{beautiful to me} Carved Eggs by Beth Ann Magnuson

Can you just imagine the time that it must take to carve one of these eggs!? As beautiful as they are, I know I would probably not have the patience to do it…  Or the steady hand. Beth Ann’s carved eggs are available at her Etsy shop – The Nest at...

{be inspired} Shakespeare Insult Kit

The Beautiful Girl is studying ‘Romeo and Juliet’ this term, which meant when the Shakespeare Insult Kit fortuitously made it’s way in to my inbox, I printed it out with instructions to “take it in to your English teacher and show her!”....

{rewind} November 2011

I know I have a brain like a sieve and am prone to forgetting what I had for breakfast this morning, so I thought I’d make a semi-regular thing of revisiting posts from 12 months previous. Here’s my top 4 from November 2011:   {diy} Tuesday – So...

The Weekend Photo Project – 10 & 11 November

Last weekend was a complete write-off… Remember how I mentioned that things were ramping up in our part of the world?  Well, my body decided it had other plans and was going to play host to some bleepity-bleep virus.  Two days couch bound and two days of sleep...

{photography} Discovering Photoshop Elements Actions

I’ve recently completed the 4 week Photoshop Elements 101 course over at Nicole’s Classes. Highly recommend it too… …self-paced video tutorials, with feedback on your photo editing homework, made it a fantastic learning environment. Now,...

{beautiful to me} Postcards by RK Design

This postcard was the first to catch my eye – being a peace-loving hippy and all. Then this one made me giggle.  You see, Husband has a little phrase that he uses whenever something bad happens to one of the kids or myself… “It could be worse.  It...

The Weekend Photo Project – 3 & 4 November

Oh my… November already! Things are starting to ramp up here in our part of the world.  End-of-year functions, swimming club starting, new car being purchased, holidays being planned.  Lots to do and organize. Picking up my camera and snapping photos for The...

{photography} Savannah’s Home Birth

It was a link in my Facebook news feed from our mutual friend Jen Kealey, that led me to the home birth photos from Amy….  and the photography of Lou, from Sunny & Scout. Photos that evoked a multitude of emotions in me. First, it made me wish for a do-over...

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