Two Rocks Sunset

A short walk on the beach rewarded me with this beautiful sunset.
   

Fun on my quad bike

Ruth and Brendon came for a visit and we took the quad bike over the dunes to a surfing spot. It was very busy, lots of traffic on the tracks and many surfers in the ocean. Vehicles were getting bogged in the sand.
    
  
  

Cottesloe, Sundial

Easter Sunday, Sundial at Cottesloe
I stopped in Cottesloe to have a look at the Sundial which overlooks the ocean. It was nine o’clock in the morning and you can see from the photograph the shadow was definitely on the nine. The sundial was erected in 1988 to celebrate Australia's bicentenary.
   
       

Easter

I had lovely evening with family and friends at a local restaurant. Good Friday started off really well with my daughter, Ruth cooking poached eggs on toast with free range eggs brought by my dear friend Mary.
After family and friend left I played in the studio and relaxed. I had to go down to the marina and watch the sunset. It was a beautiful calm evening without any wind. These are a few photos I took.
  

         Two Rocks Marina                                         Boat jetty and the Two Rocks

  
                                                                       King Neptune Sculpture

Morning Walk

Today it’s my birthday! It’s such a beautiful say, a little cooler than it has been.
I started off the day with an early morning walk down to the beach and marina.
      
     

Autumn Roundup, Mullewa, WA

On Friday I drove up the Indian Ocean Road to Geraldton and then east 100kms to Mullewa. The 19th Annual Autumn Roundup took place at the local recreation centre where people had the choice of ten workshops given by tutors from all over WA. The workshops ranged from quilting, embroidery, polymer clay, sculpture and paper arts. The weekend was a great success with over 150 participants. I taught jewellery making using silver metal clay and my students who had not seen this medium before, did a fantastic job. Here are some photos from the event;
   
  
  
     

Two Rocks Volunteer Sea Rescue Group

This week has been busy with training at the TRVSRG. On Wednesday morning I went out on Sea Guardian 2 and learnt what to do in a ‘Man Over Board’ situation, how to assist the skipper in keeping a watchful eye on the person overboard, throwing a life float and retrieving a person from the sea. We practised with a big float rather than someone actually going into the water.
There was a huge ship near us, it was a ‘livestock carrier’, probably going into Fremantle to collect live sheep for export.
    
These ships are huge. they can carry up to 40,000 sheep on multi storey decks. There is a lot of controversy over way the sheep are treated on route to places such as Libya.

I also attended a night training session on Sea Guardian 2. We left Two Rocks marina and headed south. There was half a moon, so we had some light on the water and the breeze wasn’t very strong.
We motored down to the Alkimos wreck just south of Yanchep. Alkimos is named after the shipwreck of the Greek freighter Alkimos which ran aground on the coast nearby in 1963. The remains of the wreck looked pretty eerie sticking out of the sea in the moonlight. There have been several reports of ghostly footsteps and unexplained cooking smells coming from the wreck over a period of time and it is supposed to be unlucky to swim or dive near the wreck.

Polymer Pendants

I have been making some new texture plates in the studio and produced some pendants that I plan to sell at a small Artist sale day at the beginning of May. I will take a few with me this weekend when I go away to teach.

This batch are just about to go into the oven to be cured. I enjoy my ‘playdays’, just claying away in the studio, trying out a few ideas.

Cornish primroses

Lisa Cain of the Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery sent this photo of primrose flowers on her newsletter. It made me reminisce of times when as a child I picked bunches of these flowers from the Cornish hedgerows, to take home for my mother. Now days, as here in Australia I think its illegal to pick wildflowers.

Two Rocks Volunteer Sea Rescue Group

The Two Rocks Volunteer Sea Rescue Group has been assisting the Western Australian boating public since 1991. TRVSRG is a not for profit organisation operated by those who willingly dedicate their time to provide on-the-water assistance, radio coverage, administration, finance reporting, training and maintenance of equipment
The Two Rocks Volunteer Sea Rescue Group covers the 33km stretch from Alkimos Reef to Ledge Point, with its strong volunteer base, dedicating around 7000 hours each year to make sure people get home safely.
The group operates two rescue boats from its Two Rocks Marina headquarters, with a new rescue vessel expected to be in action by the end of summer.

I have recently joined the Two Rocks Volunteer Sea Rescue Group and went to my first rescue this week. A small craft was drifting 18 nautical miles off the coast. I joined the skipper and crew and motored for one and half hours to the stricken boat. The boat was towed back into the marina at Two Rocks. Apparently the boats batteries failed and the owners were unable to start their motor.

Copper

These are Merryl’s copper pieces put together into earrings and pendants, they look really good.

These are some of my earrings.
  

Fingerprint Jewellery a home business

The world-wide interest in making fingerprint jewellery is really taking off. Many people are keen to set up and run a home business in the fingerprint jewellery or they would like to make a personalised jewellery item in polished silver.
In my two day workshop I show people how to transfer fingerprints, a handprint, footprint or child's drawing and onto a piece of pure silver and make into a jewellery item.
These are some of the photographs of a recent class.