Well it's been about 9 weeks since I lost Jas, and to be honest it still doesnt seem real when I really think about it. I know I kissed her goodbye, and I have buried her ashes and she even has a headstone, but I still cant really comprehend that she is never coming back.

I am very lucky to have this beautiful boy "Gulliver" aka "The BIG Guy" come into my life. I don't know how I could have got through the last 2 months without him. He found himself homeless after a marriage breakdown. They had to downsize their pets and poor old Gulliver was the one they had to part with. I felt so sorry for his owner when I came to pick him up  and she had to say goodbye. I did say she could come and visit, but maybe that would be too hard as I haven't heard from her. The poor boy cried for the first 15 minutes or so. It was a long drive home - 3 hours - so I talked to him a lot so he would get used to the sound of my voice and hopefully feel that I was not a threat. He has settled in well, and seems quite happy! He cant climb fences which is good!
I do love him and each week I sneak in more cuddles!

Jasmine 6-Oct-1993 - 11-Feb-2013

Last night I lost my best friend in the world.

 

She has been the most consistent relationship in my whole life, I have lived with her longer than any one person – even my Mum. She has always been such a character I would talk to her and she would answer back. She would cuddle me like a small child, nestling under my chin, and the harder I squeezed her the louder she would purr.

She was always a very sweet natured and cuddly cat. Right up to the end she would be sitting beside me occasionally pawing at me for pats and remained to the end very headstrong and very determined if she wanted to do something or be somewhere! We had a very close relationship.

For a while now she has had a cancerous tumour growing in her nose. It became apparent a few weeks ago and her symptoms for the last 6-8 months now make some sense.

So yesterday I had to make THAT decision, the one I NEVER wanted to have to make - the decision to let her go. So many people told me “you’ll know when”. Well I didn’t really know when but I suspected she was in pain and I could not let that go on.

This was –so– not the way I wanted us to part - not that I would ever be ready to say goodbye. I would have another 19 years gladly.

I feel so empty inside, I feel like I have lost a limb.

It was such a privilege to have you in my life Miss J, I love you to the moon and back sweet girl and you will live on in my heart forever, XXX

Christmas

It's been a while......

I had a lovely time in NZ over Christmas.  The weather was FAB so I thought I would share a few photos from my sister's garden!

Happy 40th Teresa

This is what has been taking up a big part of my life for the last month or so. 10 awesome ladies contributed to this canvas. Thanks to Jen Crossley, Gail Smith, Joanne Hughes, Sue Gore, Deb Murray, Donna Taylor,  Ness Henry, Micky Choo, amd Geneieve Payne. OH MY GOD I can;t believe I left off Audrey Underwood!

Ballarat 2012

Just had the most amazing week @Ballarat with Marjolein Dallinga.  (pronounced Mario line) Not only is she an amazing artist but she is a wonderful teacher and has a wonderful heart.  I was sad to say goodbye to her and my fellow classmates. We had such fun. I found the class really full on and along with a few others stayed back until after 9 each night (the security guard had to kick us out!) to catch up and be ready for the next day. We chatted, laughed and of course felted!  I have made some wonderful friends and a couple of them are acomplished artirsts in their own right. The quiet Pam who has been published in a book with Marjolein! and produced some beautiful work. She brought with her a beautiful felt and silk dress she had made, which fitted Marjolein perfectly. A photo of Marjolein wearing it should appear on Pam's site at some stage! Then there was the bubbly Gill who had a stall of amazing scraves at the traders nights. Marjolein took a fancy to one, so our class bought it for her as a present!

Merry Christmas to my arty_oz friend.....

Hope you like it, It will be in the post on Monday!  The top of the shrine is omitted as there is an initial and it might just give the game away :-)

It was a really fun project to do. I started last night and finished it today!  It is made from masonite and it fits together really nicely.  It's a coffee break design and I got got from Retro Cafe  Art...

Happy Birthday Lisa!

My friend Lisa turned 50 this week

I made her a scarf using beautiful multicoloured italian silk. I didn't put any decoration on the main part of the scarf as I didn't want to detract from the beautiful fabric.  The fabric wasn't quite wide enough to make my normal length scarf (and at $130.00 per meter I wasn't buying another 30 cms!) so I bought some plain white silk and dyed it using ordinary old fabric dye.  Perfect  colour match ;-) . I then felted the plain silk so the scarf had pretty ends.  I do hope she likes it.  (The presents remained unopened last night). Oh yeah and I made the card a few weeks before at my second last day at Scraptacular :-(

Lisa's birthday cake was to die for!!