End of Semester

I have come to the end of a busy Semester at school. I enjoyed it a lot and the student's created some fantastic work. I am extremely grateful to have been offered the opportunity to work there again next term and am looking forward to the challenges and inspiring work that is created.

Now I am on to my holiday job at Vacation Care. It has been cold and blustery which is a challenge when you have 60 kids inside a hall who are itching to run around outside and explore the play equipment.

See that ominous sky rolling in, this was taken just before my first shift from the balcony. However (luckily!) there were patches of sun, not many but enough to keep thee leaders and the kids happy.

I managed to catch some of that wonderful sun in the kitchen as I was preparing my lunch. Ah, how I miss the sun. I am off to the museum today which is a blessing as the weather man predicted wind gusts of 100 kilometres per hour! I can just picture a 5 year old being swept off the monkey bars and blown down the street!

show and tell

Adam and I had an excursion to Ikea yesterday. It is an adventure to get there! We felt like we were putting our lives on the line to drive there and arrive in one piece. Crazy drivers were rife! However we came away with all our limbs in tack, the car unscathed and a couple of new treasure. A brand spanking new chair. So comfy and cosy and a perfect place to sit and listen to my old records.
The real reason we went was for the coffee table. It is our very first coffee table and I am so excited. Finally the chaise of the couch will no longer have stacks of paper, magazines and books as now we have a real home for them all.
Oh Ikea, how we love thee. We have a lot of Ikea in our home, I blame the ridiculously reasonable prices- plus I have so much fun putting it together, it is like giant Leggo and I feel so darn handy.

While I was cleaning up today. Cleaning because reports have to be written in a week and doing ANYTHING is better then doing the marking. I found these;




I started this series of paintings based on cages and the act of caging awhile ago. I used watercolours, coloured pencils and ink on watercolour paper. I put them away in a folder at the back of the cupboard with only Adam having ever seen them. Now I decided to bring them into the light of day and share them. I am champing at the bit to do some creating (amazing how it always happens when I am supposed to be marking). I have so many unfinished projects on the go (Mum? Did I inherit that trait from you?) I have a vest which needs its final seams sewn, a mini quilt cut up and ready to put together, a case full of paper and photos to be stuck in somewhere, a painting half done, a ....I think you get the idea.

Hopefully, after a few weeks, when the boring work stuff is out of the way, I will have some more creations to share on here.

First Day of Winter

A very cold and grey first day of winter.

Resulted in hat, mittens, jackets, extra layers and fleecy jumpers...

and the making of warm pancakes...

eaten with very sweet strawberries, syrup while reading the Sunday Paper.