Sunday, 30 June 2019

June!

A month into Winter - and there have been some cold days! - and the last day of June which means it's time to celebrate younger daughter, Megan's, birthday.......
....and she is still overseas but enjoying her birthday with sister Hayley who has flown over to join Megan on a 2 week holiday in Turkey.....here they are all ready to visit the Blue Mosque.....in appropriate dress....
Meanwhile here at home not a lot of creativity has been happening......but did go to the local "Eurobodalla Fibre & Textile Artists Group" Exhibition - there were some very interesting & varied pieces of work.....here are just a few....
 ....a seahorse made of thousands of little folded paper boxes!
and.... what to do with those old garden tools and a bit of fibre!! 
Last weekend I took myself to Milton to take part in a couple of events at Storyfest....the inaugural 3 day "festival for the writer, the reader, the dreamer & story teller" ....
Although only 45 mins from home I stayed the weekend in a lovely Airbnb as I had booked into events over 2 days...... on the Friday night I attended an event called "Criminal Minds" ... a panel of 3 crime writers spoke about how they got into writing, where they got their ideas from. etc...... I found it very interesting.... I had not read any of the authors'works but managed to finish these 2 by one of the authors speaking before attending the event.....
On the Saturday I went to listen to 2 authors who incorporate actual historical facts into their novels....again very interesting and this time I had read one of the author's works....set in Estonia during the WW2...having an Estonian background I had really enjoyed the book and listening to the author explain her research for it didn't disappoint! 
The Ulladulla Bookshop had set up a book stall in the Milton CWA Hall....it was the equivalent to walking into a patchwork shop for me!! Purchases were made.... 6 books in total....but I tell myself I'm saving for my retirement!! 
That's all I have been up to of late......my jumper I was knitting was finished but am currently unpicking the kneckline as I cast off so tight I can't get it over my head....will have a photo perhaps next time! Otherwise have been too busy reading to do a lot of stitching...

Happy Stitching
Asta


1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a lot of fun exploring "Eurobodalla Fibre & Textile Artists Group" Exhibition. Happy Birthday to your daughter...good that you get to eat cake & chocolate even though she isn't there!

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