Adelaide Craft & Quilt Fair

I visited the Craft & Quilt Fair on Friday - had a ball ;-)

see my full post HERE

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

My Weekend Away

I have posted HERE about my weekend away with the girls ;-)

I was so glad to be able to use the luggage tag received in a swap run by my CraftMad group ;-)


Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.
Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Adelaide Bloggers Meet Up

I will be going to the Quilt & Craft Fair in Adelaide,
on Friday, 9th November 2012.



Any fellow Bloggers want to meet up for a coffee?

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

A Wedding, week-end away, sightseeing and Great Pizza!

Our beautiful niece, Lauren married the wonderful Brett on the weekend.

I give you a friendly warning now .......... a picture heavy post follows ;-)

We had such a lovely time in the Barossa Valley - staying overnight in the Barossa Novotel

Here are some of the things I made for them.

A keepsake for the Bride - this is the last of the shoes I made when I was doing ceramics - now if anyone else gets married, I am going to have to find a different keepsake for them ;-)

Here is our room at the Barossa Novotel

and this was our view - forever changing and beautiful ;-)

The happy couple at the reception, which was held at the Barossa Valley Estate.  The staff there were excellent and it is such a beautiful place to hold a wedding ;-)

On Sunday, we did some sightseeing with Brother-in-law & Sister-in-Law, Greg & Rosa, and visited Maggie Beer's Farm (again ;-) )

This time, I managed to get some photos of the peacocks!

The peacock kept teasing us - not fully turning around to display all his glory

Then he decided to go walkabout ;-)

ahhh, on the ground again!

Time for some more driving and we ended up at Roaring 40's Cafe for some late lunch.  We had heard about this place on the TV as it has won all sorts of awards for their pizzas. 

The food was lovely, but I had eaten way too much breakfast at the Hotel, so we asked for a doggy bag to take the leftovers home.  We had the leftovers later after we had got home an unpacked - it reheated beautifully ;-)

I was so annoyed with myself, I didn't even think to take a photo of the pizza :-(

So that was our weekend away - now I need to be off and do some unpacking and washing - we were too pooped to do it last night - and then some grocery shopping awaits ;-)

Hubby is on leave for the next two weeks so blog posts may be a bit slow - I am hoping we can catch up on our my 'to do list' around the home.

Catch you all a bit later ;-)

Worst weather in years !!

Here in Australia, 1st December marks the beginning of summer   Pfffft!!!

Storm clouds brewing

Even the Pelicans are flying away from it

Hailstones - only small ones about 1cm (1/2 inch)

Quilt & Craft Fair - Adelaide

I will be going to the Quilt & Craft Fair in Adelaide tomorrow.


I even have some 'spending money' leftover from my birthday and have been making a 'wish list'

Anyone else going??

Weekend Away with the Girls

Hi everyone,

I have just got back from a weekend away in the Barossa for a mini school reunion with 10 of my primary school friends - some of us have not seen each other for 35 years or more!   We stayed at the Barossa Valley Tourist Park, which was much bigger than we expected and the cabins were clean and reasonably well maintained.  In fact, THIS was my actual cabin for the weekend.

The weather was a bit cold and windy, which is a bit unusual for this time of year, but it did not dampen our spirits.  We ventured out and about anyway.

We visited Maggie Beer's Kitchen and got to taste some goodies.  The Burnt Fig, Caramel & Honeycomb Ice Cream is just GAWGEOUS!  See my other blog Cathy's Kitchen for more pics.

Saturday was spent sightseeing - we went to Maggie Beer's , Angas Park Fruit, and Wohlers. 

There were some beautiful rose bushes out the front of Angas Park Fruit - the most gorgeous red.

Sunday came around far too quickly and it was time to go home  **insert sad face here**.  

It was a great weekend, but I am glad to be home, back in my own bed ;-)

the Photo that started it all ;-)

This is the photo that started my interest in photograpy!

Taken in 1994 at the Adelaide Grand Prix.

All work and no play ......

All work and no play makes Cathy very sad  LOL

As some of you may know, I have been 'taking a career break' for the last 12 months and have been enjoying my time at home being a 'lady of leisure'.

Well, since 15th October, I have been on a temp assignment - full time hours!!  what a shock to the system that was  LOL

I am enjoying the work - it is nice to be out and about with people and ofcourse, to be earning some money.

I have not had much time for crafting or blogging, but wanted to show you something I have done recently.

A few months back, my SIL RosaLia asked if I could make a little something for Liam.  His Respiratory Group at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital wanted to make a quilt to hang up in foyer.  Liam picked the subject matter - it had to include a rocket.  ;-)

Above photo is the raw quilt square - rocket has been hand cut and appliqued with sewing machine.  Stars, moon and Letters are sticky foam.

here is a photo of it all sewn up and on the wall.

the following two photos give you an idea just how big this quilt is - There are some amazing squares that have an awful lot of work in them. 

I was so proud to be part of this project and hope to get to see it in real life one day.

2008 Adelaide Royal Show - Open Art & Craft - 1st & 3rd Prizes

Here are my 2008 entries

the plate on the left got 3rd prize. This technique is known as French Dimensions and is applied a bit like icing using a nozzle. The plate went through 3 firings before being finished.

the soap dispenser on right got 1st prize. This technique is marbling, the gold overglaze is layered on top of a container of water, and then the item is gently placed in contact with the surface and rolled to get the marble effect. As the unfired gold liquid is black and the soap dispenser is also black, you have no idea what the end result will be until it is fired. It is definitely a leap of faith when doing this type of work.

Here they are on display at the Royal Show.
Now to decide what to enter in the 2009 show!

2006 Adelaide Royal Show - Open Art & Craft - Third Prize

As requested by my friend Linda - I will post some of my ceramic pieces.

here is my first entry in the 2006 Royal Adelaide Agricultural & Horticultural Show Open Art & Craft, ceramics section - I won a Third Prize!

Here is my next entry - hand painted kookaburra and wombat - the technique is known as 'dry brushing' - Third Prize as well!

I was so surprised to win!