December 2006 already

December already. Where did October/November go to.
I have finally finished my studies for 2006. And am enjoying some time around home doing other things, like setting up the xmas tree. We had a lovely day in Wangaratta today . We met up with my parents for lunch at a nice cafe. Then we visited an exhibition of work by the TAFE students in Wangaratta. Mum had some work on display. It was an interesting exhibition. There was also a display with some of the Shepparton andWangaratta Graphic Design students in the gallery, it was good to see what the other campus is doing for the same assignments.We took the kids to the park in Wangaratta and they had a lovely time twisting the swings around and getting really dizzy.
Enjoy the next few images of my last 3 assignments all feature different styles of book making in them.

Inside Substrates book

This image shows the edge of the pages inside the substrate book, it was spiral bound. I designed and printed the pages and stuck them onto card with a black backing card as well. Then placed plastice pockets in between each page. Spiral bound.

Substrate book final assignment 06

This is the cover for my substrates book, in the pages are some pockets and I have put my collection of different printing techiniques into this book. ie varnished, uncoated, embossed, diecuts, different materials ie rubber, plastic,
It was an interesting exercise to collect different samples.

Colour activity book assignment for prepress

This is a colour activity book, The image at the top is a slip cover to keep the book in. The book has a cardboard cover, made in 3 pieces, then the pages are spiral bound onto the cover inside it.
The content on the pages was to highlight the difference between, printing colours , ie one spot, two spot, CMYK, using one colour to achieve several different tones, colour separation. This was an assignment for Graphic Prepress.

Resume dec 06

Sorry about the size of photo .
This is a picture of my resume I did for my last assignment. It has a filigree back and front , and folds open in a trifold. Inside is a cd with my work on it, and concertina pages come out with examples of my work on . The filigree at the back is a slip case for the resume to fit into.

Phone card assignment

This was my last assignment i finished, we had to create contemporary phone cards.

The photos i used were from the kids playground in town. Colourful and bright.

resume in the working

This is my resume so far. Still a lot of work to be done on it.

Check this sound from the clock

Dave showing hugh how the clock works and how inspiring the alarm sound is.
Fancinating. The mountain behind is Mt Bogong , with very little snow on it for the end of winter.

Clock from Bahrain

This is the gorgeous clock that Dave brought back from Bahrain for my boys. Apart from its wonderful tackiness (pointed out to me by davd's girlfriend) the alarm sound is so eeiry. The noise and chanting that you hear from a mosque, all to surreal. The kids loved them thought they were rather different and kept playing the alarm for quite a while.

table talk book cover

This was the result of my last assignment. A book cover theme of Coffee.Photo was taken about 10pm the night before i handed it in.

New assignment is to create a phone card image.

update

Hi we had a lovely weekend on the 12/13 August in Albury and Mt Beauty. We are now enjoying a lovely quiet weekend at home. Kids have had some playmates over . I have been trying to complete some posters for the school art show , next weekend. I have made a batch of choc chip cookies today, the kids enjoy eating the dough the best.
My next assignment for tafe , is a book cover, with a theme of Coffee. So imagery has to show some sort of relationship to coffee or a cafe. Still eluding me on this one.
My learning of web pages is coming along. We will hopefully have a front page operating next week, not online . Then have to learn how to add everything onto it. Very time consuming.
A logo for the local hospital's cafe that is to be opened in 5 weeks. The best logo out of the class will win $500 and hopefully be used by the hospital.
Thats it for the moment

florist logo assignment for tafe

Here is a picture of the with compliments slip i created, to match with a business card and letterhead as an assignment for a florist business .

The business cards had same imagery and folded out.

What has been happening

Well the bathroom renovations are finished for the moment, just have to do the painting .
We didnt do much for the school holidays, as we waited around for tradespeople pretty much all the 2 weeks. But it does look great and the new toilet is fantastic.
We saw "over the hedge" and "cars" at the movies ,I personally enjoyed " over the hedge " better than cars. It was really cute.
We had a family day out to the Avenel Maze, the kids have a ball there. The quiz to get around the maze is all about Ned Kelly, who lived around the area and not far from Glenrowan. We had a nice picnic, and did the mazes. We visited Mitchelton winery on the way home, showed the kids the look out tower and the playground and the art exhibition. but didnt get to taste the wines, maybe next time.
Kids are back at school and I go back to Tafe this week also.

Nearly new bathroom I love it so far

This is what our bathroom reno looks like at the moment, still have to paint the wall and later this year we will re do the shower with matching tiles and new shower screen. So nice and light Also have to paint the door.

stage 3 bathroom destruction

What a transformation from livable to destructable. The plumber has finished inside for the moment. Waiting for the plasterer to measure up today. Hoping most of it will be done by the weekend. :). Then the tiler, cause the old tiles couldnt be matched up. so we have new ones going in.

stage 2 bathroomproject 19 june 2006

monday 19th june
I removed the bathroom tiles ready for the plumber to start, see next photo.

school holiday bathroom project

stage one original bathroom, we are putting in a new toilet where this vanity unit was. Turning into a total bathroom renovation .

photos of the books

The books in the last 2 photos are the sample books i made at a handmade bookbinding workshop, run by Papermakers of Victoria.
They did a fantastic job and it was a really great weekend.

handmade books part 2

handbooks i made in april 2006

These are the side views of the books I made in april at a handmade book workshop for 2 days. Orange and white is a pocket book, Brown cardboard with stitching in has pamphlet stitched pages and corrigated card cover, blue spine is a 3 piece cover with concertina insert, 2 small ones are envelope books with coptic binding, the thinner one is my trial i did at home, still got to work on the technique. The front book is japanese stab binding, black and red one is pamphlett stitched and last one is another one i made at home just for practice and made a small story in it. My first story book. a bit corny but all practice.

my wine labels for my latest assignment

High here is a small peek at my latest assignment.
We had to design wine labels. I have used a fictictious
wine company. Just for fun.
We also had to design a poster which I have adapted the orange wine label to be used as a poster.
A shelf talker which I will take a photo of to include on site once I have finished attaching labels to the bottles tomorrow.

book binding course and conference may 06

Have been busy lately , did a book binding, handmade book course at the local art gallery, for two days. It was absolutely enjoyable and I learnt a lot. I have to present an assignment later in the year as a book, hence handmade book would be quite impressive to present later on.
Went to Melbourne for a week from 8th May to attend AGideas, at the Hamer Hall, Arts Centre on Southbank. The forum was on Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday, 9am-5pm. It covered 34 speakers from around the world and Australia. All talking about design or graphic art in some capacity. Ralph Eggleston from Pixar animation was my favourite, talking about animation, also had Nick Pill from Rising Sun, an australian animation company working on Charlottes web. 3 guys talked about the Melbourne Commonwealth games, the design of the baton, the logos, and the opening and closing ceremonies. Met Stelarc, an installation artist, with a really rad laugh, got his photo and autograph and between 3 of us shared limited postcards of his exhibitions.
I stayed in the city and went out to Crown casino occassionally and caught up with some friends as well. Shopping was also included.
My boys met me in Melbourne on friday and we stayed with friends, went to the Scienceworks museum , the kids loved it. Then stayed in the city at a hotel, this included a trip on the trams for the kids and exploring around Southbank by night, and the Casino entrance, with its fountains that move to the music and light show on the walls.
I had a lovely time. Will put up photos of some of the books i made later.

Anzac day adventures photo 2

One of the other family shots we took, playing with the self timer on the camera.

anzac day adventures

Here is a family photo , we went on an adventure to the King Valley in Victoria. From Tatong, to Tolmie, we saw Kelly's tree. Where one of Ned Kellys gang was shot. Then to Powers lookout, a great view of the valley. Station Creek Winery, where we sampled some reds and whites. A game of bat and ball at Lake William Hovell and then it was time to come home again. The kids gave the day a thumbs up kind of day.We all had fun.

Easter box 2006

This is the Easter box I made for Hugh's child carer's 2006. I made a pattern for it then input colours and recreated eggs, bunny and flower using Adobe Illustrator. Then put photo inside the bunny head.The carers like them, even if Hugh didnt.

vintage viewing grape logo

This is my other logo to promote the wine label exhibition we are doing as part of our graphic Design course.

Vintage Viewing Logo

I took this photo , using Binoculars to create the round shape and then had the camera looking through the binoculars with the bottle in the distance. Then put a filter over it in photoshop. This was for an assignment for an upcoming wine label exhibition, we all had to do a logo to promote it. I have 2 logos, the other one having grapes and a photo in the grapes.

April update

I havent added to my blog for a while, but here are the two latest assignments I have been working on. The next one incorporates a wine exhibition logo, and wine labels. So it should be big.
The last couple of weeks have seen , the school holidays come and go.
We spent a week at Mt Beauty , and saw my Grandmother who is 95. I then came home and created a photo album for her to remember what she did while she was visiting Victoria. Then it was back to school and the fun of it all over again.
Purchased "Long Way Round "dvd 's for my husbands birthday, about Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman riding motorbikes around the world. Worth a watch if you come across it. And was speaking to a friend today and her son was glued to the tv watching it as we spoke.

Assignment 2 awareness poster

This was assignment 2 for subject Finished Art.Subject matter was Awarness poster.
I havent got my marks back for this one yet.
so dont know how i went.

3rd assignment reconciliation postcard

This is what i created for my 3rd assignment for subject called Finished Art. Subject matter was "Reconciliation"

pic of blue trailer now finished

Dad's trailer now has a new lease on life. A very happy Pete has finished it.

final flow poster feb 06

First Tafe assignment handed in and I am very happy with my mark "Distinction" 75-85% .

Topic was Flow- water, rivers.

Now if only i can do so well in my second one , which is almost finished now.

progress of dads trailer

This is how the trailer is looking at the moment it is a shade of khaki. Tomorrow I will post another photo to see what shade of colour it will end up being.

front of mini tin photo album

front of tin, mini photo album. I had some other photos but these will have to do, the other ones had a picture of a couple more photos on it.
genevieve

Finally got photo to work, this is one of the pages from mini album, the pic on the right had a mishap and it is not joined to the rest of the pages that fold out of the tin.But I have put ribbons on it to pull it out of the tin.Will try to publish photo of front of tin if it will work.

why is it so lylah tin photo still to come

I have been trying to put up a photo of my mini photo album in a tin. I dont seem to be able to get it to load at the moment. Will try again tomorrow. I had some small photos from a photo index, to give my friend and what better way than to jazz them up into a small album for her to take in her purse or bag. Until later when i get photo working have a great day.
genevieve

Hugh after playing in the sprinkler

Hugh wet and rudie after running in sprinkler.Hiding behind new plant.

Assignment one "Flow"

Sorry pictures are so small . These are the brainstorming mindmap we did about the river theme. Then some examples in class like problems or river dying and affecting fish and animals,survival for those who rely on the river and water for survival. Economic affects, ecological affects, uses inclue relaxations water sports etc.Other pictures are my sketches for concepts and final drawn illustration. Hope this helps.

This is second step of my concepts, after outline drawn, then colour applied, watercolour paints used , collage, acrylic paints, collection done on computer for different colour effects.last 2 quilted .

Update for this week

Have not put a photo up this week,have resumed my studies at Tafe, first assignment is due in 2 weeks. Subject matter is FLOW, water from the local rivers, Murray and Goulburn rivers and valleys. Will show photo of progress later.
Have a great day and thanks for popping in for a peek.
genevieve

Care Bear Cake

Care Bear Cake I made for Hugh's 4th birthday party at Hungry Jacks.

Dave and Pip new years eve 2005

dave and Pip new years eve 2005

grass plants to show mum i planted them

This photo shows the grass plants we purchased yesterday to go at the front entrance. I actually planted them straight away.

flinders st station

For Dave and James a little bit of Melbourne for you, just in case you feel homesick.Along with the 40 degrees we are getting this week.

flinders st photos

View from cafe at Federation Square melb, new versers old buildings on Flinders St. The contrast of the buildings was what captured my eye so i just had to take a photo.

visit to raaf musuem

This photo looks like the kids are actually in a plane but they are seated watching a tv and the plane is a picture on the wall next to them.

hibiscus flower

We have been sweltering in 38-40 degrees this week.So are not venturing away from the airconditioner or paddling pool much. This flower has been taken from my garden and is a hibiscus that comes up each year and then flowers for one day and goes away until next summer.

quilt art challenge 2006 so far

this is my quilt design so far, no teacups yet but they will be placed on the tablecloth. The original photo had teacups in a timber box. Hence the brown timber border. It also meant rural or country to me.The greenery is of the mt bogong and surrounding hills. The view from my parents house. The cane chair , to sit on and view the scenery of a tea party on the decking looking over the mountains. I have made this up using photoshop and illustrator programs. My first attempt.

Having a nice quiet holiday at home

We have had a few quiet days at home. Much needed. We have put up the pool in the back yard and hopefully the next couple of days will see it well used. Currently working on my ART QUILT CHALLENGE.Will put up my ideas shortly that i am currently creating. Only 4 weeks to go till i go back to TAFE , so much , so little time to do it all in.
Have a lovely day.
genevieve

train ride at kidstown on miniature railway

My neices' 11 th birthday with her grandma.It was a yummy cake.

The pond that needs cleaning and grandpa and his helpers with the firehose.

testing out the firehose and emptying the pond.

Hughs 4th birthday with his cousins in Mt Beauty at the bakery

Hanging Around Pelicans

These pelicans were just hanging around while we watched the action on the river at Lakes Entrance.

This photo of the kids is for my brothers david and James as they are oseas and will not have received their xmas cards yet. Due mainly to them having not been posted by me yet.

Blue project Day

Here are some blue photos I have grouped from our holiday. Blue hat,Blue sky with beach patrol flag, blue outline on coloured fan,blueand greens on outdoor screen on new years eve.men in blue patrolling the footbridge at Lakes Entrance, Blue tshirt of my nephew Chris,Blue water in the indoor pool Toby swimming, Hugh blue tshirt and blue balloon dog,blue boats for hire on the river at Lakes.
Enjoy
Genevieve

whtieboard

The whiteboard with Hugh's drawings on it. Thank you Pete for putting it up.

Welcome Belle and Chris to my blog site. I think you can add comments at the bottom of my blogs entries , under the comment word, now that you are signed in. But I'm not sure how well it works.I was trying to upload a photo but it does nt want to work.

friday 6th January 2006

Todays events included.Buying a new white board and cork board for the kitchen walls. Husband has kindly put up the whiteboard. The cork board is to go above the creative clutter i call a desk.So I can hang reminders all over it and works in progress.
Also playing with my computer and creating digital scrapbooked pages of our new years holiday to Lakes Entrance. Kids played around home, Toby spent the afternoon on the playstation with his friend and Hugh sat in his paddling pool cooling off.

The orange project finally

Here it is , but I had to photograph what I had done on the computerusing photoshop to keep the file small.Photos are from our recent trip to Lakes Entrance, sunset , new years eve at Lakes,canoe by the river, fireworks new year eve, orange balls are from boats at Lakes, tshirt is my 4 yr old.Nets are fishing nets and the other 2 objects are a mug and a sandpit sieve from home.I'm baffled why a photoshop image would not post here.??
Happy evening to all.