Outgoing - a Quilt this time!

As with a lot of quilts, there is a story attached to this one. Our neighbour's Mum & I struck up a friendship through our love of patchwork & quilting.  Sadly she passed away a couple of years ago & her husband asked if I could finished this quilt.  She had basted it & started hand quilting.  Like most of us, I am working on half a dozen projects at the one time, so it took me over a year to finish, but it is finished & ready to be returned - I do enjoy hand quilting & try to have some on the go for when the need to hand quilt touches me.

Incoming!

Received 2 pieces in one day - above is from Nadine (California) - how I admire those who can draw! Also received a little book from Jenny (New South Wales).  It's called  "A Dragon Tale"

It's a delightful tale & the drawings are wonderful! Thank you Nadine & Jenny for brightening my days!

Owls

This is part of my collection of owls - I stopped adding to it some years ago when space to display them became a bit of a problem.

This new one arrived at Christmas - thanks to my youngest & his fiancee - it is sitting in the pot that holds our orange tree.   He is the biggest owl I have.  Will create some mail art to send to another owl fancier overseas.

Safe and Sound

A trip to the police station and my handbag, purse etc are returned safe & sound.  Of course, the cash has been spent, and I have already replaced the credit cards, camera and driver's licence.  Now I have 2 cameras - maybe I'll show HofM how to use the other one - then, maybe not. As I was told, I was one of the lucky ones.

Before & After

After the water left - it was all so grey & unhealthy looking -

Twelve months on - who would know what had happened here.

We do & we have our own marker on a post under the house - hope we don't have to add to that - EVER.



Flood - 12 months on!

Our neighbour is not taking any chances - he has raised his house 2 meters!

Back yard is looking good. HofM says this bromeliad is his symbol of the flood - it survived & is better than ever - even has a pup now.

The ginger flowers are out.

Everything looks great.

Outgoing Mail Art

Another photo that left its mark after the Flood.

My muse visited me last week & inspired me to take another direction with the flood photos - am now collaging & trying to use my silly side as inspiration.  Wish my muse could sit beside me every day!

This was going to be an art quilt - it sat on my sewing table for nearly year & didn't inspire me further, so it got the chop & ended up as two pieces of Mail Art & are heading overseas to friends.