Advent Wall Hanging

After making the Dilly Bag I got all fired up with sewing and made this Advent Wall Hanging. I saw the adorable fabric and just had to have it. By the time Id walked home Id already designed it. Just need a few embelishments to finish it off.

After church I went to a couples house to look at their Art. Botanicals by the lady, and very lovely and of a good quality. The husband does landscapes. It was lovely to experience their home and garden. Its a really nice place with lovely energy and light.

My sister was talking to me about my art and I told her what dad said about my art.... that it looks like it comes from White Cliff Wells (in the NT). They have alot of UFOs sightings there and I reckon its just that everyone there is in the horrors. Anyway she laughed, then I told her that he also thought if I was going to sell my art at the markets then I should take the barby and cook grilled onion, coz that the only way I would be able to get people to come and see... Then she was really started cacklin. Its pretty funny and probably true.....

Ordination

I went to Theresa's Deacon Ordination ceremony. I'm so glad I went. I forget how much I love going out onto the open road with excitement in my heart at what will be there when I arrive. As I was walking into the church Theresa was walking towards me. What a sign hey, I gave her the Dilly Bag right there and then because I knew I might not get the change after the service.

Theresa mentioned to me while I was putting the bag on her right arm about a priest bag so I looked it up on the net and there in Exodus 28.1 - 28.43 is a description of the bag. Not unlike the one I made. She knows her scriptures!

Even though I couldn't see much of the action in the church, I certainly felt it and cried and laughed and shivered and had a hot flush. I was calling it the four seasons. Did I say before that this woman ROCKS????

Gloria, a widow of a previous Bishop, and I were introduced by Theresa. Gloria is a real handful, encouraging me to stand up and take photos and she was climbing over walls and being really kind and funny for me.

I think they are positioning Theresa for something big - shes IS the Golden Haired girl!!!

Dilly Bag

Ive come home from work today coz the cramps are fierce. I overdosed on my Chemo drugs accidentally last Sunday and when you do that it strips the lining of the stomach. Spoze Ive only done it once in 9 years. So should be thankful.

Between sleeps, I'm making a dilly bag for Theresa's ordination tomorrow. Inside it will have the words Faith, Hope and Love and quotes about those things. I hoping to put it on her arm tomorrow. This is the little symbol I have been painting on my cards for the last few months. I don't know how come all I know its Jalbus bag of Faith Hope and Love.

Dancing

So far Ive had two women asking me if I am going to the FaHCSIA Christmas Party. I said yes and that I expect them to ask me to DAAAHNCE. I love watching the reaction on their faces as they don't know where to look and then they start laughin and saying they will. This is where I ask them to formally ask me to dance, like in the olden days. Im going to do up a card now and have their names listed. Keep ya posted incase a bloke asks me....

Boys and Girls

On my way to work this morning, I passed a creche. A mother with a boy and baby getting out of the car. A father with his little girl who was holding her dolly.

Girl trips and falls and saves the dolly. Daddy bends downs to comfort her while her friends through the bars say "are you OK Megan?"

Meanwhile the Mother was attending the baby in the car while the boy came right to the edge of the road and was screaming at the top of his lungs to the guys working across the road on the building site "What are you building?"

It made me smile.

Its Over

Last night when I went to choir practice with Canberra Celtic Choir I couldn't wait to get out of the place. I now know I have outgrown that choir.

Yesterday I also came to the conclusion I'm not doing my yearly pilgrimage to Braidwood any more.

I'm feeling restless, reckless and down right rudderless. I think there might be a hermit phase coming up again.

Songs and Tears

There have been two songs, upon the first hearing made me cry big ploppy drops.

1. Fields Of Gold - Sting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UppX6vP3c4g


2. Anachie Gordon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2DKkL7UEis

Proud

My FAB Minister Theresa returned from holidays today and told us she has been asked to be a Deacon in the Anglican Church and that she will be around for at least another 5 years. This is fantastic news and Ive been praying for her intentions in this department.

I'm so proud of her. I don't know if I have the right to be, but I am anyway. Mostly when people are proud of someone its like an adult to a child. Or someone at a higher level to someone at a lower level. She has put in the work and I'm sure its not been easy being a pioneering female minister, but shes done it and its only natural she should aim high. For myself Id like her to be the first Catholic Female Priest in Australia. I believe she could do it.

Braidwood Airing Of The Quilts

Fab day at Braidwoods Airing Of The Quilts. I felt the quilts were not up to their usual standard but it was still really nice to see them all. The pick of the mob was this one by Jenny Bowker about the stages of her life. Very charming and thought provoking. Judy and Mary accompanied me there and on the way we were discussing what a taste sensation organic food is. Judy came out with this quote about a soup that was made out of organic veggies "The soup tasted so good that it felt like it was dancing in my mouth"

Mouth Words

My Dad uses these words in describing the mouth or parts there of. The first one makes me smile every time he uses it.

1. Chats - Teeth. "Shes just cleaning her chats"

2. Grill - Teeth at the front. "Hes lost some of his grill" (in this pic Dads plate had broken - hes applying sunscreen before both of us go for a swim and he is very proud of his big scar)

3. Gob - Mouth. "stick that in your gob"

Whats a word that makes you smile?