A Birthday Card - Simply Neutrals Tuesday 42

Dear Friends thank you for popping into read my blog

again today and I would love to welcome my

new followers here also!

For Simply Neutrals Tuesday No. 42 this week

I'm sharing a special Birthday Card

which I made for a wonderful woman whom I met recently

and have the pleasure of sharing some morning teas with.

This is for Alice who will be celebrating her

95th Birthday at her new book launch of Short Stories

next week.

 

 Alice is a well loved and respected woman

of our local community

 

 

 and this is her third book to be published!

 

 (I love this beautiful linen fabric with printed trees

as it is so representative of the Australian

bush land where Alice grew up!)

 Such an amazing achievement at this ripe age of 95

and I have no doubt her family and friends

will be there to honour her

and

the occasion!

Come and join us over at Wen's blog to see what other articles

in neutrals you will see there this week!

Thanks Wen for hosting this party again this week for the

pleasure of so many viewers!

xox Suzy

Angel Friends - Simply Neutrals Tuesday No.40

 

 Everyone knows just how much I enjoy creating 

books and journals!

 

 

 especially with vintage laces and fabrics!

 

This particular one incorporated the use of some of my 

eco-dyed silks!

I remember also using some vintage

wall paper from a house which we

renovated! So pretty -

 

serviettes and logan berry dyed doilies!

 

 

 

It's always fun and interesting to see how different

media combine and work together -

yes another challenge worth trying! 

This one has already found it's new home! 

 

Sharing these pages on Wen's blog at

Simply Neutrals Tuesday 

Hope you can come on over to see what other neutrals

you might find there!

Thanks Wen for hosting this line-up again for another week!

Thanks to everyone who is so kind to come and visit me

here to see what I have been up to lately! 

Have a great week and hugs to you all!

xox Suzy 

I've joined Pinterest! Simply Neutrals Tuesday 39

For those of you who love 

Pinterest

I thought I may let you know that I have finally joined myself

and have set up a few boards there

so here is a taste of a few pins

I have added from my own artworks

as well as many other favorites I have gathered along the way

to date!

 

These images I have added today are ones

 

which I thought would be more appropriate

for Simply Neutrals Tuesday

this week at Wen's blog - AppleApricot

 

 

My link to Pinterest is 

  https://www.pinterest.com.au/suzyquaife/
The link with images is also on my sidebar!!!

 

 So if you would like to join me there just click on the link.

 

I'm always keen to see other's Pinterest boards

so let me know if you would like me to

reciprocate! 

 

 

 

So pop over to Wen's blog if you would love

to see lots of beautiful neutral images!

Thank you always for visiting and

thanks to my new followers here 

also!

Wishing you all a great new week!

and a Happy Easter coming up!

Love and hugs,

Suzy xox

P.S.  I have some beautiful new

Inspiration Kits of fabrics and textiles in my 

Etsy shop 

if you would like a peek.

I may show them here also shortly.

Treasured Possessions! Simply Neutrals Tuesday No. 38

Very often we just don't stop to think how our lives

would feel and could change if we lost everything 

we owned in a matter of just 2-3 hours!

This has been the case of so many families,

in fact 69 homes within 30 k of where I live, 

over the weekend when a horrendous bush fire

in searing heat and high winds

erased the possessions of these poor poor people!

As Summer is closing here on the far south coast of Australia

(akin to say perhaps Southern California in the U.S.)

there was one last day of very high temperatures

threatening to ravage so much native bushland

and many homes so close to the beach!

Thank goodness many of these people were able to flee

to the beach to escape and, in all of this,

not one one life was lost!

A fire also broke out 

 in native bush land no more than

1/2 kilometre away from where we also live 

but

thankfully the Rural Fire Service

managed to contain it as we were preparing our

escape plan!

With global warming I genuinely fear this scenario

will be one we will be witnessing more of

in the future!

We can never become too complacent with what nature

dishes out!

I can count myself one of the blessed and lucky ones

who can still hold and appreciate my treasures

such as the ones above which have come

into my life over the past couple of months

from some of my dear blogging friends -

thank you so much for being there!

So blessed are we to be amongst some of the more fortunate

ones - this time!

Linking these neutrals to

Simply Neutrals Tuesday

Thank you my dear friends,

Suzy xxx