Swinging
Dinner with friends, then I found Jazzy in their front garden swinging on a rope. x
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Personal Photo Journal
Liz Arcus
Yesterday, Dave and I piled the kids into the car and took a drive up to Shepparton to visit my sweet friend and incredible photographer, Liz Arcus.
Liz is a wedding and portrait photographer, and her first two exhibitions are personal projects that are bei...
Her First Concert
We took the kids to see Taylor Swift in concert last week. This was Imogen's first concert (of any kind -- she hasn't even done a Wiggles show), and she was so excited. On the way there she couldn't stand still for a second. Singing, dancing, twirling and g...
February
And there it is, another month behind us. This week I am redefining my 'focus points'. With only so many hours in the day, and with those days passing quickly, I want to make sure my energies are spent wisely. When I look at the bigger picture clearly, I n...
Free Download: Creative Photo Wall Layouts
It was my birthday yesterday -- the big 39. Yikes! Thankfully frequent bouts of immaturity are keeping me youthful.
So, being my birthday I thought I would give a little pressie to all my blog friends.
Creative Photo Wall Layouts
This is a...
School Starts
Hello Internet friends... so, I said I wouldn't cry. Hmmm... sniff sniff. Well, I did cry (sob) and then it passed and I went out to lunch with my girlfriends and drank wine and all was right with the world again. :)
The big girl has started grade 5 at a ne...
Milestones
My baby turned 5 this week. Another milestone has passed.
I used to always feel sad at each of their birthdays. Lamenting how they were growing too fast. Longing for their chunky babyness to remain. Another year older marked the perfect time for me to dro...
Goodbye Bed
So, these were the last photos taken in our bed, yesterday morning. Dave got home from the movies last night, hopped into bed... and the whole frame collapsed. While I suggested that was probably one choc-top too many for him, he made arrangements for sleepi...
From where I sit…
Melbourne weather extremes - 40 degrees one minute and 13 the next. This is summer, and yet I just love this wild, wet and windy day. The heating is on. My comfy cosies are on. And I am so drawn to the view from my office.
My toes in socks at the office d...
My Folks
My beautiful mummy and darling Tony -- known in our house as Grandma and Poppy. They live a good 10 hour drive north, so we always love love love having them stay. They were with us for a week this Christmas and these photos were taken in the garden just bef...
Holidays have begun
Our days have been so lazy and this morning looked a little like this.
Imogen climbed into Will's bed so he could read to her (from his Xmas set, Diary of a Wimpy Kid).
Hours and hours are being spent in the water. Their swimming is coming along beautif...
Merry Christmas
In the tradition of most family photographers, I wanted to get a family photo sorted for Christmas. When time passed for that to be possible this week, I thought, perhaps a last minute shot of just the kids. Nup, I couldn't manage that either.
Orders were...
Christmas Kitsch
My mother-in-law came to stay this week (to see Imogen in her dance concert which she never ended up doing due to a bout of gastro... poor chicken), and she bought me a Christmas gift. Something she said she simply COULD NOT walk past.
Isn't he gorgeous! My ...
Plane Spotting
Great workshop and session in Adelaide at the weekend, and then I travelled back to Melbs on Monday. Dave and the kids met me at the airport and we took them for ice-creams and plane spotting. A windy, noisy, messy outing - but the kids loved it! x
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Roast Pumpkin Muffins
Roast pumpkin and fetta - winning combination. I made these muffins on Sunday - they are super delish, sort of healthy...ish. You can find the recipe here. Best eaten warm and the tray of 12 lasts about 5 minutes. x
Friends
A few weeks back we visited friends for a BBQ and in between courses we took 5 minutes for a few photies of the beautiful hubba bubba. x
The anticipation and love of the raspberry :)
Weather
Crazy Melbourne rainy weather. Imogen spent the morning snuggled up listening to the rain... and Phineas and Ferb.
Dave and I are out tonight with friends and brothers and sister-in-law for Eddie Izzard - our FAVE comedian. Happy weekend to you, rainy or not....
New Song
Jaz is a prolific song writer and has enough for an album, bless her little 10-yr old heart. Dave helped her record her first song earlier this year and today they got technical again and worked all afternoon recording another. Hopefully I can share with you...
There were two in the bed…
Children have always found their way into our bed during the night. Jazzy stopped coming in around the time Will started. And then once Imi began her midnight visits, Will stayed put in his own bed. Two nights out of three we will find Imogen between us, an...
Snippets from our Holiday
Internet Land, what have you been up to these school holidays? We visited family interstate -- here are just a few. x
Beach time.
Park time.
Cookie decorating.
A selfie.
Early morning chats.
Trail walks.
And the search for cra...