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lovely things to look at (all week long)

12 Sep

WEEK THIRTY SIX ( september 4 -10) It is cold cold cold in Hobart and it doesn’t look likely to change whilst we are here…in fact it gets worse and snow falls lower and lower. Lovely to look at though, ... Read more »

textile trips turned into knitted quilts

11 Sep

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY FIVE (august 28 – september 3) I am off to Tassie at the end of the week and I am in countdown mode. I need to get a pile of things done before I leave, partly as prep ... Read more »

irrevocable deadlines

31 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY (july 24-30) I had long ago decided to head to Launceston to the OZQUILT conference in September whether or not I managed to enter a work, and whether that ‘possible’ work was selected or not. I did manage ... Read more »

a golden glow throughout

17 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK EIGHTEEN (may 1-7) The week starts gently for me and with a whack for the other three. I stayed close to home drawing, reading and walking – a lovely day of solitude – whilst the other three hired a ... Read more »

it’s grand to be in budapest

15 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK SEVENTEEN (april 24-30) From a week full of visual overload, and camera overuse, this post features photos from Budapest’s Museum of Ethnography. It was a perfect first day full day in Budapest. The bloke and I started this trip ... Read more »

breaking cycles / break through

18 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FIFTEEN (april 10-16) The week was FULL before it started and very inconveniently, bouyed by the recent weeks of art making, my noggin was firing and had me ready/itching to get back into making mode immediately. Which idea? Which ... Read more »

the new year starts soon….

18 Jan

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWO (january 9-15) Photos this week come courtesy of NGV where we spent a tiny bit of time before we flew home on Monday. We toured through Shut Up and Paint, appreciating the variety and the curation, rather than ... Read more »

filled from top to bottom

16 Jan

Jan Mullen

WEEK ONE (january 2-8) The new year comes with deadlines and priorities. The last weeks of 2016 have given us extra priorities as we help to ready our daughter’s house house for market – and I still have the quilt ... Read more »

the hugs and pecks

10 Oct

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY ( october 3-9) It is early morning. I’m packed. We sit at our last lolly-filled breakfast table before we are set to fly again. This time it’s back to UB to spend a few hours free time before ... Read more »

Deel day dawns.

7 Oct

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY-NINE (september 26 – october 2) After breakfast on Monday morn, of Week 2 in Mongolia, we clear the breakfast tables away and set up some borrowed hand-cranked, (non electric:), sewing machines in preparation for Deel Day. The room ... Read more »