Happy Birthday Gail!

A little belated (it was last month) but I was just tidying photos, and I need to share this. Gail had a birthday, and I made a card, and I thought it was pretty cool. Gail is a new owner of a Thermomix, a kitchen machine that, among other things, is a very efficient blender. She tries to get her "Thermy" into the background of all her photos these days - that's how keen she is. So I thought I'd try to make a card on a Thermomix theme.

This is what I came up with!

I used stamps from my excellent collection of PSX vegetable stamps. So there's a carrot, some corn, peas, onion and radish. I stamped and coloured them ever so carefully. They looked really elegant.

Then I mashed them all to bits with a square punch, and stuck the pieces down randomly.














I explained on the inside of the card, that "I put your card into a Thermomix, 'cos you love that!".

I thoughtfully included an illustration of what the card may have looked like if I hadn't mashed it. Just to show that an elegantly coloured carrot is pretty nice to look at, but lacking that certain something.

Also, there was cake.

Happy Birthday Gail!

Go rust something!

Those cheeky boys and girls at St Luke's, the cool art supply shop in Collingwood, have a great window display showing off their rusting and verdigris treatments. Particularly liked this rat.

We went to Supanova!

And Gandalf and I are here to tell you, it's a fun day out, thoroughly accessible, and a great place to stock up on Doctor Who tshirts! Catriona and I spent a good three hours shopping and looking. At least half of the attendees are dressed up, some of the really elaborately. And everyone odes cheerfully for photos.

Awesome bird feeding!

Another pic from my bike ride. The householder here has put out some top quality bird feeders, and look at the fabulous results!

Have you lost a guinea pig?

I saw this little guy in the wilds by the Eastlink bike trail. He wasn't near any houses, so I wasn't sure if I could help him get home. So if you've lost a guinea pig somewhere between the big bird sculpture and Princes highway, she/he is alive and well, and looking for you!

My Good Friday bike adventure

As another Easter treat, when we had finished our outing to Frankston, I got Jeff to drop me with my bike at the start of the Eastlink trail. Well, probably not the actual start, but near the big bird, and about 25 km by bike from home. It was a fabulous trip! I took ages, because I had to stop and enjoy stuff so often.

There was a small car show - well, that's not really my thing, but they had attracted a service club running a sausage sizzle. Also not my thing... But on closer inspection, they were making Vegie burgers too! So I called over the fence to the cook, who made me a terrific burger.

Then there I collected some fruit from trees overhanging the trail - figs and quinces. Heaps of figs out there, but mostly not ripe yet. You lucky people with fig trees, I hope you are loving them!

Memento mori

Remember you are mortal, and made of sand...

One of the creepy details at the sand sculpting this year.