Another month goes by...

and I haven't posted anything on my blog! I can't believe that this time next week I will be unpacking boxes in Bendigo!!
For anyone that hasn't heard our news, we are on the move AGAIN!! This time, we get to be Victorians. Not sure they will let us back into Queensland now??
Andrew has applied and been successful in obtaining a promotion to Senior Agribusiness Manager at the branch in Bendigo. We have been over a couple of times to look around and find a house to rent. We hope the share market recovers enough that we can afford to buy a house in about 6 months. Until then we are renting a 3 bedroom house in a suburb on the southern side. It is quite a bit smaller than the beautiful big brand-new house we have here..... I suppose we will fit in.....
On Monday the packers will arrive to start filling boxes, then on Wednesday the boxes and all our furniture will be put into a very large truck. Thursday it will be unloaded and we start unpacking!! I am thinking some of it can stay packed for the 6 months!!
I have promised my friends here that I will blog more often when I get there so hopefully I can do that??
I am liking what Lisa is doing with her blog. She has promised to blog every day for 30 days. Wonder if I could do that?
Anyway better go get some dinner rustled up and then I am off out for coffee and cake with the girls.
Cheers

See I did it, Suzy!!

Just for the wonderful patient Suzy, who has been trying to get me to use Photoshop for years. Now she has made a couple of brushes for me to put on my photos. I hope it works?? Here goes....

These are photos I took on the weekend of the corellas (I think??) or were they galahs, that were eating the beautiful lawn of the neighbours. The whole front lawn was covered in birds. Just after I took the first photo they flew off.

Ok gotta go now and celebrate World Scout Day with a bunch of Scouts.

Cheers

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My Crafty Space

Can anyone see any inspiration hiding in this area anywhere????

That recliner couch looks comfy though doesn't it? Maybe a cup of tea and a crafty mag is in order?

Nothing on the desk - not a good sign!!! Off to get that cuppa!!!

Assignment Done!

I have been a little lost today. I decided that when I had completed this assignment, I would give myself the month off to play in my craft space and my garden.

My garden is frozen - who wants to be out there!!

My inspiration for anything crafty is frozen too!!

I've been through my emails and tidied them up, check out and deleted some websites form my favourites and generally felt sorry for myself because I have the sniffles. Waaaahhhh poor me!!

Last Tuesday, Daniel and I went with some of the other Limestone Coast Homeschoolers to the Warrnambool Cheese Factory just outside Mt Gambier. Boy was that a lot of cheese!!

The boxes Daniel is peeking from behind are all full of cheese. The best part was the free samples and the extra we bought to bring home. Cheese and biscuits for snacks all week!!

This the front of what remains of the original Cheese Factory when it was owned by Kraft, many many years ago.

A beautiful old building.

Right off to see if I can find any inspiration on that crafty table!

Uni Assignment

I am not quite brave enough to post my Digital Artefact on youtube, so I thought I would share it amongst friends. Please feel free to give me some creative criticism.

I am sure I am doing something wrong. This is the lowest resolution I could make Photostory and it is taking forever to load!!?? Hope it works??

Ok, back to the assignment!!

Coonawarra

As many people know, Coonawarra is one of the premier wine growing areas of Australia. The town of Coonawarra is very small and the whole grape growing area is known as Coonawarra.
Today after we had another look around Penola, bought heaps of yummy foods at the Farmers' Markets and checked out Sharee's winning artwork, we headed out of town to one of the wineries for lunch.
Mrs Zema of Zema Estate Winery made the most amazing Arancini for us to have for lunch.

We went back to Balnaves Winery to show Andrew and Maryanne the sculptures we had looked at yesterday.
This is the lake at the Cellar Door and by this stage we thought a cappacino here would have topped off an amazing weekend.

I couldn't resist trying to photograph some of the amazing Autumn leaves that we had seen. What do you think of these?

This was Daniel's idea to hold the leaf in front of the lake. I think I may have a budding photographer in the making. He often has good ideas like this.

And who can resist a little daisy in the lawn. I was wearing one in my jumper that Daniel had picked for me - think he is a romantic as well!