SHOWCASE A FRIEND

I have been truly blessed to have some wonderful womenfriends in my life who are very talented and have been there for me throughout good and bad times. I thought I might every so often showcase some of them. I first met SUE GROVES years ago as our Husbands are in the same line of business. I knew she was creative but never really knew how much till we went on a holiday to Europe some years ago to do with our businesses. I had seen her sketching things whilst standing waiting for buses and in queues at tourist spots and finally went up to look over her shoulder. I was truly amazed!!!! She was keeping a tour journal and I looked at what she was sketching and what her and I were looking at and it was the same. All done within a few minutes!!!! WOW!!!! I have some prints of her journal sketches that I will show at a later date but thought I would show you her quilts and paintings. When my beloved Father Ron died she just knocked on my door one day with a beautiful Kokeshi Doll painting because she knows I love them (so does she too!!). Not a bad feat because she lives in Melbourne and the painting was also framed beautifully. How lucky am I to have Sue in my life.

here we are having dinner at Kylie Kwong's Restaurant in Sydney

(thats Sue on the right)

So here goes the eye candy ......... ENJOY!!!!!!

OOOoooh!!! Did I forget to tell you she is also a World class cook and we both love the same wines as well. Stay tuned ladies over the coming weeks I will have more talented ladies to showcase.

ORIENTAL MEMORIES

Some years ago we went to Japan on business but also managed some touring around time.


How beautiful and trusting are these deer!!!

These quilts were in our Hotel in Hiroshima.

I was inspired to make some oriental quilts using panels I had bought back for my daughter. No photos for that one . This was an old panel I had that my Mother loved so I made this with other fabrics she had picked out. I had one other panel the same and made one for myself with a number of borders around it made from lots of squares with a different Japanese fabric for every square.

Of course this is where my love of Kokeshi Dolls started and I have many more in my collection. I even have a little one hanging off my Mobile phone and some off my scissors. My quilt group that meets at my house on Wednesdays is also called Kokeshi Dolls.

BUTTERFLIES, FAIRIES AND FIREWORKS

Hi Everyone, This posting is for today 14th March but for some reason it is posting as Friday. Can not seem to edit it so this is the only way I could correct it.

BUTTERFLIES, FAIRIES AND FIREWORKS

I can't beleive it is a year since our beloved and beautiful daughter Shanna married Tim. Time flies quickly.

What a fabulous time we all had. Really relaxed and one big party of laughing and dancing. Congratulations Shanna and Tim. I LOVE you both very much.

I'M BACK AND WITH PHOTOS

Yes, here we are arriving in style at Hamilton Island after aborted landing and then walking across tarmac in torrential rain.


Yep, laying back relaxing!!!! Not!!!!!!

Glamorously attired for awards night.

Yes, thats right ladies I am behind the guy on fork lift.

and there you have me ...... COMING THRU!!!!!!!!!!!

.... and what does a girl do when she is feeling down and incapacitated??????? HEXIES!!!!!

.... and buy Yuwa fabrics on-line

.... and YAY!!! thank goodness for EBAY

... and my best friend Vicki (also a quilter) who owns an Antique Shop gave me this to cheer me up because she knows I love old tins and birds. Every time I open it up it makes me feel happy.

ROW 13

Hi everyone. Last Friday we had to go to Hamilton Island for a Business Award which we had won. It was on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef. We check in and discover we are ROW 13. I said to hubby Oooo!! Not good!!! Well it started from there. Weather was foul with lots of turbulance and no visibility. We are coming in for a landing and suddenly the pilot pulls the plane up REALLY steeply. He apologises and says he could not see the runway and as it is very short and into the sea he had to go back up. We then circled for 15 minutes until he could see to land. We have to get off and walk across runway and down comes a torrential downpour and we are thoroughly soaked including everything in my handbag including my hexies. But let me tell you it went DOWNHILL from there. The next morning going to breakfast the Hotel's highly polished floorboards were wet and down I went in front of the whole conference. I landed on my knee but my leg and foot went out to the side. So Hubby drags me across the floor to a chair and the Paramedics come (eventually). I get treated for some time whilst waiting for ambulance which decides they have worked too many hours so unless it is a spinal injury they are not coming. So we wait for the Rescue Squad who comes with a leg brace so that they can move me. To my embarrassment 3 men (one is my hubby) have to carry me out to the Hotel van which is too high for me to get in so after much pushing, pulling and screaming by me I finally get to Island Hospital where of course I have to wait for ages without any painkillers. I finally get my leg strapped out straight in front of me and decide I am still going to Awards night in wheelchair. Very interesting Hubby showering me, blow drying hair and holding me whilst I do make up. Got standing ovation when I got there. Everyone said I was a hero and all the blokes told hubby I was a legend to make it through the whole night. But did it all end there NOooo!!! to get me into aeroplane I have to go on cargo lift yet again in front of whole conference and the same again to get off plane at Brisbane. Luckily from Brisbane to Sydney I only had to endure being lifted by burly airport workers in and out of wheelchairs and chairs and yet again being up ended into a van but this time with my dress practically around my shoulders. At home Hubby and son-in-law decide the best way to get me into apartment is on my office chair and yet again lifting me up and down stairs. I am having an MRI in the morning and the point to all of this is I don't know when I will post again as my office is on 2nd floor and I cant get up stairs to get help with loading my photos. Maybe my computer friend can come to me and teach me some more. THE BIGGEST LESSON IN ALL OF THIS IS I WILL NEVER ACCEPT ROW 13 AGAIN.