Beaded Moth & 3 Real Bugs 

the beaded moth

The beaded moth! Very fiddly but worth it in the end. I took him to the park for a photo shoot, then he went to live at my dad's. You can make your own by using this book.

That moth looks like he might bite.This scary lookin' fella below is a jewel spider. They are very common up on the local mountain, once I saw one I kept seeing them everywhere.

Here is a cute little tiger moth that obligingly landed on my little finger & posed for my picture.

And lastly this lady was a visitor to my balcony the other day, looking for a place to lay her eggs no doubt. If my boysenberry gets covered in caterpillars I may have to let them live, the world needs more butterflies.

See you next time!

 Flowers, a bird & a half-made beaded box

 It's the bec made blog without teacher supervision. I started this blog as a school assignment but think I'll keep it up, but now I can swear. bec made -stuff i made, photographed, grew but probably not cooked. it's not one of those kind of blogs.      

                    this is a mutant calendula. it's a great flower for winter as you sow in autumn but most of mine got seedling fungus, only 3 plants took. 

 i went crazy buying bulbs this year & the jonquils have been lovely. the freesias got attacked by thrips. my dear little kitten got hit by a car in april, the balcony was her favourite place, I avoided it for a few months so the first lot of bulbs i put in suffered, as did I. 

this is a crimson Rosella, their name actually comes from the first settlers seeing them around a hill they called rose hill. they become known as rose hill parrots, then rose hillers until they became

rosellas. cool huh? i know where this bloke nests, he seemed to have lost his mate the other day. i hope he found her. the block behind their tree is due to be demolished. I hope they will be ok. yes, i'm not much of a wildlife photographer i know.

last pic is a beaded box that is taking ages, I got the pattern from Suzanne Pretls beaded boxes. It's not as complicated as I expected, just time consuming. I've been listening to podcasts as I bead, I recommend The Documentary by BBC world services and All in the Mind by ABC Radio National. jeez i am gettin old. i'm also listening to the History of Rome by Mike Duncan but I think he goes into more detail than I need. that's all I have to show you today, I need a good sign off line. but all i have for now is bye!