tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49858501773041280622024-03-13T20:50:47.396+11:00Wild Yarns and Stuffmoments from an artquilting, yarnbombing and miscellaneous lifeWild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-40826259621696220272017-01-19T09:24:00.002+11:002017-01-19T09:26:23.962+11:00Feeling very warm and fuzzy....<br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, still 13 days left before the last collection, Diamond Creek you are going to have the prettiest </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">kniffiti garden!</span></div>
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<br />Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-37586606523052303392017-01-18T10:08:00.000+11:002017-01-18T10:08:37.744+11:00Look whats been happening<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its been a long time since the last post...sorry folks, our December got quite out of control BUT many things have been happening.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lots of lovely knitting and crochet rolling in,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and five pillar wraps are ready........these three from Araluen, thanks guys, such lovely workshops.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">BUT NOW THE RACE IS ON,</span><br />
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<br />Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-59596502153136459342016-11-26T18:21:00.000+11:002016-11-26T18:23:35.921+11:00The deadline is extended and the yarning goes on.....<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sooo exciting - more and more knitting and crochet is rolling in. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The project is proving </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">soooooo popular we have decided to extend the deadline to January 31st</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. I've just been out to buy some more yarn for you so, my lovely and amazing knitters and crocheters, you will have all December and all the school holidays. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I cant tell you just how exciting it is and how grateful I am for all your wonderful contributions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you imagine my design <span style="font-size: x-small;">(see my post of October 24)</span> to be a huge drawing all you people are my Faber- Castell, Derwents, Staedtler and Arches rolled into one. You are creating the materials needed for </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Thank you to all the wonderful people at Araluen Centre Diamond Creek who helped me get started on these last two wraps. I am so very much looking forward to your help getting at least two more wraps started in December.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This weekend is Nillumbik Artists Open Studios. I have put the three Pole wraps up at two studios in the Bend of Islands. So come and visit Tread Sculptures - you've just got to see how wonderfully and unexpectedly, sculpture can enhance an outdoor setting (</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Not to mention a pole wrap on a tree</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">). You've just got to walk his sculpture track and enjoy some stillness by the river. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> You'll have a lovely time at both studios who offer an amazing experience for the visitor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just for fun, a blast from the past I couldnt resist leaving outside the studio a checkerboard .</span><br />
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<br />Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-28331499653855892402016-11-15T16:18:00.000+11:002016-11-15T16:19:21.213+11:00Less "oops" .......The oops debate over doubles and trebles could go on forever but there is room for everything in our "From Thread to Thrive" kniffiti garden. <br />
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For the textile nerds, the flowers on the left and the centre on the top right Panda Magnum premium 100% acrylic yarn was used. Tough but nice and easy work with. Its the same yarn used in the "Poppies for Peace" project in Dandenong. It has stood up to outdoor exposure really well.</div>
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The crochet chain and the embroidery and flowers on the left were all done with 100 % acrylic yarn grabbed from anywhere on the run. The colours are bright and shiny but the yarn is inferior to handle, it splits easily and is not as easy to manipulate, it remains to be seen how it will hold up in the weather. I intend photographing all yarns at invervals through the summer to compare how they hold up.</div>
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Now a new version of the same crochet flower, details can wait til another day - but when your son's girlfriend says "Can I help" and you stupidly ask "Can you crochet?" and you get the answer "A bit but not for a while" Then you are given this</div>
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Want to be a streetartist? Then dont forget to run down to the Diamond Creek Community Centre, or the Diamond Creek Living and Learning Centre or the Diamond Creek Community Bank Stadium and pick up your kit. There's only a couple of weeks left before we start joining the pieces together. If you're using your own wool email me for the postal address. </div>
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Here is another nerdy aside. As a professional photographer I have spent years explaining to people about the built in flourescers in fabric dyes that look gorgeous to the sensitive human eye but do not register in the camera. As a result often when you photogaph clothing, or in this case yarn, what you see is not what you see in the picture! The blue in the top left is actually a purple/brown to the eye and the deep red has a pink toning. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I crochet a background and a flower, for several years in fact - when it comes to writing it down I check with a friend or two, look up a book and go for it. This time the friends and I all slipped up and to top it off I looked at the right stitch in the book and wrote down the wrong label. OOps. However, we may have a discovered a different looking flower in the process so like lot of slip ups it might just turn out to be be great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Its not major, For the background it will be fine, just it will use more yarn, take more time, and might be a bit narrow - but thats easily fixed if needed with the later addition of a stripe - could be really interesting..... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Simply so we dont use up too much yarn(budgetry reasons) or your time I'd prefer if from now on the background was done in <i>tr. do NOT unpick what you have done already. <b>STRESS</b> is forbidden! This is meant to be <b>FUN</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>three rounds give this </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">or, the tudor rose at the top. Just depends on how you stitch it down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Form tiny scraps, to full balls of yarn, your yarn or ours, chain is very, very useful. You can create stems, leaf outlines, decorative line drawn designs, bunch them into daisies and other flowers. We can never have too many, so easy to do whilst watching tv!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To make flowers and pillars come to a workshop near the pavilion, 2 diamond Street, Diamond Creek on November 19th. If we have wind and rain we will let you know the change of venue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yesterday I went down to Diamond Creek to measure up a pole wrap. Once again, yarnbombing is such a great way to meet people. A much needed offer to help, thanks Shanny, not just for holding up my crochet but for giving me a new idea or three. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We got talking - and, guess what, I hadn't even considered macrame in my design. How exciting that's turned out to be. Sleeping on the thought I have come up with some genius ideas, so, stay in touch macrame enthusiasts, you are going to be very important in the overall scheme of things, all will be revealed in a few days!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now for...... </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">KNITTING INSTRUCTIONS</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> for our colourful, gorgeous flowers to yarnbomb the water tank and pavilion, and maybe there'll be some leftover for a few bicycles as well...........</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">use ours, or yours 8 ply 100% acrylic in colours as near to ours as you have. It doesn't have to match - what flower in nature is the same as the next ? - but it would fit the designs best if its more or less in the same range.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">YOU CAN COME AND MAKE SQUARES INTO LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF LOVELY FLOWERS </span></b><b><span style="color: red;">AT ONE OF OUR WORKSHOPS.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;"></span></b> The first flower making workshop will be near the pavilion in Rotary Park, 2 Diamond Street, Diamond Creek on Saturday November 19th, 1-5 (weather permitting). If we have another really foul weather day we will reschedule and post details. Flower making Instructions will also be on YouTube in November. Let you know dates later.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yup, I've wanted to yarnbomb, kniffiti in a public space and I (<span style="font-size: x-small;">well actually you as well because</span> y<span style="font-size: x-small;">ou will be part of it</span>) am about to. I've always preached about getting permission (<span style="font-size: x-small;">OH&S issues</span>) Well now its better than PERMISSION, its a COMMISSION. And, everyone can be part of it - knitters. crocheters and stitchers, and helper/installers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The designs are done, this is Thrive Community Garden. Its in a beautiful position, right next to parkland running long the Diamond Creek.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DIAMOND CREEK (such a lovely name) - together YOU and I are going to make this parkland a diamond in the crown of kniffiti (yarnbombing). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yarn and instructions will be available at workshops and pick up and drop off points points around town - more on that soon</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">DEADLINE </span>- we install in the <span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">first week of December</span>!</span> So, one and all please, please, please get ready to start knitting and crocheting and then we can start stitching</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You dont have to wait for our yarn or live in Diamond Creek to be part of this - instructions will start being posted on line tomorrow , so find your hooks and needles, some 100% acrylic 8ply yarn and be ready! Check this space email us for a delivery point or postal address.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-5060020045651890222016-06-28T12:35:00.003+10:002016-06-28T12:35:50.850+10:00The Wishing Tree of Life begins<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, its a new project! A tree of life, but also a wishing tree. Margaret Summerton and myself are once again working with the community of the City of Greater Dandenong to create an art installation for Harmony Square, right in the centre of town for Cultural Threads 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This lovely white blossom tree is based on the traditional Tree of Life which crosses so many cultures. But, this tree is more than that, it is a truly powerful wishing tree. On August 1 Margaret and myself will help the community write their wishes and attach them to the tree trunk. Many more will be added during Cultural Threads in the month of August. Hidden in the leaves and flowers on the tree, and in flowers in the poppy garden underneath, the tree will already hold the wishes of the community written with the help of Sayraphim Lothian on Australia Day 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It all comes together in the last week of July when on what is bound to be a cold, wet and windy day, Margaret and I will be braving the weather and working on the challenges of the installation . We can plan, think of everything(?), but you never quite know what will happen on the day. And of course there is a deadline............ the launch of Cultural Threads 2016 is on July 28th! </span></div>
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<br />Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-29730488982444955362016-03-02T14:41:00.002+11:002016-03-02T14:41:53.698+11:00Bye Bye Poppies<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Time to wrap up the poppies - in fact to say bye bye poppies! But only partly, </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">they're off to new lives and locations as they are presented to the volunteer groups who help to create them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once again Dandenong turned on the weather for us, BUT, this time we were working indoors! And, or course, nobody complains about rain in January!!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our first project with the City of Greater Dandenong was the yarnbombed columns and seats for Cultural Threads, then the Poppies for Peace, then White Ribbon Day. We have been inspired by this community, so many threads from such diverse creative and passionate people to make up each experience. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We'd particularly like to mention Jackie Gatt, Greer Davis and Koula Kalaitzoglou from the City of Greater Dandenong, you've been so much fun, so patient and so encouraging, so willing to stand in sun, wind and rain to support us when needs must. Thank you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For me the eleventh of November has always meant a minutes silence on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I think my most moving experience a couple of years ago was outside Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, when in the heart of a busy city the traffic stopped, the people stopped, silence fell, a soldier played the Last Post, then there was total stillness for a minute, Reveille was played and life went on as usual. But, people just for a moment people had remembered lost lives, lives changed and a world changed. I always remember from the first World War my grandfathers and great uncles, my husband's grandfather and great uncles. We were very lucky, they came back, but two carried injuries all their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So today its time to reflect on the Poppies for Peace project - the poppies created for Harmony Square in Dandenong for Anzac Day now watch over the grassed lawn in Harmony Square. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Poppies for Peace community project in Dandenong was designed to be versatile, each installation adapted to each location so the community who helped create them can continue to enjoy them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A story of how the community of the city of Greater Dandenong remembered this Anzac Day by creating and then planting a garden of giant "Poppies for Peace" </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Part one of the Poppies For Peace project is now finished. We have loved every minute of working for the City of Greater Dandenong. Such an amazing community of so many nationalities . We had so much enthusiastic help. Fifteen wonderful workshops with schoolchildren, fantastic teachers and amazing community groups with wonderful and caring leaders. Everyone keen to help make a giant poppy. All aware that each of our poppies represented a life lost from the country town of Dandenong during the Great war. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being involved in a project like this inevitably becomes a very emotional experience. The Gallipoli centenary is by its very nature distressing so to spend two months working with so many different people from all over the world, all wanting to contribute to something they see as important as part of their life as an Aussie, makes for a pretty impressive experience. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had an amazing time yarnbombing the City of Greater Dandenong Civic Centre with the community for the month of Cultural Threads last year. We are really looking forward working with the community there again on a new project .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Together we will create oversize poppies to be installed in the Civic Centre lawn as a tribute by the community of the City of Greater Dandenong for this year's centenary of Anzac Day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We aim to install forty poppies, one for every volunteer who died for King and Country in the Great War from what was then a small but important country town, Dandenong. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prototype flower, fourth attempt, more refinements have been made since- after all they have to be easy to put together and relatively quick to make. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The inspiration for materials and style came from cards my grandfather sent to my grandmother when he was stationed on the Western Front in France. The cards feature embroidery with net and silk decoration. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The poppies are made from satin, tulle and synthetic knitting wool - more details as we go.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The subject may be serious but creating it is going to be lots of fun. Making something beautiful is always fun, but sharing the experience is just so much more fun. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the challenge? Well we start next week and the installation will be during the week of April 13th! Wow, so soon! Will the two of us and the wonderful and welcoming community of Dandenong make it? Betcha we do. You'll just have to watch and see. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And we make three more prototype poppies this weekend - whoopee!!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> An explanation for all our wonderful bloggy audience outside Australia, the 25th of April, Anzac Day, is a national public holiday which commemorates a First World War battle on the Turkish coast. Troops from Australia and New Zealand fought a dreadful battle for the British Empire. Their courage and losses are legendary. Over the decades it has come to represent the moment when Australians and New Zealanders took pride in having a national identity. The poppy symbol came from the Flanders poppy which has long been used for Remembrance Day, the eleventh of November, in the UK and Australia. Many, many more Australian troops were lost on the Western Front in Europe. In Australia the poppy has become a tribute symbol for both days. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This is a simplistic description, to really understand what it means to Australians today, especially on the 100th anniversary, you need to explore "Anzac Day Centenary"on the internet.</span><br />
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<br />Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-50145192199628082632015-02-10T15:51:00.001+11:002015-02-10T15:52:33.335+11:00<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Couldnt help this - but I discovered this on Princes Bridge on Friday last - I'll send a knitted something to the first person to tell me exactly where on the bridge it is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Four years later when I read all Quiet on the Western Front I got a terrible shock when I found I'd been barracking for the "wrong"side for most of the book - what a lesson!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think he is inviting her to share a punt on................oh dear, I'm ashamed to admit that this year I dont know the names of any of the horses running today. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Or they could be discussing the cup in the background. It was my wonky attempt at mood setting, no it does not contain ashes. It is in fact a sugar bowl - those little horse shoes all round are for hanging teaspoons. Where did it come from - well it was a wedding present given to my parents and as it was just postwar it was secondhand so no idea what its history is. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course he could be paying her a compliment on her hat or her necklace. The Cup is after all an excuse for flirtatious dressing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, spring is here and bird life is returning - as we catch up with orders we are making new birds. T</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">here is a new page on the blog devoted just to detailed photos of the birds. Only three of these on it yet, we had internet interference with this mornings wind. The other two will be asap. Then, as we make we will add. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Smiling, or even better, laughing is the order of the day!</span>Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4985850177304128062.post-42212249734201320092014-10-04T23:23:00.002+10:002014-10-04T23:33:49.874+10:00Just two days left!!!!!!<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Guest books are always polite and restrained. We are delighted - the comments are as unrestrained as <b>"Who Needs Permission"</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You have only two days left to write your message!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only a handful of birds left to choose from.....but there's no way you can have this...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its sold and off to a very interesting home. Congratulations Margaret. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We were going to bump out on Tuesday morning but were invited to stay on for a book launch by Malcolm Fraser in the gallery in the evening. Practicalities mean that we will have to clear the floor to make room for seating so most of our 3d pieces will go.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the occasion, the banners and bicycles will still be on the walls, the rails and pillars will still be covered, peacock still in the corner, and the birds and bunting will look down on it all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then Wednesday morning we will whisk it all away as the next artist Jeff Drummond hangs his exciting exhibition. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So folks you only have between one and five tomorrow and ten am and eight thirty pm on Monday to visit, check out the palm tree, revisit, play cupcake checkers, choose a bird or bicycle to enjoy the whole of <b>Who Needs Permission at the Eltham Library Community Gallery.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">p.s. Of course we have another project in the planning - but you'll just have to wait and see.</span>Wild Yarns and Stuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15380181738447955835noreply@blogger.com2