....... Aye, Aye, Aye!
iMoney, iMetal, iTools and iInchies.
Can you hear my frontal lobe grinding into an 'I-think-therefore-I-am' process?
'Floraison' by Fitz and Floyd
Have you read 'Tulip Fever' by Deborah Moggach? Tulips meant mega, extreme wealth in the 17th century money market. Some of the most exquisite and expensive were two-toned Isulinde and called 'broken'. This 'break' in colour was a to become know in the 19th century as a mutant flaw. the fanciers and money brokers couldn't get enough of them and unfortunately this proliferation led to a deadly virus which killed all the bulbs. Consequently, the effect was similar to hedge funds and the GFC of the 2000s. Investors were left with nothing but the dead bulbs, which were not worth the paper in which they were wrapped!
http://www.tulipsinthewoods.com/bulbs/insulinde-broken-tulip/
I = Iron Gates, cast and wrought at North
Sydney Demonstration School
There has to be a story behind these glam gates! Not the late 20th century NSW Public School style but not unique. They hark to a time when schools and buildings were made to last. The traditional owners of the area on which the property stands were the Cammeraygal people. However, by 1880 most aboriginal people in the Sydney area had been evicted from their traditional lands in the Sydney Basin to La Perouse on the coast, south of Maroubra.
The first white settler on the large block in the photo was Edward Wollstonecraft, who built a small cottage, named 'Crows Nest' on the land grant. Alexander Berry, his business partner built a more elaborate house on the site in 1850.
Conrad Martens, who had travelled on 'The Beagle' with Charles Darwin, painted the home in its semi 'European' landscape in 1858.
Read more about the original buildings and occupants on the site below.
http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/fullRecordPicture.jsp?recnoListAttr=recnoList&recno=30933
Look closely and you will see the cast iron 'Crows Nest' emblem, which is synonymous with the suburb Crows Nest, only a few hundred metres up the road from the school. North Sydney Demonstration School has a long history in the training of student teachers who visit NSDS classes regularly to observe specific lessons which are devised by the class teacher in consultation with the university tutor/lecturer. The students also do longer periods of practice teaching at NSDS before they graduate from university.
I = Tools = (now my grey matter is truly struggling!)
Let's play..... iTools ..... so I can include my iPad which has liberated me from sitting close to HD towers and modems. It travelled with us on and in planes, buses, cars, trains and ferries last year, when we wound our way through Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Japan, allowing us to send photos, emails and postcards instantly. It meant that I could keep in contact with my mother who gave up using her computer last year. I sent emails to her carer, Yan who helps her 5 days per week. I wrote the postcards, photographed them with the iPad and then emailed them immediately to Yan's iPhone, she showed them to Mum the following morning.Yan or Mum then replied by iPhone email.The hard copy postcards eventually arrived by snail mail and Mum showed them to Dad at the nursing home.
The iPad doesn't seem to do blogs well so I use the MacBook Pro and flick between all of the above plus SD disk from the camera and my old Nokia phone, which has an old-eye camera.
Just juggling all this plus the power and download leads helps to exercise the brain.
Postcard from Turku Åbo in Finland
I = Inchies = Indigo....
...... measured fragments from my stash
I don't throw out any fabric unless it's minute. I am not the quickest at finishing quilts 'n' things so inchies are something I might consider for a greeting card or tidying my quilt diary BUT I can't imagine getting into them the way I have seen on the net. If I become obsessed with inchies, I'll never finish another quilt. Most of the above inchies are leftovers from three completed quilts or tops.
What will B or C or D on 16 March? Not the Ides!
