Another Meme

October 31st, 2006

Borrowed from corazon-latino’s blog:

1. What is your occupation? Missionary - SIM WA’s co-Ministry Director

2. What color are you socks right now? Black

3. What are you listening to right now? the whirr of the server and my daughter breathing

4. What was the last thing that you ate? Cornflakes

5. Can you drive a manual? Yeah

6. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be? Turquoise - just like that colour

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? A market research guy

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? I copied it!

9. How old are you today? 31

10. Favorite drinks? Tea, Lemon Lime and Bitters

11. What is your favorite sport to watch? Tennis or cricket

12. Have you ever dyed your hair? Yep

13. Pets? Rabbit - Alphie, Unnamed Weird Budgie (pictured) and 3 Weiros

14. Favorite food? Corn, Bananas, Spring rolls, white chocolate

15. What was the last movie you watched? Bits of 50 First Dates

16. Favourite holiday? I know this is American for Seasonal Celebration Day but here in Australia it means ‘favourite trip’ - so my fav trip was Tasmania in 2003/4 (pic: Perth, Tasmania)


17. What do you do to vent anger? Mumble

18. What were your favorite toys as a kid? Sadly my Barbies but also Strawberry Shortcake dolls

19. What are is your favorite, Autumn or spring? Spring

20. Hugs or kisses? Depends who it is

21. Cherry or blueberry? Neither

22. Do you want your friends to copy this? If they want

23. Who is the most likely to respond? Maybe Texas Lass

24. Who is least likely to respond? My Dad

25. Living arrangements? Renting my parents house (pic right)

26. When was the last time you cried? Not sure - maybe when my daughter pulled herself up using my hair - brought tears to my eyes

27. What is on the floor of your wardrobe? Shoes, dust

28. What did you do last night? Made yet MORE millefiori beads (see my last post), watched 20 to 1

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More Polyclay Fun

October 31st, 2006

I’ve been making Polyclay beads now for a couple of weeks and having a great time. Thought I’d post some more of the recent ones. All of these (except for the glass one) are going to be for sale. Let me know if you’re interested.






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Illustration Friday too! - ‘Wind’

October 27th, 2006

IF theme is wind:

Going for something a little abstract this week to illustrate the topic. This was originally entitled ‘Third Space’ demonstrating the gap between one culture and another (its very deep - I was in uni at the time!), The gap is meant to be invisible so if you look very closely you can see the fishing line down the centre. Anyway, paintings are always open to individual interpretation so I thought this actually demonstrated Wind quite well.

50cm x 40cm, mixed media (glue, acrylic, fishing line, tumeric and cummin - I think - correct me if you think I’m wrong - can’t remember which spices are those colours!!) on canvas.

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Photo Friday Already!! - ‘Accidental’

October 27th, 2006
The theme for PF this week is accidental and how could I go past this photo that we took in the UK. The guy in this was fine by the way, he crawled out of the window a minute or two later. We found him to be surrounded by mcdonalds wrappers (from the back seat)with the radio blaring.

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Wordless Wednesday

October 25th, 2006

I’m going to try doing this new post each week called Wordless Wednesday. I like the idea of just putting up a photo and not explaining anything. So, this should be the only time I put words to a photo on a Wednesday (in theory anyway)! I’m guessing that if you want an explaination of the photo each week you just ask in the comments section.

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Polyclay and Millefiori

October 20th, 2006


I mentioned a few posts down that I’ve been trying a new art form - millefiori using polyclay (it was originally done in glass). If you’ve ever stood and watched the lolly (candy) makers at one of those lolly shops like Roc Candy or similar (you probably have something like this in other countries), then you will know a bit of how millefiori is done.

I’m really having a great time discovering this new medium and have sat for 3 hours each night for the last week playing and making the beads. Like usual I’m not using a pattern and I’ve spent a lot of time on the web searching for techniques to make my own. For those who don’t know about why that’s important, I’m a bit anti-pattern, or at least anti using someone elses patter, the artist in me hates doing things that are not unique!

For those who aren not Aussies, that’s a 5c coin which is similar to the smallest American coin and British coin (can’t remember what they are!).


I tried to make these ones look like little groups of people. These are to be sold to raise awareness for HOPE for AIDS.

There is a point to this. I am planning on setting all the beads out on a tray at the next possible place I can (a fair, sale or display) and selling them off to raise money for SIM.

You can contact me if you are intersted in buying any of them by the way.

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IF - ‘Ghost’

October 20th, 2006
The IF theme this week is ‘Ghost’ and I thought this was appropriate. This is a practice piece which is a part of a much larger work. Done in oils using the rubbing out method.
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PF - ‘Innocence’

October 20th, 2006
PF this week is ‘Innocence’ and how could I go past posting a photo of my daughter Keziah. The hardest part was choosing and seeing as I don’t like to show her whole face this one fitted perfectly! She was very excited a few weeks ago when she had these balloons to play with while I was pushing her pram around Perth city.
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Two’s

October 18th, 2006

Got this one from Texas Lass (who bought my art-stitch tags a while ago!):

Two Names You Go By:
1. Amanda
2. Molly

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. socks
2. cargo pants

Two Things You Would Want/HAVE in a Relationship:
1. Genuine care and thoughfulness
2. Understanding

Two of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. Create - paint, stitch, knit, design, and the latest thing - polymer clay canes/millefiori (see pic - my first attempt, much better at it now!).
2. Travel

Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. To see my Mum
2. A bar of white chocolate!

Two pets you had/have:
1. A sausage dog called Shana (see my last photo friday and illustration friday posts)
2. A rabbit called Alphie

Two people who will fill this out:
1. Probably
2. No One

Two things you did last night:
1. Made polymer clay beads
2. Was up half the night with Keziah who is teething

Two things you ate today:
1. Salad
2. Weet Bix

Two people you Last Talked To:
1. My Dad
2. My daughter

Two Things You’re doing tomorrow:
1. Getting up
2. Looking after Kezi

Two longest car rides:
1. Perth to Sydney (around 3000km)
2. Sydney to Perth

Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Christmas
2. Easter

Two favorite beverages:
1. Lipton Tea
2. White Chocolate Hot Chocolate from the Margaret River Chocolate Company

Two Favorite Cities:
1. Perth, Australia
2. London, UK

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List of Things I’ve Done

October 13th, 2006

I got this list from Adventures of An Ordinary Christian and thought it was interesting so I’ve also put in bold the things I’ve done on the list, there are 44 out of the hundred so that’s not bad I suppose:

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins (no, but I was in a boat in Papua New Guinea with about 50)
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula (this will NEVER happen)
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you’ and meant it!
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s nappy
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse (I think - or else it was partial - probably partial)
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Visited all 7 states and territories in Australia (ok, I changed that to make it more Aussie!)
40. Taken care of someone who was drunk
41. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
42. Watched wild whales
43. Stolen a sign
44. Backpacked in Europe
45. Taken a road-trip
46. Gone rock climbing (sort-of - climbed over rocks!)
48. Midnight walk on the beach
49. Gone sky diving
50. Taken a train through Europe
51. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
52. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table, and had a meal with them
53. Milked a cow
54. Alphabetized your CDs
55. Sung karaoke
56. Lounged around in bed all day
57. Gone scuba diving
58. Kissed in the rain
59. Gone to a drive-in theater
60. Started a business
61. Taken a martial arts class
62. Been in a movie
63. Crashed a party
64. Gone without food for 5 days
65. Gotten a tattoo
66. Got flowers for no reason
67. Performed on stage
68. Been to Las Vegas
69. Recorded music
70. Eaten shark
71. Buried one/both of your parents (my dad)
72. Been on a cruise ship
73. Spoken more than one language fluently
74. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
75 Walked the Sydney Harbour Bridge
76. Had plastic surgery
77. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
78. Wrote articles for a large publication (well, I wrote an article which was published in a mission newsletter! I will have a painting of mine on the front cover for SIM International’s magazine this year!)
77. Lost over 50 kilo’s
79. Piloted an airplane
80. Petted a stingray
81. Broken someone’s heart
82. Broken a bone
83. Eaten sushi
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Parasailed
86. Skipped all your school reunions
87. Shaved your head
88. Caused a car accident
89. Pretended to be “sick”
90. Surfed in the ocean
91. Saved someone’s life
92. Fainted
93. Been in the room while someone is giving birth (yes, me!!!, oh and I was standing at the open door while my nephew was being born)
94. Hitchhiked
95. Adopted a child
96. Been caught daydreaming
97. Been to Ayer’s Rock
98. Called off a wedding engagement
99. Donated your blood
100. Accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour

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