Wordless Wednesday

Many legs!

The boys called into the kitchen las night to see this fello sitting presumably incognihto up the corner of one wall..failry common as in its name of a common house centipepde, I get the idea its not endemic to Australian according to Wiki but I may be wrong.. http://esperancewildlife.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/centipede-scutigeridae-sp.html Heres a bit more information about this funny looking insect!! Its really fast and appears to be cause its so mesmerising as it flits across the floor,mind you this one was abit slower as it had been locked up all night so i could get some close photos!

Gorgeous colours!

Heres a good shot of his eyes

And one more for luck!

And the watercolour class was good ,not as good as I hope, we were quashed in and it was a bit warm though I didnt feel as much the others seem to,the part of being squashed is not due to the organisers or the Art Centre but the failure of the Council to provide adequate housing for the arts in this area.Most people wouldnt care as the money could probably better go towards childrens/Teens facilites but to keep many people happy in a often lonely isolated area,it is still a need for well being of the community, the arts centre also catered for the crafts like patchwork and childrens crafts.The hosts provided endless coffee, tea and biccies plus a lovely meal of rissoles hand made for either salad or hamburger style lunch,I wasnt too enthused with the recipie handed out where the description was that to make it go further, shredded potato was added,I realised the need for frugilty to make ends meet but I would have been happy to bring a cold platter or a cake for smoko,maybe next time. It was great to meet others and be in a like minded group though. I do however have to remind myself not to talk about my own stuff like spinning etc cause one person was keen to meet later to learn spinning,I should go to the arts people and get them interested in putting on a spin day one weekend and maybe extend it to the next town for numbers. A bit nervous as per usual as I ve never met any of these people before and dont want to insult them as I simply dont have time to garentee my own participation. working a full time job and managing family business if soul draining,I think once things hot up my weekdays will be up to 12 hours or more on half the week with the weekends being up to 8 hours daily.
My effort anyhow,not very happy with it so will do something else later,a bit of gouche and white wash to recede the back ground and more textures in the forground like rocks and foliage,and I DO NOt like using that masking fluid...

I got in and mowed the three foot high lawn and made ambitous plans to resurect the vegie garden to compensate for the lack of quality of local shops and money,Im hoping Dh wont want to get in and try to make it a gigantic thing that full of weeds and low producing,half the time I not allowed to touch this or that cause hes saving next years seed,lol
More pics,the pink ones are an old Patonyle print,sooo nice to knit with and the blue is the Lornas laces,cant remember what colour name from Yarnivorous destash a long time ago!

Fluffy scarves,had to do these for the instant gratification means,not warm really but quick and fun but not like those fur scarves that were so popular not so long ago

Heres a close up of the colours

 Love all of these but the last one is really pretty,The blue ones is mine I think the purpley one may be a Mums day gift along with the pink socks up there,the gold one Im thinking of giving to the only person at work who gave me a gift last Christmas(the other lady is gone but Ill catch up with her later)
Right Im off to stash dive to find some handspun for that Abalone pattern,want to start it soon!

So excited,Im doing a water colour class today,I have exactly well almost,lol an hour to get ready,Im taking some of my own brushes and maybe paitn too though all is provided including lunch,I was going to make an apple cake to take but also thought I was riding this

But as now we have two cars again I can drive there,I might copy out a photo of something I wantt o paitn just in case we re offered an option to do so,dont want to offend tutor Sheryl Fasolo!
Im making headway with a couple of knitting things,finishing off that Lornas laces sock was wonderful,Must take pics,maybe tomorrow in between cleaning yard,its out of control,cant see the rabbits...
There progress on a Jo Sharp Ultra vest,Issue 1," A fine Romance" that was supposed to be in Ultra  but Im using Sugar Loaf by Valley yarns,merino tencil mix,absolutely divine to knit,very soft and drapey,I dont think its still available,its not on Webs anymore,that wonderful shop, I get lost in there. I found the wool I need for the other two projects,Plain and Simple Vest just not sure whether to go with sage green or charcoal black,and also need to find the handspun from Charley I did ages ago,two lots Im combining for the Abalone vest
Ok I must dash but Ill leave you with another of the very patient Alexander Beetle (who knows the song?) Patient 'cause he waited a week to be photographed in a little home of grass and fresh water

Wordless wednesday

YES Siree

Im done,Im finished,its gone and Im a free study bird for a wee while,what to do,heavens the days nearly over so no real spring clean stuff,thatll be for the odd day this week,tommorow ill be back to being buggered from work where after a quick looky yesty have a humongous bloody mess to clean up after something happened I didnt know about,Im a mushroom as per usual
Anyhow Now Im starting to get the stuff together to finish some UFOs like the projects I have hiding under my desk,Ill get them out prob on Tuesday and put them in urgency easy etc and then line up the ones I want to start,like a couple of shawls and another jacket in Auntys wool,may dye a little for a feature yet,then strat that black alpaca for the one I wanted to use the yellow grey handspun on,wow I have heaps to pick from,I wont get too much free time but I can do a bit at night after work
OK breathless for now,Im going stash diving....leave you with this

Yes new shoes,I felt so naughty but they came back pure leather for $30 a pair,Ill get a least 4 years out of them if I take care...

I like comfort yes I do....

And this is one of the transparencies I did for this assignment

heres a closer look
And one my favourite exercises...a bugs belly!

Im off to stash dive while I can....

Wild and wooly!

The weather has been stinking up to today,over 40 its felt like but now cooling with strong bustery winds and thunderstorms scooting overhead,got a little bit of rain this morning about 10.15 just enough to make it so much more humid,yuck,I flew home on my bike at 210 changed showered etc and back to shop to set up for the girls,have one assignment due on Sunday so have a repreave from working there for a another couple of days to concentrate on the Uni stuff, not thats been any good,you can bet your bottom dollars something will happen,and I get called in...so love Wednesdays and Tuesdays,I convinced DH to close for those low income days,it was costing more in wages,summer time,trades slow.
Heres my play painting I got carried away with.oils,I thought of teh snow fields but sam suggsted it reminded him of the sanddunes at Munglinup.What s the verdict? I love it ether way and with a bit more experimentation Ill start to see a style in this medium soon!

This unit ends with a concentration of exercises

Blue flowers

still knitting but no pics yet,got tomorrow off from one site(work) will endevour to get some then,I just start planing a special knit for the long weekend in June too

Hot

Well after some unusually cool weather we have finally got back to hot and windy weather,so glad Im not at work tomorrow,the wind knocks me around now and the sun seems to be hitting my skin harder than before,the uniform sunsafe shirts are not in my opinion sun safe,Im covered in freckes across my shoulders and I dont go out in the sun bare so it has to come from the hours spent working in it.
This weekend i doing up to 24 exercises to finiah an assignment,mostly experimental stuff and is fun but I wish I had more time to do it properly,cutting corners will lose me marks but interestingly I have picked up some marveous technique and am dying to try some ideas after I get this gone,every afternoon im going to work at least as much as I can to finish it a bit earlier,last week I no hope with work and after work stuff getting in the road,feeling guilty to be taking time off  study but boy the things I aim on doing but most importanly its the opportunity to relax at night and play even if I am pizza lady for a few days as well.
Impasto I love thee
And this artist,heaven!!!



Carol Nelson  just look at those colours and rich textures,Im dying to try this techique,jsu have to get this darn assignment gone...
On the knitting front Ive finished a sock and now have to find its matching ball for second,Ive started an ply toe in hot pink,Ill decide on a pattern later,I aim of finishing that Skein cardigan,Whisper? cant remember and I would like to do that dolman top in the pale green and black sock weight out of the new Knitscene and you know Im sure Ive got this mag too but cant find it so Ill buy another someplace probably at this lovely shop,I check out the Friday updates everyweek and drool at the projects,Id love to do the African flowers..

Something else

Went up on the Hill last night for the Photo Group Meeting,supposed to hav ebeen for the sunset but it was cold and windy and a bit too much cloud cover though I got a souple of sunny ones,the above was across the lake (Lefroy) ,the sun was on the right side of frame, I need to go back one night and try again..but this one was lovely to see even if it doesnt look that hot in pic

I will endevour to get some knitting content on here very soon,just not enouigh time,another assignment looming and two jobs dont help

Little things

Helloooo!!!!!!!! Im backkkk

I managed to start and finish a scarf,start another Peace hat and get an inch or two done on those green socks,heaps of pics as well,I wish wed stayed just another day or two,now rather depressed I have to go back to work..with half the rest of population
Our time away..
Left 8.30 Friday,got there by 2pm,in time to go look at this..

And this!

The next morning we enjoyed a wonderful english type brekky on our wee verandah and I slipped off to catch these images

 A parasitic tree..Nuytsia floribunda

This a grogeous bush,Showy Banksia

And these fellas delighted me to no end though the park manager didnt go much on them and their mess....

On a very good note we didnt see any of these and I took abndages just incase as we were a 100 ks from medical help and literally no phone reception,caution won!

On the last afternoon,only stayed a brief time there unfortunatley,I ventured into the calmer water and enjoyed a bit of the water fun,Im not a person for cold water but this time I got half way,lol ,Pat was trying out his snorkle and the other two just mucked around in the shallows,I forgot how strong the sun can be through clear wtaer and got burnt badly,I can only just now walk freely,almost second degree from behind the knees down to the feet,several tubes of burn aide later wish we had it with us(been put on list for next time) to wait til home,4 hour drive next day and Im only just coming good but not sure if i can get my work boots on for work tomorrow,my ankles ballooned up and for a while I was wondering if I had been bitten,surely not anallergic reaction to the sea? sam also got burnt behind the legs and Benjy had a pinkish face,Hubby also had red calves,Pat got off scot free,just!

i really want to go back but spend aweek to truley unwind and forget stuff,a plan is happening.It makes me tthink of Toodyays Retreat even more!

On the last note..the only pic of me,god age is showing with the exhaution I seem to suffer almost all the time,its true,Mums are the unofficial history recorders of familes and theres rarely photos of them,I was excited that Hubby found a sea sponge and into my collection of art resources bag it went,I did find a dead puffer fish too but I dont think the men in the group would have appreciated it coming home with us..

I did mange to do three drawings and watercolour thingys,needs a bit gouche to finish the last touch ups but if they look ok Ill post them next

Australia Day and snakes..

I was lucky today,theres no need to rush into work and do that liile thing I forgot though I may this arvo just to kill a few ant nests...
Anyhwo its a study day for me must use every spare minute..the older brood has nicked off to the bush,Donkey Rock to be precise,for the usual teenager party,hope none of them want to catch a snake no doube there ll be tigers there...

http://www.ozanimals.com/Reptile/Western-Tiger-Snake/Notechis/scutatus%20occidentalis.html
 and I hope they back on time tonight as we er off on a mini road trip too and Paddy is coming with us...
Anyhow Im researching some trnasluent works for my own project and thought I add some spot here,I end up going off on one tangent or another and find some real gems
http://benedante.blogspot.com/2011/11/marcahuamachuco.html
An interesting writer with a lot of posts Ill trawl through later..
Found art!
http://fuckyeahduchamp.tumblr.com/
interesting....

I ll look around to see what this is,made of and history etc....

http://www.linesandcolors.com/2012/01/15/mysterious-paper-scultures-of-edinburgh/

Wonderful things!!!!!!! Check out the dinosaur!!

And this one

Aleatoric Art

http://blog.gettyimages.com/2009/07/10/aleatoric-music-in-the-aviary/

Curious to what it sound like,an unholy racket or a tinkling reminiscent of movements.

Ok Im off to play with paint and stuff

Still alive!

Im here feeling knackered but Im savouring  my last few days of freedom,zombie world starts next week I think tuesday when Son no 3 pulls out of shop and goes back to school,life will be in limbo for a few months but Ive list and looking at it now and then may keep me sane..including a new bit of furniture for my room,a side board,a trip home to see my Mum in April,ohhhh thatll be so good to be myself and not have the males of the family to wait on...
Oh in June the Toodyay Retreat!!!!!!! If I can work both jobs which are in theory are from 5 30am through to 9pm at possibly 5 or 6 days a week? we ll see.


Dont know if I posted this photo but was looking at it today and thought Id share( even if it was again)

For tea tonight I thought I didnt have any onions..then I remembered,Pat had some onions in this place

came these...sweet succulent green juicy spring onions

And for size this next pics shows how big they were,currently in a beef cassarole

One day I will have my own vegie plot where theres no sticky burrs too,the men who run this one dont believe in working the plot...
Anyhow my current WIP...

Lornas laces sock yarn,yummy stuff,my pattern..just a little heart like shape that makes the knitting go faster,boring for some but I cant concentrate on anything and I have at least 20 years supply of socks. And as soon as I can find a couple of not tired days Im itching to get that sock machine out to do something with all that opal wool!
Oh and yesterday we had a huge storm went around up out to Lake Lefroy,it was a red storm,a lot of rain in the middle but all we could see was the pink dust and billowing tops!

We did get a little bit of rain but the ground was dry this morning when I went to work at 5.15.It was a little cooler too, and the whole day wasnt too bad though I found it a hard going mowing the lawns at 11am. I enjoyed a nice cuppa and a piece of upsidedown pineapple cake I cooked yesty for an early smoko.
Edited to add.... check this super blog out,they are gorgeous!!! makes me want to try them too!
http://dolcreations.blogspot.com/?expref=next-blog

Sunday all over

Well I got that assignment done and posted though Ill check again later to see if the dratted gremlins attacked
Im enjoying the Shepard Sock so far,up to heel last night,Ill see how exhausted I am tonight after I shut shop...
God it s hot today,the shops going to be a sauna...

Just a little bit

Im done with painting for the moment and started a new sock last night,it was good to feel the woll against my fingers,savouring every moment for if the docs get their way ill be out of commision for a wee while,one more assignment to go.... then a few months off to run family B and my own job if I can..
Really want to fly home to see Mum and all my family,maybe down time will work out with that,I might even take Victoria with me this time..

I have company again under my desk,he gets miffed if I shift stuff as hes nearly blind and cant see anything newly rearranged..

Taffy is in cognito in the potplants..we figured if we adopted a handfull we wont need to mow lawn!

Briefly

Busy with trying to find enough hours in the day to finish current assignment and keep ahead both physically and mentally...
Perth yesty to see special doctor who delivered not good news but not bad as well,I am however sick of the advice thats coming from different angles so Im sitting a while and see if my own mind can see clear enough the path I must take.The flight down and back was very uncomfortable,made easier of course due to a fellow traveller in a similiar position medical/job wise,my ears have never been so bad,I really though they wold burst and I was conpletely deaf on the left and barely able to hear on the right,maybe thats why some passengers were looking at me weird like upon landing,my voice may have been louder than normal in the animated conversation with said fello traveller..
anyhow heres a couple more efforts...

Work (mine safety hat and rescue belts)

Free time

Contemplation

Theres a fourth in production that finishes this series a which Ive named "choices" that we make for a life that we mold with the decisions right or wrong, work (safe),leisure time (afford),play(consequences?) the last, Im doing something that reflects a common problem,illegal substances that impact on the success of the rementioned. Well if I can get into it,the last back up option is an abstract fun close up of anamber beer bottle..
The house is a mess though I managed to do something with the kitchen,the lawn is a jungle..the only knitting I have done is finishing off a pair of Moda Vera Moir socks in the coffee multi and frog and start rekinitting some Lornas laces in a green aqua colour I bought off Yarnivous's stash ages ago,my own design based on Charlies heart socks,have about three inches done on first socks,these will be my work smoko knitting for a while

Oh and now I have my own little flock of baa baas thanks to bestest Friend!!! The little treasures were beautiful and really made my day after all the upsets lately!! Thanks P,your a wonderful soul!!!PS I enjoyed our morning tea yesty too

A 30 minute exercise

Busy this afternoon,two down and two to go before I start to graze.. Im happy with this, I have tweeked it a bit...

And "mild " excitement,the wonderful Cormo has a rrived along with the next lace shawl projects!Grown in Tassie, we knitters and fibre lovers donated funds to the lovely Kylie Gussett who through Pozible.com.au to raise enough to have a bale of Cormo to be processed here in Aussie,the reward for donating was a selection from a list of prizes,I chose a kilo of undyed top though I wish got some yarn instead so I could dye then knit but its so gloriously soft!!!!!!

Cormo baas baas

The breeder