Leafy Green News

1. This morning I got a lovely bunch of silverbeet at the market.














2. Then I baked it all into an awesome bread.

3. Jeff and I had brunch in a cafe, and a neighbouring diner ordered Eggs Florentine. With Vegemite. That is so Aussie, I was proud!

Hello Julia!

Well, I did it for Kevin, so I have to do it for Julia.





Thought you might enjoy Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Lego form... still looking for a suitable woman's top though!

An Alphabet and a whole lot of Windows

Crafty friends know how keen I am on alphabets in craft - stamp sets, mostly, but since I've got a die-cutting machine, alphabet dies are pretty interesting too.

I bought a second hand die set to play with - they cut out and emboss rather small letters. Hmm, let's see now, these are quite smart. I put my name on my notebook for work (so there's that purchase ticked off as "used properly").

So, now that I've cut out my letters, I suppose all there is left to do is throw away this rubbish...

WAIT A MINUTE! Those letters got punched out, nine at a time, leaving a funky little set of wonky windows! Get that rubbish back out of the bin!

I scrambled through my "tiny" collage collection for little scraps to pop in the windows. These little windows are less than 1cm across. What a great double use die set!

Sunny Sunflowers

Ah, old stamp sets ... I scored another rather old set again just recently - this time we have Sunflowers (the last one was Morning Glory). I sat down to do some stamping on the weekend...

...was disappointed by my first results ...

...went and looked at some other examples on the internet...

...tackled the project again...

and came out really happy!

Here's what I made:

I've used the big sunflower stamp (each piece of the flower is in two parts, hence the two colours). I've also used masking to get a texty background, and "spattered" it with a texture stamp. I'm rather fond of it!

Now, what's that oval shaped decoration at the bottom - it's a bit plain, isn't it? Shouldn't it say "Hi There" or something?

Well, I'm covering up Something New that I got my hands on (legally!) at the Stampin' Up convention. I get to play with my Something News for a while before I'm allowed to show them off. So there!

Love your work ... umm, what's your name?

Just cleaning out the funny photos on the camera phone - you know when you just have to take a snap?

The one is from the streets around my office. This talented guitar star is working hard to make a name for himself. Awesome poster. If I can ever manage to read his name, I might just look up his music.










Here, I'll help you...

Honestly, artists have to work together - the dude who makes your poster needs to be communicating too.

And if you think I'm odd, getting upset over typefaces, try googling Avatar and Papyrus. Whoo-eee.

Not the sharpest hammer in the box...

The genius who thought this sign up was obviously not having a great day... I saw it at Woolworths at the Glen. Sausage rolls were reduced to $1.99, down from (I gather) $4.29. Pretty great saving - I'd say it might even be UNDER half price!

A very girly web site

I had to enter a CAPTCHA today to sign up for a new web site. Well, it IS a site mainly for women, but I think this is taking it a bit far.