Daily Photo – Morning Dew

Pasta Salad Recipe: Best you’ll ever taste

This is a recipe I sort of made up about 4 years ago. I think it’s probably based on something I had once and I just tried to remember the ingredients when putting it together. I’ve got it down to a fine art now, everyone loves this salad. It goes perfectly with snags and steak [...]

Tuesday Trove – Links to get you thinking

Obama on Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo in December to accept the prize. “Let me be clear: I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on [...]

Daily Photo – Waffles

Another new project launching soon!

I’m really excited to be launching my other side project soon, www.justdetails.net. It’s going to be a “Wedding services and guide for brides” website, dedicated to the Canberra region. Usually my projects are always global, reaching out to a market worldwide. This time I’ve decided to keep it local, to promote small businesses competing with the big boys in this fierce industry. Canberra actually has a lot to offer and you don’t always have to go interstate or abroad to find what you need, you just need to dig a little deeper. Which is what I plan to do for the Brides-to-be of Canberra, listing some great resources and design and photography services provided by moi.

Continue reading to find out what else is in store =)

Daily Photo – Sunny Sunday

Landscaping a small area takes a lot of effort

Especially when dogs are involved. They like to help by digging up newly planted plants and making a big mess in general…

The photos below are of a little area that is between the main part of the backyard and the carport, which can be seen from the kitchen window. The wheelie bins sit by the wall of the shed, so when we’re doing anything in the kitchen the view is of the garbage bins. Not really the best view!

I’m really happy with this project because although I did purchase a few things (trellis, start pickets, plants) I was able to re-use a lot of things already on hand (sleepers, stakes, bamboo edging) instead of taking them to the tip!

Continue reading for before and after and along the way photos.

Daily Photo – Turtle Ball

My students’ work exhibition

The University of Canberra and the school I work for (College in Canberra is grades 11 & 12, aka highschool everywhere else), specifically the design area, have a close relationship that I work to keep (I think it’s important to have those connections). We do a joint project with them (along with 4 other colleges) every year where 2 final year Uni students come into one of my design classes once or twice a week and work collaboratively with the students to produce a solution to a very broad design brief given by the University.

This year the brief was “Slow”. That’s it, just one word. Slow.

Continue reading to find out what my students did and see photographs of their work on display.

Date Night – Dinner and a Show

On Thursday night we went to see Arj Barker‘s show at the Canberra Theatre. He brought up some really interesting and serious points about tolerance and acceptance (obviously in line with what he strongly believes, as do I), then totally polarised them with quick objectionable statements. Hilarity ensued. Good times. Funny Man.

I bought the tickets a long time ago after I got a direct message from him on Twitter (good marketing ploy there! we love him anyway though so I only really needed reminding that he was coming back to Aus), and it was a nice little surprise to remember the Tuesday beforehand that we had somewhere to go Thursday night.

The dinner was amazingly fancy, Grand Angus burgers at Maccas afterwards. Dinner and a show with husband, it was a great date night =)