Little L seems to fall asleep in her high chair very easily. When K was her age I can’t remember her doing this more than once but L has done it now about four or five times. Twice she has actually fallen asleep with her head back and mouth open! Didn’t get photos of those [...]

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Last weekend we packed up the car and drove off to Buntine to visit our friends Sarah and Duncan. Buntine is about three hours drive from where we live for a non kids family and about five hours for one with kids. More toilet stops, more rest stops, more sight seeing stops and more food [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Darling Daughters, Family, Michael, SIM

Last Friday my wonderful in laws took the girls again for the whole day. I needed to pack and get ready for a trip to the country but I did manage to squeeze in a couple of hours of painting. Continuing on with my butterfly inspiration, this time I zoned right in on the wing [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Art, Painting

My all time favourite singer is Keith Green and I love to paint to his music (more coming later on that). This is not news to those who know me well. Keith was an amazing person who died in 1982 at the young age of 28 (or 27, can’t remember). He had only been a [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Deeper Thoughts

I have been having a great ol’ time making polymer clay canes lately. For the last few nights I’ve been busy using up scrap clay and making these. I’ll probably turn them into beads at some stage but for now its nice to have a collection going. Here’s what I’ve done so far:

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Art, Polymer Clay

My wonderful parents in law took the girls for a whole day last week and this gave me time to get out my paintbrushes once again. Haven’t done that in years! I drew on my photos from our trip to the museum the other week and painted a butterfly. Not sure what sort of butterfly [...]

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Last week I did a little more stamp carving. This one is larger than the other two, around 12cm ’square’. I’m not sure whether I like this one or not, it looks a bit like the wheel from a pirate ship to me. I can see it being used in a number of ways though. [...]

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Saturday morning Michael had a meeting so I loaded up the pram and took the girls to the park. Was a nice crisp winter’s day, not wet and not too cold. I took my camera along with the idea of collecting a few research shots for a series of paintings I’d like to do one [...]

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The other night we had a big hail fall right when we were putting K to bed. We never get snow here in Perth so to see our lawn covered in hail like this was strange. This is the scene we saw when we went out side during the hailstorm:

K was amazed, she picked it [...]

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After being inspired by Jacquie and Lotta I sat down yesterday (as posted below) and wrote out an action plan for my shop(s). I thought I would try to keep track on here and write out a list of action points. There are five sections including Advertising, Improvement, Business, Physical Work and Selling. I [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Polyclarific