Bush Tucker
I only speak one language, English. Other than a year of high school French lessons when I was 13, I have never had the need to learn another language. I have not been forced by circumstance, war, colonisation, accident, physical change, emigration, marriage, association, or invasion to learn another language.
The Best Laid Plans
For this prompt, I wanted to explore the concept of the artist who decides to rework a completed painting. Sometimes the problem is a fault in technique, color, scale, proportion, or even composition. They are so dissatisfied with the piece that they scrape off the existing paint, or paint over
4-9 Change of Mind
Changing our minds happens constantly as we come to a decision about any matter. A Change of Mind is us attempting to exert control on our lives, responding to the stimulus or inputs we receive from our world. It can be the little things, like what shoes to wear for
Coins for the Flying Doctor
In Australia, we have a wonderful Not-for-Profit, The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). The RFDS was founded in 1928 to bring life-saving medical care to Australians living, travelling and working in remote areas and continues to provide this service, including emergency retrieval and ambulance transport from outback to hospital, 96
Frippances
Coins and notes have been around for centuries and serve a vital purpose in ensuring society has a means of payment and exchange. Money takes us from a bartering society into a more modern method that allows us to buy and sell goods and services locally, nationally and internationally. It
What Lies Beneath
The life that exists in water can differ, dependent upon the flow, speed, acidity, temperature, clarity, depth, freshness, impurities, irritants, dissolved salts, time of year, tides, weather events, light levels, pollutants, total biomass – so many variables give rise to so many possibilities. Much of the time, we humans cannot,
Change in Flow
I have been much taken by the sentiments expressed by my fellow Cloth in Common quilters who have mused about the current prompt of The Water Flow. Each has shown the thought process that reveals the connection to the world around them, their understanding of the importance of water to
Parallel Universe
Colour is so much about our personal perceptions, how we view our work and the world around us. I like strong contrast and I love to challenge myself to try and arrived at a colour combination that shifts under the eye of the viewer, making you unsure whether you are
Coffee Break at the Quilt Convention
Habits creep up and embed themselves in our lives. Sometimes, we don’t even notice them until someone else points out to us that we have a habit. It may be an annoying speech habit (in Australia, kids say “like” every second word as a filler whereas in “my day” my
Scribbly Note to Self
When I wrote in Musings, I talked about the subtlety, indeed, sometimes absence, of a change of season within my climate – southern hemisphere, arid, dry, long hot summers and short winters. It is not that I was lying, more that I was discussing the averages, the normal, the usual.
Scribbly Note to Self
I know that most of you have enjoyed the possibilities of the prompt this time – Change of Season as, in the Northern Hemisphere, you have such distinct changes in the seasons. The material to work with is stunning and the images plentiful. I live in the middle, temperate latitudes