Need more time in the day!!!

Ok - I'm going to try and make these post's brief as I am still behind - sounding a bit like a broken record but I have run out of downloads for the month and don't feel comfortable doing this at work - so I am catching up at my parents house tonight as they have a larger internet download than I do. But of course I have verbal typing diarrhoea and can't just write short posts!!

I am starting to feel a bit more positive about taking photo's - just wish I could do it as a full time career - that would make me so happy - but I would need to improve my skills extensively if this dream was ever to come true!!

Day 88 - 29th October - Babushka's

Didn't get home til late again tonight and wasn't really sure what to photograph - then these jumped out at me.  At first I was just taking the white measuring cup ones then I thought I would get my real Russian dolls and put them all together.  I have two lot's of Babushka's - the first I got when I was really young from one of my Aunty's who travelled overseas - the second was from my lovely friends Jo & Iain when they went to Russia a few years ago - you can see the difference in age in the doll's and I am missing one of these - Miss Jemima was playing with them one day and who knows where in my house it ended up!!.  The white ones are measuring cups and they sit on my bench like this and I do actually use them - much nicer than the plain old ones stuck in a drawer.   

Day 89 - Friday 28th October - Halloween

Had a Halloween party today, in contradiction to my last statement, I actually wasn't really in the mood to be taking photo's as I had a crappy day at work and was feeling a bit blah.  The party was great - got to catch up with all my young friends and spent some time hanging with my lovely friend Erin before the party and I looked HOT!!!  All this working out at dance and having a spray tan made me feel awesome - this links to tomorrow's photo also - but back to today, I was wearing this lovely little skull around my neck as I was dressed as a cannibal and so I set him up against the candle and put on the candle effect on my camera - I think it is a really funky photo.

Day 90 - Sat 29th October - Looking Down

I totally forgot to get a photo of me at the party with my friends and all dressed up so when I got home I put my costume back on and took a few self portraits - of course they didn't work out because of the light and the angle of my mirror but as I really like my leg's at the moment and had been paid heaps of compliments about how good they looked throughout the night - I decided to take a photo looking down at my legs - looking down is also a topic on my back up idea's list.  I love how you can just see the line of feathers and how it makes my leg's look long when really they are not. 

Had my first big performance tonight at my dance school - the feathers are part of my costume as per one of my previous posts.  It went really well, we had a Halloween party and I got up and shook my bootie - had a minor costume malfunction just before the show - as I have lost a bit of weight lately my skirt is now too big for me and I had to be pinned into it but otherwise all went well.  Next we have to perform in public at my local shopping centre - need to get Mum to fix my costume first though!!

Day 91 - Sun 30th October - Chhheeeessseee
Have been looking forward to today for awhile.  It is my beautiful friend Robyn's engagement party in the domain and Tina, the kids and I are heading down for a picnic in the park and catching up with some old friends.  It was such a beautiful day - the sun was shining, I was wearing a new dress, my spray tan is still looking good and we got to catch up with some beautiful friends.  I love seeing all my old buddies as they know you so well and I am fortunate enough to have wonderful people that come and go in my life and still remain good friends even though we might not talk all the time or only see each other every few months/ years.  Was hard to decide which photo to publish today - my best photo or the photo of my friends.  I decided to go with this photo of Miss Jemima as this is her favourite pose for taking photo's - she always scrunches her face up and yells out CHEESE!!

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!!! 

65 down - 300 to go!

Day 65 - Tuesday 4th Oct 11 - Footprints

The beginning of October means that daylight savings starts in the Eastern states of Australia.  HOOOOOOORRRRRRRAAAAAAYYYYY - this means I get at least an hour of daylight when I get home - makes such a difference to my general state of mind. 

Today I went to the beach for a walk after work which was just brilliant - it was another glorious sunset and whilst it was a bit cool, it was still nice to have my feet in the sand and listen to the waves.  I love this photo of all the footprints on the beach - just shows that everyone is out and about and enjoying the longer days and small amounts of sunshine we have been getting.  I got hacked on the other day for the number of flower photo's I've taken so far but wait til the end of summer, I reckon I'll have just as many beach photo's as I intend on spending a fair bit of time heading to the beach over the next few months!

Day 66 - Wednesday 5th Oct 11 - Cake
I have been really good and eating super healthy for a few weeks now - but we had a new girl start at work this week and she baked for us now this was not just any cake but the most divine chocolate cake ever!!!  

So I blew the diet today and ate this delicious slice of cake.  I thought it would make a good photo with my coffee mug - It's not too bad but you can't really see the detail in the cake, I should have played with my AV more - but I was super keen to eat it!!! 
Anyway back to the no chocolate thing after today as that cake sat in my stomach like a brick all day!!


Day 67 - Thursday 6th Oct 11 - Spaghetti 
Tina picked me up after work today which was nice and as she rang me early I knew we would go out and I would hopefully get a good photo of the kids - which we did.  Now I have to share a little story about my family and the relation to this photo.  

Every year for as long as I can remember, as soon as the family sits down to eat Xmas lunch - one of my aunties is guaranteed to grab the camera and start taking photo's. For year's and year's we have hacked on her about this as she seems to time it perfectly every year and it is now a running family joke if she doesn't.  

Anyway - for some reason, I seem to have this fascination of taking photo's of kid's eating food which I think is quite ironic considering how much of a hard time I give to Aunty Kerry.  I don't know why but I love how messy kid's are when they eat and how much they enjoy their food.  


So today's photo is of Miss Jemima Ann eating Spag Bol - it was taking with my snap happy so the lighting isn't that great and of course I just missed the best shot of her smiling with the spaghetti hanging out of her mouth - wasn't quite trigger happy enough for that one.  

I know it is not the most flattering photo ever but I think it is brilliant - especially considering it was taken with my point and shoot!

Weekend

Saturday 10th September - Bestie


I woke up feeling better this morning and just did a few things around the house.  I was invited to a BBQ at a friends house today and I haven't seen them in ages so it was really nice to visit.  My beautiful bestie and her crazy kids came and picked me up and we spent the afternoon drinking coffee and wine, eating yummy food (mmm noodle salad!!) and hanging out with lovely friends.  This photo is of Tina - I love how relaxed she looks with the sun shining on her.  I have also posted my second fav photo of the day - this is Tina's daughter Jemima and she kept trying to run me over on the bike as I was taking photo's of her - you can see how cheeky and mischevious she is!


Sunday 11th September - Sunlight

Caught up with my Nan and my Mum today - I didnt' end up taking a photo of them though, probably should have but we were just having a nice relaxing lunch. Before lunch I went out into the yard and took some photo's of the sun streaming into my yard through another wind chime (yep I'm a fan).  I also took stacks of photo's of clouds today - will have to post on another day


ciao donna