Serious competition, even if it's a rather small multicoloured soccer ball.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Blur
This is one of my quilts, which includes lots of bright, cheerful colours. The way in which the rectangular structure is still visible while the colours blur across it is interesting - I was prompted to take the photo because of the challenge. Photo Friday: Blur.
New watch
My old watch having died, I had to get a new one today - the stopgap Harry Potter plastic digital one wasn't going to last forever, although it was often admired.
Fascinating exercise in gender perception - am I one of the few females in the world who wants a watch with a decent sized face, luminosity in some way and the date? Not some tiny/delicate/distorted fashion thingy? Apparently, unlike men, few if any women want to check the date on their watch, or so it might seem.
After saying that, I've photographed it with a girly background of pretty quilt fabrics in the shop I went to afterwards...
Fascinating exercise in gender perception - am I one of the few females in the world who wants a watch with a decent sized face, luminosity in some way and the date? Not some tiny/delicate/distorted fashion thingy? Apparently, unlike men, few if any women want to check the date on their watch, or so it might seem.
After saying that, I've photographed it with a girly background of pretty quilt fabrics in the shop I went to afterwards...
Friday, February 10, 2006
Afternoon tree
A change was rolling in in the late afternoon, grey clouds and some relief from a hot day. The distant horses grazed on.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Flannel flowers
Flannel flowers a colleague brought in for her desk, having grown them in her garden.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Red (painted) brick
Repetition, one of my favourite colours, one example of how I'm seeing more because of the camera.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Toothpaste
When you cut through all the foofle and marketing hype, isn't this just another North American excuse to experience cinnamon? Although the necessity of the luminous feature eludes me. Cinnamon disguised as hygienic virtue and dental wisdom. An unusual, amusing present & window on the extent of cinnamon addiction. Photo Friday: Disguise.
Country home
One of my favourite magazines - this latest issue came on Saturday (when I originally posted this until it was eaten by Blogspot and is now gorn into the ether).
Choc chip cookie slice
Today's Clever Idea (not mine, someone else's) for when you're pushed for time and need bickies. Make choc chip cookie dough. Avoid eating all of it. Place remainder in rectangular dish and cook like a slice. Crunchy on the edges, squishy in the middle. Yum.
Better still, get a dear and useful friend to do the above and bring it to your place.
Better still, get a dear and useful friend to do the above and bring it to your place.
Friday, February 03, 2006
Fern
Hot, at 39degC in the shade, and humid - by late afternoon the ferns were wilting, just like us.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Charm
Luscious samples from Charm (by Amy Butler for Free Spirit fabrics). Couldn't get to day's end without starting a quilt with them!
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Gallipoli documentary
This is a brilliant documentary. The words of Turks, British, Australians, and to every soldier the greatest thing was home, family, and the terrible cost of war. Don't miss this one. I've chosen it for Photo Friday: Vanity because some of war is about vanity - the vanity of those in power who do not always use it wisely - while in other ways the unsung bravery and selflessness of the ordinary soldier is the utter antithesis of vanity. How, on one appalling day among many, did the second and third waves of Anzacs obey the order to go over the top, when they knew the first and second waves had met with annihilation?
Film's website is http://www.gallipoli-film.com/
Friday, January 27, 2006
Australia Day lamington
Maybe it's the one day of the year when green and gold coconut makes sense. Lamingtons are a sponge square dipped in icing and rolled in coconut. Children are so not put off by nearly-luminous food!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Gardenias
None perfect, all beautiful. Love the vintage aqua vase, and the way their scent meanders through the room.
Pink(ed) ATC
ATC with pinked edges. Photo Friday: Pink. Well, there's pink on the ATC, but I like the pun. (ATC = artist's trading card)
Friday, January 20, 2006
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Monday, January 16, 2006
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Friday, January 13, 2006
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Happy feet
So Ronald's occupying most of the seat? So sit on him! Lunch at the Palais d'Arches D'or, on a break from investigating Treasure Shops.
Junk panorama
After Christmas, when January isn't too hot, it's time to cull and organise. Photo Friday: Panorama.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Gardenias
Picked these from the garden - just had the three, so I enjoyed the perfume and their varying stages from fresh-white to creamy-fading.
The aqua blue vase is a favourite junk-shop find.
Some order amid the rest, some of which is chaos-in-progress to order.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Bark & vine
Something really appealed to me about the rough texture of the bark and the delicate vine growing against it.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Blue plumbago
I've always preferred blue plumbago. Think I need to work on focus a bit...
Been doing some sorting out at home, so the garden is being my photo source/inspiration.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Monday, January 02, 2006
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Turning the corner
Turning the corner into the new year (these bricks would look so much nicer with lighter grout).
Friday, January 21, 2005
Op shops
Ah, the immense pleasure of browsing op shops (goodwill, opportunity shops, Oxfam shops, charity shops)...the perpetual jumble sale of the forgotten, the unloved, the unlikely to ever be loved. And, of course, the treasures that I identify and buy and take into my life. Today's best buy: a Singer 201 sewing machine in beautiful nick, $5. And that was after I'd passed on one of the same model, different colour, different op shop. Couldn't leave this one behind. Quirky favourite: (another) Kitchenmajig, the best invention ever to make the best mashed potato. My family had one when I was a kid, and I occasionally find one on days like today. Now I have three... so if one breaks, as my parents' one eventually did, I'm still OK for fabulous spud mash. Book favourite: Mary Martin's Needlepoint, an enduring favourite. She writes not only about the needlepoint/tapestry projects she designed and made, but also very much about the why, the process of stitching and the enduring joy of it.
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