Preggo update

31 weeks today, only 9 to go. The baby officially starting kicking my ass last night. I’ve been really active and feeling fine throughout the whole pregnancy so far, but last night I got woken up at about 3am with quite a bit of pain at the bottom of my lung, with what I assume [...]

Going awol

So between teaching at college, plus 4 nights a week teaching at Uni, then finding time for freelance clients and also trying to make stuff for Mikaela (that’s a confusing prospect), I hardly have time to sneeze. Which is great, I love being busy, but my little bloggy is being quite neglected (along with any [...]

End of year shenanigans, again

Exactly a year ago I posted about Grad Night, and this years celebrations didn’t disappoint. Grad night is fast becoming the one night a year the teachers go out and party (responsibly, of course) after the Year 12′s Graduation Ceremony. It was a lot of fun, and probably my last night out with Miri-moo before [...]

I’m not dead #2

Busiest ime of year over in Mikaela-World, end of year assessent & scores time at work. I’ve been hed down bm up marking 183 college & uni assignments over the last 2 weeks, and now we have to put all the scores into the system to calculate the kids ATARs. On top of that I’ve [...]

Thredbo trip re-cap

I was a bit scared to go on this trip. Not only because of the Mountain Biking, but also spending 3 days with the PE boys [insert laughing here at work morning tea announcements]. Turns out they are fun to hang out with, and remind me a lot of some of JA’s mates. It was [...]

Half completed projects

I’ve been a busy little beaver recently! Lots going on, but nothing quite finished enough to dedicate a post to, so here’s the wrap up: Last weekend we went to the coast with my parents, which was really great, it was raining and miserable in Canberra but absolutely gorgeous at Jervis Bay. We went to [...]

Back from the coast, ready to rock and roll

Our coast trip was lovely =) A little bit stressful at times, having to keep a close eye on Harley at the beach as she is on heat at the moment, but for the most part it was really nice and relaxing. I did lots of painting for my handmade goodies (which I will post [...]

Moving day at work & Handmade stuff

Warning: teacher talk coming up… Possibly boring but potentially eye opening! (Plausibly educational). Crafty stuff further down. Today I’ve been moving desks at work, which is a bit of a production really. As a graphic design teacher, I come under the Technology banner, which is part of the “Maths and Technology” faculty. Hence me living [...]

My work area – in various states of disarray

I’m a wannabe neat person. In actual fact, I’m a very messy person. I have to work hard at keeping things tidy and uncluttered, but that is one of my main house related aims in life at the moment. In fact, I really want to do a photograph walk through of my house to post [...]

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.