Still slowly...

 It has been an odd couple of days preparing for a cyclone that clearly has a mind of its own and is making it very hard to know where it might go, and when it might go there! We are fortunate to be to the North of it, so nothing like the torrential rain and flooding to the south of it, along with such strong winds trees are falling into power lines, houses and cars all over the place. 

So we have been a bit twitchy and distracted, but also have been using the time at home to get on with some making. And so the wee book continues. I worked from our studio space in the spare room, having brought all my gear home, anticipating that it might be too risky to be on the roads.

Setting up a template to guide my writing of the words on the pages. I didn't draw lines on the pages, just worked with space and a sense of the line.

Still playing with the notion of transparent paper! And trying to think of a good name for the book. This is not the name I ended up with...

And so I sat and wrote the words on the pages, enough pages for three books.

Despite feeling so distracted (I also re-arranged all teh art in the house that day!), I was really pleased ot have achieved this milestone.

The other evening we lined up to collect sandbags from our local SES depot. We were so grateful for such a great service.

We sandbagged the sliding doors at the studio and the rear wall, as we know from past experience that heavy rains can flow into the space...

We weeded, dug trenches and cleared the channels to let the water flow as freely as it can.

And so we wait to see what happens. It really doesn't look like the rain will be as much as we originally thought; and the winds not as strong, and I really do hope so.