IF-Entangled

November 29, 2009 in drawing, family | 9 comments

This topic ‘entangled’ was difficult. I decided to look at it from the perspective of the child, from the moment that the child is born he/she becomes ‘entangled’ in the desires, dreams and  values of the people around them. Needless to  say this can lead to all sorts of outcomes. You often when looking at a child  see the puzzlement, worry or anxiety expressed as they look on the scene in front of them.  Whether or not they make sense of it will influence in the development of who they are. They are closely ‘entangled’  and influenced.

Entangled

Entangled

IF – Song

November 22, 2009 in drawing | 15 comments

We moved into our house about two months ago and because we are bordering on the edge of a mountain and a national park we are waken each morning by a dawn chorus. I have always had a fascination with birds, as a child my father had two huge aviaries of birds under the apple tree close to the back door. They were canaries and budgerigars and there was always a sweet sound coming from the cages.  I spent hours just watching them.

So now it has become a delightful task to try identity the ones that visit our backyard and who we greet the day with. One of them is a ‘Pied Currawong’. which is widespread  down the Eastern coast of a Australia.

Pied Currawong

Pied Currawong

November 20, 2009 in blogging | No comments

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I have been agonising over whether I will continue to write on my blog and to be very truthful I miss it. What do I miss? The contact, been able to share things and the meeting of like-minded people. I am not sure that it will continue down the same lines as before; when I started my blog I was obsessively into digital scrapping, though I still do it and love it, I no long think about it all the time and it has a place besides other things in my life. I also became worried that putting up photos of my children and grandchildren was in some endangering them. I really don’t know if this is a real fear or another part of our security conscious society. So, I would love to share my art, my designs, my love of colour, my love of Mac and everything to do with them. Some times news of home will creep in because that influences everything that I do.

August 10, 2009 in family | 2 comments

Maybe I came back to early, life has been so busy but full of delight. My two traveling daughters came home for a visit. Penny had finished her time in Liberia after completing a very successful project, she had a holiday in Israel and then came home for a month. It was wonderful to see the friendship develop and sparkle with her younger sister and it was just lovely to have her around. We were busy doing jobs, catching up on news and just enjoying her company. She has now moved to Cambodia, which I feel fine about, knowing that my two girls are in the same city. At the end of Pen’s visit we had the wonderful treat of welcoming home Sarah (my oldest daughter) and her beautiful little daughter Riya. They were here for four days but they were wonderful days, watching the two of them interact; watching Riya met, play and fight with her cousins  and just spending time with both of them. Sometimes you feel very blessed and the last five weeks has been one of those times.

I should share our news, we will soon be no longer renters, we have bought an old well-cared for post war house in a suburb close to the city. We will have to do some renovations to it to suit our needs but we won’t be in too big of a hurry to do those, I have started again to read up on how to make your house more sustainable, which is what we really want to do.

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I am back.

June 10, 2009 in blogging | 4 comments

I have missed my blog and the contact with friends through my blog. I have been working on a site for the school, one night I was tired and not really focused and I manage to totally wipe out my blog. I didn’t try to retrieve it but I have lost a wonderful record of life, events, feelings and development of friendships. I am back and I am so pleased to be back.

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