This weekend

I made choc pear pudding which was a hit!

Very well received and soo easy to make. Dinner at Ash's was really nice. Matt came along as a surprise guest and Brady told us all about his OS trip.

I have a couple of shots from my course yesterday, nothing amazing because it was mostly just exercises to practice the stuff he taught us. It was very good but there was some basic stuff that was very easy. Way too many old ladies with amazing cameras that they didn't know how to get off auto!

Practising panning which is harder than it looks. All in the hips! I really want to practice this when I get my bike!


Slow shutter speed stuff at night - lots of fun. I think we'll play with this in Thailand.

Playing with foreground and adding depth.

And just mucking around while everyone else figured out how to change their shutter speed . . .



Today we saw Inception. It was really great, long and very complex, don't see it when you're tired! Great acting and good story.
Tom and I went to Carindale and spent too much money on travel stuff that we probably don't need but it was fun. Had sushi for lunch and came home for a nap. Gem dropped in just before and is going to come back later for dinner.

And the weekend is over again! It goes way too fast. Only 1 week to go. Cannot wait!

An assortment: op shop, my painting and macro photos

For some reason I can't load this picture the right way up no matter what I do so this is it...its a very pretty tapestry found the other day... My new stash of cutlery using the macro setting on the camera to show everyone the details on it...Don't you love the name of this cutlery?These 'beaded' forks with the 'M' are my favourites.

And my collage...she actually has a different face now...over the weekend she had a facelift..ha.

The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you

More papercutting.





and a beautiful ship print in an amazing frame that Sarah found at Stevo's and bought for me. One day I will put all my ship images on one wall, including Pop's sketch framed!

Bread baking and art making

I made a parmesan, olive and pesto GF loaf of bread today. Sooo yummy! Like a meal on it's own! I'll grab a photo before it's gone of the big chunks of olive throughout it. Just the way I like it.

I've been working on some paper-cuttings for a future rummage. I have 4 so far but I really only like 3.





I spent the afternoon with Sarah and Laura and I am very inspired to keep producing and do a show at some point, somehow. It's so nice to have something to work towards.

Very exciting find...

This is beautiful old hotel and railway cutlery...they are monogrammed and have pretty designs etc and are just really pretty..there was a whole basket and I sorted through to get these out...also bought a heap of teaspoons out of the same stash...they were 19c each...I should have just bought the whole basket really....

op shop Tuesday finds...some just seen...

I bought these 3 platters..they look like old hotel ware..the blue one is a really pretty blue with a fine silver pattern ...I took a close up pic but it was blurry..

I lurved these old lamps...but couldn't find out if they worked and then gave up. They were $5 each...the one on the right has a little raised pattern of flowers and leaves..

Donna bought these 2 sideboards for $25..they are mahogany or something...she was very excited..the bottom one actually has drawers and shelves but we had removed them and put them in the car...I would have loved one for an art room!!

I almost forgot

That I hadn't posted my finds from the weekend's Op-shop trip!

A Canadian tea-towel. Love the beaver!

An absolutely beautiful apricot etched vase. Will have to take a better photo in sunlight.

This beautiful leather, velvet lined handbag was $1!

Floral pillow cases


A bronze bow hook - the ladies at the op-shop kept telling me what a bargain it was!


More frames for the artworks I'm creating at the moment. The large one has tiny roses carved into it.

It's true!

Look what Tom and I came across on our walk Saturday afternoon!

Sunday in Canada

We just got back from a walk in Mud Lake...we saw a white owl and lots of bullfrogs..they make a really amazingly deep noise when they 'bark'...

I went to a lunch today and took Joe from Oz and some stupid woman was telling him to do a different accent....what the??? and then telling me to do a different accent...like we are performing monkeys or something...I told her to do a different accent...(I can be pretty cutting when I want...at least that shut her up...I probably confused her..)

I really like sitting up here on the 16th floor looking out over the buildings and trees and people and roads and watching the sky change. That woman got my blood up for a while but I'm all peaceful again now.

Lately

I have been baking the most amazing cheese and herb loaf,



lusting over bikes online,

finishing a painting that was meant to be a birthday present in April,




op-shopping in Wynnum - the home of the most op-shops in one street you will ever find, (more photos to come)



making friends with a little dog called Gypsy whose owner just let her hang out with us for awhile. She is a Jack Russel x Foxy like Sandy, doesn't she look similar!




and spent a lot of time with this wonderful boy.