Diamond Princess in Sydney Harbour

I wandered down to Circular Quay today at lunch, and look what I saw!

Diamond Princess comes to Sydney

My cousin said she sailed with her from LA to Hawaii last christmas when she was working as a youth leader. Oh the open seas! (Actually, I would probably be seasick, so I'll never do it)

Click on the photo above to see more photos of majestic Sydney harbour, and the ship (and there's even one of me!)

Click here to get the specs on the ship!

New Years Eve Photos

Click on the photo below for more pics from New Years Eve at Clarkes Point, Sydney

New years Eve from Clarkes Point, Sydney

My New Deck

It's almost finished

Keeping Old People Busy - Continued!

Click on the photo so you can see more piccies.

If you want to see the first set of pics (when it was just starting), click on the photo below

Keeping old people busy

Keeping old people busy

Dad is building my deck. Mum and I are helping him. Have a look here to check out the photos!

Kasey Chambers

Ema and I went to see Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson last night, and it was WONDERFUL!!! Just press the play button to hear my favourite song from their new album.

Trauma Teddies

I make Trauma teddies for the Red Cross, and mum puts the faces on, stuffs them and puts the Red Cross label on them. This is my latest batch!

Dad's Birthday

I went to visit Mum and Dad on the weekend, because it was Dad's birthday. He's now officially old - he gets a pension!

Here's some photos taken at Gosford Yacht Club, where we had lunch on Saturday.

Dad and me

Dad and mum

Mum and me

Sara Storer

I've been pretty busy for the last couple of weeks.

I went to see Sara Storer play the other night at Rooty Hill RSL - here's a photo from afterwards!

If you want to check out her new album (which I love), look at her website..

Conference - Sydney

I went to a conference today - click here to look at the amazing photos I took at lunch and when I was leaving.

Canberra Trip - 25 May 2008

Emma and I went on a bit of a trip when I went to Canberra on the weekend. Here are some of the photos.


Ben Hall is a notorious bushranger and this is a lyrebird!!!

Click here to see bigger and better photos, and where I took them.

Foggy Morning

Thursday morning it was really foggy - I took these photos of the sun from my back door at about 8:30 in the morning.

Craft Night

Jane and I went to a craft night last night and made some cards.... I'll be putting my cards into my Etsy store soon.

Haven't posted in a while..

I've been really busy... My Etsy store is taking up a fair bit of my time (I sold a quilt!!).

I've also got another quilt on consignment for Gaye (this one will be green).

I've started making coasters from beautiful Japanese fabrics.

I'm also still at Uni, and have an assignment due in a week, which looks at policies that might exclude people from education (i.e. racism, age, location etc). I'm looking at access to tertiary education for those that live in rural and remote areas of Australia. It's not looking good for those folks.

When I'm not sewing, I've been making trauma teddies for the Red Cross to give to kids that end up in hospital.

I start my new job on Monday, so I'm busy tidying up loose ends at Council.

Just wanted to let you know I wasn't dead, but just busy.

Autumn Equinox

Whilst driving to work on Thursday, I took these photos of the sunrise on the Autumn Equinox.. Click on this link to see all the photos.

Mucking around with Photobooth

Jim and I were mucking around with Photobooth tonight - this is the result..

Churn Dash Quilt

Between study today, I quilted a quilt top that I had made a few months ago. I am listing it on my etsy store site, but I love the 1930's repo prints. I'll make another one once uni has finished if it sells.

Lawn

I finally got around to mowing my lawn today! It took almost all day and I had to go and buy extra fuel. I'm tire now and looking forward to some sleep! It was up to my knees before I started.

Check out my uni blog site if you are interested in Culture, Difference and Curriculum (my final subject for my master's course).

I've also added some of my creative outputs to my Etsy store (check out the link on the left of the page - or click here)

Enjoy!

New Bike

I bought a new bike yesterday! I'm planning on riding it to the gym and back when I go. Today it took me 45mins return, but I'm sure it will decrease as I get fitter.

I'm a bit saddle-sore, and I'm sure that my butt will get used to it over time.... (well I hope so anyway!)

Here's to getting fit more often..

Flooding, 2 Feb 2008, South Penrith

I went nuts with my camera this afternoon on my way home (made quite a few detours). My trip along the motorway was not fun, and this is what was happening at home.

Lots of my neighbours now have water views. My yard is a boggy mess, and I'm lucky that there is no water in my garage.

When I opened my front door, all the water that was sitting on the ledge went inside, so the carpet is a little on the wet side.

Click here to have a look at all the photos, and click on the photos for additional info, including where it was taken.

We need the rain, but I'm not sure we really need this much! At least I live close to our main dam, so they should be getting something too.

Australia Day Weekend

After some last minute changes is plans, Ems and I headed to the Watagan Mountains for the weekend. We did our usual 'arrive and pitch tent in the dark' scenario at 'The Basin' campground, and although the campsite was quite nice, the leeches weren't. We moved on the following day (via Cessnock) to find a different place.

We ended up at Hunter Lookout which looked over Cessnock and was really nice. We had a goanna that kept coming to see us.

Have a look at the photos here

Have a look on the map where we were here