when I woke up this morning – courtesy of a) a backache and b) one of my sister’s cats pretending to be a sodding great hairy spider tickling my arm – I decided to get up until I was a bit more relaxed, which is how I came to see this feller shortly after dawn. He was considerably bigger than most of the rabbits I’ve seen, but that may only be because most of the rabbits I see were likely to have been kits too ignorant to escape the cats/cars/whatever. OTOH, he didn’t look big enough to be one of the hares I see around occasionally, and his ears are set differently I think (you can tell I’m real up on my lagomorphs, eh? heh).
He kept standing up on his hind legs and peering around like a meerkat, and when he vamoosed into a bush which I suspect hides a burrow entrance, he actually flashed a little white bobby tail like in the storybooks. It was kinda cute, in a paranoid verminish sort of way.
check these out … we had a wonderfully successful day the other day; obviously the temperature & humidity were perfect, the water was good, everything was fresh, and the gods were smiling. The dense patterning on mum’s delicious gelato-ish colours is really delicate, absolutely gorgeous.
My signature “Australiana” multicolours worked beautifully too.
I really have a hard time letting go of these sort of pieces, which is why these ones are mine!
I’d nab these ones too, but my mudda yells at me …
now these are happy accidents … I was originally going for some muddy mottley streaky stuff suitable for tree trunks, but the red was very grabby & disinclined to merge so I’ll have to try for those tomorrow. What I DID get though was two lovely landscapes … the photos don’t do them justice, they’re truly atmospheric. I’m pretty sure these will both end up as wholecloth pieces.
and here’s my favourite on-purpose dyepainted piece from the other day:
I have no idea what I’ll do with it, but I do so love it.
not much useful done, but good nonetheless. My baby girl turned four this Saturday gone, so there were lots of preparations & presents & excitement. Her father stayed here from Easter through to the day after her birthday and was on his best behaviour, which is definitely a good thing. I turned the house upside down & inside out before Easter & unfortunately it’s still mostly in that condition, although at least her playroom (swapped around with her bedroom) is organised & I got the bottom half of the stupid forest mural thingy up. 100 acre woods – why can I never remember that name? Never was into Pooh.
Anyway. Amongst the gifts E’s paternal grandma sent over were a few for me: some metallic flash, 2 bottles of liquid fuse (w0000000t!), a can of 606, a big bottle of liquid sculpey, two bleach pens and a quilt arts diary. The diary was supposed to be for christmas but she ended up not sending the package – it’s still great, I’m actually recording dates & events into it in the hope that fewer deadlines sneak up on me and shout “BOO!” as they go screaming by … excellent haul. My MomIL is the best – I wasn’t really joking when she went back to the states & I said I wanted to keep her & send her son home instead <G>
At this stage I’m not teaching again til sometime in May, unless someone makes a last-minute-but-doable request for an away workshop. Virginia & Noreen are well into their threadpainting and already planning their next pieces, which is pretty cool. 
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