Bertie and Oliver participate in Wordless Wednesday. Except when Oliver is involved, the best anyone can hope for is almost wordless.
Today he is reminiscing about when he gets almost empty yoghurt pots. We haven't yet had to employ the jaws of life, but it is only matter or time.
Exhibit A
Sometimes the best thing to do on a Monday is eat Haigh's chocolate. Before 9.30. But stopping in time for lunch. Except lunch is then delayed as tummy is full of chocolate.
As seen on homegrown.org, you can grow vegetables in anything! It looks like the lettuces are doing really well.
This weekend I went to a sculpture exhibition at Australian Galleries in Collingwood. The sculptor is a wonderful, inspiring man who taught me sculpture at Ballarat Uni - Peter Blizzard.
photo from www.peterblizzard.com
He taught me a lot about negative space, shapes within air, how to find inspiration in my surroundings, how to choose materials that already hold a beauty within them, even before they are shaped, moulded and fused together.
A lot of what I learned I apply to my life outside art, and that's the best kind of education.
I also made honey joys. They were yum.
I found these bowls on Design*Sponge - my latest blog-find that I'm trawling through the archive on.
They're made of PET bottles - all those soft drink bottles that get hopefully recycled, but often just thrown away.
In the hands of Gulnar Ozdaglar, they turn into ethereal bowls, light fittings and jewellery. And all the holes are made by hand. One at a time.
Today was a Monday Public Holiday - and it was great!
I watched the Will and Grace marathon on Foxtel with Bertie and Oliver, ducked out between the heavy rain showers to plant out my broccoli seedlings, made a banana and pecan cake with this recipe, drank mugs and mugs of tea and surfed the web - a lot!
Below is a pic of the cake, it's not as blurry in real life.
I blame Loobylu.
She was the one who introduced me to Tumblr and now I'm a little bit hooked. Just a smidge.
Every time I see an amazing image or blog entry, my first thought is to tumble it. I love having all these pics together - like a big virtual inspiration board. And I can't loose track of where it came from, either.
At this stage I'm still going to work. Fingers crossed Tumblr won't win.
The rest of my extreme gardening was done today. But not by me. It was time for the professionals. They came, they waved their magic chainsaws and wa- la!
Below are some shots of our garden before (with emphasis on the dangerous looking trees) :
the view from the back door...
And lastly, the big scary tree:
It was dying off, the roots were rotting out and it had its sights set on next door's architecture...
The after pictures are quite dramatic:
And as promised, here is a shot I took from the back gate looking towards the house showing the whole of our back yard. (It's the first time I've seen the whole length too!)
Now I can plan my new trees...
I adore Badbird's little illustrations.
bun bun likes purple striped socks by Badbird.
I feel this could be coming home with me soon. Hi Paypal, feel like working out?
Uugh...I'mb sick. I can tell, because my ears are blocked, my nose is running, my eyes are hot and itchy, I've lost my sense of taste and everything I say ends in a "mb". And I don't feel like chocolate. (That's how I really know)
Although I have been still shovelling in the chocolate teddy bears, because, well, you never know, they could be the cure for the common cold and we just haven't discovered it yet.
The last four days have been spent napping, lying and groaning on the couch and sniffing. And looking through my new book, the Meet me at Mikes craft book, plotting the projects I'll do when I'm feeling better. Oh, and eating lots of the pumpkin soup my husband made me.
