Hello folks... I think I have this "blogging" up and running.
As I mentioned I'm in Tasmania. It's warm, sunny and always a reminder of childhood. It's great to show my friend around the areas where I grew up. Today was a free day. I spent time working on patterns and catching up with the mundane, but I thought I would go back just a little.
Monday last I flew back from New Zealand with Keith to begin a frantic few days of preparation for Tasmania. As luck would have it, the phone and Internet went out.... Daughter Callie came up with Grandson Kodi to spend time with us... I received a phone call from the Readers Digest re a photo shoot.
In October I spent a few days with a Journalist from Sydney talking about Quilting in Australia... to be honest I really didn't think anything more about it.. I didn't hear from him until now.. Life's hectic and I really forgot about it...
The phone call was to organise a photo shoot for Readers Digest, Heavens.... OK, I thought, a few minutes to take a photo...!!! How wrong could I be.
Tuesday morning 2 young men arrived with cases of cameras and lights.. 3 hours later we were finished.... I must say I felt like an imposter... I'm a photographer gals, I hate having my photo taken. The young men were delightful and made light of the proceedings.
Wednesday I woke early, around 3.00 am and finished off the left over chinese and icecream and prepared to drive to Melbourne... I got as far as Mount Barker and realised that I had left a cord for my computer home. So I finally left at 5.30.
It was lovely driving, the moon was full and it was a mild calm morning... I reached for a diet coke and snapped my thumbnail on the coke can lid... So needing a coffee, I pulled into a service station at Tailem Bend and purchased some super glue to fix the offending nail, it works a treat gals. I had an interesting conversation with the Service Station owner, about ages and such... it was quite bizarre !!! And took off.
I met friend Joan at 2.00 and we waited in the cool of an airconditioned cafe and ate wicked ice cream with maltesers scrunched into it.
Joan loved the boat trip over and we chatted late into the evening.
The next day we drove to launceston to pick up friend Pat and then took off for Stanley our home for the next 3 days. Of course we visited a few quilt shops, and to visit and we introduced Joan to scones and jam and cream at the reaspberry farm.
Class was super...
19 gals of all ages worked hard on their projects and ended up with works of art.