Life Images by Jill: 2023

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Monday, 11 December 2023

Colour in my December summer garden

I love my December summer front garden. Every year it blooms glorious colours -

red, yellow, pink, bluey mauve - and best of all these plants come back year after

year with little maintenance. They bloom, I water and clip them back a little,

and next summer they bloom again. Beautiful.

So today I share some of them with you. (My apologies for this post apearing strange

on mobile phones. - I don't know how to fix it. Sorry)

Mauve-blue agapanthus, against the backdrop of the red coral bush, and along

the bottom my wild hibiscus - an Australian native

Pinks and mauves of the hydrangea - I must admit that the ones along the top

row - the bluey mauve ones - are in my neighbour's garden

Roses, though they have finished their first glorious flush

The yellow Coreopsis daisy that is a wonderful border plant that comes

back every year, frangipani, and the yellow rose bush

Last year a glorious new frangipani flowered in my garden - a cutting gifted to me

by my friend - It looks like it has buds on it again - so fingers crossed.

Native yellow and green kangaroo paws - the honey-eaters love these.

The Australian native red bottle-brush

My Hoya is flowering in my shady patio garden

In my back garden we are picking apricots (a month early this year - looks like I

will be making apricot jam later this week), the red and green grapes are looking

fabulous along the side fence, and the tomatoes are coming on. We also quinces

on our tree which will be ready in autumn.

The apricot tree has bags all over it to firstly guard against fruit fly, and

secondly to keep the birds off when the apricots are ready to pick. The parrots

love apricots too!

Some of the native trees are blooming too. Everything seems early this year -

you can see some of them on my previous post here -

Trees are blooming for Christmas. Below are the candlestick banksia (they remind

me of giant Christmas candles), purple jacaranda (not an Australian native),

the yellow Christmas tree, and the red flowering gum. So vibrant.

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hearing from you. I will try to visit your blogs in return. Have a wonderful week.

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eco-printing-and-coreopsis

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Monday, 27 November 2023

Art Market in the Garden

Hi everyone, I hope you and yours are doing well.

Just a short post from me today. I am winding down from a busy few weeks and weekend. On Sunday I had a market stall at the Stirling Street Art Centre in my hometown. It was there annual Art in the Garden market. A great place to buy products created by local artisans - everything from soap and candles to clothing, art pieces, pottery, wood carvings, garden objects - you name it you could probably buy it at the market. I've been so busy getting products ready for the market.

I was there with my eco-printing-dyed upcycled-clothing, scarves, prints and greeting cards, along with my photography prints, cushion covers, tote bags and greeting cards, as well as some paper flowers I make for every market and Christmas baubles filled with dried wildflowers.

Above is a pic of me with my stall. Unfortunately it was a hot hot and windy day, with a side serve of flys. Amazingly people weren't put off by the weather and still came to the market. It has been so hot the last couple of weeks - an unseasonly very hot - heat wave - start to summer, with bushfires already raging. It's goig to be a bad summer.

Below you can see a few samples of my eco-print products.

Eco-printing on paper

Cyanotype sun prints on paper, Christmas cards, and tote bags

My latest craze - printing with coreopsis flowers from my front garden - the colour of summer

Also I have ecoprinted scarves, upcycle shirts and tote bags

I loved this little white denim mini skirt and lace edge cotton upcylced top printed with ecualyptus leaves - but unfortunately it didn't sell. Maybe next time.

Eucalyptus loves wool - but not all leaves print orange - these are eucalyptus karri leaves I source from a friend in the great southern who has them growing on her property - they love wool.

I still have so much to learn - I'm off to a 3 day workshop in Albany for summer school early next year.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I value your comments and look forward to hearing from you.

You might also like - some more about ecoprinting and cyanotype from past blog posts -

The-art-of-botanical-eco-printing-on-paper

Eco-dyeing-magical-absorbing-art

How-far-does-hand-reach-world-wide-ecoprint-collaboration

Experimenting-with-wet-cyanotype

Cyanotype-sun-prints-how-to-basics

I am still packing up and sorting out from my weekend, but I will try to visit your blogs in return. Have a wonderful week.
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Saturday, 11 November 2023

Remembrance Day - 11th November

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month attained a special significance in the post-war years after World War 1 . The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front in 1918 became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the war. On the first anniversary of the Armistice in 1919 two minutes' silence was instituted as part of the main commemorative ceremony at the new Cenotaph in London.

After the end of the Second World War, the Australian and British governments changed the name to Remembrance Day. Australians observe one minute's silence at 11 am on 11 November each year to remember those who died or suffered for Australia's cause in all wars and armed conflicts.

Australian War Memorial - Remembrance Day

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

by John McCrae, May 1915

In the photo below you can see one of two remembrance walls at the Australian War Memorial in our capital city Canberra, where are recorded on bronze panels the names of over 102,000 Australians who have died in conflicts. On these two walls you can find the name of your family member and place a poppy beside their name, as we did when we visited. This is the closest we can come to the burial place of my great uncle who died in WW1 at Gallipoli and my husband's uncle in WW2 in Burma, so I was very grateful to be able to do this.

You can learn more about Remembrance Day and the significance of the poppy here -

Remembrance Day & the Red Poppy - Life Images by Jill blog

Australian War Memorial

AWM - Red poppies - customs and ceremonies

To search the Australian War Memorial collections

Remembrance Day is commemorated in Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Belgium, France, and the Cayman Islands. However, We have all be affected in one way or another by war, either directly, or through family members or friends.

A video/musical tribute.

Do you observe Remembrance Day or similar in your country? Who will you be remembering this Remembrance Day?

As wars continue to be raged across the globe, I despair that we have learnt nothing from the past. I despair for those who are caught up in these conflicts, for the loss of familes, loved ones, home, community, life as they knew it. And those that return home afflicted physically and mentally. Why can't the powers sit down and find a way through without killing, bombing and destruction. There must be a better way.

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