Wet!!

Woke up to a very wet morning...the garden is soaked after it rained all night!

A perfect day for my birthday present, but more of that later in the week! I'll just have to hope for more rain, to christen them.

Crafty Day

As usual it never rains, but it pours!

Spent this morning working on my Friday Night Fix book:

I do not know why the images are the way they are, but I'm unable to fix it...quirks of technology, I guess...one upside down and the other portrait, instead of landscape.  There is a silver sugar spoon in there and a photo of it as well, with inks and pastels.
Then is was onto dyeing some silk organza and threads, for the trial run of a project that has been in my head for about 18 months:

Still in the bags at this stage, will wash out later.
And then onto photos for Creative Quilting...not good as usual! The feather was impossible, so I have substituted a blue ginger jar. Now all I have to do is the real work of swatches and paint!

Gardening

A big gardening weekend!
Yesterday, I harvested about 3 or 4 kg of potatoes (kipfler, nicolas and purple) and a good crop of red onions. Pulled out the tomato plants and spread the contents of the compost bins out onto two beds...zoo poo, did for the third!

Today, it was repotting the rhodedendron, with extra drainage holes and crocks at the bottom to improve drainage; planting garlic, shallots and lettuces, and sowing some broccoli, cauliflower and 5 colour silverbeet.

Frustrated that I can't seem to my head around any textile or C&G work at the moment...lots of procrastination going on...

I guess that why...

I guess that's why they call it the blues:

Here are the blue's samples and they've all be sent off, which is a relief!

Puppy School and Cricket

I spent the morning at puppy school, with Kenzie. She was so excited to meeting other puppies and couldn't understand why they didn't want to 'play', as in wrestle, like Angus, our lovable Cocker Spaniel. Given that most of the other puppies hadn't seen another dog since leaving their litter, Kenzie was a bit too OTT!

The afternoon was spent watching Broadmeadows 3rd XI, playing their semi final in the sub-district cricket. Tom only made a couple of runs, but the light was very bad and the storm blew in, about five minutes after he went out. Still, a bit disappointing for him and a wet walk home for me!

More Watercolours...

Here are the latest watercolours (therapy!)...this time yellow:

This last picture is the official Creative Quilting sample page:

I think that they are pretty close to the swatches. The deeper yellow is a little to close to the Windsor Lemon, so I've bought a Cadmium Deep Yellow to have play with.

Tomorrow, I will have the blues...

Watercolour!

Lovely day! Queen Vic Market, this morning, then book buying with Dianne for the school library at The Little Bookroom, in Carlton. It's lovely to go shopping, especially with other peoples' (or in this case, school's) money!

After that, off to the art shop to get some more watercolours. Using Janinka's beautiful samples as inspiration, I began to systematically (as much as you can with watercolour!) mix the colour, with the following results:

I was able to match the colour swatches from the above samples, for the colour RED:

It's not too bad...tomorrow, bring on BLUEs and YELLOWs!!