mosaic fish

This is a mosaic that I have been working on lately, its a lot bigger

than anything I have done before.

I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. These photos were taken before I grouted the peice

I love these colours - they worked really well together.

This is Dave giving me a hand... helpful chap to have around he is!

TA-DA!!!

And this is the finished product!

PS: the fish I picked up for $2 at a trash n treasure stall!

(I loves a bargain!)

mosaics continued

I said when I had some piccie's of my new room finished that I would put them up

A little pile of "creative junk" - stuff that I may find useful...

cos I am not allowed to leave lying stuff lying around the house like this, but in my room I can do whatever I want!!!! mwah hahaha

Yep - I even have a TV and Video

I love having to something to listen to, or watch, while I work away at whatever project I am doing - I usually have a about three different projects on the go... sometimes its easier to get them all to the same stage of grouting and then seal them all at the same time - lot less waste and hassle!!I like it when Dave comes in to visit, and sometimes he helps me out - which is cool!

As you might be able to tell -I am really pleased with my little place..

summer fun

My fears of the pool not getting used enough this year were unfounded!Me and Chanel after Kyles Birthday!

she makes for a handy shield!

Check out the super flying boy!!

Meet Porpoise Pete!

for some reason we always need to refill the pool after they all visit

...Hmmm why is that???

how much fun does this look Jake??

This Summer Dave got to play on a really neat Jetski, we were invited to go with our cousins in Perth. However the January weather kinda let us down....

looks like winter doesn't it Oscar?

Reilly hits the big 7

Happy Birthday to Reilly

His birthday was on Friday - he had party at the pool, with a big blow-up play thing on the pool, although I didn't have my camera to record it - it looked like heaps of fun.

Hope the rest of your Birthday was fun too!!

KOJONUP

Dave and I headed east from AUGUSTA


through Bridgetown with their oversized wheelbarrows... neverdid find out what they were for... hmmm

and on we went through a million and one locusts. Here is that 'one'.... cute huh?
We stayed a couple of days with our friends Bomber and Lisa at the farm that they are managing. They looked after us so well and it brilliant to spend some time catching up with them.

This is Black, the imaginatively named dog, poor little one, she had recently been in a little accident when the ute went round a corner and she didn't.

this is us - all packed up and ready to roll.... back up to Perth!

Laurens Birthday!

TUESDAY 16TH JANUARY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORGEOUS GIRL!!

.....LOVE FROM AUNTIE RAE & UNCLE DAVE

Margaret River

We enjoyed a lovely lunch at The Leewuin Estate Winery, its here they hold the annual concert that hordes of people trek south for.

Dave enjoyed the wine -

I enjoyed the coffee

and we both wished we had more time to truly enjoy the surrounds, but as it was we barely had time to devour our lunch, for we had an appointment at the Hanu Day Spa.....

mmmm.... and it was truly sublime.

Further south

After a game of golf (Dave, Mick, Neil and Sarah) and a spot of fishing we headed off a little further south to a great camping spot near Margaret River - I dont quite know how we got there exactly as I was asleep most of the time! oops.

But when I woke up we were there, and the spot was beautiful, surrounded by natural bush and native birds kamakazi-ing through. These blue wrens made quite a few appearances - especially when there were breadcrumbs for the pickings!

look carefully - he's in there!

There was a great swimming hole - a part of the Margaret River - there were freshwater mussels and marron, though we didn't try to catch any of them. The dogs came for swims with us too - they belong to our friends Neil and Sarah who we travelled with for a bit.

it was a great location and it was my favourite spot

Oh, by the way,

this is Neil...

as you can see he is a most refined manicured type of gentleman

sorry ladies - this one is taken!

Our Holiday down south

We have come back all refreshed from our holiday and now its time to update the blog with some piccies! We headed off on a Friday evening after Dave spent all day packing the trailer (its art what he does!)

We spent the night in Dandaragan with Margie and Hazza - leaving them with Oscar, who had a lovely holiday by all accounts (far and wide through the town) We were able to catch up with Dave's Granma which was wonderful, we love hearing all her stories - she is funny when she declares she wont tell us a thing more unless we tell her something about us!! Her life has been fascinating to hear about.

After we left Dandaragan we headed to Scarborough for a lovely lunch with Grant and Claire - we felt like we hadn't seen them for ages. We had a great catch up over lunch and then headed south to Mandurah.

Mel and Mick live in Mandurah and seem to have a great lifestyle - we were lucky that they put their pontoon (party) boat in the water for us.
Poor Mel had had an accident earlier in the week and wasn't feeling her best - but still an exceptional host as always!

Dave and the boys went out to try for some "crabbies" while us ladies relaxed on the boat. Regretfully the boys didn't catch enough to feed us (Great Hunter-Gatherers!)

After the fun of crabbing was over we joined the throng of other boaters to check out the canals where nearly every canal home tries to outdo the rest with their extensive collection of Christmas lights.... let me tell you - its quite a show!!

What a great night it was - this is when I first really felt like I was on Holidays!! THanks SO MUCH Mel n Mick!

My new hobby!

This is the hobby that I took up towards the end of last year - I have really enjoyed it. These are some of the frames that I made as gifts, I was pretty proud of how they turned out!




Seeing as I enjoyed doing it so much, we made a mutually convinient decision for me to move all my mosaicing junk out of the loungeroom and get me into my very own room.... So we emptied the store room out!! Now I would have included photos of that as a "before" photo for a "before and after" session, but I am sure you all know what fridges and boxes of junk look like!! So I have a couple of shots of the beginning of the makeover.

This is our young friend Annalise doing some painting for me!! (I love the colour) She is a wonderful girl and ever so helpful too! I think Dave is just pretending to help - I reckon he is checking to see how good a job she is doing!

Now when I find the camera again I will add the latest photos of the now finished room - it is fantastic, a very welcoming room to go to and relax and enjoy doing whatever project takes my fancy!