Amy:        Do you like sewing?
Pearl:        I hope you have a lovely time here!

Hi Amy,

I do like sewing when I have the time and quiet to think. I don’t like to mend things…like all the pants needing patches on the knees when my boys were little! This green and red cotton was leftover from mending my children’s school uniforms. I used it in my art to try to make good use of it now that I don’t need these colours anymore.

and general questions/comments from the visit:

Do the extra items on the chairs in Eight Unseated correspond with particular members of the family or does it reflect the overall experience of being in a large family?
I will forward your blog address to the teachers and they will review the answers in class.  What a lovely touch to have this interaction!

Dear Sally,

The green things on the cahirs represent the partylike atmosphere of living in close quarters with so many people, as you suggest, but I did find most of these things in their wardrobes!

Comments from the students:

Grace:         How long would it take to make the painting All For One?

ALL FOR ONE was painted by 30 years ten (10) students at Bayside Secondary College in Williamstown, Victoria. I visited them with the canvases already designed and drawn and they carefully painted the shapes the colours set out to be used but chose where to place the particular colours. I had worked with these students and their teacher before so I knew they would do an excellent job.