a few more pics at random

the best pic of a dolphin that was gotten......was a bit late in the season or something

mold on an old peice of wood

a flower i dont know the name of ...but the pic was done at near dark without flash. the red one was also done very late with no flash




i just like old wood and tree trunks.........so here are a couple...the first is just a wharf rail

a wharf post

par of an old post lying in the sand

an old baby carriage in the museum

an odd arrangement of an old electric sewing machine, displayed on top of an old treadle machine table........in a second hand shop...wish i had bought the table now

fig trees in the main street of Sawtell

some photos from around Coffs Harbour

at the Butterfly House were many butterflies who only seem to come out when the humidity is pushed to about 100% !!

Sawtell beach

surfers

an old glass wash board from the WW 2 years when they replaced the metal with glass as the metal was needed for war

from a whale watch trip that i personally didnt manage but which my camera did !!

some sea

looking inland from a boat

very old piers at Urunga

a dead butterfly

1920 variant of a food mixer

fishing boats

fig trees in Sawtell

some bees behind glass

birds at Urunga

boardwalk at Urunga

Urunga

land behind where we stayed...the resort is covered by trees at the back

no posting for a while

life has been somewhat of a hassle.

i had 2 sessions of having steroids into my spine and another, last week, of steroids into the top of my leg. i resort to steroids when i am desperate and after 6 months ......i was.

i await the outcome of the latter as the former didnt help.
i am a tiny bit hopeful. the dog is also hopeful of returning to longer walks more often

i have had endless massages and acupunctures not to count the physiotherapy.
i am still very unbalanced. i am costing the Medicare system a fortune....and my own bank balance is depleted
but i am worth it i think LOL


i am now hoping i will develop enough capacity to actually spend a week away in about a month.
i dont want to miss out as i did last year.
this lack of balance thing is a total bore and very tiring

i finally managed to get the floor in the bedroom area done . it has been lying around in an ugly cement look after i asked son to seal it after we pulled up the carpet i hated. i actually wanted a cement floor ....really LOL.
son did a dreadful job on it and then i got sick and i didnt find the power to organise the floating floor like i have in the living areas, til about a month ago.

unlike the people who did the first lot of floor, this man and his crew were a dream.
nothing was too much trouble and they were competant and professional.
and put the furniture back in the right places. what more could i ask ??

anyway i am hoping this years bad stuff is about to cease. spring is here and i need to get my camera out for some pics before all the blossoms disappear

i actually made it to a 6 hour class in beading last week. i didnt actually want to do two of the projects that the teacher had for us (pearls) and fortunately had taken some old jools of my mothers that i wanted to do something with and a couple of other necklaces that i wanted to update/upgrade

i didnt do what i wanted...which would have involved a lot of 18 ct gold for starters.... but i got Mums old jools into a usable format or my purposes.

this is what i started with..........seems like turquise chips set into some sort of perhaps Fimo .
i cant recall my mother wearing this jewellery so it is pretty old...mimimum of 60 years


lacking any other ideas and having a huge number of turquise chips on a string, i put the two together at the classes suggestion


i think that i will not a beadmaker make. i know i have no patience for the small details necessary for this sort of work ....and anyway i dont want to be selling them and there is a limit to what i will wear myself......or give away. however it was fun to do and i was very happy that i was well enough to manage to do it. that was a win

how i feel

i bought this puppet one day, about 6 months ago, when at the local hospital doing what i had hoped might be some useful rehab work on my balance

the puppet pretty much represents me then.... and now

some plants and trees i have seen

these two plants are in the deck garden of the worlds most beautifully situated cafe where i sometimes go for a great hamburger beside the water...... where the sea planes come in. the prices are amazingly good so if i tell where it is i will have to kill u as i dont want the place over run



this is just a found leaf whose colour appealed to me

a local gum tree with spider web

a gum tree in the local school grounds (and dog)

another couple of trees in the school grounds

a couple of plants on the Great Ocean Road

Some soap i havnt made for ages

but did a bit of last night.......so long since i have used any lemon myrtle i have forgotten that i actually quite like it.

the fragrance is a mix of lemon myrtle/orange /lavender/patchouli/rose .

i threw a bit of gold mica on the violet chunks but it is not very obvious really.
rough cut soap and not cleaned up as yet

Aussies travelling

for as long as i can remember Aussies have been on the move.
i did a bit of my own moving in my time too !!
a number of my family seem to like the travel and the latest to go adventuring is one of my nephews who has kindly allowed me to share his adventures.

it seems like it is thirsty work climbing down the canyon and it also seems that they find USA beer very thrist quenching

standing on the edge ...just a bit ...he of the blue T shirt

here he is on Half Dome in Yosemite......it scares me just to look at the drop down, there. He is the one sitting

a bit of soap

this soap will always be my favourite.......plain unfragranced castile with some calendula flowers, which i made for a lady who likes to use it as a face soap. i use it as a shower soap all the time and just loooooooooove it

just a few soap logs i made a while ago for some customers who wanted to cut them themslves in sizes to suit for shower and guest soap