team sports

Apparently there is a major football game on tv tonight so I thought I'd take the opportunity to blog again. Twice in one week!
This is a bit of an update on the kids. Thea has started playing soccer of a Saturday. She's not really in a team and there isn't any training (long story) but she is loving it. Two of her friends also join in and they all grin their way through the whole hour game. I never thought I would want both children playing Saturday sport (often at different ends of the day!) but the "soccer parents" are all really great and it turns into a very social afternoon so win win all 'round.

Angus has started playing rugby league for school (gasp!!) but has so far managed to remain unbroken and has even scored a couple of tries. No, he hasn't changed schools - his school just borrows these jerseys (another long story). He looks a trick with the head gear and mouth guard but I guess that is more comfortable than the cotton wool I would love to wrap him in.
Both children are busy with school and sport and the odd bit of cultural enrichment.....Angus is entering photos in the local show this year and Thea is entering some cake decorating. It's likely we will be away for the show (weather permitting - another camping trip) so hopefully we will come home to find they have received encouraging results. On the weekend Angus got involved in a local photography workshop run by ABC Open, even making his way onto their blog with his work.
When I sit back and think about how busy our whole family is I wonder......"What the heck did we do with our lives before we had kids!!??"

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Well it's 6 or 7 weeks since I last blogged and I'm actually blogging from my work laptop on a Sunday which is all kinds of wrong but I guess it's better than not blogging at all. Busy busy blah blah but all is good. I guess I must be one of those people who gets more done when they are super busy and that also makes me happy so it can't be bad.
I've just had the best night's sleep ever (insomi-beast bite that!!) and have been out in the garden digging things and picking my eggplants and planting herbs and strawberries with my boy. Sunshine is definitely good for the soul. Thea made me a coffee for morning tea (yes, she is a barrista as well as a pasta-maker extraordinaire) and I also helped myself to some of the shortbread she made yesterday with our friend Jess. Maybe I am on a sugar high!!??

Of course I have no photos on this laptop to upload to this post (and I need a visual to cut the boredom) so I am adding the invitation for an upcoming exhibition my students are having at Dirty Linen Art Space. It's pretty exciting - and in even more exciting news I will be part of a photography exhibition there in July with my instagram pics. To date I have had 5 of them published in the Courier-Mail - lots of fun!

Who knows if it will be 2, 4 or 20 weeks until I get back on this old blog again.....I just know I won't be making any excuses ;-)

let the creating begin!

The holidays are here!
Yesterday I held a beading workshop at my place which was really good fun! The company was pretty good too ;)
I created this:



Actually, that's just a 'work in progress' shot. My friend Jenny ran the workshop and she had these really cool beads that were flat so I tried out a new Darkroom Door stamp and some embossing enamel on them and hey presto! Very cool!
I bought a few extra so might play with them tomorrow.
Today I created a card:

 Three couples I know have become engaged in the last few weeks so this is for one of them. Love is in the air!
I also scrapped a couple of layouts but they are for the June show so will be under wraps for a little while.

And my children created these gorgeous photos........

One from Angus:

And one from Thea:

I actually took Angus out by himself last weekend and took some photos.  PoorThea had THE WORST ear infection ever so had to stay home :( . Angus requested another day of it today so we all went out to Baldwin Swamp this morning to take photos. They are so cute! And they are totally enjoying it!!