a bit of rust

Feeling rather pleased with myself - my packing for London is almost finished - just one big box to go and it doesn't go until Thursday. Very unlike me to be ahead of myself. Of course the minute it has all left I will find something heavy which should have been included and I will somehow have it work out how to get it into a suitcase. We can take 3 suitcases weighing 66kilos (the joy of being in Qantas Club and there are few joys)  which is easily filled by past experience. And then on Thursday I can get on with other things for at least a week.

In the meantime I really wanted to try the Rust Easy - it is an inkjet fabric which was so easy to use. I printed some of my rusty photographs onto it, left it to dry, ironed it, peeled off the backing paper, rinsed it under the tap and ironed it - no colour ran whatsoever and now I have to decide how I am going to use it. My Okarito journal is nearly complete so won't be long until I can finish everything under that title and then I shall retrieve my Rusty journal. I think there shall be a place in it for these. I might weave one - I do like the look of the woven work.

Each 'page' of rusty paper is different so there is the pleasure of surprise I think. We sell at for $5.50 a sheet of American A4 (that's the best way I can describe it as I can never remember the actual measurement.) Certainly worth a try and we have already sold quite a lot so I am interested to see how others are using it.

I have been rather stiff - the other night when Ian was out I slid down the steps of our cellar to the brick floor - I think I was lucky that I didn't actually break anything but my hands were very sore - I must have slid them down the central jarrah pillar on the way down - not sure. For the past two days I have very stiff and sore ankles and muscles so goodness knows what I did - most important I didn't knock into any of the wine - I think I won't bother going down again for a while.....