Tasmania

We are still having fun... Very important for a holiday. I have a bit of a theme going now with photos with clouds. So here is another one. This is yesterday morning just after sunrise at Diamond Island Resort at Bicheno.

Yesterday we went on the Wineglass Bay Cruise. These are Shags on a Rock.



The most important member of the crew was Rastus the dog.



He got a bit upset when he wasn't allowed to sit on Greg's lap. So he had to settle for getting as close as he could every chance he got.



For a little while I thought we might have to bring him home with us but he was fickle and chose to stay with the boat.

Last night we went on the ghost tour at Port Arthur. The Parsonage is the second most haunted house in Australia. I believe it too. I went into the front room with everybody else but there was no way I would have gone in there alone and I wouldn't have gone into any of the other rooms. I felt like there was someone right behind me. We also went into the Separate Prison which was the solitary confinement area. That wasn't too bad until I distinctly heard a door shut and no one else heard it. We sat down in there and I kept turning around because I could feel someone looking at me and there wasn't anybody there... Yes definitely creepy and great fun.
Today we went back to Port Arthur, we went on a cruise around the harbour. Isle of the Dead and Point Puer. I took 262 photos but I shall not be showing them all to you right now.
We drove over to Hobart after Port Arthur for 3 nights. Tomorrow to the Salamanca Markets for some serious shopping. Caitlin told me that we need to buy holiday presents for everybody. Four years old and already it is all about presents that's my girl.

Grey Stuff and Green Stuff

For those in South Australia the grey stuff 'Clouds' Green Stuff "Grass. It rains here!!! The locals were really worried, it hadn't rained for a week.
We had a great trip on the ferry it was calm practically flat.
The photos were taken while we were around Stanley. We went there and had lunch... Fresh scallops and flake(Shark) it was beautiful.
Greg found a really nice piece of wood but it was attached to the wall at the Raspberry Farm.

I had raspberry and chocolate french toast and raspberry latte. Greg had pancakes.
My cousin from Sydney is with us now and we are at Bicheno, Wineglass bay tour tomorrow. The resort we are at has a fairy penguin colony and there was one just outside our cottage but I couldn't get the camera in time but I did get a photo of this one when we were at Penguin.

On the Road

We set off yesterday from Adelaide before dawn. No 1 daughter is house-sitting so we left about 5.30 am.
The sky after dawn was beautiful.


Greg drove yesterday I was cheif navigator. We did have a mystery tour of Williamstown, Newport and the back of the petrol refinery near Altona.... Sounds much nicer than 'bloody lost because the map was in the back of the car and Greg doesn't always know his right from his left'. I was pointing to the right and saying go right here and he went left...
We stayed at a really nice B&B Stephanies
Had dinner last night with Greg's niece and her family.
today Greg's niece took us for a drive around Melbourne and then we had a nice lunch and we are getting ready to go and get on the ferry tonight.
Tasmania here we come.

Dolls

I get together once a month with some friends and we do lots of talking and a bit of stitching. I am the doll maker of the group. Some of the others have made a doll in the past and after they saw my Lady Dances with Dragonflies and saw Ray Slaters book they decided they all needed the book and that they would like to make a doll. So I made some faces out of paper clay for them and we did the faces 'A La Susie McMahon' Here are the final results - Well Sandy's belly dancer is still a WIP but she will be done. I have started another doll as well that isn't finished yet. Work and Study keep getting in the way.
We are also leaving soon on the Tasmania Trip and the final plans are being finalised. Not long to go yay for holidays

Finished projects 6 to 10

I am a terrible photographer, mainly because I forget to take them. Today I finished a major work for one on No 2 son's friends to wear to the Medieval Fair in Gumeracha next week. I finished a reversible cloak, a lined velvet tunic, a hat, a collar and an apron (Stone mason style). I'll get No 2 son to ask his friend for a photo of him wearing it all.

Fibre Forum

Well I was only away a week but it has taken me this long to catch up enough to get on here and tell you about my trip I believe a good time was had by all. I certainly had a good time.
We set off on Sunday morning from my friend Wendy's house. They didn't believe we would get everything in but I managed. I would not have been happy if we had a flat tire though. It is amazing how much stuff you can pack around into the wheel well, yes I did leave the tire in there.
We had a good trip, just one accident which didn't hold us up. We stopped for lunch in Horsham then at Stawell for a textile art exhibition and got to Ballarat about 4 PM. I had some reservations on the first day as the teacher of the Shibori seemed a bit flustered- turned out she was taking a headache pill with her asthma meds and the two definitely didn't mix so once that was sorted out she turned into Shibori/dying teacher extraordinaire Her name is Margaret Barnett

here is some of her work .
We had the science room at Ballarat grammar which luckily had a little greenhouse which was great for hanging up the dyed fabrics we thought except the sprinkler system came on twice a day.


The results were beautiful though and I learnt a lot especially about Procion Cotton/silk/rayon dyes which were beautiful.




The last photo is of a piece from the silk screening class with Kerr Grabowski I can't acknowledge the member of the class who made it because I don't know but I loved it.
Of course I bought books but not a lot of stuff. I'll update those things later.

Fiber Forum

Well here it is another year gone. A year since the last Fiber Forum. I am leaving tomorrow to spend the night with my friend Wendy. Then bright and early Sunday we are off to Fiber Forum.So I shall post again next Sunday (Probably). I have had a bit of a case of the blahs so I am sure I will feel much better once I am on the road. Hope you all have fun without me.