photo time frame

I thought I would share with you a time frame of photo's taken from my backyard yesterday.  I get really excited when we get rain, and we are getting a lot lately, a real nice change from the summer heat.
above was taken at 4.23 pm

4.23 pm different angle

4.24pm

4.31 pm I do love it when you get the sun coming behind the clouds edges them with silver and creates a smokey hue

4.31 pm different angle

4.32 pm starting to spit at this stage

4.45 pm and we are about to cop it

4.45 pm different angle, darkened dramatically
Hope you enjoyed my photo's of a storm coming in, you can tell by the time frame how quickly the clouds rolled in before it came down heavy.

art

dont yah just feel like this sometimes, this is a self portrait in my Book of the night journal, a medusa with tusks coming out of mouth.....

I am such a bad grandmother, I started this for Jessica before Christmas, not that you can see what I did then under all the layers of paint.  Guess its better late than never, hope Jess likes it.... image is from Misty Mawn's book

Canning Bridge Market yesterday

Phillipa's and my stalls mine is the lower one, it was rather windy and we had our porta shades tied down to all sorts of things to stop them taking off.  It was a lovely sunny day and was really good to see friends who stopped for a chat and purchases.

Phillipa

and me, I spent half a day tacking my roof together, a couple of drop sheets tied down with hand dyed silk ribbon a bit of dizzying and well, will have a better idea on what to do next time.  I was trying to work all this while Mr Perfect was putting up a kit set garden shed and I was the unpaid labourer, amid much cursing as these kit set things never seem to match up to their directions, Mr Perfect with some of my lateral thinking is nearly finished and saved us $99 which could get some shelving to go in said garden shed.

This isn't a big market but I have a feeling it could grow into something good, its called an art market which distinguishes it from other markets where they seem to be selective in their stall holders and was a good mix of stalls.

This lovely gentleman provided a good mix of music 

and this lady entertained with spirited bush poetry

The most amazing garden sculptures you are likely to see anywhere

and these two lovelies sparkling in the sun a bit too large for my small garden, but then, mmmh maybe................

Canning Bridge Markets on Sunday

Canning bridge markets.

http://www.canningbridgemarkets.org.au/ I will be a stall holder at this market on Sunday, read the link and find out more about the market.  My sister Phillipa is also having a stall and we are going to dress up our marquee's so should be fun.  We would love to see you, I think this will be a good market as it is more of a art market.  I will try and get around and take some photo's of the other stall holders to share with you.  Hope to see you.

Workshop in July

Dark Art Journal Workshop

Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July

Finally I have found a venue where I can hold weekend workshops.  The first one for this year is as follows

The 'Dark Art Journal' can be your story using your photo's or you can make up a story using images from a magazine.  The journal will be a hard page children's first book, which will be stripped down to its bones then built back up in your creative story.  You will pull out images that you will decide are important to you and bury others in the shadows.  You will write as much or as little as you would like then bury it as its getting your story out and some of it may be so private that its only for your eyes.  Finally you will tell the story on the top of your many layers of text, images, stamps and paint that you want to share with others.  If you would like to do this creative workshop email me and I will send you the details jackyjohn1@optusnet.com.au I am trying to keep this workshop to approx 10 to give all participants plenty of room to move.

Mothers Day

Miss you mum!

Coolgardie Meat Safe

Today on a wet and rainy day, yes we finally got one, several in fact, we went into the city to pass some time.  wandering around we came across this great exhibition in the town hall.  Coolgardie meat safe's turned into something very creative.  The scrim on the side of the safe's would have been kept wet and this kept the safe and food in it cool, this was before refrigerators.  John remembers they had one in NZ with wire mesh not the scrim when he was a kid.

This one here was fascinating, the Ugly Mens Association, not sure if still going, but they helped soldiers out when they came back from the war, repairing houses and that sort of thing, not sure why the ugly bit.

and this one man band was playing in Hay Street Mall, can you see that young man just busting his moves, oblivious, just in the zone.  And look at the young girl she just joined in too, smiley faces.  I really admire how the young men are not so inhibited now!

Can you see the string going up to the drums, he shuffled around to beat the drums, strummed the banjo, blew on the mouth organ and sang too, what an act.  I love street acts.
Have a good weekend