves or indescribable meats thrown on top of these precious pieces, and yes I may have still dived in and washed them later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I retrieved the fabric and later told my daughter what I had done and "why did she throw such things away nilly willy?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She sighed.....and said, "Mum you are officially bonkers!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, yes I am! But I am hooked now on small pieces of precious fabric, the possibilities, and Liberty scraps are worth the indignity of being discovered head down, bum up scrabbling around in ones own rubbish.......are you with me? Anyone?.....No just me then?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I mean anyone can see these are still usable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And this is the standard that determines whether or not a piece is thrown out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I collect them in a pretty glass dish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> ...and this is one I prepared earlier.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A small purse made from 1/4 inch hexagons. Loved making it and I have several purse frames to make a few more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This scrap quilt is on a slightly larger scale, its the 365 quilt led by Audrey from her blog "Quilty Folk"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I started on New Years Day, and this is the result for the month of January. So far so good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have found this routine has focused me and given me permission to be a "creative being" Its been an adjustment but I am getting more and more relaxed as I look forward to the next phase of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am seeing both my Mother and my Father In Law dealing with their advancing years, and their examples have made me more determined to finally live life on my terms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Father In Law is a true example of grace and determination, he never moans but sees each step along the ageing process as a bit of a challenge. He recently had a bad fall and broke his hip and wrist, he was frail to begin with and we were very concerned as to how this would play out.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He is just getting on with it, he is almost energised by the rehabilitation, he knows he will never be the same but he does what is required with his diminished physical limits and still has a sharp and enquiring mind. A man I admire very much.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My mother on the other hand has become petty and very demanding, she is not above using guilt and manipulation to blame her ageing and ill health on others, especially her daughter.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Such a contrast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I will play with scraps and love what I do, I will seize my life and love deeply those who love back.....the rest can just please themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Phew who knew a blog would be so cathartic? </span><br />
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<br />Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-81823175346502873712016-01-16T22:14:00.000-08:002016-01-16T22:14:37.100-08:00Sanity........<span style="font-size: large;">Whoo..........this is a deep breath out, and Hmmm, this is a deep breath in, and I sit down and sew a little or a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a very fortunate woman or man that has a hobby like ours. We are indeed blessed to have found that thing that settles us down and allows us to create.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With my retirement and my husbands closely following, there has been a period of adjustment. I was so happy to have him home, looking forward to spending more time together and enjoying each others company as we did when we first met. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Then a change sweeps through, our routines are disrupted, our roles are changed, I have more time and freedom, but I also have more time and freedom!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has taken me time to realise that I have this new situation, I seriously have felt a little lost as my role has changed, but I have a creative outlet and I am giving myself permission to get in there and create. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My mind continually tries to tell me how I have "wasted" the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I can go to <i><u>paid </u></i>employment, be bored and busy at the same time, yearn to be sewing, and yet because I now have no wage I deem myself to be "wasting" my time now.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sanity is a fickle mistress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The simple act though of going to my sewing room and selecting a circle for the 365 quilt has strangely opened a door. Its a routine, like work was, that sparks my desire to do more. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As I tick off that little task, I then go onto the next work in progress and then my head starts planning all those other quilts that I have wanted to start.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly I feel that I can do these things, I can start because I have more time and freedom than before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am also a little superstitious so please gremlins give me a break, don't fill my new found freedom with other responsibilities....yes I do like to worry too about things that may never actually happen the way I think they will.....so its Whooo ...a breath out and Hmmmmm....another breath in and I sit and sew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is a jar in which I place all my current small scraps</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this is the happy result. I have made new fabric from small pieces. I found that sewing it onto a paper foundation gave me direction and stability. I am planning to sew these with plain fabric pieces for one of my many scrap projects. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And this is what I do when I just feel like "wasting time"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So adjustments will continue as life continues, my husband and I are getting to enjoy having a lot more time together and he too is glad I have that hobby, then he is free to pursue his hobby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> No longer a worker bee, but now we can stop and smell a flower.</span><br />
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<br />Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-40236967339552572432016-01-09T21:23:00.000-08:002016-01-09T21:23:24.305-08:00....Wait there was more to show.....<span style="font-size: large;">Phew, I am so glad to here in my happy place! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am dealing with my elderly mother whose mental capacity is suspect and the old family dynamics rear their ugly head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My sister and I do not communicate very well given a long history of insecurities and manipulation by parents in the past, I thought by the time we had reached the grand old age of 50 odd we would suddenly act in an adult manner. Throw in the interference of money and brother in laws and its becoming very toxic very fast.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And they dont even know about me or my life so they would never have seen this blog....yep close like that!!! LOL </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Glad you asked about that huh? No I just had to get this off my chest and then I can concentrate on the good things, like remembering my grand tour of Barcelona.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember my infatuation with Gaudi? Yes there is more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are the chimney pots on a building he designed in the main city of Barcelona. They were privately owned apartments and the residents would have had to get used to crowds stopping to take photos. Now it hosts exhibitions and art events</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are just utilitarian chimney pots, but to an artist such as he, why go that way, why not create beauty that lasts?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are the balcony iron works, again pure art. See how the sandstone blocks are curved and flowing?</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was completed in 1910 and is considered Art Nouveau.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We whizzed past this building as we were headed to another Gaudi site just down the road, I called the dragon house as you may work out when you see it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its official title is Casa Batllo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Be prepared to have your senses assaulted, in a good way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The facade with balconies. This house was started in 1905 as a commission for a wealthy family that was not afraid to flaunt their style and standout in a crowd. Would have loved to have met them, what brave souls to embrace such daring design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A shot from the street looking up to the roof, this building is many stories high and when you are inside it feels like it goes up and up forever. 4 or 5 floors I think? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sun was setting right behind the roof when we left and I took these shots, so the colour is a little hard to capture. But now you can see my dragon reference....yes, no?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They look like dragon scales to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A rooftop. Seriously could you imagine a whole street or town with this type of design. It would be like living in a fairy tale...sigh!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> And the facade again, all that colour is mosaic work, with large pottery discs fired with colours dotted throughout.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The balconies remind me of masks, and how is the detail even underneath the balcony? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-692200253046142402016-01-04T20:57:00.000-08:002016-01-04T20:57:01.250-08:00A little catch up on the home front<span style="font-size: large;">Its not all international travel in my world I will have you know, in fact very little, which is why I am always banging on about it!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So I will change the subject just for now to start my New Year and start to make sense of all my projects. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Also not a bad time to reintroduce myself to the blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A corner of my creative space, my room is my sanctuary and now I no longer co inhabit with the family computer..its decorated exactly how I want....no excuses, no explanations it is mine to clutter and mess up and put up things and take things down and move other things around. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In fact I do that a lot, which Feng Shui followers would tell you indicates I have too much clutter and waste a lot of time arranging my "stuff". </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah well. (shugs shoulders). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Having said that I did read as much as could glean from other blogs about the new KonMari method and it did make sense. I used to try and store things.....and let me tell you storage is the new devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now its out and proud, and I am trying so hard to let go of things that no longer bring me joy. Trouble is like most collectors I see possibilities in all my "stuff"......I was strong and I did cull a lot of extra things and did NOT buy more storage. (Except for the heaving shelves...are shelves strictly storage???)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other side of my creative <strike>brain</strike> space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The whole hot mess!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">......t'other!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The well dressed headless apparition is my dress maker form, I found the bra helped getting fittings correct over my bumpy bits, a great necklace and an apron I think stops her from being immodest.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Design wall to the left, and whats that on the floor? Well how sweet of you to ask!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is one project that stewed a lot on the back burner of life and is now on its way to being finished.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Its Maple Leaf Rag from Sarah Fielke and it features in "Material Obsession Two".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its my scrap project and after a few fits and starts and learning a lot on the way, I think I have it almost right.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are quite a few teaching moments in this project like accurate foundation, cutting and piecing.....it has a few rough patches but its coming together and I like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Sarah's version, I think hers has points that meet neatly in the middle on the webs...mine not so much.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But you can really not tell unless you were looking closely at mine.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its what makes mine all my own work and the errors are all mine too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is a new slow project from Audrey at <a href="http://quiltyfolk.blogspot.com.au/p/quilty-365.html" target="_blank">Quiltyfolk.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Her 365 quilty project.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Its awesome, select a scrap piece of fabric that sings to you on that day, do this everyday for a year and then we have a fabric mood diary of sorts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I applique a circle each day and note the day on the back, then I intend to sew them chronologically.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Lets see if my fabric choices change with seasons or moods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Audrey started hers in Oct...but my schedule would not allow me to do that and I felt New Years Day would be a place to start so here we are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started this on the 15 hour flight, I mean you have to have something to do in airports besides shop and eat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this is the staging post for all the flimsies that have yet to be quilted, that is a whole other story, but a spare bed does come in handy and I really am going to try and finish a few more than I start.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wish me luck and lets see what the year brings!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-56011816403868351472016-01-01T14:59:00.000-08:002016-01-01T14:59:06.896-08:00....That afternoon the adventure continued<span style="font-size: large;">When we arrived and settled into the accommodation I looked out the window and noticed the roof of a church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My intention in Barcelona was to just visit Gaudi sites, and I really didn't research much about anything else. I was to become entranced with the hidden delights that were on our doorstep......quite literally.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We stayed on a street called La Rambala, a wide thoroughfare with limited traffic and a wide promenade down the centre. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I recommend this area as it is central to almost everything, lots of eating places to peruse and lots of small alleys and streets that run off La Rambala, and a magnificent fresh food market that has its roots back to medieval times. The market has been modernised, it is clean and incredibly fresh.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The locals come to purchase fresh seafood which they then take to small bars/kitchens in the market where it is cooked and served back to them for lunch, along with a cheeky glass of wine. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Did I mention the food is wonderful?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We had to try and find a particular chocolate shop after our tapas tour the previous night. I just remembered the images of cats on the walls of the courtyard near said establishment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">These are just one example of the hidden delights that are in the side streets.....sigh...... missing it already!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> We found the chocolate shop and had the most exquisite hot chocolates, hard to describe the drink was almost jelly like in consistency. the chocolate flavour refreshing.....seriously refreshing. It didn't appear to have added fats and sugars like our chocolate but a pure flavour that didn't coat you mouth but almost cleansed your mouth......the best I have ever tasted. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't get to photograph the shop as it was open late in the afternoon and I had no light left to get a decent image. It is tucked away in a small alley just near this cat wall....if you ever get there ask a local they will show you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now we hit the Gothic quarter.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is the oldest part of the town, dating back to Roman times. Where aqueducts built by the Romans are butted up against medieval palaces.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We discovered history that is still living, these buildings are still used and revered by locals. There are shrines to saints tucked into corners </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and retail outlets that date back centuries. I was too shy to ask to take photos but one shop intrigued me so much and it was the icon store, where religious icons and statues were bought and sold. Such amazing art.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The shopping in this quarter is very good. They had a section dedicated to beading, trims and necklace making, quite unexpected. Along with antiques, tapas restaurants and modern homewares. Very few tacky souvenir stores,,,they tend to stay out on La Rambala, </span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking up you see more wonders. This was a detail on a nondescript building, but the guttering was quite something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that is small taste of this part of Barcelona, a real unexpected delight for me to discover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the buildings along La Rambala</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This place has much more to offer than I ever imagined.</span><br />
Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-5445819439068419142015-12-29T00:50:00.000-08:002015-12-29T00:50:07.577-08:00...In which I see the world, or a small part anyway!<span style="font-size: large;">Hello dear readers, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">this year has been a year of changes, both small and large and constant. If there is one constant in life it is change!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One thing was that I squirrelled my long service leave money and wages and booked<u><i> that</i></u> trip, the one I always said I would do.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I booked a trip to Barcelona, Paris and London...epic for us. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To travel anywhere from Australia is epic as we natives know, Europe is at least 15 hours away, actually Dubai is 15 hours away then its another 5 or 7 hours to your final stop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We made it without too many problems....except the car we booked to take us to the airport didn't turn up so it was a bit stressful ringing for a taxi to get us cross town on time. Again in Australia it takes hours to get through security checks, we are required to be at the airport at least 3 hours before the flight....we did alright even with the hiccough because I always leave plenty of time for just these types of events happening.....but not the way you want to start a long journey that has been planned for 12 months!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We ( husband and daughter...son didn't want to travel so he minded the dogs) snoozed quite well and landed in Barcelona, all starry eyed and looking forward to what lay ahead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Barcelona didn't disappoint, the people are lovely and geared to tourism. Everyone spoke English and the food was wonderful, fresh tasty and exquisite decor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was in Barcelona for one thing only that being the works of Gaudi.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We had three days to get around the sights, and I wish we had booked more. Gaudi and his architecture is a big draw card but there is so much more...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have taken hundreds of photos and spent days editing and cropping and tweaking so be prepared to be bombarded.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">NOooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its alright but I will have to trickle them through, there is too much to digest and Gaudi deserves to be really observed closely and thoughtfully. The man still blows me away with his artistry, vision and singlemindedness. He never married and seriously I don't think he would have ever had time for a relationship, his work was his life and what a body of work it is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first glimpse of Guell Parc. A complete jewel, the sun was glistening off all the mosaic surfaces and shining brightly. This made getting the correct colour very tricky as my camera and me could not quite cope with the right exposure and I did have grumbles of "can we move on now" from my companions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my beautiful daughter standing in a grotto, notice the angle of the pillars, all done in stone work. Each pillar was a work of art intended to look natural. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A detail of the seating around the parks open space, all unique. The gargoyles allow water to be dispelled from the seats and spilled onto planting below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A classic shot of the passage in the grotto....almost like an ocean wave.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hand made gates.....this guy did not like straight lines or mass produced items. Everything had an artists touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this shot I managed to place the famous church (that is still to be completed).....The Sagrada Familia in the background....it is where the cranes are in the distance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The tiled roof is of a gatehouse building at the parks entrance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a fluke shot.......see the person framed in the window? Never could have actually achieved this if I had planned it!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes!!!! The classic shot...done and done!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">All the roof is mosaic tiles, the detail is mind blowing, not a single straight surface. The tower at the back in blue and white has an undulating twisting construction. His workers must have all been artisans to produce such beauty. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This was constructed in 1900 folks...even today a building like this would be considered modern! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I know I bang on about this but he was so ahead of the pack, where did we lose the courage to create beauty like this? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why are our buildings so straight, and bland? (she sobs quietly...)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I know the answer is economic but we need artistry in our lives and this Park brings money to Barcelona and joy to all who visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Detail of mosaic on ceiling...would love to try this at home, like in the shower perhaps?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just as we were leaving the sun illuminated the face of the washer woman....one of the pillars in the grotto. Did I mention each one was unique?</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well I hope this didn't bore you. I downloaded 110 photos so I have been kind and edited the better ones. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned this was only the first morning of the first day............</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-1813910303358235872015-10-23T01:33:00.003-07:002015-10-23T01:40:35.478-07:00Hello again!!!<span style="font-size: large;">Hello there, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that was indeed a longer absence than I anticipated. I have been well, and a lot has happened since I was last here in Blogland. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have retired from work, well semi retired, maybe, maybe not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my children has flown the nest. maybe, maybe not...it has been almost a year....and my husband took a generous redundancy and has definitely retired!! And that was only a month ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was so exhausted after leaving my job that I could not even think about sitting at the computer, I didn't want to do anything that felt work related, I was burnt out. It took me three months to stop thinking about my previous responsibilities. When you run a one woman office and you have been <u>fully</u> responsible for <b><i><u>everything</u></i></b> for 12 years or so, it takes a while to feel that you finally can take the burden off your shoulders and breath.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I never knew that life could be so free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been reading blogs and following Instagram, I have been soaking in the creativity that is out there but letting it wash over me, taking instead of giving, allowing others to speak and just listening and nodding. Now I feel that I have a little to say again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a very special gift that I made for my "boss". </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">For the last 12 years of my working life my "boss" happened to be a priest, a lovely scholarly man who had been a wise and caring person in my life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being Catholic I referred to him as "Father" (the correct formal title) he wasn't fussed about this formality and often said I could just call him by his christian name. He never wore a priest's collar and if you passed him in the street you would not see him as a man of religion, however his gentle calm nature and well chosen wise words did mark him as someone who deserved the title of Father.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had not been bought up in a religious household, my parents being very anti religion, but I married into a family that was, and being closer to my married family I chose to open my mind and learn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can now see and say how lucky I was to learn so much from my previous job and my "boss". I learnt how judgements rebound and land back on your shoulders. I learnt that we are all just trying to make sense of this life and we all suffer as humans. I learnt that all faiths stem from the same desire to learn and relate. I learnt that mankind has and will continue to twist and corrupt anything in order to gain power over others. I learnt not to blame religion for the wrongs but use faith to overcome, I met so many wonderful genuine old and wise people through my work. They were human too, some loved a bit of gossip, some were strict rule followers, protocol being very important, some were mean, so many more generous but they all tried in their human way to come together in the church and celebrate life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that was the short version of what I am trying to convey in this quilt. I was madly trying to think of what design would be suitable for such a person. I was at one of the many Quilt Fairs that I attend and was flicking through Material Obsession's latest book by Kathy Doughty "Adding Layers"......and laaaaaaaa.(cue heavenly choir music) there IT WAS. The most PERFECT design for what I could make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I tweaked it a little...as I thought red velvet would make the most perfect heart centre. I tracked down the Madonna fabric online, and I went into quilt shops asking for "shepherdy" fabric....you know like the robes we put together for Christmas pageants. I was so vague in my description, I knew what I wanted just could not describe it well. However some quilt shops know their stock very well and I found the fabric for the spokes that spoke to me of "shepherds".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I then thought that like sun rays through clouds..( we refer to them as Jesus rays) the spokes should be varied in length. The background in the original design was patterned and I was going to go down that path but then on the design wall the solid red just spoke to me of regal majestic tones, so I went with that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was very pleased to have found what I thought was the perfect quilt for a priest. He was extremely impressed and I had to explain that it really was not as intricate as he thought.....but I did let him know it does take some time to throw together such a thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will warn you now if you don't want to hear my cranky attitude then look away. </span> <span style="font-size: large;">I have been having a C.C.M....a crap craft moment...and I am just cranky with it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the spirit of keeping "it real" (whatever "it" is) I am going to share the moments when I loose it a little...(whatever "it" is) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am usually a stoic woman, to those whom I don't know that well. You know when people ask "How are you?" the polite reply..."Yeah, good thanks"......I mean we ask but do we really want to know? Do we want to stay and listen to the everyday aches and pains and ups and downs or do we then reply..."How are things with you?"......and really don't want to know, just being polite!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take this little sucker......stitch after stitch I plowed on, I was making me a handbag and I really wanted to wear it ASAP.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I blocked that baby, waited days to see her dry and could not wait to stitch her up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Well THAT didn't work well at all.....sure she looks straight there but meet her twisted sister</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And heres another torturous angle. I sewed her up and she wanted to twist the night away in her own direction. I tried everything to make her follow the right path but NOOOOOO! so I muttered and cursed and was ready to put her </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. in the bin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3. send her to a professional straightener</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her partners in crime.....what a hot mess!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Instead I then uttered the "F" word......FOCUS....(why what did you think I was going to say?)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I breathed a deep breathe and said to myself, "self "I said </span> <span style="font-size: large;">"pull yourself together, you going to let a little itty bitty piece of stitching bring you down?" "Yes!" I snivelled, "she is being mean to me"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And not just her. Look at this! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were tension issues with this one, a bit of stuff was ripped out. Hey that sorta felt better....still back to the beginning and try again.....back on track ....feeling betterer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fiddling and playing and don't care what happens here, not a lot of time or money invested. The shoulders are dropping </span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And because I don't want you to leave feeling cranky I will pop in these calming sunset images. The beauty of nature. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you so much for staying to chat even when its not all sweetness and light here. But that what life is all about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its a new year, its a new day.....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I think there was a song with those lyrics out there somewhere.....over the rainbow...way up high......</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes I am being a tres bit silly but that I feel is my natural state, it balances the other side of me that can be very dour and serious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well 2015 hey, here we are it seems. My son was watching "Back to the Future" and mentioned that in the 1980's...way back...they programmed 2015 into the <strike>delorean</strike> ...<strike>DeLorane</strike>, time car thingy and we were all in flying cars and really futuristic groovy. The more things change the more things stay the same. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have been around, but Instagram has ensnared me with its groovyness and I have been hanging out there a lot. There is a quick and easy way to snap and load a photo, whack on a filter and get some instant feedback.....whats not to love! But I still hung around with my blog favourites also, it freed me up so I could pour my craft into witty and pithy comments and I have been making some lovely connections. Thus I feel I can balance the two media platforms..(oh listen to me you would think I knew what I was talking about) and share some perhaps more considered musings, as opposed to the "look at me, look at me" action in that other arena.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I bought a cutting machine recently. I was in a mad state of mind as I has recently firmed up my semi retirement date.....oh joy of joys. I am leaving a job of 12 years to have a well earned break, travel and then try to work out what direction life takes me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway I felt that with said cutting machine (that I could afford now but not later) I would be able to whizz up many quick quilts to perhaps sell or just make to save my sanity.....I mean what to do when work no longer fills your mind. And before you all roll your eyes, I know exactly how days are filled! I fell for that trap when I first had a child, I mean I was going to have SO MUCH FREE TIME, I could bake bread, make biscuits, spin wool, weave cloth and sew a wardrobe, I mean I said to myself what does one do with a small child at home ALL DAY. Lesson well and truly learned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I will continue on the flower theme. These are from my garden, they are simple sweet roses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The plate something I picked up at an op shop (thrift store) and also loved its sweet simple art. In fact I have a thing for plates as I see them as art. I have a wall full of plates displayed but cannot resist buying more. One day I may live in a house lined with plates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So then I started trying to capture the full beauty of the rose. I am always drawn to the macro world in photography</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A more complex and no less stunning rose</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Would you believe these two roses come from the same plant? It starts off as a simple flower and then develops a ruffled overblown bloom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another plate and another flower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is from my gone to seed parsley plant. I cannot seem to stop the flowers forming in the heat of summer so I have just let it go for now.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are quite delicate as you draw closer. Hmm are they ants in there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Yes, they are ants! I have a great macro lens and I am not afraid to use it. And for Christmas I received a tripod so now I can hold a steady shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Not a flower, not a rose but who said succulents didn't have a charm all of their own. Not me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its been nice to catch up......and if you want to catch me on Instagram...I am susanc269. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Till we meet again......dont know where.....dont know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny daaaaaaaayyyyy </span>Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-2328504529568377322014-10-04T23:34:00.000-07:002014-10-04T23:36:56.354-07:00My new hobby.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Oh dear, it seems I have may have been infected lately, not by any nasty virus I hasten to add.......was a tad poorly last week as in feeling listless. All good now. But by the crochet thing. Seriously I thought I was stuck on stitching with thread and needle. Quilting being the main passion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But no it seems that after mastering a granny square, I see them everywhere and I LIKE them. Then I saw all those cute amigurumi and I thought I would not understand those patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well be prepared to have your little world rocked because I did a small project from Mollie Makes and my skills are going up a notch. mind you only if its in DC and SC and not too much increasing and decreasing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loooook, see what I have did there!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This was an adorable pattern from Mollie Makes and it was easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I put it on my instagram and got 19 likes...I KNOW 19!!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was basically a circle as the base and then up the sides. Then two ears which are sewn on.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Not bad for this beginner. I now want to increase my repertoire and make a larger basket, because I love baskets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dress done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I actually had bought this as quilting fabric and luckily as it was on sale I bought a few meters. Enough for my dress YAY. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think they will go well together. So now the hard part is done I hope to make some start on them during the week because there 'aint nothing on the TV to watch so I may use some good productive time to get my projects under control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my current TV watching project, loving it but I MUST get some other things done to a finish....I MUST....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I have a definite to do as a gift for my bosses retirement, that's in July next year but if I don't get a wriggle on...</span>Susan C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14282598209734296568noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-412849904861867584.post-67216006067249511632014-09-23T23:46:00.001-07:002014-09-23T23:46:42.901-07:00A Little trip away<span style="font-size: large;">Hello again dear readers......I know you are out there because my page count says so.......ahhhh...unless they are all spammers!</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My hubby and I took a short break just recently so I dont have much to show in the way of projects but I have got a few snaps of the wonderful city of Hobart to share if you wish to stay around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We stayed on the waterfront of this wonderful city, which for you overseas visitors is situated on that little island that sits at the bottom of Australia. We have a big boat race that starts from Sydney on Boxing Day and ends here in Hobart whenever all the boats make it safely through Bass Straight and up the Derwent River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there are the most beautiful buildings on the waterfront. This was near the hotel and had lovely shops and a cafe which served the most tasty food. We ate there a bit, you could say!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The stones had the most amazing texture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we took a walk around to a place called Battery Point which still has original settlers cottages perched on a hill with a common green in the centre. Hubby complained the whole way up the hill, but it was so worth the walk for the charming vista. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now you lucky people in England and Europe get to see such things possibly on your way to the shops each day. But we here in Australia are young and free....sorry silly national anthem snuck in there. We are young and I am starved for history in architeture compared to the rest of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The slope was pleasant, and I was pleased to get this shot as I had to snap it quickly in case his lordship got impatient and walked back down the hill. I make him sound like a dragon but he really just likes to tease me whenever I get enthusiatic about buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can see the mocking grin under that mustache. Can I tell you he has had that mo for as long as we have been together (coming up 30 years thanks for asking) and now they are fashionable he gets a lot of attention from young ladies and men, they are impressed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was then persuaded to take a senic flight in this flying machine, the worst part was telling them my weight, the rest of the trip a breeze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes folks this is a stunning little town and I will return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You never stop learning it seems.....who would have thought there was a post title in this blogger thingy. LOL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been on a wee bit of a roll it seems here and in my work. It is coming up 12 months since I had to take on extra hours and it has been a change and it has been a juggling act, but you know what, I am still learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Learning what I am capable of and what I can cope with and learning how to keep up with technology too...I do amaze myself sometimes!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this little critter was a project I was itching to get going.....eeekkk! It is the cutest mouse in a matchbox that you ever did see. Its designed by Simone Gooding of Mayblossoms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She comes with a full bed , a little pillow and a little blanket. I had the bestest time playing as I once did as a child. Picking scraps of fabric for the bedding..(vintage sheets no less) and making her comfy and pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But dear friends that is not the only small doll I have made, this is the teeniest tiniest little doll I have ever managed and it was a mite tricky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a <a href="http://www.gailwilsondesigns.com/" target="_blank">Gail Wilson</a> design and she is the BEST at instructions and kits for doll making. I would do more but then I would be a crazy lady in a house stuffed full of dolls.....meaning I have a few where would I put them all? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also received a lovely parcel from my pal Joy at <a href="http://joyjinkscreations.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Joyjinks</a>, and having been reassured that is was safe to proceed...I popped that bubble wrap open....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This gorgeous fabric basket!!!! I was very happy as I had been researching fabric baskets and pondering on how to make my own. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This basket now holds my bits and bobs nicely on the table and stops them roaming around getting in the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Does anyone else do this? I have placed a list of things I really do want to complete this lifetime, it is a slow burner list and may be dug up one day on an archaeology site because the list is not being ticked off at any fast rate. But I have made some small progress, I HAVE A LIST!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I will head to my sewing room to crack on with the many and varied projects I have to complete..........</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I did have a little snack with said cuppa tea, a little smack of bread, jam and cream. Gasp! I hear you say? Don't knock it until you try it, its my weakness and I find it keeps me well fuelled for the day. Well as I said a wee snack and a cuppa and I was set to go.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I started well, I got chopping into my scrap pile, I downloaded photos, swapped an old cutting mat......and that's when my day became a little unravelled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You move things at your peril in the sewing room in mi casa, it exposes dust, and once you move a pile 'o dust you have to keep going. So it was downstairs to get the duster....dust around sewing area....not bad.....OK...NOW to start sewing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hmmm snack has digested a little and cuppa has done its work, I think I may just pop to the loo before I start.....nah just been downstairs so I will use the kids bathroom upstairs. (the kids are 21 and 25)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!! IT WAS FILTHY!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So then it was downstairs to get the cleaning bucket and hours later I am exhausted, the bathrooms clean but I am exhausted. And you know what, they will hardly notice, hubby will come home and ask how my day off was?.....and what did I get done?..because he doesn't really notice either......aaaaarrrrrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And these are some more of the blocks I need to complete. So the scrap basket has been well mined for fabric there. This quilt has quite a history. I bought the pattern in 2008 and worked sporadically on it. At one stage my daughter did a block as a distraction when she was having bully problems at school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The quilt will be finished now I have made it my mission to clear old projects before starting any new ones ......this year.......maybe....we will see! The block my daughter did is the top left hand one of the angel and house. She did a great job but decided that quilting wasn't really her thing. She now sews her own clothing and cons me into taking her to the local fabric store just as a girly thing and of course I end up buying the poor university student any amount of cloth she needs to create an outfit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are for a quilt by Sarah Fielke from the book "Material Obsession Two" Maple Leaf Rag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You see I used to go to this woman's house for a sewing night. She was a single mum and had three lovely girls.....but they were feisty and teenagers to boot. They had two bathrooms, the girls sharing one and mum having her own. This woman was quite strict, as you have to be as a single parent and three girls. So there we all were sewing quietly, when one child comes in and asks if she could get the key to mums bathroom as she didn't want to wait for her sister to finish. Mum replied "No, you didn't keep your bathroom clean and you are not using mine"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">PLEEEEEESSSSE we don't want to wait for her to finish can we use your bathroom!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes I am being brave and showing you my good self in a snap taken by my daughter. I was quite proud of this pinny type dress as I had drafted it from an old dress that had seen better days. I quite liked that dress so I took it apart and used it as a pattern to make another.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The fabric is a Denyse Schmidt feedsack type. Unfortunately it has not photographed well in the bright winter sun. I kid you not we do get bright winter sun at times. I also dont think it the most flattering on me as I do actually have a shape! These floaty dresses do well when you have thin arms and legs....but I love it because behind a desk in my office its damn compfy....yes compfy!...i just made that word up and I like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hahhahaha this is me trying to look serious model like...and that is not my hair but a concrete lion framed just behind my head...sigh you just cannot get good paparazzi these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I called a stop to all this madness and stomped off.... to complain to my agent....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These were some recent purchases from a market called "Finders Keepers" that my daughter persuaded me to accompany her to. Luck we got there early, it was way more crowded that a regular craft show, full of hipsters and fashionable young folk, and I must say I was impressed by some of the stalls there. Needless to say I gravitated to the vintage stalls and these precious pieces just had to come home. My daughter was a little surprised that I paid over the odds for them. But sometimes you know you will be hard pushed to source these things yourself so you pay premium to someone who works hard to pick these things out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And in the interests of keeping it real.....this is a behind the scenes look at how I set up my backdrop.....ahhh the glamorous world I live in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And some more little op shop treasures just to show you I too can source little imexpensive vintage too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my latest tiny crochet that I am working on, following on from the previous scarf I had just finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This monster project is one I have set my daughter to continue. She was always <strike>nagging</strike> coaxing me to make her a granny square blanket, and well my concentration waxes and wanes a lot so I wasnt going to get it done anytime soon. So I saw and purchased this kit from Better Homes and Gardens, its acrylic yarn, inexpensive and might colourful. I sat down one evening and taught her the basics and AWAY SHE WENT!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She has her own basket of colourful yarn and she is loving it. We have been watching the Commonwealth Games most evenings and she is storming along with the project. I will assist when and if she needs me, but I think she will be so proud if she sticks it out and completes it all by herself. She always was a girl who would stick it out until she could master a skill. I think I may be assisting with all those sewing in of ends though......I personally dont think she has left enough of a tail to sew in but she thinks otherwise......time will tell and like a good mum I will resist the retort..."I told you so"...(wont stop me thinking it but I wont say it )</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am finishing this, just appliqueing on the last hexagons. Its from Rosalie Quinlan and her book "A stitch in Time"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Made this up from a kit from the latest Mollie Makes...wearing it now..love it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Got heaps more to tell you but I will stop it there so you can go make a cuppa tea and have a rest. And I can go and join the family to watch Australia trounce New Zealand in the Netball final at the Commonwealth Games....because New Zealand always beat us in the rugby.</span></div>
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