I'm still here!

Well it's been awhile since I checked in here, life is really hectic at the moment, work is busy and I'm now dancing or training 4 out of 7 nights a week and usually out partying for 2 of the other 3 so my one night off is usually spent in front of the couch doing nothing. 

But I am still taking photo's so that is a good thing.

Day 101 - 9th November 11 - Queens Scout

Congratulations to my gorgeous friend (and blog reader!!!) Miss Bronte on achieving this special award.  It was a privilege to be part of your special night - I'm so proud of you.

Day 102 - 10th November 11 - Patterns

Once again I left my photography til the last minute - luckily I have a house full of pretty things to shoot.  I got given this lovely candle holder for my birthday and I thought it would make some nice patterns - unfortunately hardly any of the photo's worked out - maybe it was the wine, maybe I just wasn't being patient enough as I was taking these in the adds of my favourite show - but this one was the best of an average bunch. 

 

Day 103 - 11/11/11 - Beach

Pretty ominous number pattern hey and the number 1 is my fav/ lucky number.  I went to the beach for a walk after work today and got some lovely shots - I'm going to submit them to a web competition dedicated to 11/11/11.  This bird flying is my fav though - it's just a bit different to my usual beach shots. 

Day 104 - 12th November 11 - I'm a great big Tiger

Dad came up and did work on the house today which was brilliant - once I have finished painting etc then I will share the results of his hard work.  I then had a BBQ at a friends house which was lovely before hitting Terrigal Pub for a night out on the dance floor with my dance friends - so much fun!!  This is Tina and Aidan singing "I'm a great big Tiger" and growling at me, he is at such a fun age at the moment and learning how to talk and sing and dance. 

Day 105 - 13th November 11 -  Pretty 

I just styled this part of my home today after doing a bit of a kitchen clean and picking some flowers from my garden so I thought I would share how pretty it looks.  I am reading more and more about how all the home magazine spreads are styled and cropped so I'm going to try and take a few more "stylised" shots over the next few months of my lovely home. 

Everyday I'm Samba-ing!!

Day 97 - Saturday 5th November - Samba

I had my first public dance performance today and my beautiful friends and family came along to help me celebrate.  It was a bit of a drama filled morning as they almost bumped us out of the program, but after a few words and changes in program we finally got to perform our routine in The Hive at Erina Fair.  To say I was nervous was an understand - I mean I'm still not feeling confident about my stomach and I had to not only bare it in public but dance at the same time (ie wobbly bits!!!).  But I did it and I had a blast.  My bestie Tina took heaps of photo's today so I am dedicating this whole post to Central Coast Dance Fit Day.  As the project however is about me taking photo's I thought I better get a few shots also.  Luckily we went out to lunch afterwards and the kids were being cute - so whilst there are some great dance shot's here - today's photo is dedicated to the lovely Aidan again - he kept popping out of this tunnel and saying TA-DA - you can see in his face how happy he is with himself.  Tina's kids are starting to become a bit of a regular feature of this blog and project and as we have quite a few fun day's and potentially a holiday over Summer I'm sure there will be plenty more to come.

So far behind

Mon 17th Oct - Day 78

Went for a walk at lunch with just my phone today and saw this stunning rose - couldn't resist - so here is my flower of the week - wish I had the big camera as I reckon I could have got some awesome shots of this.

Tues 18th Oct - Day 79

The circus is in town this week, so I went for a walk to try and get some photo's of the tent.  I'm not actually going to go to the show - but I like the angles of the tent against the blue sky!

Wed 19th Oct - Day 80

Went to Mum and Dad's for dinner today and I was taking a few photo's around the house, a few flower macro photos and I was trying to capture the local cockatoo's but none of them were that spectacular.  I chose this one as I like the colours in this puppet - this is hanging on the wall and was a present from my brother from India I think. (sorry again wouldn't rotate)

Thurs 20th Oct - Day 81

Had a super hectic day today and it was really really late when I remembered I still hadn't taken a photo - these are the bottles of wine that I bought on the weekend - this is the best wine I have had in ages and is from Mudgee - the Chardonnay tastes like butter and the Rose is really sweet and light - now just need to save up and order some more.  Tina made a discovery tonight - did you know that word Char"donna"y has my name in it - cool hey - we never realised this until today and of course the two of us found it totally amusing - so nobody can tease me now about my love of a good Chardy!!!

Fri 21st Oct - Day 82

Went to Tina's tonight to hang out with her and the kids and as always her gorgeous kids are always up for a photo shoot.  For ages now I have been trying to get a nice self portrait of Jemima and I and I got two today - then Aidan jumped in also - are they cute!!! 

Day 13 - 13th August - Adventure Day

Today I was planning on sleeping in, however my bestie had other ideas – which is great.   Tina and the kids came down around 8.30 this morning for an adventure day.  Adventure day is where we get in the car and see where the day takes us, usually we go searching for markets, cafes or somewhere cool to hang out – some of our past adventure days have been pretty epic and we always discover fun new places and have a lot of laughs along the way.

Today we set off to Gosford Markets – they don’t have many stalls but I got a huge amount of fresh fruit and veg for $20 which was good and there is a great park for the kids to play.  We then headed off to Ettalong to find somewhere for lunch and go to Ettalong Markets – we found the most awesome cafe, it was decked out in beachy girly style with a huge mirror ball and the best hamburger I have ever had – huge statement I know but it was homemade rissoles and soooo tasty– again for the second saturday in a row I took over 100 photo’s  - as I write this I haven’t looked through them all to work out which one I want to use as my photo of the day yet!

Tina has two beautiful kids and I just love taking photos of them – trying to get a nice family photo is a bit of a challenge though – I think I’ll have to dedicate a whole album for today as the sun was shining, the kids were lovely, there was lots of decorative things to photograph and it was just a great day all around.

After much deliberating, I chose this photo of Aidan eating lunch - he loves his food and he was eating wedges with both normal cream and sour cream along with blueberry pancakes and a salmon wrap (he is a growing boy).  Isn't he gorgeous. I absolutely hate his long hair as it a bit of a bogan mullet, however his mummy think's it's beautiful! I do however love the curl at the bottom of this shot! 

I am going to create a collage of some of the best shot's from today as there are lots that I am proud of.  I got some great reflection shots in a mirror ball and some great candid shots of the kids also.

Donna xoxo