This morning we woke with a bang - literally. Someone, about three streets away decided that 6am on a Sunday morning was a good time to let off some fireworks. I’m guessing it was to mark Chinese New Year. It woke both of us up and then I waited to hear Keziah but nothing…she slept throught the lot!
February 16th, 2007
Interesting theme for PF this week. This is me:
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February 13th, 2007
About time I did another one of these. Here it is:
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February 10th, 2007
I got this from Craig (Craggles) over at Musings. ‘You post a category with the letter of the alphabet, then put your favorite from that category in the next space.’
Artist - hard to choose but I have admired the work of Yukinori Yanagi for quite a while .
Blog - current favourite is….its a tie between Carol Wilson Update and ilBloggo
Colour - Green like this
Dog Breed - I’m a bit of a sucker for Sausage Dogs after having one for 15 years (she died a year and a half ago now) but I really love Dalmations too.
Elevator - A tie between the one in the Sears Tower in Chicago that went very very fast and the lift at Perth station which is made of glass and always makes Keziah get excited.
Flavour - spearmint.
Global Location I’d like to live in - apart from right here it would be a tie between Tasmania and Canada (not that I’ve been there but I have friends there)
Holiday - Tie between our trip around the world in 1998 and our trip to Tassie in 2004
Internet Activity - blog and forum browsing!
Job - working as secretary at Dale Christian School in Armadale, WA
Kiss - my daughter gave me her first real kiss this afternoon, made my day!
Lollies - Chico Babies and bullets.
Medium - as in paint, clay etc…Would have to currently be polymer clay but wool, felt and paint are a tie for second place.
Niger Memory - We spend just one year in Niger, West Africa but my favourite memory was when we spent a night in a village with Kris and Shelley Riggs.
Organisation - the mission we work with - SIM
Perfume - Used to be Paris but now I quite like Sunflowers
Queensland Destination - Cairns
Relative’s Blog - tie between my parents and my brother and sister-in-law’s blogs
Store - I have two online stores both called Polyclarific - Aussie store - USA based store
Treat - White chocolate!
Universal language - art
Verse - as in Bible. Would have to be this one - Jeremiah 29:11
Website - currently its Polymer Clay Central
Xanthippe - the one found here
Yiddish Word - shlep
Zoo Animal - A tie between the Giraffe and the Meerkats
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February 10th, 2007
Today Keziah’s grandparents came and got her and she spent most of the day with them. They had a great time. This meant that I had time DURING THE DAY to do whatever I wanted. I’m pretty up to date with most things around the house and seeing as it’s a Saturday I did two things I enjoyed. Firstly, I had a long phone call with my brother and sister-in-law who live in Geelong, Victoria (temporarily). Secondly, I spent time DURING THE DAY making polymer clay beads to sell. I’ve had interest from a shop up in Pioneer Village in Armadale for pendants and hopefully beads so I’ve been busy making them.
You can see some of today’s efforst here (hearts are shown above):
These are fresh from the oven (except the hearts, they are unbaked here) so they still need finishing. Anyway, I’ve got some time tonight to put some jewellery together so I’ll be sitting down to do that shortly.
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February 9th, 2007
I haven’t done PF for quite a while so I thought it was about time. Sky, hmmm, interesting theme. I’m sure most of us have taken photos of the sky from time to time so here’s my entry:
Green Island Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Perfect sky, perfect beach!
Carins, Queensland again.
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February 6th, 2007
I’m running a quiz competition on my Etsy site.
All who enter will be put in a random draw for the prize of free shipping on their order. PLEASE SEND ME THE ANSWERS THROUGH THE CONTACT ME BUTTON on the site or email me at polyclarific@oddsocks.net. Please don’t put the answers here or it will spoil it for everyone else. If this happens, I will accept the entries from all those up to that point and then change the quiz questions. Drop a note here when you enter. : ) Have fun!
Here’s the quiz:
1. What is the length of the last item in my shop?
2. Which state of Australia am I from?
3. What is my birthdate?
4. What color is the other piggy bank(not the pink)?
5. What does PCAGOE stand for?
6. Exactly what part of nature inspired the necklace that was ‘inspired by nature’?
7. What is the word spelt wrong in the retro stripes pendant description?
8. What is the 9th tag on the third item listed?
9. How many beads are shown in the 5th picture on the first listing?
10. What inspired the creation of the Funky Bubbles Pendant?
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February 6th, 2007
As my regular readers know, Michael and I are part of SIM (Serving In Mission). Michael is the Ministry Director for Western Australia and I am the Representative. It’s been a busy few months since Michael c
ompleted his studies at Trinity Theo College in November with setting up for the coming year, planning, meeting with people and sharing. We have some interesting hopes and plans for 2007, if you are intersted in receiving the WA SIM quarterly Newsletter (called SWAT - SIM WA Team - first mail out is pictured to the left), please let me know.
ompleted his studies at Trinity Theo College in November with setting up for the coming year, planning, meeting with people and sharing. We have some interesting hopes and plans for 2007, if you are intersted in receiving the WA SIM quarterly Newsletter (called SWAT - SIM WA Team - first mail out is pictured to the left), please let me know.
There are several ways you can find out information about SIM in Australia and around the world. Firstly, through the Australian Website which can be found here: SIM Australia.
Secondly, through the International Website which can be found here: SIM International.
If you are from any of the following countries and are interested in SIM, please click the link:
SIM Canada
SIM East Asia (Singapore)
SIM France
SIM New Zealand
SIM Northern Europe (UK)
SIM South Korea
SIM Southern Africa
SIM Switzerland
SIM USA
There are a couple of other sites worth visiting.
HOPE for Aids website
SIM Kids website
SIM Niger website
and a few SIM related blogs besides my own:
Nancy’s Blog - Hannatu’s Happenings
Richelle’s Blog - Corazon Latino
Carol’s Blog - Carol Wilson Update
Jeremy’s Blog - Jeremy In Africa
Suzanne’s Blog - Barefoot Bushkid
Anna’s Blog - La Vita e Bella
It’s a great feeling to know you’re a part of something bigger than yourself. WA is a very isolated place so we’re glad to connected to the rest of Australia and the world in this way.
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February 6th, 2007
For 30 days I have an ad up on the Google Base. It can be found here. Feel free to point anyone in that direction or better still, send them along to one of my stores!!
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February 5th, 2007
I was looking around my house today and thinking about the variety of things from around the world that we have. Most are things we have bought ourselves but some, particularly anything from Asia were bought in a shop in Australia. I have a real love for other cultures and love the variety of styles that can be found. For example, I have this (we bought this in Austria):
hung right next to this (which was bought for me for Christmas by my parents from a little Japanese shop in Cairns):
We returned from Niger (with our mission SIM) over 5 and a half years ago now and there are still a lot of Niger things around our house with no plans of putting them away any time soon. Such as these:
and these (they are actually small cards with batiks on the front that I’ve framed):
How could I forget this (if you are from Niger or live there you will know what it is!):
To top it all off (there’s much more than the above but the post would be too big if I kept going) we have some lovley little items from our visit to the USA (bought in the town of Galena, Illinois) in 1998 such as these:
How could I complete this post without mentioning Papua New Guinea. We spent 7 weeks there in 2001 visiting my parents and we bought back quite a few nice things (they also have given us a lot!), including this pig:
Anyway, thought I’d share my love of culture. It’s much more interesting to me if the item has some sort of direct connection with a culture I visit so I hope that one day we can visit Asia and south America (only been to Singapore and that was just for one day!). I’ve got more (deep!) to say on this subject but for now I’ll let you enjoy the pretty pictures!
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