xmas update

first of all a late Merry Christmas to everyone, these were some yummy mini Christmas puds from a party last year, didn't put the tree up this year as there was no room so this is the best I can do for a little bit of festivity.

As you may have read I've been in a de clutter frenzy (snails pace frenzy) and had been slowly attacking a corner that housed a lowboy cupboard that was full of quilts in varying stages of completion and stuff and for some silly reason decided that Christmas eve was the appropriate time for it to come out and go to it's new home and boy did I create a monster, everything came out of the corner, lounge was up ended and vacuumed to within an inch of it's life, venetians cleaned and the floor scrubbed, cupboard was taken out the front ready for Anna to come and collect.
I now have a book case in it's place and finally somewhere for all of my books to go that have been in piles on the floor and other surfaces, once all the books are in there I'll take a photo.
Now this started Tim on a cleaning frenzy and had the boys out on the back verandah scrubbing down the walls and ceiling.

Can everyone pick what this is, besides the obvious that it's an empty basket?
It WAS the odd sock basket - that is no longer.

After 10 years of hibernating under the lowboy cupboard my walking ducks have finally found a home wandering around our front verandah on either side of the front door


and because of the rain Tim wasn't able to work out in the garden after xmas day so the cleaning continued inside, the mouldy bathroom ceiling was scrubbed down and I was even asked if I wanted it painted, the boys rooms were started on and Mackenzies computer has moved into his room out of the dining area so Tim is now working on the dinning table as this area has always been our office, but now the sun is shining again the inside frenzy has slowed down till I get up enough strength to slowly attack the other side of the lounge room then the guys can move a few more things around for me.

Cactus Flower

we have a lot of unusual cacti and succulents around our garden and on our back veranda we have this unusual plant that we've never really know what it is.
It has strange shoots that come off the sides of the leaves.

I took the dog out for a midnight pee a few nights ago and was greeted by this glorious flower, it wasn't there earlier in the day and I didn't even notice it earlier in the evening when I fed the dog directly below it.

so if I hadn't gone out at midnight all I would have seen the next morning was the morning remnants as it only flowers for a very short time in the dead of night.
Isn't it glorious.

I'm so glad I bought the cacti book, it is an Epiphyllum

Assemblages

the last week of Art School was to be clean out our lockers and sort out our stuff ready for assessment but when one of the guys threw out a whole bunch of old silk screens I rescued these 2 small ones and he'd also put out a lot of rusty stuff on the bench,and I lurv rusty stuff and told us to help ourselves, well, what was I suppose to do - help myself of coarse and make ART


so I had to go in on the Wednesday and clean out my locker didn't I

ahhh one day!

not many of you would know but I've had a desire most of my life to own a Bugeye'd Austin Healy Sprite Mk1, my eldest sister Glenice had one in my teens and Nigel, my first boyfriend later bought it, so it has all those wonderful early memories also connected to it.
I have joined the Sprite chat list and there are a few living down this way and every so often they do a club run but I've never been able to get to see them but just a few weeks ago they were doing an afternoon dinner run, meeting at Bulli overlooking the beach, so I was able to catch up with them and get to meet a few of them, the white one actually lives in Dapto probably not even 2 k's away.

So I got to drool and dream of one day, maybe, I'll finally get one of my own to play with.....

there were a couple of MG's there but I suppose we won't hold that against them as they do have Sprites they are restoring at home

Tea pots

I know I've been away from here for too long, life has been busy but somewhere along the way I also lost my blog Mojo.
I haven't been creating any art other than the pieces I've done at Art School so didn't have much work to share and didn't think that photos I'd taken would be of any interest to others.
I've actually acknowledged that I have to much stuff, I'm a collector and hoarder and had convinced myself that I now had a legit excuse to collect more stuff that I can use for my sculptures but I have run out of room and getting bogged down with not being able to do anything, I know I've always lived in organised kaos BUT, so I've decided to de clutter, there's not even any room to put up the xmas tree, now how sad's that.
I'm being brave and going to sell a big proportion of my dust collectors, so I'm taking small steps and attacking small areas slowly.
My friend Anna has relieved me of 2 teapots that are now proudly in her kitchen with her other orange things.

Anna and Hazel, both sculptors from Art School but also quilters came over yesterday and we went though all of my quilts, they both went home with a small quilt each and a few small unfinished pieces that I didn't know what to do with/want to finish, so that helped, so I not only had show n' tell but got stuff out of the quilt cupboard as that will eventually go to Anna's so I can put a bookcase in that spot so all of the books can finally move from the floor and many other surfaces to somewhere decent.

So what I'll endeavour to do is just post random photo's of stuff to try and get back into the swing of posting again, but now, it's time to put the jug on again for a cuppa