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Thứ Bảy, 21 tháng 2, 2015

My Weekly Favourites

I started this week surrounded by beautiful things. 
I had to take photos for an advertisement for the magazine at a gift store and café called 'Impodimo'.  They had WAY too many nice things.  Unfortunately I spent almost all I would have made doing the actual shoot.  Whoops!  This was one such whoopsy daisy.
These four bracelets are all attached by a silver chain with a little heart locket on it.  I really like the silver leaf.  It's so fine.  Love love love!
I look like a doofus here, but I really like my new haircut.  It actually doesn't look spectacular here, it looked way better today after I'd doused it with water and let it dry naturally.  I had it cut on Tuesday, the first time in 11 months....and she cut it to suit the curl.  I never wear  my hair down because there is so much of it and it is really thick...but the hairdresser cut into it to take out some of the bulk, and even though she took an inch off the bottom it looks LONGER now.  Odd.  This curly hair thing is only a recent phenomenon for me...each time I've had a baby it's got progressively curlier and curlier.  What the?  Hormones are so weird.  Anyway, I like my new hair.  Particularly since it doesn't look like a gigantic boofy triangle any more.
I made up these brochures and had them printed through Vistaprint.  I swear, this company is insane!  (in a good way).  I did these on their website and ordered them last weekend and they arrived only DAYS later.  Wow!  These are brochures advertising my blog, but are more for advertising my copywriting and commercial photography services.  I thought (not that I'm not busy enough...like REALLY busy), that I'd try and get a bit of freelance work.  I like how they turned out.
I was really pleased with how they turned out.  Hopefully I remember to HAND them out.
My son Jesse made this dinosaur at 3 year old kinder!  Cute hey!
I kind of had a bit of a shopping spree at a children's store called Pumpkin Patch where I bought quite a few pieces for my daughter's winter wardrobe.  My husband is busier with his shearing during the spring/summer months so now is the time to buy while there's a little spare cash.  I go through all these pieces for you on my Vlog from this week which will appear Wednesday of this coming week.  (spoiler....I will also do a silly fashion parade for you too.....)
An odd Weekly Favourite, but this is Pip, my husband's kelpie, which is a working dog.  She normally resides at the farm, although for the last couple of years she has actually been living up north with my brother in-law.  She is the most beautiful dog.  I love dogs and I used to have a kelpie called 'Skeeto' who was the same colours, and who I sold for $2000.  I sort of had to get rid of him because he bit one of my boys.  He wasn't aggressive, he was just possessive of me.  Anyway, I then had a black and tan kelpie named Kate but she ran away at the start of last year......so since then I haven't had a dog living with me and I really miss it.  Anyway, my husband brought Pip home the other day because he wanted to take her to work at the shearing sheds, and she stayed a couple of nights.  I was so happy!
 
He is a photo of my dog Kate.....
....I know...she could take off with those ears.   I think the appropriate caption here is "What?  It wasn't me!  It must have been some other dog....."




 
 









Thứ Bảy, 14 tháng 2, 2015

My Weekly Favourites

Happy Valentine's Day for yesterday!  I missed the last couple of days of posting, but my excuse is I've had a cold...and really I've been flat out getting articles and photos in for the magazine I work for as the deadline for the Autumn edition was this Tuesday and I've been under the pump for probably the last 6 weeks.  Thankfully now I will get a few weeks of a slower pace before I have to start going out and doing more stories for the Winter edition. 

Anyway, here are my weekly favourites from the week that was....
This incredibly cute lunch box that I got for my daughter which I ordered online from my favourite stationery store, Kikki K.
Also from Kikki K this very pretty 'Reflection Journal' to fill with all my daily....well...reflections.
Keeping up the 'cuteness' theme, I found this little tin while buying a present for a newborn this week and just had to have it.  It's sitting on my desk at the moment but will probably end up in my daughter's room.
A couple of books I got.  'Social Photography - Make all your smartphone photos one in a billion' by Daniela Bowker, and 'Love Tanya' by Tanya Burr...which I got just out of curiosity, just to see what other bloggers are doing when it comes to publishing (a dream of mine is to publish my own book....)
I ordered tickets last week, which arrived in the mail the other day, to see The Australian Ballet's performance of 'Cinderella' in June.  I'm taking my 11 year old son who has now done his second classical ballet class and is showing so much potential already.  His teacher is super impressed, and after his class the other day said that she normally doesn't start teaching a student leaps by only their second class....but apparently he's 'like a sponge' and is doing really well.  Why am I turning into such a dance Mum??  I also enrolled him in a special Boy's Class being run by the Australian Ballet, which is one Saturday in June, where he will have a 2 and a half hour class with other boys aged 9 to 14, and he will get taught by a male dancer FROM the Australian Ballet.  What an experience!  I guess I'm also trying to be really encouraging because it is going to be one of those things where he is likely to cop a lot of flack from mates....so I'm trying to get him to see how brilliant it could be.
Yes, my daughter is one of my favourites, but how cute are these little sunglasses I bought her from Pumpkin Patch!  She thinks she looks pretty good in them.
I braved Ikea yesterday.  All I can say is 'never again.'  Or maybe 'not for a long, long time.'  I bought this chair so I could put it in front of my little desk (I don't have the luxury of an office, so I have a 'little corner').  As well as this pretty chair I got this lovely cushion!

 
I had to go back to the Wild Dog Winery to take foot shots for an advertisement for the magazine.  They made this Barramundi for me to take photos of.  Then I got to eat it!!
They also made this 'Chocolate Eggshell' dessert, which I didn't get to eat, but my husband and I went there last night for dinner for Valentine's Day and he ordered this for his dessert.  Apparently it was delicious!