13/05/2015   Photo a Day  Hands

These two hands are getting old now but over the years they have nursed for many years, reared two lovely children , cooked , cleaned, gardened  and all the motherly things but they have also knitted,crocheted,sewn,embroidered and quilted for most of my life.

12/05/2015   Photo a Day  Eyes

Who could resist these eyes? They belong to Murphy who is about 10 years old a rescued Cross Maltese I have had since 2007. He is my shadow and guards me with his life until my daughter comes home for a night or two and then he switches allegiance to her automatically.

11/05/2015   Photo a Day  Upside down

My Singer treadle hangs upside down (well almost) when it is packed away in it's cabinet , this machine was given to me by the Sisters of Mercy and it used to live in their convent in Byng Street Orange NSW..

Bathurst Bicentenial May 2015

 As part of the celebrations last night they had illuminations and a lantern parade , 100 years ago last night they had a lantern parade to celebrate Bathurst centenary and they recreated it last night.
The night was cool and crisp but there was a very large crowd and the Court House did look lovely ,the lights will continue until 17th May (if you get home in time Julie!).

10/05/2015  Photo a Day Playground

The Adventure Playground in Victoria Park  Bathurst NSW.

9/05/2015   Photo a Day  Peaceful

This is Polygon Wood near Ypres Belgium , my Grandfather received a gunshot wound to his left shoulder in the battle here in September 1917.I visited here in 2006 and it is a very peaceful place now but it must have been hell  during the First World War. 

Lisi and Ethan's Quilt

I have sewn many of the strips together and I'm now ready to cut the triangles in this and also the plain black and start sewing them.

8/05/2015   Photo a Day  Four things

My four canisters from Bendigo Pottery in 2003 on my way home from the Melbourne SCQuilters Retreat.

7/05/2015   Photo a Day  Key

This big old key hangs in my kitchen , it is not a key to anything here not even my heart! 

6/05/2015   Photo a Day  10 o'clock

At ten o'clock this morning I was sewing strips together to be able to cut into triangles for Lisi and Ethan's quilt.

5/05/2015  Photo a Day   Red

I made this quilt many years ago now and one day I will finish it , I love the redwork although it was done by machine. Here is a closeup of one of the blocks.

4/05/2015   Photo a Day  Today I saw

Bathurst is celebrating it's Bicentennial this week and this exhibition is just one of many.

I spent an hour at the Courthouse this afternoon looking at this artscape and reading the information about people involved in Bathurst over the last two hundred years.

New project underway

I received a parcel this week from Tom and Jayne who had been shopping at the Quilt Shop in Celeste Tx . It contained some fabric as instructed by me to make a quilt for Lisi and Ethan and I have commenced work after a day or two procrastinating

The quilt is a Zig Zag design with the stripped bright colours and plain black, I hope they like it when it's finished.

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3/05/2015  Photo a Day   A cup of

This is a small stitchery from

www.lynsfineneedlework.com.au

2/05/2015   Photo a Day  Faceless self portrait

1/05/2015  Photo a Day  Want

I want enough money so I can become debt free , I get so sick of worrying about my bills.

Thanks to Google images for the picture.

 

30/04/2015   Photo a Day  Need

I need summer to come back straight away

29/04/2015   Photo a Day   I walked here

The path up to Macquarie Lighthouse in January this year , led by my daughter in law Tamara

2/04/2015   Photo a Day  Prepare

I received this in the mail today from Tom and Jayne in the USA, they are fabrics for a quilt for friends of theirs (and mine) in Adelaide Lisi and Ethan.Today I did some mental preparation and tomorrow I will cut most of the fabric up which is more preparation!

27/04/2015   Photo a Day In my bedroom

26/04/2015   Photo a Day    Four O'Clock

The mantelpiece in my bedroom

Anzac Day 2015 The gardens

Kings Parade is a park in the middle of Bathurst that used to be the Town Square , it is between the Anglican Cathedral and the Courthouse.

It has a Boer War Memorial and this Carillon was built to remember those who fought in World War One and subsequent wars. The gardens around the Carillon are adorned in White crosses and Poppies knitted by Bathurstians to commemorate the Centenary of the Gallipoli Landing 25/04/1915.

Bathurst War Memorial Carillon

Adorned with wreaths

25/04/2015    Photo a Day  I sat here

24/04/2015   Photo a Day  Fill the frame

23/04/2015   Photo a Day   Snack

I didn't go to Patchwork on Monday because I have been quite ill for ten days, Jillian had a birthday cake for me and Judy brought a piece down to me.

It was very yummy Thank you Jillian.

22/04/2015   Photo a Day  Mess

 This weather is making a mess of my courtyard with the wind and the rain , however it isn't as bad as the coastal regions to the east of Bathurst.

21/04/2015   Photo a Day   Seasons

It has been wet and cold in Bathurst for the last few days as we slip further towards winter!!

20/04/2015   Photo a Day  This Happened

I have had a very nasty cold since last Wednesday including a few days in bed.

Table Runners

This is one of four table runners I made for Tom and Jayne to give to their  friends over in Texas , Nancy Ross certainly likes hers I have been told.

8/04/2015   Photo a Day  Breakfast

In the winter I either have Weetbix or Porridge for breakfast.And yes it is winter even though we are only halfway through spring it snowed in the district yesterday and it is freezing again today. 

7/04/2015    Photo a Day   Beauty

This is Beauty Point in Sydney not far from my first ever home , a very beautiful part of the world.

6/04/2015  Photo a Day Shape

Have to love goggle images

A family Easter Sunday

My youngest sister Cathy is getting married next Saturday and the family has started gathering, yesterday we had Easter Lunch at Cathy's place.

5/04/2015   Photo a Day   Egg

As it is Easter Sunday I thought this was appropriate

4/04/2015  Photo a Day  I stood here

Yesterday I stood at my cutting table and starting cutting my four patch challenge for next year

3/04/2015   Photo a Day  This is good

A very unexpected lunch yesterday , whilst getting some groceries in Coles yesterday I came across this dozen oysters marked down to seven dollars .They were delicious as are oysters at any time I love them.

 2/04/2015   Photo a Day   Building

I love looking at this old building especially when the leaves are gone from the trees , the colours of the corrugated tin are beautiful.

This is part of  Tremain's Flour Mill built in 1859  and has just gone on the market. I hope nothing is done to change it.

http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/2985257/site-is-certainly-not-run-of-the-mill/?cs=115

1/04/2015   Photo a Day   Lunch

Lunch today will be something out of this freezer but I haven't decided yet

31/03/2015   Photo a Day  Two tone

The leaves on my  deciduous tree do not colour for Autumn but rather fade to yellow before going brown and dropping off

30/03/2015   Photo a Day On my table

A little Easter decoration , the Champagne glass belonged to my mother and she always filled it with the small eggs for her children and grandchildren , the other eggs were given to me by my good friend Joy over the years.