Looks like I am doing not much at all at the moment, but I have so many UFO's to take photos of in the next week, so will do so, then I'll have a bigger blog. I have made a few things for my advent swapo on the forum, but can't take photos and publish them until after Christmas. Forgot to take a photo of my table runner I have already swapped so I am making another!

Had a visit from Iris Joy from the forum today, who came with her husband. We had a lovely time chatting and comparing notes about our craft work. My goodness, can't the men talk? Mine anyway! lol.

So here is a photo of Iris Joy and myself. You can see why I am on a diet. I am the short one!

Peg Doll Swap

Here is the full photo of my peg doll that went to Quilt'n'Sandy. Happily she has now arrived at her new home.

She had a head transplant as her original head was too small to paint a face on, hopeless for make-up! So her original head was "lathed" down to a stump, and the new bead glued in place. We then drilled a fine hole through the shoulder area, and placed the pipe cleaner arms.

Her hair isn't really dread-locks, but chenille yarn, poked into the hole on the top of the wooden bead that became her new head, and glued with PVA. Her scarf is made from tatting cotton.

I called her Peggy Sue, until I finished her. I think she looks like a Maureen, rather Irish in that dark green.

I think she looks like she is about to go ice skating huh?

She is standing in front of a painting I did of the property at the corner of Bungower and Mooruduc Highway in Mornington, as is the family in the photo below.

Peg Dolls

Went in a Peg Doll swap with the Craft forum ladies and have sent my Peg off to Sandy. This is a "family photo" of the four pegs I made. Actually only completed one.

I miss Peggy, or Maureen, already.

Peg has taken this photo in miniature with her to her new home at Sandy's

I'll publish a full size one of the one I sent when I hear she has arrived safely.

William

My new grandson William arrived on June 5th. He is the first child for my daughter and her husband. My 3rd Grandchild.

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Bedford Weir, Central Queensland

It was a beautiful May evening, parked in our bus beside Bedford Weir, near Emerald. Had to paint the picture, the photo just looked too dark. Now it's finished, I can finish my first pieced quilt. I have done a whole cloth one for my new grandson.

My Pencil Boxes etc

My other half makes the boxes, I decorate them with prints of my own Art work. Then they are varnished, finished off and packed. We travel around Oz and sell them in craft markets, from Victoria to far North Queensland. I have added magnetic Bookmarks with the same designs. I have 28 different designs and also paint on canvas, usually landscapes.

More on that when I get used to Blogging.

I do have an small outlet at Whyalla. The Tanderra Craft Village there sells my goods, and it is a wonderful village, on the site of the old BHP single mens quarters, a must visit for all craftspeople, with Quilters, spinners and woodturners just a few craft groups who have rooms there.

I am venturing into embroidery, and hope to make designs using my originals. More on that later. Then I can add them to my quilts.

Quilting is a craft I am very new to; my late sister Pauline Green was a fantastic quilter and embroiderer in New Zealand, but she unfortunately passed away before I got the quilting bug. So I am teaching myself, with the help of the lovely ladies in the craft forum.