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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
For every birthday in the staffroom, we have bagels for lunch. Everyone brings an ingredient, Lisa bakes a totally scrumptious cake, and we have a lovely time stuffing our faces with smoked salmon, creme cheese, avocados and tomato on bagels.
TODAY WAS THAT DAY. And it was awesome. Yes I get excited about food.
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If you don’t already know me, then you also probably don’t know what I do, in life. You know, to earn a buck. I’m a teacher that looks like a student. I’m halfway through my second year of teaching college (in Canberra, Australia, that’s year 11 & 12. 16-18 year olds). I look about 17. [...]
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Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. I'm Mikaela, I am female, 25, married, and busy by choice. I love life and have too many ideas in my head, and wish there were more hours in the day (I'm sure old people always said that when I was growing up). I live in and love Canberra, Australia (2 hours to beach or snow, what more could you ask for?). For more about who I am and what I do, go to the about page =)
We had giant hamburgers for dinner. Bun, tomato sauce, mustard, cheese, hot chilli meat pattie, more cheese, pineapple, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, avocado, bun. YUM. Giant! I had two. See my last post about always eating too much.
Yesterday I was in Coles and saw this yummo looking Italian bread which inspired me to make Bruschetta as an entreé to dinner last night. I forgot to get Olive Oil when I was there so had to improvise with peanut oil, but it wasn’t too bad. I buttered the bread (no oil, remember?), spread [...]
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 [...]
Before going to the coast last week I made 2 ribbon organiser boxes. One turned out really well, the other not so much. Here is the latter, made from an old tissue box. The reason I don’t like the end result is because the tissue box was too flimsy to begin with, the walls went [...]
As promised, here are Girds’ and Harley’s new doggie beds! The reason I decided to make these is because their current beds are lumpy, big oofy pillows, with blankets on top. They take up far too much room in our bedroom, aren’t very portable, and are hard to wash. These beds, however, are the opposite [...]
Yesterday and today were spent putting my house back together, so I haven’t had a chance to complete the DIY projects I wanted to do today to show here. Hopefully I can finish the doggie beds tonight as well as at least start on my ribbon organiser… We’ll see how I go, I still have [...]
