Scatterday N

Scatterday N
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Easier letter, but I had to think a bit about what to put in. Finally...........

South American - Pablo Neruda, the Chilean Poet.

Orange - what easier than Navel oranges - note the naughty little navels.

Good for me but disliked - my Nose. The bane of my life!! Now reconciled to it, but boy did it cause me some angst in my youth as I watched it grow bigger and bigger!

Pablo Neruda. I had heard of him, but never read any of his poetry, so I looked for it and was quite taken with what I read. Found a series of odes that I really enjoyed. This website has some Elementary Odes - not too complicated for my elementary brain to understand and enjoy. Hope this works. haven't learnt how to add links to my blog yet.

http://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/chile/misc/odas.html

Liz

Scatterday U

Scatterday U
Originally uploaded by lulubelleliz

Running late this week- only just got the last few photos late this afternoon. Had fun playing with Photoshop trying to create a collage.
So, here are my offerings.

Things people pay a lot for - Urban sprawl in the country. Some of our state's best farmland is being eaten up by this urban sprawl. People who want an Unpolluted, Unspoilt, Uncluttered, Undeveloped environment are paying big bucks to live in the country - in a crowded sUbUrb. And we are paying for it by the loss of productive farmland and natural scrub!!

Streets - had to find these in a street directory - and one of them was actually in Lobethal and I didn't realise it. Duh!! It's not like Lobethal is a big place!!!

Cartoon character - Uncle Scrooge of course.

What are we being hit with next week I wonder?

Liz

Fun Day

Saturday Jan 12th

I had fun today. Played with some more ATCs. Heavens, they are addictive. If I am not making them, I am thinking about them.
This time I cut up a block I received in a Jan Mullins swap. I added a photo image of a sun, machined around it, did some quilting and voila! some more little cuties. Such fun to do and the beauty is if you muck up, its only a few square inches to throw out. LOL.



I made four like this for the SCQ ATC Swap.

This week I got back 3 quilts that had gone to Tracey Browning of Constantine Quilts for quilting. They are wonderful. She is such a talented machine quilter. I really should be binding them as I speak, for the Retreating Angels upcoming show in March. Trouble is I am hooked on these darn ATCs. When I do get the binding done I will show you what a marvellous job Tracey has done for me.


Sitting watching The Da Vinci Code - for the 3rd time, when a strange noise was heard coming from my computer. Totally puzzled I sat down at the desk to discover that it was a Skype call from Ireland - the mother-in-law of DD2. A wonderful lady and a good friend. Trouble is I could hear and see her, but she could only see me!! My microphone isn't functioning. Very disappointing. So I rang her instead and we had a chat. Have to get that mike fixed though - Skype is so much cheaper than international phone calls. LOL!!!

Liz

ATCs

Friday Jan 11th.

Today I received my first swap ATC. A gorgeous little card from Jenni Strachan. So bright and cheery, so colourful and so many new ideas on one small piece. I just love this ATC. Thanks Jenni.

Liz

Lights

Lights
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Scatterdays inspired me to take photos of some of the lights in the house. There are a couple more, but that would have involved waking up the boss and he might not have been impressed.

Liz

Scatterday E

Scatterday E
Originally uploaded by lulubelleliz

Had to really think about this letter. E would seem easy, but I found it otherwise.

White - Electric lights. In fact I became quite taken with this topic and photographed a number of lights in the house.

Plant life - nothing looking really nice in the garden at the moment, so I took a photo of an Evergreen tree - this one is a macadamia.

Terrifying things - Effigy. Not terrifying to us, perhaps, but certainly culturally effigies are objects of terror in many places.

Doing my thing

Monday Jan 7th

Since the family left on New Year's Eve, I have been puddling along doing my own thing - catching up on reading, gardening (when the hot weather allows) and quilting. I have been able to put together the first five rounds of a Block of the Month and am really pleased with it so far.

Not so pleasing is the fact that the shop has run out of the border fabric for the last round, so if anyone out there knows where I can get it, please let me know. I am looking for a red and beige regency style stripe from Nacy Kirk's Civil War 1 range. It's by Benartex and is now a discontinued line, though may still be available in shops or in stashes!! It also comes in green, blue and brown, but I desperately need 1.5 metres of the red. Happy to purchase any amount.

Here is the quilt with 5 rounds done - 2 to go. The quilt is called 'Civil War' and was designed using the Nancy Kirk range for The Patchwork Apple in Woodside, South Australia.

The other things I have been playing with are a set of ATCs. These are the first ones I have tried and I am finding them challenging and intriguing. Way out of my comfort zone here. I am NOT an art quilter - very traditional and non-experimental, so this is all new to me. What do you think?

Have to admit I didn't start from scratch with the ATCs. The embroidery was an experimental piece I did at a workshop, so I cut it up and put it to some useful purpose. The photo doesn't really do them justice. The embroidery is in red and then a silver/gold variegated thread which doesn't show up here.

Now I have to design some more for a swap. Something bright and cheery.

Liz Needle

Scatterday V

Scatterday V
Originally uploaded by lulubelleliz

I found this one even harder than 'Y' and needed help from the main man. Finally had several suggestions to choose from, so here is my offering for this week

Kitchen - Vinegar and Virgin olive oil - pretty standard choices I would imagine
Motor parts - V number plate. Also took a photo of a tyre valve, but like this one better
Office items - Venetians in our school office and more important Vital Victuals found in the secretary's top drawer - items she cannot do without.