looking at lace and quilts

This week has been about looking, not making or creating.

I visited  the SA Embroiderers Guild  early in the week with friend Deirdre and my cousin Chris to see their current exhibition 'Lace in delicate detail'. It is delicate indeed, intricate and beautiful needle made laces from the 18th century to now. You can check it out at  http://www.embguildsa.org.au/ There was other beautiful embroidery work promoting classes for the members as well. More things to learn in my spare time!
After we had coffee at The Olive Tree Cafe in Thebarton where I loved the recycling touch for my iced coffee, here beside a latte -

Over the last few days it has been our Guild Festival of Quilts. As usual a wonderful display, with lots of variation, colour, inspiring pieces and brilliant workmanship. Congratulations to our Show Committee and to all the winners - especially Rachelle Denenny (Best of Show) and Julie Adamson (Runner up Best of Show). Have a look at the winners at http://www.saquilters.org.au/festival-of-quilts-2014.htm  though the photo of Rachelle's beautiful whole cloth quilt doesn't do it justice. Well done to everyone else who exhibited their work, making for a great exhibition.

... and while driving in the city I couldn't resist taking a photo or two of the beautiful jacarandah trees blooming in many streets. That is a sign of Novemeber - and exam time. Fortunately all that is a long time ago for me now, but there seemed to be some connection, as our exhibition was in the new building which replaced the old Centennial Hall where exams were conducted for many years, and I did sit some uni exams there. Exams were actually being held in another building on the site.

I liked how some of the residents in this street had tied big purple bows on the tree trunks.

From this natural beauty to our back yard. This week we had lots of frothy frog spawn patches in our fish pond.

I turned just one patch over for a close look and photo (then turned it back again).

The fish don't seem to do so well in the pond, but frogs certainly do!

tidying up the pages

I have spent some time over the last few days updating my pages. I found recently that all the pictures had disappeared. I guess it was when changes were made to make creating pages easier. Updating them was on my 'to do' list anyway, so it was has ensured that I did something about it.
The gallery page is temporary. I need to do more, but finding the scans for some of the pre-digital photos is not so simple because there have been a couple of computer upgrades along the way. Organising and tagging photographs is another item on the 'to do' list!

Had a great day for the garage sale though the profits were small. It was rather like a quilt show - a long time getting it together, but only minutes to dismatle it.
I can't do a page without a picture, so ... 2 more postcards.

 

I enjoy making them, and am thinking of selling them on line.

And lastly, I found this photo while looking for quilts. It was taken through the windscreen of a vehicle in front of us near Widdicombe in the UK, some years ago It made us smile then and still does ...