A full weekend of quilt show administration stuff doesn’t make for good blogging fodder. Alas, I am not the only one that has been busy…I normally take a pretty benign view of ants and other creepy crawlies and how is this karma rewarded? the last two mornings I have come into my studio to find […]
Daily Life
In memory of Auntie Bell
When you have been away for a while, what is the first thing that you do when you get home? Me, I immediately switch on the computer and check my e-mails. When I returned from teaching on the South Coast, I found an e-mail with news of the passing of Auntie Bell, aged 93. Actually, […]
I should have been a lawyer…
I arrived home to two big batches of quilt show entry forms to plug into my master spreadsheet. I am not sure that data entry is my forte but I do try to be speedy and accurate. Today I will be bonding with my computer keyboard again. Meanwhile, here’s another pseudo intelligence/personality test telling me: […]
Making things fit
This seems to be a metaphor for my life right now. There’s the zillion pieces in the quilt that I am making for the Down Under Quilts calendar competition (so I can’t show you) which steadfastly refuse to arrange themselves in a neat 100cm square configuration. I’ll show them who is the boss!(yeah, right) Or […]
Editorial discretion
Entries for Sydney Quilt Show 2007 are coming in thick and fast now so yours truly is spending a lot of time at the computer keyboard doing data entry – an important but mind-numbing exercise. For a bit of light relief, I went blog surfing and was amused to read about Sion’s efforts to get […]
Ripped and rotten
Many a time David has lamented my strange inability to resurrect favourite clothing items that he has literally worn to pieces. (For some reason, he doesn’t take my suggestion of applique flowers to cover holes seriously.) So when he presented me with this ripped and rotten twenty year old canvas, I was pleased that this […]