On Sunday I packed up my wares and set up at the Q for the market. Saw lots of lovely people, drank good coffee, had a friend keeping me company. Jasper, my Canadian fox, thought he'd come too. He misses Panorama and the Bavin Glassworks Hut. So do I!
After long periods of inactivity it was great to see lots of action last week and this. The rooms are now ready for the plasterer and next week the painter will be in. Yippeeee! Then we can carpet and .. . . move in. Really want to catch the rest of the winter sun streaming in before the red-hot Canberra summer comes round again.
Totally disheartened at the lack of progress. Builder comes one day a week if I am lucky. That was on Monday. Now Thursday and still no show. I have re-used materials already in my garden to make my patio which I will step out onto from the new studio/bedroom. When that gets finished.
Recently a close friend's daughter turned 21 and I promised to make a quilt for her. I used lots of fairy frost fabrics which I recently bought in bundles, along with a charming Japanese fabric. Now being quilted, I will bind it on the weekend and it will be ready for the giving ceremony soon after.
I have pulled the plug now on making glass beads as I need to actually have some finished pieces for the 24th. All spare time when I am not in the garden or at work I am composing colour symphonies - lampworked beads, crystals, semi-precious stones, silver accents and catches.
I have been pinning and sewing over several weeks now, at intervals. Finally it is in one piece, the centre of something. Another partially complete quilt for my collection!
I had a bit of fun yesterday making lampwork beads. My mental list always includes beads for red, black and white necklaces. Then I am free to do anything else at all. So I try to practise everything. The big disappointment was in trying to flatten the green stuff I inadvertently melted in part of the flower petals on the large purple bead middle right. Grr. Concentrate on where the heat is being applied, green on first and all sorts of other self-admonitions. Son K named some of them Totoro beads so I am now going to have to make a special piece to display them in. I wonder...
I have always been obsessed with creation and colour. These days I play with glass and fabric as much of the time as I can. The rest is taken up with a little paid architectural work, family and playing with our two cats.