I've used tannins to turn rust dyed fabric grey or black before.  But I wanted to know if I could control the effect more.  Turns out yo...

I know I live in a beautiful part of the world.  And, living on a boat, have access to the most beautiful of the beautiful bits.  But ser...

Happy April Fools everyone, hope your day goes smoothly without too many pranks! I've been trying to take photographs of seagulls. ...

We're enjoying living on board.  It's been more than a week and we are getting the hang of it.  It's a bit like camping, you ...

Autumn is my favourite season.  And this is one of the reasons why.  The skies just go on and on and on.  Afternoon will give us amazing ...

The view out the back door of my studio has been captivating me lately.  Particularly in the evenings. I guess this is the first summer I...

Today was the last day of school holidays.  Big sigh of relief from me!  Yesterday we thought we'd make the most of our last day with vi...

I'm done.  That's it.  Night shift over.  Homeward bound. There is a slight sense of euphoria after finishing a long night...

I took these photos of the setting moon early in the morning.   It was the full moon and a perigee moon - when it's closest ...

We've had a bit of a cold spell the last few days.  Southerly winds whistling up from the Antarctic.  Brrrr.  Wellington was hit very ha...

I'm quilting another quilt at the moment.  It's another one that I'm hoping to have accepted for the Taupo Symposium exhibi...

This is where I get to walk the dogs.  Here we've reached the top of the hill, so we get a nice long flat bit of road to recover.  It...

So I found my camera.  I did what I should have done first.  I asked the kids. "Oh, we found it on the ground, so we took a few pi...