Taking a brief break.....

....from relentless sewing to mourn the loss of my digital camera which appears to have given up the ghost at a very inconvenient moment! So here are some images i made earlier as all true Blue Peter fanatics would say!

....first year degree work

a very old pastel drawing.....

and just for fun sewing....

back to the sewing machine!

The sun shone.....

....yes, even in mid-September!

...and the crowds came (sometimes there was nowhere to stand to keep out of the way of visitors viewing the art!)

....and a wonderful time was had be all at the final weekend of the Saltaire Arts Festival Open Houses Arts Trail.

.....and I even sold a few pieces.

Thank you to everyone who called by! ....and thank you to Paula and Nick for generously allowing their house to be an art gallery for the duration!

Its started.....

.....the open house artstrail at the Saltaire Arts Festival opened for the first full day yesterday, and is on for the rest of this weekend and all of next weekend. Its a grand day out for all the family so if you are in the West Yorkshire area...call on by and say hello.

Check out our house blog and the festival website for more information! The pictures are of our open house - 6 harold place.

Busy day.....

....working from home at the day job

... and busy week completing the work for the Saltaire Open Houses whilst continuing to work on the panels for the Knit and Stitch show which is now only 4 weeks away.......and yes I am begining to panic now. I know I like last minute pressure....indeed need it to make me work BUT this time the pressure is in the red, highly dangerous, about to blow zone! ...and to make matters worse its a beautiful day and all I want to do is go outside and enjoy it.

The picture is of the second entry I did to catch up for the moly exchange 25..... but my fellow Australian molyers have not heard of Captain Scarlet. Must be a British thing? Is he known in the States?? It's not actually a good likeness so you may not recognise him anyway.

Even on a hectic chilly September day.....

.....there are still little "treasures" to find in the garden.

Just a quickie......

....to show you images of the two molys I completed this week as part of the international moly sketchbook exchange. We are moly x25 and these two books will soon be winging their way to Australia. This has been a fun project to be involved with and across all the artists' books circling the world (I think there are now over 70!) has produced some amazing work.......check out the flickr site!

why not have a go yourself?