ooooohhh what a beautiful day!!!

I couldnt help snapping pics at the local florist with their sidewalk display - its so pretty and bursting with colour and wonderful weather to boot!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ballarat Forum -a world unto itself!

Ballarat Forum ,Kim Thittachai -the lost draft!!!

Well Ive come back from Ballarat Forum and while it was a week ago ,I think I have only now recovered!!!

It was an exhausting but fun week. Kim Thittachai was a hoot! although I didnt get a massive amount done in class time, but I got some ideas to take away and use -so that was good! And forums are such fun! Just heard that Janets Blue Mountains forum went well so its good news all round.



Kim along with some of our pieces in assorted materials. The gorgeous
organic piece was created by Wilma



Our display at the open night I had 3 pieces in the display -2 centre wall , far right and the pink 3D

Jane Bodnuruk's cute daughter in her Steampunk class with Kirry



A gorgeous Shrine from Chris Atkins workshop-hopefully well have her tutor with ATASDA

in the southern states next year. She is having a workshop in WA later in the year.

Ill have to add more images to an external album until i sort the images part out on Blogger!

saqa Oceania blog hop

For those interested in looking at others' studios SAQA (Studio Art Quilters Association) is running a blog hop. I hope that  I have done it all correctly.
I have already taken the images for mine as they are " real"lol. As I took them before going to Ballarat. So you can only imagine!! Well youll just have to  have a look see, on May 21 and the list below has everyone else.
Fingers crossed all the links worked!!
However - every second day a new blog entry will be put up to show you through a studio.

NAME	DATE	BLOG ADDRESS
Mel Forrest	1st may	http://mixedmediabymelforrest.blogspot.com.au/
Sue Dennis	3rd May	http://www.suedennisartquilts.blogspot.com
Lisa Walton	5th May	http://www.fibreinspirations.blogspot.com.au/
Linda Robertus	7th May	http://lindarobertus.blogspot.com/
Dale Rollerson	9th May	http://downunderdale.blogspot.com.au/
Averil Stuart-Head	11th May	http://www.avesrave.blogspot.com
Beth Miller	13th May	http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/
Sally Westcott	15th May	http://www.sallydunn.blogspot.com/
Ali George	17th May	http://www.aliquilts.blogspot.com/
Pam Holland	19th May	http://www.pamhollanddesigns.typepad.com/
Felicity Clake	21st May	http://bearlytherecreations.blogspot.com.au/
Brenda Gael Smith	23rd May	http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/
Alison Lawrence	25th May	http://www.fibreinspirations.blogspot.com
Jenny Bowker	27th May	http://jennybowker.squarespace.com/postcards/
Sue Domeney	29th may	http://quiltstodyefor.wordpress.com

Blog Fixed -I think!!!
Ive had problems learning this blog medium and had my blog looping to no where but I think Ive fixed my website and blogspot now!
Fingers Crossed!!!!!!!!!

embellishing no more -well at least for now!

                                 

designer knit -orange/rust

silk shawl-midnight blue purple shades

silk shawl dyed with the slightest tinge of green

Here are some samples of all my hard work
After a week of constant embellishing Im finally in melbourne with all my girls-Bella, Sofia and Sally.

I cant wait to relax before going to the Ballarat Forum to do Kim Tittachai's class.

awakening the Dragon and the largest Easter egg hunt in Australia

After  arriving in Melbourne for Easter my sister had organized for us all to stay in Bendigo for the huge easter celebrations held there annually, which included the Largest Easter Egg Hunt in Australia, Cadbury had donated 10,000 eggs and while it was divided into age groups, this activity was a mad house of children hunting for small eggs. It went on all day and was great fun!!

my neices were in there some where!

One of the Wakening of the Dragon -lion shows

We were also privy to 2 of the 3 days of Blessing of the Dragon and Waking of the Dragon Ceremonies, with traditional dances, Lion Dances, dragon and spirit dances, along with thousands of crackers going off. The last day was the dragon parade as he awakes and moves through the street bringing good luck and the Chinese New Year. The Bendigo Imperial dragon is the longest outside of China with 80,000 mirrors on him.So it is a popular and busy festival.

Isabella with her tattoo.

It was a lovely couple of days with lots of activities and beautiful weather, and botanical gardens,