Easter is looming and I'm looking forward to a few quiet days at home. I finally got my machine set up - in a corner of my bedroom, but it's all ready to go, so I'm hopeing for some quilt progress to occur. I've been playing with ideas round flying geese and the use of colour, and I went to the Craft Fair at the Gold Coast Convention Centre last weekend and soooo enjoyed the quilts on display. There were the Quilts of the Gold Coast Quilters, an exhibition from Art Quilters - where do they get all those ideas? and a small group of quilts commemorating RFDS. I loved the use of outback colours. My companion was Jean who is a 91yo quilter who does the most amazing work. I hadn't been to a quilt show since Canbera 2005- so I came away with my head spinning.
I was very restrained with my spending, or was it overwhelmed with choice? I bought one design of a frilled neck lizard, and he may just start to appear on a top I made about a year ago - or quite possibly more. I bought the book at Calico Patch in Canberra while brousing with Cathy.

I've been told my locum position at Beaucare is to be advertised as a full-time position, so I'm working on my application. I'm now enjoying the drive through the mountains, though last week we had some big storms and lots of rain that made visability difficult and the water on the roads had planeing a common occurance. Twice I saw cars come to grief - one took a bend too tightly and rolled landing on it's roof against the mountain and the other, a ute, just missed a bend and went off the mountain nose first down the side. It made for stressful driving and I'd decided if the weather continued I'd just stay home and curl up on the couch with a good book. Of course the next morning the skies were grey and only drizzling - till I hit the mountains!