Project 365 Day 12and 13

Days are just flying by and it is the summer holidays here. My DS1 is in respite care and we are taking time to do things in a normal kind of way. It is a week of not getting up each and every night at 0130hours for medication and nappy changes, no counting the minutes for the next lot of hydration, not monitoring for the next does of medication and no making sure that DS1 is safe in our yard.

As a result of all of these little changes we have been filling up our days with fun and frivolity.

On our first day free of these things we spent a very pleasant and long afternoon at Kariotahi Beach. DD is really on top of riding the waves on here board and loves it. She has had her little board since she was 4 years old and cant wait to graduate to something bigger. I think she is trying to tell me that she wants to learn to surf. Hmmmm that will need some serious consideration on my part.

Well this photo just captures everything I have just written about. Look at her face and the pleasure she is getting from the surf.



Day 13s photo is another take on a photo of me. I must say that I do not like having my photo taken and anything to disguise me I like. Well today was just another in the many days of renovating. I am in the process of plastering a space which is about 1m by 4m minus some doors. Not being a professional but a handy home DIY type I seem to put on an abundant supply of plaster with the need to then sand it back to the desired place. As a result dust goes everywhere. Just look at me in today's photo.



We are just about at the end of this job. I have plastered the walls in our entire house. Meaning 166 square meters of house has had my handy touch applied to them in the last 12 months. How did I learn this skill I hear you asking. Well I we down to our local mega hardware store when they were having a ladies night. Asked the handy men at the display how to, bought the tools and product and happily went home to tell my husband I knew how to save us about $10,000. The rest is history.

Finally I am posting two LO's I have completed to do with this project.

The first is my first weeks photos all on only page.



Credits are brown background paper, journalling tags, split pins, word art, acrylic tag all from Life 365 by WW, patterned paper , recoloured, from Snapshot kit by Cinnamon Designs, Stitching from Swirly Stitches from Cinnamon Designs frames and stem from Full of Wonder kit from WW. Fonts are traveling typewriter, SA Inkspots and Hiccups

And my very first photo of the project



credits are Everything from Full of Wonder kit from WW except acrylic date tab from Life 365. Font is Reisling and SA Inkspot

Project 365 Day 10 and 11

In an effort to keep my photos up to date here I am at 9.30pm blogging when I really should be catching up on some sleep.

Anyway Day 10 photo is of a grove of Manuka (Tee) trees just across the road from my sister place out at Maraitai. As we were driving out there I was hoping to catch a shot of the Pohutukawa Coast in full bloom. Unfortunately no flowers and grey skies made for dull photo. Fortunately across the road from her house are these wonderful native trees of New Zealand. I love the natural long straight line these trees have. They remind me of growing up and my father using the branches of this tree to steak up tomato plants.

So here they are.



Day 11 is the day that we celebrated my DS2 5th birthday. He actually turns 5 in a weeks time but circumstances made it so that today was the party. It was a pool party and he requested a jungle and dinosaur cake. Thank you to the Australian Womens Weekly Children s Cake book I found the design and although it was very humid and sticky and the icing was starting to melt off here was the result.




Actually there was so much to write about today I promise to sit down and do just that.

Project 365 Day 9

Just a quick post to link you up with my photo. It is a hydrangea flower found outside the family bathroom at our house. It eliminates the need for curtains and still allows light and a view, of sorts. It is blooming magnificently at the moment as you can see. I find it to be a wonderful plant. Just change the pH of the soil and you can change the colour of the flowers from the lilacs to pink and white. Personally I am the no care type of gardeners so I just take it as it comes.



As you can see this plant is not suffering from my lack of attention.

Eighth Birthday

As I posted earlier my DD turned eight not so long ago. As I look back at her birthday and prepare DS2 party I think how much she is changing into someone who is more independent and forming her own idea about fashion, friends, and what independence means.

Here is a LO I created with a wonderful kit Coffee Time, just made for the moment, by Debbie McKenzie at Nuts4Digi.



Birthday Parties are an eagerly anticipated time in our house. They mean a party and seeing cousins, a cake made and decorated by me, they mean in general super fun. So I am off to make a jungle cake for DS2 5 party tomorrow. I should have plenty to photograph and scrap. I hope the cake turns out as the picture shows.

Project 365 Day 8

Blogger has been playing up today but here is todays photo. No time to write more except to say this little piece of lego kit has had DS2 really engrossed in building for the last week. It has all the parts for a helicopter and raft.

Project 365 Photo 7

Boxes...what are they? The online diction says....A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover....I think that it is something used for storage and often made of cardboard.

In my house the cardboard variety is none of those things. It is for hiding in, a house, cave, car, plane, hats and of course my children use them for storage. Giggles and squeals of delight are always to be heard when playing with never ending supply of big boxes in our house. Happy faces and grins on all faces until the children either have to pack up at the end of the day or tensions rise and the game is abandoned.

Why is it that adults limit their idea of what a box can be used for. I wonder what happens to children when they mature into adulthood and where that wonderful imagination goes to.

Anyway enough of my musings here is my photo.

Project 365 Photo 4, 5 and 6

My second post for today includes the last of my photos to catch up.

photo 4 is a shot of a small selection of DS1 medical equipment that we use on a daily basis. This is a shot that means most to us and is only a small part of the stuff we need to keep his life healthy. I know that this all requires more explanation but this will come about another day.



photo 5 is a moment of everyday life. I actually gave my camera to DD 8 years and said take some photos not realising that in 45 minutes 138 photos could be taken. Anyway today's photo is taken by DD. It DS's and me mowing to lawns.



photo 6 was taken today. We have been renovating our house over the last twelve months. I am the plaster, self taught and DH is the painter. We have accumulated all the tools to strip the wall paper, plaster and paint the walls of our 166 square meter home. We have only one room left to do and that is the bathroom. As you can see from the photo the bath is filled with the tools and is no longer usable. We now need to find the dollars to window dress this room and we are finished. That will be a photo for another day.



Phew I promise never to let the posting get behind.

Project 365 Photo 2 and 3

Okay my second photo was a rare moment. We had cash in our house. DH's job involves going abroad. When he gets to his destination allowances are given in the currency of the country. This was what he arrived home with after spending Christmas in Beijing. A very timely little pack at this time.



The third one I have taken at Orewa Beach. Had a fabulous time at the beach. The children love swimming surfing, building sand castles and tunnels. We took a picnic to have under our shade. It was fun.

This photo to me was very iconic of a kiwi summer. The bucket, spade, sandcastle, board, the little girl in the background....DD....a perfectly blue and hot summers day



I will post the rest soon.

Project 365 Photo 1

It is summer here and finally the weather is starting to settle. My photo is of DS1 showing off his muscles to us. New Years day.



I have been keeping a little note in my diary to help me add a little journalling to the LO am intending on doing at the end of each week.

Project 365

Welcome to 2009 everyone and to my endeavour to participate in the Project 365. I aim to take photos of everyday things, events and activities reflecting life in from my view point.

Hmmmm I hope that I have not been too bold in this undertaking but I have justified this with myself by saying it will keep reminding me to take photos of our life.

I am an impatient type of person so I am keen to see the end result of this endeavour and just maybe I might end up with a complete project that can be printed.

Watch this space is all I can say.

I guess then I might be able to justify to myself and DH the purchase of an SLR camera.

I created this yesterday saying just that.



Credits all go to Jolly Holiday from WW and the font is Santas Sleigh Full. The journalling says...Dear Santa

I know that you have just made a visit but I have compiled my list for 2009. Actually, hint hint, the photo tells it all. I really really want to up grade my camera.

I promise to learn how to use it to its maximum and never leave it idle and gathering dust. I promise to get the pages I create with the photos published into a book or three, and mostly I promise to take a few more photos of myself with my family.

Tamara