When we returned from our short (1 year) time in Niger, West Africa we brought a lot of bits and pieces with us. They say that once you have been to Africa it gets into your blood and I’d have to agree. Close to ten years later I still have my African pieces hanging up [...]

Tags: Africa, fulani, hat, Niger, photo of the day
Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, Darling Daughters, Niger, Photo a day

I hadn’t forgotten about this little series, just hadn’t gotten around to moving to the letter ‘E’ until now so here goes. E is for things such as English teaching, ESL teaching, Economics, Evangelism and Epidemiologist. There are so many SIM opportunities in each category (except the last one, only one of those is currently [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, Niger, SIM

So, its time for another opportunity instalment, this time those starting with ‘D’. You will once again find a range of options for serving with SIM overseas in this list. Perhaps you are waiting for God’s direction as to where he wants you, read on and something may jump off the page!

Doctor and Leprosy Programme [...]

Filed under: Africa, Niger, SIM

The money from all my sales is still going to the work of SIM each month. As I’ve mentioned before, the money for the months of May and June goes towards Bikes for Pastors in Ghana, Africa.. With just a couple of weeks left in June I thought I would mention this again.
I fully believe [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, Etsy, Madeit, Mintd, Niger, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay, SIM, Wahmania

Out in the bush in Niger (west Africa) is a place called Galmi and SIM has a hospital there. We visited Galmi and stayed on the hospital compound in 2001 for the national life conference that SIM holds every year.
The trip out there was very bumpy, the potholes were often over a metre wide [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, Niger

I’m enjoying playing around with this mosaic maker from flickr’s big huge labs. I thought I’d share this one that I did. Its a mosaic of some photos taken while we were in Niger with SIM in 2001. There were a few pics of some paintings I did in the flickr folder I used too [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, Australia, Niger, SIM

I have been posting a lot about my polymer clay creations here this year and just wanted to take a minute to summarize a few things completely outside of that. I suppose to be honest, creating and being creative is an integral part of my everyday and this year I have been trying to get [...]

Filed under: Africa, Art, Australia, Darling Daughters, Etsy, Family, Michael, Niger, Polymer Clay, SIM, Wahmania

For the month of May the PCAGOE (see title) had the theme of using polymer clay plus one other medium for their monthly challenge. As I am a painter as well and recently experimented with using paint on clay I couldn’t resist this for the theme.
I created a piece of artwork which shows the similarities [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, Art, Etsy, Niger, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay

I’ve seen this meme around the place and wondered if I’d eventually get tagged. I did today by Etsa Sketch (check out her blog and shop, her work is fantastic!).
Rules
1.List seven random facts/habits about yourself
2.Choose another seven bloggers to tag and list their names in your blog
3.Leave your seven tagged bloggers comments to notify them [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, Art, Australia, Etsy, Niger, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay, SIM

When I saw the PF theme this week this is the photo that came to mind. This was taken while we were visitng the West African country of Benin while we were short-termers with SIM in Niger. We went there on a holiday with another family. Apparently they are burning their crops but I’m not [...]

Filed under: Africa, Michael, Niger, Photo Friday, SIM