White Threads

Not everything I do with my time is related to embroidery (however nice that would be!). I also do a small amount of freelance design and illustration work, seeing my degree is in graphic design.

Yesterday I spent most of the day working on some illustrations for Traumaid International, an amazing organisation that works with people [...]

We went to the Art Gallery of NSW yesterday to see their new big exhibition called Paths to Abstraction. It only started last week, so we thought it might be a bit crowded, but it was fine.

The exhibition was great. We arrived shortly before midday, and there was a free tour starting at noon. So [...]

It has come to my attention that over the last few weeks emails to me through my vettycreations.com.au address have not all been getting through. Not being terribly technical, and with my tech-head brother currently overseas, I haven’t really known what to do about it.

If you have tried to contact me and have had no [...]

Today Belinda and I will take all the stuff in to Darling Harbour and set up the Vetty Creations stand for the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair. I really hope it all fits in the car… There seems to be so many boxes. I can’t imagine what it is like to move house!

I have a [...]

Today is my birthday. I am therefore having a day off.

Happy birthday to me.

I have a bad case of procrastination at the moment.

I often fall into a hole like this after sending off a book to the printers. I think perhaps its due to a feeling of loss that the BIG project is no longer there to be worked on. When there’s a big project to be worked [...]

Today is Mother’s Day here in Australia. My husband and children are concocting breakfast for me. The kids don’t know, but I already guessed what its going to be – I hoped for eggs benedict, and that’s what its going to be. I love the tangy, creamy (dairy free!) sauce… mmm….

Yesterday afternoon we hosted my [...]

Today is Anzac Day here in Australia, where we remember those who fought and died in wars to help protect our freedom and liberty. “Anzac” stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

Each 25th March, on Anzac Day, there is a dawn service at the Cenotaph in the city, and then a march with the [...]

Yesterday I was at the school that my family is at, helping out, doing some organising of their archives. Some of the things I was looking at were old black and white photos taken at the school in the 60s and 70s.

In those days, the school was a boarding school, and it seems that there [...]