31/01/14  Photo a Day   Polka Dot

I am using these spotted fabrics in the Patchwork of the crosses project I recently started.

30/01/14 Photo a Day  Best invention ever

  

Books are the best invention ever, I couldn't live without books, these are my patchwork and quilting books and I have three other very full book cases in my small home and if you saw yesterday's photo the local Library is across the road. I think you could say I read a lot!

29/01/14  Photo a Day  Window

 

This photo was taken through my sewing room window, as you can see there is a car park and beyond that the large brick building is Bathurst Art Gallery and the Library. On the right hand side of the car park is Keppel Street a very trendy area with lots of gift shops, cafes and a French Patisserie that makes the most divine cakes and pies.

I live on a corner block and at the other end of my small street of old Victorian and Edwardian cottages is the Railway Station.

28/01/14  Photo a Day   Dinner

 

 

    I had this for dinner at the weekend, I get very sick of cooking for myself and I rarely go out for meals so I walked around to Keppel Street and bought fish and chips. Not very healthy but I enjoyed it and that is the main thing sometimes!

27/01/14  Photo a Day Something I bought

 

 

   I bough this mask in Venice in 2006 whilst travelling with my friend Sherree Kathleen

26/01/14   Photo  Day  Fun Stuff

  I made this wall hanging a couple of years ago and it is for Halloween but I think it's gorgeous (and fun) so it hangs  all year.

25/01/14  Photo a Day   A taste of summer

 

 

I can see my neighbour's trees from most windows and I just love the Crepe Myrtle in flower and although it's very tall it is dwarfed by the Liquid Amber and the Elm tree on either side.

24/01/14  Photo a Day  Your Space

This is my space, where I sit to watch TV, read and hand sew either one at a time or all together!

23/01/14  Photo a Day  Bedtime

I was left half a bed by the "bed hogs" last night

22/01/14  Photo a Day  Nice

 

 

A nice old sewing machine.

 

 

 This is one of my treadle sewing machines, I don't use them as much as I should, it is in good condition and was given to me about 20 years ago.

21/01/14  Photo a Day   Blue

 

 

 

   I made this quilt using a purchased embroidery to match my blue and white china collection , it is one of my favourites.

20/01/14   Photo a Day   To do list

 

 

This is what I will be doing tomorrow as today I received some bad news regarding my 6 month old T-box which apparently has certain physical or liquid damage not covered by warranty!!!

Considering it just stopped working while I was watching television one night I don't know how ,why and where it received said damage.

To say I am upset is an understatement.

19/01/14  Photo a Day  Breakfast

As cooked and served by my daughter Trish

18/01/14   Photo a Day   Happy place

My sewing room is a happy place to be , set up at present for hand sewing hexagons and watching DVDs

17/01/14  Photo a Day   Tiny

 

 

   This is my tiny dog a Chihuahua named Millie she is only 12 inches long (not counting her tail)

Photo a Day  16/01/14   Sun

The sun is shining in my courtyard now until about 10 AM and then the shade from the tree protects my house for the rest of the day

 

 

15/01/14  Black and White

 

 

   This photo was taken in May 1949 and it is Mum and myself taken at Bradley's Head in Sydney

14/01/14  3 Things

Three of my Jim Shore Angels

13/01/14  Makes me smile

 

 

 My friends working hard at Patchwork at my place

I made this quilt for myself last year and when Tom and Jayne saw it they 'tried' to steal it so I made them one for Christmas

   mine

  theirs

12/01/14  Photo a Day   Colourful

  I have been "shopping" in my stash and I am going to start a new project with these fabrics

I have been thinking (not always a good idea!!!) that I am not using my blog as much as I should so I have decided to take the photo a day challenge starting with yesterday's clue.This will give me something else to think about and take and upload more photos.

10/01/14    Manmade

 

 

This is my new lock on the front door made by Alan Pickstock in Adelaide and fitted by Tom as part of my Christmas present.Because I live in a very old house and Bathurst has clay soil my house moves around a fair bit  and sometimes I couldn't lock my door but this lock has been made with allowances for the movement of the house.

 

 

 

11/01/14  Looking down

 

 

 

This photo is Murphy underneath my computer desk but he always sits underneath  either this desk or my sewing desk or the lounge chair.