chickens and cushions

My cushions are for the latest Montsalvat exhibition. which is for the bushfire fundraising appeal.

ON the night there was also food and wine and amazing music and such a feeling of community spirit .

The whole hill of Montsalvat was full of people sitting down and watching the music.

Sandro played trumpet,Mike Rudd sang and played guitar.Judy Jacques sang and read poetry,the Tesky brothers played some mighty fine guitar duos...WE all clapped and sang along in a wonderfull feeling of solidarity...That is something that fires have done and that is to create a community feeling that we did not have before.We decided that Montsalvat could easily have more, similar events.


There is an exhibition in the barn gallery with all the artists donating their work with a silent auction as the means of selling. I have put these two cushions in


The first has vintage kimono fabric and black silk velvet.


The second one has the blue and brown kimono fabric and also a vibrant red kimono as well. I have had lots of people commenting on them so I hope they sell. Apparently you dont know the winning amount or who has bought, but I thought the buyer might come and ask for MORE!!!!

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Here are also some pictures of the fast growing chickens we have at the moment.

They have been allowed out of their house to explore the garden and dodge the pecks of the one other chook.. They are so excited to be out, that they flap and fly with their cute feet hardly hitting the ground.

The only problem being that they are hard to get back into their house in the evening. they are rather scared so the best thing is to leave them to settle SOMEWHERE and then go looking for them in the dark and pick them up slowly and carry them off to their bed.Very cute really.

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