Monthly Archives: January 2010

Sunday January 31, 2010

And So Begins Birthday Month

My darling husband, aka the cyclist, turns 42 today. He’s quite excited by this as up until last week he thought he was already 42 so he feels like he has won back a whole year. Just one of the many reasons I love him – if the details are not important then he [...]

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Sunday January 31, 2010

Flickr three :: violet

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Saturday January 30, 2010

Kioloa Beach

This is where we’ve been hiding for the last three days – at Kioloa Beach on the South Coast of NSW. It was so relaxing and on a day like this one it just makes me appreciate where I live. The beach was relatively quiet and the water was relatively warm and my little men [...]

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Tuesday January 26, 2010

Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Violet

Once again my hexadecimal (named) colour does not match my mind’s eye but here’s what I came up with: TOP: From Yumi Yumi’s store – I was at the point of giving up on the old colour search tool when this print appeared. I am already a Yumi Yumi convert and just last month bought [...]

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Sunday January 24, 2010

A Lofty Goal to Accomplish

My goal this week is to talk about a goal. If you’re wondering about the weekly challenges they come from 52 Weeks of Blogging Your Passion; eBook and forum from the lovely Tara of Scoutie Girl. My ultimate goal and one of the reasons for the return to study is to print my own fabric. [...]

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Friday January 22, 2010

Flickr three :: plum

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Thursday January 21, 2010

Writing and why I keep a blog

Most of you know I’m returning part time to university this year. In preparation I’m taking what’s called a Study Link course in Writing for University, just to get my head back into academic thinking and writing. So far the course has been great and even though it only started last week I’m close [...]

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Tuesday January 19, 2010

Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Plum

My colour of the week (plum) wasn’t the same in hexadecimal as it was in my mind. But I decided to stay true to my method and go with it and here’s what I found. TOP – Over the Rainbow Design was found using the old colour search. This was a really hard [...]

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Friday January 15, 2010

Flickr three :: crimson

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Friday January 15, 2010

Overcoming an Obstacle

The challenge this week is to write about an obstacle that I overcame. This has been a tough topic for me… why is that? To say I have had a charmed existence may be an exaggeration but I don’t have a tale of hardship either. And then it hit me, what has been my biggest [...]

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