Reclaiming my life Day 1

well, you may wonder why I've been missing in action for well over a year, my life has some what been turned upside down this past year, I am now a single person again after 23 years of marriage and 5 months ago I lost my oldest sister very suddenly to a very fast and furious cancer but I was thankful to spend the last 4 days with her.
I have made the decision to move back to Perth as my sister was my mothers carer and feel it is the right time to move back to my home town to look after mum and find myself again.
So my days are spent sorting and packing boxes ready for the move, so today is day 1 of moving forward and reclaiming myself, so my blog will be more the mundane of life as there hasn't been much else over the year, no quilts made, no projects written for the magazine but I've still managed to stay at art school and produce enough sculptures to have just been part of a group exhibition where I sold 3 pieces so I've still been able to channel my grief and sadness of the past year into something constructive, so today I have sorted and thrown out 2 boxes of stuff, reorganised some room in my bedroom for the sculptures that came back from the gallery yesterday, did 2 loads of washing and spent a bit of quality time with my boys (young men).
So now its time for dinner, good night.

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