In six weeks Bluebell and Laura have covered around 6000 km together. Firstly, the trip down from Brisbane, via Noosa, with a visit to the wild dolphins at Tin Can Bay, then down the east coast to Melbourne. One week later we took off for Katoomba for the Blue Mountains Forum of TAFTA, for a two day Mark Making workshop with Liz Jeneid, then a four day felting workshop with Lizzie Houghton making a nuno jacket. Wow, was that hard work! Seems I made it harder for myself by taking 22 micron fibre rather than 18 micron which would have been better suited to my tissue silk. So now my jacket is being further embellished with hand stitched beads just to make sure everything is securely anchored. I doubt I will ever make a jacket this way again but it was certainly worth the experience.
One week back in Melbourne and Cameron and Lydia's house sustained a fire in the battery room which houses their solar batteries and related equipment. This left them two weeks with no power whatsoever while the insurance company organised repairs. Bluebell, Liza and I took off again, this time to Toora in South Gippsland to wait for power to be restored at Smiths Gully. We're heading back tomorrow.
