got to love bright shiny gold

a tiny section of a bar that was part of a batch i had a bit of a fiddle with to see how much glitter i could get without blinding anyone. very bright shiny soap !! Lavender of course.
it is a bit out of focus but i cant be bothered to redo it.....am over that batch !!

Some belated pics of a trip down the Great Ocean Road with the 12 Apostles

These pics were taken nearly 3 years ago now and i forgot to add them here.
the first is a very digitally zoomed pic..............i had only got the camera a few days before so hadnt figured much out. These pics are of the well known 12 Apostles....of whom a couple are missing (fallen over) and if u look at the pics u will see where a few new ones are starting to form.
might only take another thousand years or so

looking east toward where Melbourne might be

more distant shot of the same

a misty beach on the way down the road

A day in Parramatta

The back of Gevernment House

weir over the river

detail on the door of the catholic cathedral

inside the cathedral

side view of Gevernment House

Some pics from Vietnam

UnfortunatelyI didnt do the trip.... but another family member did and here are a few of the photos that appealed to me personally

detail of a table leg

This is a table that belonged to my fathers parents.
it was black
30 years ago i got some caustic soda/lye and cleaned it up and then applied a coat of matt Estapol.......as one did in those days !!
the black is still left in the grain.
i think i need to feed it a bit of wood food again

Gum flower pics

a not very good pic of a dead gum flower.
Mary Gibbs inspiration
I have an old old book of hers which i love

All that glitters is some sort of gold

a soap i did to test something!!

A couple of flowers