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Down at Casey Fields where I walk the dogs, they have created a massive and very awesome new playground. I mentioned it to Diana and today she came over with Izi so kidlet could wear herself out thoroughly :) Izi took one look at it all and bolted for it. The swing was her absolute favourite. And her mad Aunty Maggie going to tickle her each time she swung forward got a lot of giggles and smiles :) Love that kid :)



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While walking the boys I looked up. It was cold and crisp, but still felt like Spring. Never mind that I was rugged up in a jacket and a cap! :D

At last! I have been wanting to make home-made ones for aaaages, since I can't get to NY and buy some at some funky street vendor with lox cheese and a cherry coke ;)

Oh and this is what I had on my lap yesterday:


all together now.... d'aaaaaaaaaawwwwwww!

And:


yep, I've lost it....

I can't believe how quickly my niece is growing. She stands up by herself now, although she uses things to pull herself up and keeps a hold onto stuff. She can stand alone but only when she doesn't realise she's doing it. As soon as she realises she is on her own, she plops down :P She has also taken her first steps but again without realising it. She prefers to crawl. Ah well, she'll get there in her own time. We'll prob look back fondly at this time in a few months and wish we were back in the can't-run stage :D She's HYPER cute and very giggly and sweet, Sarah - even you'd like her I think :D. I really hope she keeps that. She ADORES my mum and dad, and loves me :) Have discovered trying to get babies to pose is pretty much impossible. But I gave it a good go. Got some pretty ones, I reckon. Also got a couple pretty ones at my parents garden and also at a garden we passed when we took Izi for a walk. Please bear in mind portraiture is def not something I have studied and have VERY little experiance with, so be kind with any critiques but at the same time tell me how I can improve :)



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Going to have a very quiet one at home today, I think. Been longing for a day just spent reading and cuddling the dogs and cats. Plus it's a perfect laundry day so i may as well get as much done there as possible before the rain hits later this arvo. God my life is SO exciting :D I WAS going to read the 1st of the Fool's trilogy by RH but nooooooo, suddenly EVERYONE wants to read it and it's lent out at every single library within a 30k radius! WTF?!?! It's been out for yeeeeeeeears and now because I want to read it, everyone else wants to as well :P I could just go and buy it since I'm collecting them anyway, but I realy shouldn't with the mothers day lunch to pay for. WHY are books so damn exxy these days? I still remember when you could get a thick paperback like that for $14. Surely the author isn't getting a bigger cut. WHY are they making them harder to get? They WANT us to dumb-down? I could get it 2nd hand but I want the funky new covers so I'll just have to suck it up, princess. I'll get it after pay day. Good thing Koontz has come up with the goods and released a decent new one I borrowed, called 'Breathless'. Not as good as his old stuff but MUCH better than the stuff he's been releasing lately. I farking HATE the 'Odd' books. I also happen to have stumbled across these two books by a certain Megan Lindholm which look pretty darned good... :D Oh and look, Hampton Park library has Wizard of the Pidgeons, which I have only wanted to read for oh, the past however many years. Guess I'd better go for a drive :D

What scared the unholy spices out of me this arvo when I woke up and staggered into the kitchen to get some breakfast. Isn't she just GORGEOUS!

I did a LOT today, yet funnily enough it was pretty much the last shot of the day that I think is the best/most liked. I will write about my day and show other shots as time allows. Stupid work. Gets in the way :-)



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now time for bed!!!!!

OMG THERE IS SOMETHING WEIRD GOING ON WITH DESI'S EYE!!!!!!! CHECK IT OUT!!!! SHOULD I CALL A VET???????????



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Ok, today I tried my hand at textures. I don't think I did too badly. It's actually easy! If anyone wants to know what I did, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to do a step by step. :-) I would appreciate any comments, esp suggestions for future improvements, please! Please go gentle on me, i was a bit nervous posting it up, to be honest :P
Also, if anyone knows how to install font packages into Photoshop I would love to know how to do it!
And the funniest thing? To get Destiny to pull this pose I was scratching her bottom! LOL!!!!!! Ah, the dignity and noble beauty of the Arabian horse....*giggles*

Didn't have much of a chance to post yesterday, so here we go:
We didn't do much. Al and I drove up to Cairns (it's about 45mins drive or so) where we did some shopping. I had forgotten my bathers and trackies back home, and Al had no swimmer trunks at all, so we found those plus I got myself some grey trackie pants and this beautiful pair of black cargo pants with an awesome belt. Had lunch at Sushi Train and then headed for home. Stopped at the  Pyramid and walked up the track a tiny little bit. Had a pretty quiet evening, Al and I played with some gorgeous shells I found the other day and took some pretty photos. I had this image if having the shells cradled in my palms and have it all lit up, we took that but it didn't work out how I envisioned so we tried the second idea I had and um.... yeah I think it turned out. Under the cut are some pretty shots, the one that I am most proud of needs a bit more PS work to bring out the full effect so I'll pop it up in a sep entry a bit later.
MELBOURNE CUP DAY!!!!!!!! We're off to the local I think I have lunch and celebrate the running. My sentimental fav's are Daffodil (just because she is a mare and she was nosing at the camera and looked sweet) and Alcopop (because he's a working stock horse on top of being a top racer), but I think Viewed is going to be the one to beat.


Cairns Pier 12

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