Thursday, May 17, 2012

happy birthday to P and all other lovely Taureans!

P's birthday today...so happy birthday lovely husband and to all the many Taureans that I know!
Here's P's birthday card sketch...two lovely dogs :o)


Tuesday, May 15, 2012

thread and drawn

Last week at the drawing salon, the lovely miss Angie brought in some thread for all us to glean from...part of the stuff from a former incarnation that she was hanging on to...just in case...you know, that old chestnut!  I did end up with the lion share and I think that I must have a life time supply here now...























Luckily I managed to find a placcy container to store most in and I do feel quite inspired to get into some more varied sewing projects to use them too :o)


Speaking of drawing salons, time also to show some more of my drawings.  I like grouping them together here as I'm struggling to find my style...that was always my biggest drawing challenge.  Reflecting back on these later, with help of the drawing tag in the cloud might just help!
































Some faces from a couple of weeks ago...and don't you know it...some hands too...



Thursday, May 10, 2012

sunshiny day

It's the kind of day that I never want to end...it has been a day with the most perfect Melbourne weather and I've been pottering about doing lovely research things at home.  I've been trialling some photography of my gleaned __________ garments and catching up on some reading.  Enjoy what might be the last day before winter sets in y'll!



Monday, May 7, 2012

happy anniversary!




































6 years today since P and I were wed!  I picked some of the few autumn roses that we have at the mo...both P and I agree that these are much nicer than the lanky and characterless long stems that you can buy...so these days I request no flowers on occasions like this!




































Instead, we had a lovely dinner at Quaff in Toorak Village, close to where we were married at St Johns church.  We had a nice surprise that there was a sculpture exhibition along the strip, with various sculptures being shown inside the shop windows...we had a squiz after dinner...




















And when we got home, an amazing surprise for me on the coffee table...a Lily Serna number puzzle book...much better than long stemmed roses - yay!





Thursday, May 3, 2012

ryeness

I've been so preoccupied with this and that...I just realised that I didn't give an update on the curtains for which I bought the eyelets back in February...it seems like yesterday! On the easter break the curtains were finally installed down at Rye. It was quite a process...those eyelets are not easy to put on, P ended up doing most of them and it took over a day of hard work!

































The results were lovely and you might recognise the common place IKEA fredrika fabric, it's almost cringe worthy but I can't help but love it!
Hugo also taught us how to pack a dog :o)