Lazy life...

We spent most of our time out on this verandah...all day for days...I read and wrote and painted and drew and loved it all.

I lay under a huge old bottle tree and took this pic...Desley figured out it could be 2 or 3 hundred years old...it is quite incredible..

The chooks...we became quite attached to them..they walk all day scouting around for whatever they eat..they must do miles each day..

Road trip to babysit the farm at Moola..

We stopped at Yarraman for lunch instead of Blackbutt on our way out to Moola..just for a change...and right next door was an op shop!! who planned that? Me!..and I found a few bags of old buttons...I don't use them very often but still love 'em..

Quilts and colour

These are pics of my quilts mostly..obviously closeups. I love all the fabrics and colours...I think I used to love patchwork quilts because I could use so many fabrics in one go as I can never make up my mind which one to choose.

Calm and serene

I've been playing with my new camera and I wandered around our place here taking close-ups of lots of things..I took many photos so have only posted some today. I tried to group all the calmer pictures together...I just realized they almost all have shells in them..I like shells and bits of broken coral and anything off the beach really.

This little doll's head was my niece Jodie's...it is still with me...she actually has a little tear running down her face...in the background is a little piece of art Trudes made.

I looove this one...the '5' bit of timber I found on the beach and it occurred to me the other day that I have lived in 5 countries...I couldn't work out what to do with it even though I love it..it'll probably end up in an art work one day.

I really like spirals....

This is fun and I'm going to post some more tomorrow..with colour!!

My Day for Art

Its a gorgeous day but I'm still sitting here in bed with the laptop...drinking coffee and looking at my facebook and emails and checking out peoples' blogs...I'm all on my own for 4 days as Don left yesterday morning for Toronto in New South Wales, (10 hours away), to his latest powerlifting comp with his mate Ted. I have a lot of art planned and maybe also a trip out to see friends and a walk on the beach..but nothing is set in concrete and I can change it all if I want..

I painted these little 'planets' to cut out and add to a small collage in progress. I'm working towards entering another exhibition and this time the works wanted will be smaller scale. So another focus for me with my art. I can become quite scattered otherwise and not really have any goal in mind and sometimes just think what the hell and just give up and go and do something else. I know I am extremely fortunate to have this good life with lots of time to use for my art..when I was working fulltime it was really difficult as I was so tired all the time.

The first photo is the flyer for my first ever exhibition!! Well, its not actually all about me..but it is the exhibition that I have one small piece in. The painting that I showed in the last blog post has also been accepted for the online auction to raise proceeds for Japan. I really liked that painting but the photo doesn't show it very well. I had to take it out to the gallery so they could see it in the flesh too and they said the same thing...it was a lot fun to paint.

So....off to create!!