2lb elephant

shes apples

oh yes now i understand why people love their overlockers.
ive always just view mine as a very painful and time consuming
white good.
time consuming cause of all the rethreading
and a white good cause...
its white.

but ive gone all zen on myself
and ended up with 4 tshirts for my effort.
for the girls that is

you cant trust a fox

we live in the inner city,
lots of cement and very few trees.

but this moring i woke up to find a fox
had got into the chicken house.

ive spent the morning digging holes.

and feeling sad.

we loved those girls. the kind of chickens
that you could tuck under you arm and drink a
cup of tea with.

you cant trust a fox.

reflecting on

this beautiful ugly city.

do you need anything at the supermarket?

oh no thanks i say to myself smiling.

its only taken me five years
of tossing around dirt
to finally have something to show.
yes we are eating from our garden
only buying fruit from the markets.....

and dont get me started on my worm farms.
i have 3... if i wasnt an illustrator
then i would be a scientist.

a slide show.
yawn please but i wont hear you
cause im too busy grinning.... from ear to ear.

spring in my feet

spring in our feet and undies on our bottems. well until today. back to stockings, jumpers and scarves.

banjo festival

yes you read right. banjo festival. as you can see i have my finger on the pulse. and a bit of heel toe, heel toe, 1.2.3. we slept in a tent. and spent the whole day tapping our toes.

we went on a tram for tea

tea and buns we had. a tram ride into the city and then came home and painted it.

puppets

this is no news to those of us lucky enough to live in melbourne for the winter. its grey and raining (which is good) and grey (which is dragging on) and cold...actually freezing. and grey. and grey. so we got busy puppets

finished

a new baby blanket for a new baby girl.... not my baby girl...shes 3 and a half and is still waiting for her quilt. and a knitted cardigan it only took me two years.... i cant take a bigger photo cause the whole thing is filled with hanging threads. but that hasnt stopped me from wearing it. two years hey...i will be forcing my children to wear this cardigan when they grow up.

new frocks

if i could just pull myself away from my desk
then i would finish these frocks i started for claude and marta...
2 weeks ago.

hum good thing i didnt throw away last years outfits...