They all did a great job of presenting their work in the school Library.

Greetings my friends

Greetings,
My time to post again,
As ever I have been a busy little person.
Matahra has been explorering the Art scene.
As an excersion the year 1 children went on a visit to the Brisbane Art Gallery and the contempary Art gallery.
As a part of the unit all the children made their own canvas, then had an evening Art gallery show with all the works, food drinks for both students and adults. There was live music compliments of the music students, violins, pianos and flutes.
It was a wonderful evening. There were Jackson Pollock, Picasso and Mondrian.

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My Last couple of Weeks

Good morning friends,
Today is a pleasant getting warm day. I did not think it would cool down so much in the evenings here. The mornings are cool but warms up quickly.

As usual I have been a busy little thing the past couple of weeks.
Mothers Day pressies were on the list in Sienna's class. It was fun making Jewellery boxes made of paddle pop sticks for their Mums. The children loved doing this activity over a couple of weeks and all went well and I did enjoy the conversations and laughter from the kids. They call me Lorraine as I don't want it to be a formal "School thing" Often as I am picking up the girls at the end of their school day I hear a loud voice calling Hello Lorraine, one the the class kids. It makes my heart sing a little.

A couple of Sundays ago we went to the Ginger Factory at Yandina for lunch and an afternon of Jazz. It was great! Boy were there lots of people there all enjoying the surroundings and more the live Jazz. There was a main lady singing and she introduced 5 ladies who all had their time to sing. They were accompanied by a 3 piece band, Double Base, Guitar and Drums.It was great.

I have this crazy thing to need to knit and crochet at present so I made Jennifer a teapot cosie.
Now I have the wool I purchased from Bendigo Wollen Mills at a really great price I am starting a crocheted Babette Blanket.

Last Monday was the last day for my classes at Patchwork Angel at Forest Glen. It has been a good class and I need to finish 2 blocks out of 35 and I can piece it together. Sienna has made a block so I am going to include it in the quilt. Not bad for a 7 y.o. There are 17 Sashiko blocks and 18 Indigo pieced blocks. Many have had 1 inch squares in them.

Mothers Day here was lovely. We had an early (8.30 am) reservation at Bambu Cafe at Sippy Downs, just up the street from where Christine and Andrew live. It was sunny and warm and good food. The good part of going there is that there is a wonderful garden centre connected and lots of lovely garden bits and pieces there too.
Bob bought me some Pandora pieces and Christine Andy and the kids gave me a Dusk set of scented sticks. Jennifer gave Bob my gift to bring back. He had spent the week in Sydney for work. I received 2 lovely glass candle holders and some warm socks.
We went back to Chris's place for a little time and came home for the afternoon.

I have photos of all so when I download them I will post them.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting a friend (Jasmine from SCQ) mother. What a beautiful Lady she is. Full of knowledge of family and her life of living a farm life in the Mallee in Victoria. Her husband died when she was a mere 38 y.o. I am in such awe of such a wonderful person. Not sure of her age but I guess she would be in her 80's and a very sharp mind. Val plays the piano every single day. AMAZING!!

Will close for now and wish you all a happy (quilty) week.

BFN Love and Hugs
Lorraine H

Long time away from blogging

Greetings all,

I must apologise for my tardiness in not blogging.
Life here has been somewhat crazy for a little while.
While Christine was at Kleenmaid her shift times changed several times which meant that I needed to help out with the children's transport needs a bit more.

Would you believe that Chris left there the week before they closed down. She is still missing a months salary but the big news is that Christine is the new Branch Manager for the Sunshine Coast White Lady Funerals.
We are thrilled for her as it is her passion in which she excells and puts in 150%.

The branch is not set up and furnished yet and should take about 7 weeks to complete so until then she is a part of Noosa Drysdale Funerals. There is much work for her to set up the branch with all the office, works, computers etc. I guess she is going to be a busy lady.
Of course her appointment came the week before Easter and so the school hols were enjoyed by Gran as holiday entertainer. It was such a good time with the girls and Logan.
We had lots of lunches out and trips to the beach and Underwater World of which we all have an anual pass.

I had a wonderful surprise on the Wednesday evening before Easter. My beautiful Daughter Jennifer arrived to spend Easter with us. It made my heart sing to have her here for 5 days. We did nice things together and on the the Saturday the whole family, 8 of us braved the rain and did the Gympie Rattler. A stem train ride that took most of the day. It was much fun and I think Logan took days after to get over the ride and being able to get up to see where the Engine Master drives the train.
He is a very big fan of Thomas the Tank trains as are Matahra and Sienna.
We adults also had a ball. The best part was that the rain held off for most of the day.

On Easter Sunday we had a fun time doing an Easter Egg hunt. The children had heaps of fun and so did some adults, namely Bob, Jennifer, Christine and Gran.

The next few days were different though with 9 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. It saved me having to water the garden for a while.

I have also been a little busy beaver doing a lovely Japanese sampler quilt at the Patchwork Angel,www.patchworkangel.com.au
So far I have done 4 day classes and have 2 to go. There are 17 blocks of Sashiko and I have done 13 so far. and 18 pieced blocks and I have done 12 of those. Sienna is making a block to go in the quilt too so I am thrilled to add it to my quilt. Maybe she will inherit it some day, once it is completed.

I have also done a machine quilting class which was lots of fun and a task I will have to practice to perfect.

My other BIG news is that I am studying again....I am doing a 2 year "Professional Children's Writing" course I am not sure why other than I would love to write stories for Intellectually disabled children..
In all the time I was teaching special Educ there was no specific readers for them and I used to scrounge books from anywhere. So that is my very big challenge.

Our days are just beautiful at present. We have had 6 glorious sunny warm days and cool nights that are great for sleeping.

Bobby is as usual busy at work down in his office. The children kept him going by lots of visits in the holidays. He is going to Melbourne for the ANZAC weekend. A dear old friend Bill who is 92 served on a few of the old ships in the 2nd WW and Bob served on some of the new ships.
Bob wanted to spend ANZAC Day with Bill. He is not well enough to march any more but will go with Bob to the local RSL for a service then they will go back to Bill's home to watch the march. He is a dear man and a very proud one too. We met Bill on a cruise we did for our 2nd wedding anniversary. He reninds us of how we had a cocktail party and invited the Captain and his wife, who of course came. A funny thing was when we ran out of champagne the Capt. rang and ordered more to be sent to our little "DO" Bill loved it.

Well I shall add some photos wherever they appear.(I have no control of yet.

Til next time,

BFN, Lorraine H