Wire Work and Some Yarn
I finished the sculptural piece I was working on – only to find it photographs terribly, believe it or not, the grass helps LOL. I think it turned out ok, but I wish I hadn’t…
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Journal archive
October 2005
From the journal archive.
12 entries20 Things About Me
I was tagged by Dijanne: 20 things about me 1. I am a Tasmanian but I now live on the mainland. 2. I am a civil engineer 3. We are about to renovate our house 4. I do not want to…
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Wire sculpture and Jewellery
I have obtained a good quantity of copper wire from a local generator place (nice blokes), but I’ve found I can’t solder it readily as there is a coating on the wire (as the nice…
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Phillip Glass etc
On Saturday Afternoon we zoomed off to Melbourne again. We had arranged to stay with the lovely Tricia in Brighton – one of my room mates from the Geelong Forum. Tricia had a…
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A FO and some photos
I finished some more knitting this week. Another One Skein Wonder but putting a wider rib around the edge and put a wide rib on the sleeves instead of moss stitch. I used Noro,…
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weekend Continued
After months of discussion, Riscy and I bought an new digital camera on the weekend. Canon 30D Digital SLR. I immediately took many brilliant photos of my leg: I’m not an educated…
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Weekend in Melboune
Our weekend in Melbourne was heaps of fun only marred by Riscy having to work on Thursday night so he missed the performance of Theatre du Soleil – Le Dernier Caravanserail…
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Away again
I’m away for an extended weekend in Melbourne. We’ll be attending lots of events surrounding the Melbourne Arts Festival, so I hope to have lots to report when I return.
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Kaleidoscope
How cool is this, I’ve been playing around with a Kaleidoscope attachment for photoshop. These are some from the Lincut I showed yesterday:
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Linocut Revisited
I’m giving Linocut another red hot go. One of my dorm-mates from Geelong (Chris from Queensland) gave me a few tips, mainly that I should use a texta to colour in the negative…
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Books on the Edge
The workshop I took at Geelong was called Books on the Edge – That Ain’t a Book! by Marianne Little and Gail Stife. We actually did do traditional book binding as well, coptic and…
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Back
I just returned (a few days ago) from the Geelong Textile Fibre Forum. It truely was a wonderful experience, I made many new friends (I knew nobody at the start of the week), I…
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