Cookies

Choc chip, a thank you to the conservators who have been teaching us about paper conservation, last day tomorrow!

Progress

I am making progress on my weaving project, am happy with how it is looking!

Chuck!

I got an order of fun Chuck merchandise today! Can't wait to use it all!

Lake Burley Griffin

Makes me glad of where I live, this beauty is so accessible to everyone!

Catch!

Dommy and Nanny playing catch.

Cross-stitched owl!

My sister stitched this gorgeous owl for my birthday present, I love it!

Sun Bleaching

The sun can do wonderful things! We set up some objects to do some light bleaching, amazing what a difference it made!

Cath Kidston!

Picked this up from a book stall in a local shopping centre, for quite a good price, I couldn't resist!

Begin to weave!

My warping up is done! My weaving has commenced, I am really liking how it is coming along!

Washing Paper

My object being washed, after being dry cleaned with an eraser.

Rutzschuk by W.H. Bartlett

This is a before treatment photo of an object I am doing a conservation treatment on. Hopefully by the end it will look better!

Kangaroo

This kangaroo was very tame, letting us all pat him while he was busy eating his breakfast.

Scrapbooking Retreat!

Spending the weekend scrapbooking, socialising, and of course eating!

Paper washing

At prac today we washed paper, yep immersed paper in water to clean it. It was interesting and fun!

Irn Bru!

A Scottish soft drink that my brother in law introduced me to. I found this bottle in the lolly shop at Leura.

The warp

Warping up my loom, all the ends being threaded through the heddles. Almost ready to go!

Carillon

When I was leaving the National Gallery of Australia this afternoon the carillon was playing, pretty music, pretty photo opportunity.

Happy Mother's Day!

A present for my mum.

Adore Tea

Perfect name for my favourite tea shop, Adore. They make a great chai and delicious poffertjes!

Ice!

The temperature dropped below freezing overnight, and it's only May!

Autumn Colours

I love the colours we get in autumn here in Canberra, beautiful!

Sherbies!

Sugar to help me study...

New Project!

I started warping up my new project at my weaving class this evening, hoping it works out!

Chocolate Bunnies

Working my way through my easter chocolate, these two are on the list.

Vintage Threads

I bought these from an antiques shop in the Blue Mountains on Easter weekend, they are so sweet!

Tissues

Am going through a lot of these at the moment, terrible cold. Thankful for tissues and cold and flu medication!

Princess Party!

Tiaras were aplenty at our Princess Party to watch the Royal Wedding!

National Library of Australia

So many books and so much information in one place! I love it!

Inspiration

I was inspired at the Jane Austen Festival to more sewing. I am keeping up the inspiration by looking through my Patterns of Fashion books, so many pretty costumes to make!

Houseplant

A new plant for my room, something to freshen up the space.

ANZAC Day

ANZAC biscuits for ANZAC Day.

Three Sisters

One of the most well known views in Katoomba, the Three Sisters.

Boys and Trains

My sister and her family came up to Katoomba to spend the afternoon with us. We went to the Toy and Train Museum in Leura.

Kookaburra

A surprisingly tame kookaburra in Katoomba.

Humidification

Prac again, today was humidification of paper, here we have a humidification chamber set up to relax a fold in the paper.

Futuro!

It looks like aliens have landed in the grounds of my university!

Cockatoo

This little guy was having a feed near where I work. They are very pretty birds.

A true sentiment

I love this quote from Jane Austen, and I completely agree!

A Sunday Promenade, in the Regency Style

Everyone donned gowns and bonnets and we paraded through the park, followed by a picnic.

"To be fond of dancing..."

The Jane Austen Ball on Saturday night, some people seemed tireless!

Relaxing

A break from the dancing and other workshops of the Jane Austen Festival of Australia, with the St John's Schoolhouse in the background.

A Regency Style Concert

Opening evening of the Jane Austen Festival of Australia, I didn't see Capt. Wentworth tonight, I'll keep looking over the rest of the weekend.

Petticoat

All done, ready for the Jane Austen Festival of Australia

Off the Loom!

I cut my weaving off the loom tonight! Rearranged the warp threads for next week!

Connected

My USB dongle keeps me online when the home network is down, or my laptop and I are out on the town.

Good things...

Come in small packages, mini pavlovas are no exception.

Vintage in the Kitchen

Mum's Sunbeam Mixmaster, still works beautifully after more than 30 years.

Everyone needs some commonsense

Printed in the 1930s this cookery book offers to give me some!

More Paper Conservation

Learning how to dry clean paper.

Attack!

First Lindt easter bunny of the season, dark of course!