great

What a treat. Thank you Victoria - they are truly special. They will be going up on my wall as soon as I find the right frames for them.

on martha

About ten years ago I discovered Martha, through her decorating books. I really liked her (or her assistants) style and I still do. Its all so clean, polished and perfect, something that was/is clearly lacking in my life. I don’t think I was ever sucked in by the dream factory but does have some bearing on me. For example I bought this book. It was a buck fifty. I don’t entertain… it makes me tense. But one day I might and that one day I want to entertain like Martha because it looks like a happy day. I see no Smiths chips in her bowls or double dipping going on in this baby.

This is my Martha influenced wall of love of my family. The influence is the black frames BTW. My camera is dying a slow death, so scusi with the pics. It was a driving force to collect these frames over the years from the O.S, then the irony was that Spotlight started selling her brand frames and I ended up with some of them on the wall! Oh the bloody irony. I doubt if my life could get any deeper or meaningfuller.

I could give my opinion on her show but I will save that for another day.

try

I’ve been making a few things. I am going to try and sell some at the local markets this month. Don’t know how well they will fare, but I will give it a go. Instead of spending money there I will try and make some.

Speaking of the markets this is what I got there last month. I got all hyper blinded when I bought it - but upon better inspection once at home I fear that I have purchased one of those quilts that is made in India and usually sold through such establishments as Home…I can barely say it…art.
I will justify keeping it by saying I am recycling.

i dont know

These are two printmaking pieces I did as part of an artist book for uni.

They sort of don’t mean anything separately but together they had meaning - well to me they did.

up for air

I’ve almost forgotten how to do this caper.
Have been buried up to the proverbial with reading and essay writing. Interesting but sometimes I stopped and thought to myself, what a load of old bollocks.

I have had this on my list to do for about 2 years and finally got around to doing last night. These are two pillow cases made into one bag - obviously. No pattern, just squares and rectangles sewn together.

Now I’m off to read about Baroque or some such thing. I will hopefully be back soon.

before, no after

This quilt has been hanging around my sewing table like a bad smell for many months now.
I lost interest in it when I decided, when I got to this stage, that the pattern was all wrong and it was too restricting to my mind, in that it was very repetitive ,and I really couldn’t be frigged to think about it. I really must try crazy quilting one day - no rules.
Over the long weekend just gone, enough was enough. I got stuck into it.
So the smell has nearly diminished now as I have now completed the piecing. I just have to paste it all together.
I have holidays in a couple of weeks so I will finish it then I hope. More edit - crap pics when they come to hand.

aprons that i love

What are the chances of getting two alike homemade aprons. Pretty good it seems.
I got one of these about 2-3 years ago and got the other more recently.
At the time of the first find I wanted to decorate my house based on the fabric, not including the red & black, but I don’t now. What made me think about these again was this
place
She loves it too and it was pleasing (for some inane reason) to find out it had a designer and name.

5 minutes AND

A quicky.The newest acquisition to the west german pot collection from the markets and was within my budget.

AND Donna from Sew Mad are you still there? Have you set up somewhere else?

today we went

To the Art galleryand our usual round trip to get there via Mcquarie Street, the botanical gardens and a tour of the Govnas house, with the final photo at the O House.

I love RosalieGascoigne, always stops me in my tracks.

The exhibition on anonoymous photographs was great, it felt very fimiliar although at this stage the ten year old was starting to get itchy feet and had to rush through a bit too soon.

Just things

A tin filled with lace and a template for lavender hearts.

A workbox of sorts.