Barbie's birthday hangover

even Barbie , who still looks great at 50, can't party hard for a week
- and not eventually hit the wall


and even though she still has her youthful looks
- the old hip replacement is inevitable........

Mackenzie!

Look what happened in the bathroom last night


isn't this usually what brothers do to each other when they are little and being naughty




now I'm sure the aliens have taken my son away

Party Animals.......

I know I know I've been gone for waaaay to long, several shows and teaching interstate took me away but I'm back for a bit and hope to show you all the wonderful photos from my travels.
This is what my frogs have been getting up to a lot recently - making MORE frogs....

Gymea Lilly

A friend recently gave us the dried flower head from a Gymea Lilly and I couldn't resist the urge to photograph it before Tim broke open some of the seed pods and scattered them across the back garden and threw the rest of it up the back to see what eventuates, I have heard that we will need to wait about 20 years before we will see a flower though.





our frogs are working overtime out in the clean pond, there is spawn everywhere, have just taken some photos and will post them tomorrow, now I'm off to drive up to Sydney to the Art House Hotel for Dr Sketchy's Burlesque drawing class tonight with Nic and Kate, should be a hoot.

I've been without email since Sunday, our server had a major power outage but I'm still able to Google, weird - how much longer will it be - I can't cope without mail........

challenge 29

I participate in a group challenge called the Fast Friday Fabric Challenge, on the 3rd Friday of the month a challenge is issued and we have a week to make a piece to be published on the groups blog by the following Friday, life kept getting in the way and I was never able to complete my pieces, even enough to show partially but this month I succeeded.
This months challenge, No 29, was to use Analogous colours, they are colours next to each other on the colour wheel, my piece uses yellow, yellow/green, green, blue/green & blue, I know that orange isn't right next to yellow and that yellow/orange is next but it was the only colour that worked from my fabric palette.

It doesn't have a name as yet, any suggestions?



This is a design that I have used several times before but it's the first time I've done it in fabrics, last year in our colour and design class at Art School we painted paper then had a play, last year I also used the design in screen printing and made xmas cards, printing it in pink on green.

Below are the 3 pieces I did last year from the painted papers using analogous colours

late night thoughts

some late night thoughts from last night that are still running around in my head this morning, I'm reading 3 books at the moment and 2 of them are about assemblage artist's, my bed time reading is a biography of Joseph Cornell called "Utopia Parkway" and he refers to his father as a magician with references to vaudeville, the book I got last week called "Secrets of Rusty Things" by Michael de Meng refers to his grandfather as a magician and this got me thinking, both my father and grandfather were magicians, (grandfather also a ventriloquist and father a fabulous jeweller) and I'm fascinated/obsessed with assemblage art and just want to collect every bit of rubbish - sorry "treasure" just in case I can use it, now I'm not putting myself anywhere near their league but just got me thinking about connections to our roots and somehow maybe magically making something out of nothing - sorry, I think I'm getting to deep here.........

back to reality, here's a snippet of a piece I'm working on for my exhibition, trying to find the time and energy (first to clear the table) to baste so I can start quilting it



also I think aliens came and took away my son last night, he has started showering every night and even changed his school shirt on the second day but the killer came last night as I was telling him about a show that I was thinking of going to in Sydney next week and when I said it was on a school night and that he could sleep in the car on the way back from Sydney be said "well this year is really important and that may not be a good idea" I NEARLY FELL OVER, he's actually excited about this years subjects and came home yesterday excitedly sprouting all this stuff that he'd learnt about Germany in the second world war - who is this child........

my garden

I'm getting in early today, even before I have breakfast.

this is what greeted me yesterday morning, a beautiful lily in the pond on the back verandah, every time I tried to take a photo the fish hid under a leaf

can anyone tell me what this bird is?
we think it's a Butcher Bird but it doesn't look exactly like the one in my book, so I'm not sure, I was talking to it in my yard then it swooped down at my toes then flew off - don't know it it thought they were worms..........

while I'm on birds, this is one of many glorious King Parrots that live in my friend Lorraine's back yard

and this is what happens when you leave your camera sitting on your table and your husband comes in and takes your photo without you realising till you down load the photos.............