Photography

Photography

Newspaper Advert

Instructional poster

Business Card

Business Card

Invitation - sample for client

Awareness Poster

Wine label

Magazine layout cover

Magazine layout

Mediatation Weekend

I have participated in a meditation weekend for self discovery and creativity. It was an interesting journey . Held at a conference centre in the Stathbogie ranges near Violet Town in Victoria. The scenary and surrounds of the area are covered in bushland. Birds, bushwalking , rocks, wildlife. We rose early in the morning and the sunrise was spectacular through the trees, colours of warm reds and oranges. I enjoyed the Thai Che in the morning, this was new to me but I found it sort of calming. The actual workshops were not actually what i was expecting from the weekend, but i participated and found some of it appropriate to myself.  For fun we walked through the bush, i had my camera and pursued taking photos of trees and lychen on rocks, and looking down on the valleys in the distance. The forest was nice and quiet and peaceful, that in itself was a nice form of meditation for myself. We did some exploratory artwork, with pencils, textas, cutting and pasting, and materials. I enjoyed this part of the weekend and enjoyed playing with colours and textures with no pressures to create any thing with an expectation involved. What did i learn? I learnt i had a lovely time away from my family, and i enjoyed not being nagged or asked to do things for people all weekend. I enjoyed not having to cook - the food was nice. I also enjoyed returning home and having a Hudsons hotchoc on the way home and suprising hubby with a coffee and returning early enough to get some stuff done around the house before it got dark.

Onwards to this week and work, school, lunches, dinners, bills and all the usual stuff. Back to normal.

This is my current project , needless to say it will be ready for easter 2010 and not in 2 days time.

I have had an enjoyable few minutes, going back through my blog site and checking out what I have done over the last 3 years. I realise now what i have been missing lately is the urge to be creative and finish projects once they are started. I need to get off the computer and use my hands to create again.

Even with a New full time job, my new resolve - (it may not be new years) - but I will try to create something once a month. For myself and for self enjoyment.  Finish off the quilt i started 2 weeks ago for bush fire victims.

Finish up the easter embrodieries in time for easter. 

I have a great job , with great people . I have a great family. Kids that suprise me with their comments. In the art gallery in Benalla- "mum I know why those paintings are put there like that!." Why? "Because that one in the middle is the biggest, then that one over to the right is next and then the one on the left." the thought that they were put there in size evaded me, except that they had similar imagery of beaten up cars.

What a great age to take kids to the art gallery - they show you things that we take for granted  and bring us back down to earth. 

Put colour back into my day!!!!

Junior artist at work.

Time flies when you are having fun

We visited friends on their farm, these are some of their girls. We will  go woodchopping there soon.  

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Welcome 2009, it seems like ages since xmas and the new year passed. We had a lovely quiet xmas at home, then headed to Lakes Entrance for a week and had New Years Eve  by the lakes watching the fireworks, 9.30pm and again at midnight (from our apartment balcony). We had a lovely holiday and enjoyed the cool weather, we visited the Buchan Caves and had a great day out. We played minigolf, walked everywhere. Had 2 visits to the beach , we got sandblasted the last day at the beach. Back at work again, same old. Still enjoying my admin job at the moment.

I have been updating my digitally stored photographs andmaking index sheets so the rest of the family know where to find the photos.

The kids had a day at Avenel Maze with my husband and last Sunday we all went to Echuca andplayed mini golf and got around the Oz maze. It was relaxing finishing the hot day off with a bit of paddlesteamer watching on the Murray River.

Music festival

This brochure is not actually my design, however i did put together the brochure as required by a friend ready to be printed , had to cut and paste and move the images around to fit the dl size.

Friend was very happy with the results.