felted flowers

recently I taught a needle felted flower class and here are a few of the finished flowers, they all started out making the same shaped petals but the end results are all different

recent soap stone carvings

these are the soap stone carvings I've done this term,
the photos aren't very clear as the pieces are quiet small and reflective and not easy to photograph

isn't he cute


Amulets and Talismans

Assemblage sculptures

a round up of some of my Assemblage sculptures from first term at Art school



these next 2 are work in progress pieces, we are on hols for the next 2 weeks so I always take photos before they get packed up so I have an idea of what I was playing with when I go back


I'll post my soapstone carvings in the next post

Family Happenings

we had my nephew Gerry, his wife Xandri and their little one Liam come and visit us from New Zealand recently.
Liam was being camera shy but also I don't think he wanted to go

but I finally got him

now this is something that you won't see very often, Mackenzie reading AND IT'S POETRY...........

now don't everyone die of shock - but I bought new shoes a couple of weeks ago AND THEY'RE NOT CROCS,
this is one pair, haven't worn the others yet

Guest speaker

I have finally had time to download about 100 photos off my camera and put them into folders, so here is the first of hopefully a few regular posts.

A couple of weeks ago a I was fortunate enough to be invited to be guest speaker at The Batemans Bay Quilters annual luncheon to talk about my quilting/fibre journey.

Here are some photos of my presentation

Jasmine's blog

my good friend Jasmine is giving away a quilt as a pressie for her blogs first anniversary, so have a look and leave a nice comment cause you don't want to mess with her
http://banaghaisge.blogspot.com/2010/03/blogaversary-give-away.html

like a mushroom

Sorry I haven't been on here for so long, have been extremely busy and any spare minutes I've had I've been hiding under a mushroom trying to catch my breath.
The school holidays are here so I may be able to at least post a few times over the break, have done lots and have lots of photos to share just need to get them out of the camera and sort them.

Happy Birthday Callan

my first born Callan is no longer a teenager, he turned 20 today, little did I know that a talented cutie was lurking in the bushes

it's hard work growing up

Happy Birthday my darling

view from my room

on one of the chat lists I'm on they have been talking about the view from their sewing rooms, I have a purpose built (still not big enough) green shed in the back yard and my view is to the back of the house across one of our many frog ponds.
In this part of the garden we have a coffee tree which has beautifully scented flowers on it just prior to fruiting that wafts into the studio.

the very noisy and very productive frog pond

We've had a pair of Doves nest in this tree for many years, often sitting on eggs, this past sitting was when we had the last big wind storms and I think the eggs were left unattended as we didn't see them for a few days, I always talked to them each time I went past as they were only a couple of feet up from eye level.
One night just recently Tim was out the back and said he heard rustlings in the tree and next morning on looking in the nest discovered it was full of half eaten coffee beans, a few nights later he spotted a rat like creature in the tree but as yet hasn't been able to work out exactly what it is.
The Doves have been hanging around confused about what has become of their nest.

This year there has been a bumper crop of cherries on the tree so over the christmas break Tim decided to harvest the coffee beans and have a go again at roasting them, so here's Tim and Callan extracting the beans from the coffee bean cherries

we will keep you posted on the coffee production and on more creature spottings