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gardening cooking doggies east gippsland

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This fella walked up our front driveway the other day...

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Plains wanderer, yet another endangered species, this is a beautiful quail like bird that relies on native grasslands, a vastly disrupted ecosystem.

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So now I have five more of these small vessels. The paper is daylily and hemp, the images are of endangered species in Victoria/Australia. Land use is the common threat for all species facing extinction...and there is no reason we all can’t live together, if only humanity could curb our destructiveness.

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paper mache bowls using my own handmade paper, they are so delicate and strong, like a shell...

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a piece of felt for a local bush-fire recovery art project

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zinnias in a white vase

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fairtrade jute and my own handspun wool, these are little bushfire and snow pots....

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plant weaving, i needed a guide to remind me which dried leaf is which in my ever- growing collection of material, and each of these strap leaved plants is soooo individual and beautiful

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the final in this set, autumn is here and the waterlilies will be gone soon for another year

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more waterlilies, they are such a pleasure to paint, so green in the hot, hot summer, I love them....

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waterlilies from my dam at the end of summer

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Zygocactus last spring

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coiled daffodil leaf vessels

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another santolina and wool vessel

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Santolina and wool vessel

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new zealand flax vessel

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Daffodil leaves and silk thread