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Hard to believe we are a week into February. And things are moving along at a rapid pace … My team and I are starting to disseminate the massive asset that we have accumulated for our 5000 Poppies Project over the last six years … 80 large “mats” (approx 10mx1m) … plus few additional 3.5m […]
Read More Time does not stand still …How fast did that Christmas/New Year break go? Happy new year all … wishing you a wonderfully creative year full of beauty and joy, family and friends, and all the wonderful things that light your fire. The weather here in Melbourne has been beautiful and conducive in the main, to reading, relaxing and a bit […]
Read More Happy New Year … I can’t quite believe it’s 2019The 5000 Poppies Project is now in wind down mode and I am turning my head to what’s next. It has been five plus years pulling together the 5000 Poppies Project with the aid of a fabulous team of incredibly generous poppy makers and spectacular volunteers … but that means there has not been a […]
Read More Time for a new project …It seems I have not posted for over a year and I have no excuse really …. just a little pictorial story of what has been going on in my life over the last little while. 5000 Poppies : 12,000 stemmed poppies were planted at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne 2017. A few thousand stems […]
Read More Spring 2018 …The last few months have been a whirlwind of poppies and knitted lace … plus a few pom poms. This week the gladRappers has installed its amazing wintry lace trees in Federation Square in the heart of Melbourne. As part of Fed Square’s Winter Solstice Festival, we decorated twenty trees with who knows how many […]
Read More Winter in MelbourneMy last post showed our crochet coral artpiece called “In Our Lifetime” which pays tribute to the plight of Coral reefs … in particular the Great Barrier Reef in Australia … but also other reefs around the world. This was our rationale : There is a tragedy unfolding on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia […]
Read More And it WAS fun …So Marg (sister-in-law and collaborator in all things fibre related) and I have recently put together a small bleached reef titled “In Our Life Time” … it’s a small piece portraying the plight of coral reefs around the globe, and features a collection of crocheted bleached “coral” mounted onto a lovely piece of driftwood that […]
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