Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday

More Wordless Wednesdays over at Faith, Hope & a Whole Lotta Love.

Shadow Shot Sunday

A few Sundays ago, we visited the Melbourne Museum to see the new dinosaur exhibit. And boy were there some fantastic shadows!

I love the tangle of different coloured shadows from this crocodile looking dinosaur.




This is a blue whale skeleton - apparently it's a small one!

More slightly less scary shadows over at Hey Harriet’s.

Shadow Shot Sunday

Maya's birds in the gorgeous winter morning sunshine.

More shadows at Hey Harriet's.

Wordless Wednesday

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My Creative Space

Now that the first Sugar & Spice Children’s Market is over, which by the way was fantastic and Ali did a great job organising it, there is once again time for finishing and starting more fun creative stuff. And the first project I finished this week was Maya’s little dress.

I had lots of fun making this, my first crochet project. There was no pattern. I made it up as I went along and used one of Maya’s existing dresses for the armhole shape and for size. I learnt heaps about crocheting, in particular how it is so much quicker and easier than knitting! Yay ‘cos I am the slowest, most uncoordinated knitter in the world.

I love the cotton yarn I bought from the oppy and three balls were just enough to finish the dress. I have only about 1 or 2 metres of yarn left over! When I was making the dress I was thinking I would sew the shoulders together but then realised it wouldn’t go over Maya’s head. So I decided to use buttons and loops to close the shoulders. I was going to use an embroidered doily to make a pocket, but instead used it to cover a couple of the self cover buttons I scored from the oppy recently. I love how the dress has turned out, I love the buttons and now I love crochet!

The other fun creative thing I’ve been up to this week is planning and stitching my postcard for the Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap. I’m running a little late but hopefully it’ll be finished this week and on it’s way to my swap partner in the US soon. I don’t have any photos of the work in progress but it is based on this photo I took a few years ago. Do you know what it is? I’ll explain and show the finished postcard later once it is finished and has been received in the US!

More Creative Spaces over here at Kootoyoo.

Shadow Shot Sunday

We had a very brief moment of gorgeous sunrise light during the week. It illuminated my sewing space beautifully and created some fantastic shadows.

More shadows over at Hey Harriet.

Shadow Shot Sunday

This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago when the sun was still shining. A bright happy colourful photo for this bleak, cold, wet, foggy, windy wintery day.

More shadow shots over at Hey Harriet's.

My Creative Space

This week's creative space has seen some slow and uncoordinated knitting, a stack of cutting out, a bit of sewing, a heap of stuffing and now there’s a whole lot of mess. But that’s okay ‘cos I’m heading to Stitches & Craft with Mum today!

Head over to Kootoyoo for more creative spaces.

PS. I was going to post a photo of the mess, but you know what it’s like so I thought I would post a photo of something much more pleasant – another gorgeous autumn sunrise!

Shadow Shot Sunday

I thought I would be going to the archives for Shadow Shot this week. But in the fading light yesterday arvo, I found these.






Pop over to Hey Harriet's for more shadow shots.

Shadow Shot Sunday

I am loving Shadow Shot Sunday. I am observing the world in a different way and finding heaps of shadows in places I would otherwise have ignored. With all these shadow shots I might have to start playing Shadow Shot Saturday too!

I’m also loving these beautiful autumn sunrises. There was a particularly orange sunrise this week as it shone through all the smoke from the controlled burning happening in the Dandenongs.

Stormy photos

Wow weren’t the storms in Melbourne wild? Out here we were only hit by the edges of the storm – bit of lightning, thunder, heavy rains and luckily no hail. But we did have some amazing clouds whipping up around us.
And here is another stormy photo from a couple of months ago that I just thought I’d share.
I’m playing along with Shadow Shot Sunday, but I don’t know that my shadow photos are going to stack up against Harriet’s and everyone else’s beautiful photos. I’ll give it a go anyway and keep my eyes peeled for beautiful shadows during the week.

Fat chance

So much for the posting every few days! Its been over a week since my last post! Where does my time go? Oh yeah my time goes into a toddler and a 4 month old baby. And to think I was considering a post a day... ha! Fat chance of that ever happening!

This is dried and hardened fat. Looks like beautiful textured lizard skin doesn't it.

A million photos

In a bid to update my blog more often and to do something with my arty photographs which are just wasting away on my computer, I am going to try to post a new photo or series of photos every few days. (Maybe I'm setting the bar too high considering I only post every few weeks but lets see how I go!) This is today's photograph which was actually an accident but I love the colours.

Evening Light

Last night as the sun was setting, the clouds reflected gorgeous colours and shone a wonderful glow upon our world that made everything look beautiful and special. I turned off the flash on my camera so as not to destroy the softness of the evening. But I cannot control the exposure time (it is just a small point & shoot digital camera) and I could not hold the camera steady. So here are the best of the blurry images I captured from our backyard.

It doesn’t really capture it but the sky through the middle of this photo was a deep dark blue.

Even the calico on the roof of our deck looked beautiful with its purple glow against the yellow fairy lights.

And then once the light had gone grey I took photos of the christmas lights using the long exposure time to my advantage. By deliberately moving the camera while the image is being exposed you can come up with some fantastic photos.

This is the christmas tree.

And the coloured fairy lights in the garden.

Try it yourself!