WIP: a photo essay

Tablecloth: a detail.

It started as a tablecloth purchased for $3 from the trash & treasure market held at the Coburg drive in. I won the $3 as part of a bet on crowd numbers at the first Melbourne FC game of the year - I guessed closest. It was possibly the highlight of the day (thanks Melbourne FC! Onya keep up the good work... in fact... maybe don't. Maybe try something different. Some oomf maybe? Some training from a country women's netball team?)

The scribble.

A scribble and a few choice cuts later it is becoming a new thing... a quilt! Tansi approves. She thinks the tablecloth brings out the ginger in her tabby hide and will go very nicely under her comfy spot on the bed. Even when it is folded up and placed out the way it is still a worthy cat landing pad apparently.

Tansi and tablecloth in situ.

Piecing together some bits.

I really love the mix of textures between the linen, the grey cord, grass green homespun and pinky stone coloured fabric of unknown origins. I hope it's raw silk. It has a beautiful drape. There is also some jade coloured polyester - not my normal speed of fabric but it is a vintage piece purchased out of a scraps bin at a vintage fabric shop in High St Northcote.

It's gonna work!

Stitching stitching...

Coming in our next installment of WIP - a fully finished quilt top... Hopefully.

3 films.

I saw three films this weekend. Beginners was about how just because something is perfect it doesn't mean you can't fuck it up. Then I saw Shame which they said was about sex addiction but was really about pathological loneliness which doesn't sound nearly as exciting. And Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close left me wearing heavy boots.

Daylesford: a photo essay

Malmsbury Botanic Gardens

Malmsbury Botanic Gardens

Mt Franklin

Mt Frankilin

Hawthorn Berries

Driving home: between Daylesford and the freeway

Driving Home

Driving Home: Pentland Hills

Two weekends ago I spent the weekend with Danny and Gael in their gorgeous old house in Daylesford. Gael and I spent the Sunday dawdling along the back roads to Castlemaine where we went to Buda and had yum cha for lunch. I also got to daydream about working in a country library. The drive home was beautiful. It took me nearly two hours because every time I looked back the sky was doing something amazing.

Do check out some of the sky pics on flickr - you can make them as big as they should be to get the full effect.

On my desk.

Is some lovely soft grey conifer I 'found' on the ground at Buda in Casltemaine on Sunday. It was a gorgeous place. A beautiful big strong building sitting on a rise over looking the town. The garden was gorgeous too.

Clunes Book Fair: Photo Essay.

Big camera. Little cat.

Fish left for the timeless joy of harassing a peg.

Upsidedown.

Finally pulled the DSLR out. More pics at flickr.

Henri.

I got Tansi a kitten. He came from Meadow Heights where he lived with his little ma and his little ginger sister and at least 3 dogs. He is very friendly. And Tansi thinks he might be the work of the devil. It is going to be a very interesting Easter. He is around 7 weeks old I think so 7 weeks ago was around the second week of February. I wasn't sure what to call him but Henri seems to suit him best.

The text pic from Hayley - who owns hia ma.

Yelling at me in the car.

Escaped out the cat box and into the wilds of the car.

Home

Henri making himself comfy. Poor boy is a bit stinky.

Bath time!

Post bath proper cat clean.

Noms

Self-portrait with growing things. Sunday.

Growing: a photo essay.

This is freaking cool. So is the crow & dog video on the same page.

Round 1: tips.

Wreck this app!

Have you seen this app? It's called Wreck This App and you can write and you can draw on your own pics and do all kinds of cool stuff!

A bit of shoe polish...

It looks ok. I probably should have used dark brown instead of black. But I think it will be ok as it fades.

Tansi. A photo essay.

In no particular order...