Bee in our lemon tree. Yipee!

We have tried to grow some kind of citrus tree for the past 20 some years - to no avail. Now just look at this the tree actually has encouraged a bee to visit. We might have lemons yet:)

Miniature Cross Stitch

Here is a miniature I sewed last year sometime-not sure the eyes are up to much more of this but you never know.

September Presents!

I have been to the Framers today to pick up Fran's birthday present. I am so pleased with it. APAT asked me to paint some pink gum blossoms on a small porcelain pallet. So I painted three or four to make sure I got it right as all the other painters were teachers and I am but a student-with sooo much to learn.

Friday -again!

Encore Historical Costume Group today and we are still agonising over the ADI Jacket. It will be solved-eventually. I am uploading a photo of Arthur's latest triumph. I am so lucky. Arthur has made me this -don't know what to call it-but I can rest my arm on it while I paint my porcelain. Now I might be able to sign my name properly and also paint a straight line when needed. Have a look:)

Fathers'Day 2010

Here we are celebrating Fathers Day at Yum Cha. That is my Arthur being a Dad then me with one of our 8 granddaughters Alannah and then, not a very good shot as they were against the light, Rachel and Georgia.
The Fish markets was packed to the gills-so to speak-but we had a lovely day. A couple of us got lost on the way there and Rachel swears she will never go back because she got lost big time. But no bigger than me. I thought I had it all figured out as Stuart had taken me there on Mothers Day but my memory left out the most important chunk of the route:)
But again no cards done. However-Scott and Beverley brought me a lovely book of transfers from a company called Sukie(UK) and although they are for fabric I have tried them on cards and they work, so looking forward to Wednesday.
Porcelain Art tomorrow-yippee. Have given all my pieces for the Springwood Exhibition so am now less stressed about that. It opens soon, cannot believe it has already come around.
But next couple of weeks it is time for the Gazette again-thank goodness there are only 6 a year..

Friday third day of Spring:)

It is freezing again thought this was spring??? Had a lovely lunch with a friend yesterday in Sydney town, right opposite the Opera House. The view was spoiled by the miserable weather. I like Valet parking-removes the stress.
I don't know where the time goes but it seems like ages since I entered the Craft Room.
I received a fantastic Stampin' up Catalogue from Angela Sargeant this week and have really enjoyed looking through it-probably why I haven't been in the Craft Room:)
Having said all that, I will attempt to enter that CR!

Cards

I have been making some cards and I really need to get some things right. When i try to place things on the card quite often they become skewed! It is so frustrating. Art has told me I should connect the long side first so I will try that and see how it goes. I love these sweet treat holders from Stampin' Up.

Sunday 29th August

Beautiful weather in Sydney today. Art has hung a new back door and now needs to put the handle and lock back on and it is done. Looks better than the front door now. But we will get to that soon.
We went to the Equestrian Centre on Thursday to check out some Dressage. It was freezing so as there wasn't a lot doing we didn't stay long. We headed left instead of right when we headed home and found ourselves at a lookout at the end of the drive. It was spectacular we could see the Harbour Bridge! Not so impressive in this photo but if you squint you can see the bridge.

Cards

Let me try that again! I have no idea where I went wrong but I lost everything that I typed a short while ago. I think I hit enter??? Anyway here are a few cards which I made a while ago. I am trying to concentrate on Christmas but I have another four birthdays in September so they keep wafting in and out of my head. This first card is one that I cross stitched and I think it is so cute and old worldy. The second one I was experimenting with my Fiskars cut outs and the third one I used some lovely Japanese paper I have had since Art made sets of drawers using Washi paper. So nice that we can get Washi paper here now. The designs are lovely. I found a new Scrapbooking shop yesterday at Prospect. It is called Scraploot. Have a huge range of goods but is no closer to home that Fantasia at Norwest.
There was a really cute little boy there with his Gran and he was preparing to make a gift for a new baby. Gran was worried about the bill I think. He chose some paper which had sculls on and the shop assistant had a time convincing him to choose something a little more appropriate for a baby.

Getting ready for Christmas