20/04/2024  Photo a Day  Pattern

  I don't very often buy a pattern because I draw up me own but when I saw this one  I loved it and bought it on  Craftsy.

19/04/2024 Photo a Day  1 Colour

 Three shades of purple but I do love them

18/04/2024  Photo a Day Pop of colour

  The red in this quilt really pops out I think, I made this quilt as a mystery quilt many years ago.

17/04/2024  Photo a Day Floral

 Begonias in the Begonia House Machattie Park Bathurst

 16/04/2024  Photo a Day  Stripes

I made this quilt for Lisi and Ethan back in 2015.

 15/04/2024  Photo a Day Mellow

   According to Google images this palette is Mellow Yellow.

 14/04/2024  Photo a Day  3 Colours

 This is a quilt I made as a wedding present  in 2009 , the bride loved green and the groom blue.I designed the pattern on EQ.

 13/04/2024  Photo a Day Neutral Tones

   There is no neutral tones in my life and google allowed me to find this palette. 

 12/04/2024  Photo a Day  Something grey

 A very grey sky behind this golden ash tree a few days ago.

 11/04/2024 Photo a Day Something Orange

I made this Clarice Cliff quilt many years ago and I gave the leftover fabric to a friend who also loves orange and she is in the process of making the same quilt.

 10/4/2024  Photo a Day  Something Brown

 Molly curled up asleep in the chair in the sewing room

Another quilt top

 

   

 My third One Block Wonder quilt quite a challenge as the rather expensive fabric did not play fairly but over the weekend (a very wet weekend )I got it all together.

 9/04/2024 Photo a Day Something red

I made this apron at school in the late fifties and my mother wore it quite a bit , I think I must have been about 11 or 12 way back then

 8/04/2024  Photo a Day  Something Black

 Black Diamond Crepe Myrtle , I have two of these this one is in a pot in my courtyard and the other one is planted in the middle of the front lawn and will be allowed to grow into a tree.

 7/04/2024  Photo a Day  Something White

    A white hydrangea

 6/04/2024  Photo a Day  Something Green

 The Countryside is lovely and green in the lush Atherton Tablelands of North Queensland.

 5/04/2024  Photo a Day Something Blue

   I did a stitchery on the plain blue fabric and then a bag was made with that and the floral but all very blue.

 4/04/2024  Photo a Day  Something Yellow

 A begonia in the Begonia House at Machattie Park Bathurst

 3/04/2024 Photo a Day Something Purple

 I went on a road trip today to Marsden Park Ikea and Costco and on the way home a stop at Fortunes and Fairies at Richmond  and these are my purchases.

 2/04/2024 Photo a Day Something Aqua

    There's a lot of aqua colours in this quilt.

 1/04/2024 Photo a Day Something Pink

   One of my pink geraniums.

 31/03/2024  Photo a Day Family

   This photo was taken in Wagga in the nineties My Mother on teh left my cousin Cathy and my Aunty Kath with Aunty Eileen (Cathy's mother standing). Unfortunately they are all gone now Cathy first she died when she was 40 from Breast Cancer , I will never forget having to tell Mum (was herself very ill at the time) and all she kept saying was it should have been me before Cathy.

 30/03/2024  Photo a Day Laughter

On our way across the Nullabor to have Christmas in Perth 2015 Jayne said Oh Look there's a pink rabbit in the tree as Neither Tom nor I saw it we stirred her and laughed endlessly for a couple of weeks until on the way home er all saw it and took photos and Jayne felt very smug that she had been vilified for nothing.

 29/03/2024  Photo a Day  Messy

  Whilst these street trees give lovely shade in the summer they are very messy now until June  as they drop their large leaves.

 28/03/2024  Photo a Day Adventure

   In 2018 I went on an adventure with Tom and Jayne we went around Australia , this photo is the replica of the house from We of the Never Never and where the film of the same name was made.

 27/03/2024  Photo a Day Pairs

 A pair of monkeys just hanging around at Mogo Zoo in 2022.

 26/03/2024  Photo a Day Cloud formation

   My computer and I have fallen out big time it will not upload some photos so my PAD is hit and miss.

 24/03/2024  Photo a Day Ugly Food

  I usually buy the ugly fruit and veges because it saves a little bit of money.

 21/03/2024  Photo a Day Order

     The total opposite!

 20/03/2024  Photo a Day Reflections in water

 19/03/2024  Photo a Day Motion

  They're racing last year at Bathurst.

 17/03/2024  Photo a Day Vintage

   A vintage / antique child's hand crank sewing machine.

 16/03/2024  Photo a Day Looking Up

     Zoe is both looking up and going up!

15/03/2024  Photo a Day

This is the bookcase in my sewing room with a mixture of cook books and quilting books.

 14/03/2024  Photo a Day  Symmetry

The Gardens at The Palace of Versailles

 12/03/2024  Photo a Day The colour Blue

 11/09/2024  Photo a Day Hanging

 9/03/2024  Photo a Day Shadows

    The shadow from this hydrangea looks like a dragon.

 8/03/2024  Photo a Day Style

   How's this for style? this photo was taken at my Parent's wedding in May1946.and is my Maternal Grandmother and her sister in law Great Aunt Millie.

 7/03/2024  Photo a Day  Tiny detail

This tiny Nativity scene is made in a Fake walnut shell and my friend Joy bought it for me in The Netherlands.

 6/03/2024  Photo a Day Good Together

            My grandchildren Luke and Zoe.

 5/02/2024  Photo a Day Architecture

The Bathurst Courthouse is one of Australia's best examples of Victorian era public architecture in NSW. It is a popular attraction for visitors interested in the history, heritage and architecture of Bathurst. This magnificent building was opened 16 July 1880, and is situated in the heart of the city. 

Happy birthday

 

My son Tim who's quite a bit older than this pre school photo.

4/03/2024  Photo a Day Self Portrait

 3/03/2024  Photo a Day Home

 2/03/2024 Photo  a Day Sunshine

  Sun shining on the Autumn trees this time last year.

 1/03/2024  Photo a Day Moring Coffee

   This little black duck does not drink coffee at all at any time of the day but here is a photo of some coffee beans.

 29/02/2024 Photo a Day My Name

 This parcel has just been delivered.

28/02/22024 Photo a Day Sign

27/02/2024  Photo a Day  Handwritten

This letter was written by my ancestor Andrew McDougall to Governor Bligh on 22nd February 1809