Easter Holidays

 Megan and I went down to mum and the extended family for Easter. We had a few days at Bexley, the property my uncle's own near Rowena in NSW. Mum and my cousin Dice had already been there a week, and they had been very busy creating all kind of weird and wonderful things.
Megan and I statred with wire work, Megan made a 3 stand candle holder.Her first go and she done really well. I made more wire baskets and a candle holder.

 Dice and I both made bee boxes. We had seen them on the TV and thought they would be a good thing to have in the garden. The other's all laughed and said the spiders and bugs would move in not the native bees we were hoping for, we will just have to wait and see.

 Dice (Dianne) had a few Hebel blocks for us to play with, I had always wanted to have a play with those blocks. I carved this funny thing that looks like a mile post with ears. It is very easy to work with, bit dusty is all.

Every one made bird houses. Mum made 5 and I said she has to put them all together in the garden like a little village.

We all made barbwire balls for the garden. As you can guess we like the rustic look in our gardens.

                                                  This is Megan's candle holder

My sister and I went a bit mad with the hanging rocks. I had seen this idea in a book but they had used macramé to hold the rocks together. Kay found a lot of rocks in a heart shapes so she made a string of hearts.

While we were all together for  Easter we went over to Coonabarabran to catch up with more family, every one said we had to go and look at the National Park (Pilliga Forest) Since the fires had been through there.It would be the only time we would see all the rock formations. So of we set, It was wet and eery with all the black trees and very sad to see the places that people had lost, our hearts went out to them.

 I grew up in this area and I had never seen the country side like this, first time most of us had seem the rocks, mountains, creeks and rivers. It was unreal.

                                             
                                          But all around it was coming to life again.

 
                                                Bark on the gum trees. I can see a quilt in this.

                                                          The colours are stunning.

It was my birthday while we were away. Meagan and Terri decided to make me a cake but they couldn't find the sugar, I said look in the sugar bin. "The What" they had never heard of a sugar bin, so when they found it they were fascinated.    There had always been a sugar bin in the pantry at Grandmas.

 

At the end of our stay, uncle Geoffrey got his old car out to go in to town. We all went off to Rowena to the pub for lunch. Same of us got to ride in to town in the old car and same got to ride home in it.

 
                                                Its a lovely car to ride in, Very comfy..

We had a great holiday and hope to do it again next year. The garden is looking fantastic with all the new creations.
Now it is back to quilting, my exhibition is next week and I still have a few things to finish.