Monthly Archives: February 2012

Monday February 27, 2012

Pods revisited :: palette and patterns

I wasn’t very happy with my last attempt at my seeds and pods patterns so I decided to go back to the drawing board. I made a few colour modifications to the pattern template because I felt it would work better with a reduced colour palette. The other change I made was my palette and [...]

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Sunday February 26, 2012

Flickr three :: #C2CC82 :: A place to think

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Saturday February 25, 2012

Web tip :: my fav 5 wordpress plugins

My love of WordPress began a few years ago and one of the things that makes it stand out is the community and the seemingly endless number of plugins that enhance the core functionality. When working on projects I will often go in search of a plugin if I have an immediate need that requires [...]

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Friday February 24, 2012

Inspired by :: topiary

It was Zuppa Atelier’s small garden plate (bottom right) that caught my eye this week and I’ve been seeing topiary shapes ever since. I know technically they are small trees but they just reminded me of topiary and my neighbour’s impeccably shaped rose bushes – how do they do that? We have been toiling away [...]

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Sunday February 19, 2012

Flickr three :: #C14962 :: first love

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Thursday February 16, 2012

Seeds and pods :: palette and patterns

I’m not sure why I’m thinking of spring since autumn is approaching for us. I have, however, been thinking of seeds and pods this week ever since picking up a gorgeous tree pod when we were on the beach. I guess these thoughts somehow led me to this gorgeous photo Garden: 0919, Day Lilly by Andy [...]

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Sunday February 12, 2012

Flickr three :: #F1D14A :: sunshine

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Saturday February 11, 2012

Fabric :: vintage small prints

I stumbled across a collection of vintage feedsack clipart that I’d downloaded from Pugly Pixel (which I wanted to link to but couldn’t find it on her site) and I seem to have been pondering small print fabrics ever since. I first became aware of feedsack fabrics when we moved to Atlanta, which also coincided [...]

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Thursday February 9, 2012

Give me the child until seven…

and I will show you the man. If you remember I did a similar post when my jolly monkey turned 7. Well the little one turns 7 today and thanks to this Jesuit motto it’s been looming on the horizon like some kind of use by date for me to get all my influence in [...]

Posted in family | Tagged birthday, celebrations, my photos, the boys | 6 Comments

Thursday February 9, 2012

Wish I was here again

We’ve just returned from here and it rained but we swam in the sea with giant stingrays passing by, were greeted by lazy kangaroos each morning, fed King Parrots and Crimson Rosellas and even ducks, went exploring the headlands and shell covered bays, rode bikes, ate ice cream, rescued frogs from the swimming pool and [...]

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