Shadow Shot Sunday #33

After a week of wintery 'flu and sick children, we had a nice day today; it was sunny, we were at the beach and are all now on the mend.

This shadow was taken after our sweet little neighbour dropped in some leftover balloons from his aunty's party. The two smallest members of our household have discovered that helium-filled balloons are very cool - and not just because of the pretty shadows they make!


For more lovely shadow shooters, head on over to the award-winning Hey Harriet! ;)

Happy Sunday everyone!

Shadow Shot Sunday #32

Happy Sunday everyone!

Here are some shots that I captured on a recent trip to the Mt Coot-tha botanical gardens. I visited with the kids, my Mum and my Aunty and her granddaughter who were visiting from NSW. We had a lovely picnic lunch, playing, rolling down the grassy slopes (the kids - not me!) and strolling through the gardens

These were taken at the Japanese Garden - which is so serenely beautiful, even with loud, excited children in tow!

The walled garden is beautifully laid out with lush green plants, a little pond, bridges and picnic spots. I spied many shadows in the Japanese Garden as well as the rest of the Botanic gardens (it was such a beautiful sunny day!) but these were my favourites. The soft shadows of the tree on the wall as we were leaving the Japanese garden caught my eye.


Have a happy Sunday everyone, and thanks again to lovely Hey Harriet for her Shadow Shot Sunday!

Shadow Shot Sunday

Hey Harriet is the host of Shadow Shot Sunday and compiles lovely collages of photos from the previous week; head over to her blog to take a peek. Here's my shadow shot from the BrisStyle market yesterday. It was taken by my son, that's why it's a little bit fuzzy; the shadows aren't too obvious ... but the sun was behind them so they were in the shadow. I love the effect of the rays of sun behind the guitarists.


The day was an enormous success; in personal terms, interest in my stock far exceeded my expectations. As well as that, it was such a fun and friendly day. I also did some shopping myself when I was able to escape from my table for a little while and got some delightful goodies. More about all this later! It's good being BrisStyle!!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Shadow Shot #30

Last weekend I visited my grandad. With my mum and kids, we drove the 9 hours to visit him for a few days. He is 94 next month and still lives by himself.

While he didn't really know who I or the kids were, due to his dementia (and his general forgetfulness that has nothing to do with dementia, and everything to do with him being who is is!!) he really enjoyed the kids' company.

His favourite pastime, particularly in the winter, is to sit in the sun on his verandah, feeding the birds and watering his geraniums; he gets very cranky on cloudy days! This shot was taken of him sitting in the sun - you can just see some of his geraniums in the background.


The 'fluff' at his chin is actually my little girl's hair, so not a perfect pic, but I love the shadows, reflections and wrinkles on his face. You can see that he is happy.

Head on over to visit Hey Harriet for more Shadow Shot Sunday pics.
Happy Sunday everyone! :)

Shadows in the Rain

We've been experiencing A LOT of rain here at the moment ... but the sun has shown it's face just a few times, enough to give us some rainbows ... and shadows! ;)

I love the dotty shadows showing through on the play equipment at the park. It was a little soggy under foot though!

Head on over to the lovely Hey Harriet's blog for more Sunday Shadows.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Sun Bathing

My son sleeps with ten 'babies' every night. There is not a great deal of room in his bed left for him but he is very loyal, so they all stay. Today they needed a little freshen up, so were loving placed out in the sun for a little bath! ... and gave me a lovely shadow shot for Hey Harriet's one year anniversary of Shadow Shot Sunday!

Happy anniversary Tracy! Thanks for sharing the shadows! Head over to her blog for more.

Along with bathing 'babies', I also had a BrisStyle catch-up to attend. Such a nice thing to do on a Sunday, and also very nice to meet a few new faces that I hadn't met before; it's hard putting faces to names - or Etsy shop names!! We met across the road from St Augustine's Church in Hamilton where we will be holding our BrisStyle Indie Designers markets on July 14th - not too far away now! Exciting.

Happy Sunday everyone! :D

Shadow Shot Sunday

Long time between posts, and even longer between shadow shots! This is number 28 for me, and if you head on over to Hey Harriet's blog, you'll see heaps more!

Last week I was fortunate enough to rescue some very lovely vintage dresses from ending up in the rubbish bin (yes, sad but true, all these lovelies going off to the tip nearly broke my heart!); mind you, there were a lot of 'bin-worthy' items amongst them... So, I made my selections and carefully bundled them home for washing and a little t.l.c.

Today's Shadow Shot is of a lovely 1960s green linen dress, with front buttons, a dropped waist and pleats, soaking up the glorious autumn sunshine on the clothesline. Not only is the dress lovely but the label as well - I just love the old dress labels!

This lovely scrap of fabric was also rescued and is quite worn in places, but has a lovely sheen to it and rich colour. I can't wait to use this little one! (this pic has some nice subtle shadowing in it too!)

I feel like it's Christmas time with all these lovely goodies; now to decide what alterations are needed as well as what to use the fabric scraps for! Happy me!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Shadow Shot Sunday #27

Phew! What a week it's been! My 'big' boy started school for the first time, I started my new (pretty wonderful) job, we celebrated my brother's 30th and then my birthday and I met with the gorgeous Brisstyle committee girls. It's been a very full, exhausting fun week!

So, I thought a good Shadow Shot for this week would be of my boy going off on his first day of school.


Oh! he looked so cute, and was so proud of his new (big) uniform, hat and backpack. It was only when it was time for us to leave him at school that the tears started (his - not mine!!) ... oh his little face was so sad! But when 'home-time' rolled around he'd had so much fun that he wanted to stay at school!!

Happy Sunday everyone!
Thanks again to Hey Harriet for hosting Shadow Shot Sunday!

Shadow Shot #26

This weeks shots are from our recent holiday in Sydney. We stayed in the Northern Beaches with my cousin and were lucky enough to go out on Pittwater in my uncle's cruiser.


I love the landforms around Sydney - the sandstone and the Sydney gums are gorgeous. Pittwater is bounded by National Park and little residential pockets - often with no road access. Very beautiful!

We anchored at a little beach where we we able to swim ashore (so beautiful!) and played in the sand. There was a little inlet there too where the little stream coming from the rocky hill behind met the beach.

We were so very spoilt on our Sydney holiday! We also travelled to Canberra where we were spoilt again by more family members! (lots of love, beautiful food and drink!)

So now it's back to work - holidays are over!
Happy Sunday everyone, and a Happy Australia Day for tomorrow!

Thank you again to Hey Harriet for her wonderful shadow inspiration; to see more Shadow Shots on a Sunday, go to Hey Harriet's blog.

Shadow Shot Sunday #25

My little girl has recently 'graduated' to a big bed. It is the most beautiful old cast iron bed that I blogged about here. We got it professionally re-coated, I made some flag/bunting things for the top and it all looks gorgeous (I'll post more pics later). She loves it but it's so high - almost as tall as she is - so she has a struggle to hop into bed, but heaven help anyone who tries to assist her (she is 2, afterall!).


The afternoon sun comes in her window a little bit which makes lovely shadows from her bedhead. Lovely!


Happy Sunday everyone!
Pop into Hey Harriet's blog for more shadow shots :)

Shadow Shot Sunday # 24

The lovely Hey Harriet hosts Shadow Shot Sunday - drop by her blog to see all the fantastic shadows!

My shadow shot today is a tale of domesticity on a very hot day ... the washing was dry in an hour and made very neat, ordered shadows on the paving.


And I only got to take one shot because as I lined up to take others, a little cloud crept over the sun and ruined my shadows!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Shadow Shot #23

Hello everyone - happy new year :)

My shadow shots have been absent lately, but I have still been enjoying taking a peek at everyone else's!

Here's my #23 SS. It was taken at South Bank Parklands about 3 weeks ago. We had a great little play in the water (along with almost every other family in Brisbane, it seemed!!) and in the fountains and in the sand. They have recently renovated the 'water play' area and it's so fun. This pic (amazingly without anybody in it - not sure how I did that on such a busy day!) shows a map of the Brisbane River and surrounding suburbs that was in the cement near the fountains.

The image looks very landscape-y I think.

Check out the lovely Hey Harriet for more of Shadow Shot Sunday.

Happy first Sunday of the year!

Shadow Shot #21

I've had a busy week this week; busy at work, exhibition opening, BrisStyle meet-up and appearing on the front page of etsy!!

I have work in the 'Renaissance' exhibition that's on at Reverse Garbage in West End; it runs until the 24th Dec. The works exhibited need to have at least 75% reclaimed materials content and fellow BrisStylers Beckybean and Ruby Red as well as djbebe. There is some really beautiful work on display, so if you're in the West End area, pop over for a look!

Our BrisStyle meet-up yesterday was very fun - meeting people I've only ever 'talked' to on email and putting faces to names was really good. The lovely girls from EmBelIsh set up the tables in festive frivolity and we shared our 'Secret Santa' gifts. We also drew the winners of the BrisStyle blog giveaway ... stay tuned for the announcement! Lots of fun!

And here's the shot of my front page appearance on Etsy (I'm botton left)!! artdecadence has such a knack for snaring treasuries and I'm so glad one of hers made it to the front page (and just happened to have my little book in it!)


Finally, happy Sunday with this little shadow shot of one of my jade trees that I grew from cuttings from my grandma's plant.

Head on over to Hey Harriet for more shadowy shots!
Happy Sunday everyone.

Shadow Shot #20

"When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognise the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises." Paulo Cohelo, The Alchemist

... and every day that the sun rises, there's the perfect chance of delighting in shadows!

We had a little park picnic yesterday and it was a very hot, sunny day - perfect for shooting shadows!


(It was so very hot and sunny!)

Head on over to Hey Harriet for more sensational shadows!
... and, if you haven't already, head on over to the BrisStyle blog for your chance to win some very cool goodies!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Shadow Shot #19

Happy Sunday everyone!
Firstly, thank you for all the lovely comments you left for my SSS #18 - it was nice seeing my picture through your eyes - I like it even more now!


This week's shot is taken on my walk to the train station once again. (I love the clarity of the spring morning air!) I had taken my camera with me to get a shot of the 'Keep Left' sign from last week because someone had run their car into it and it was looking rather different! (I thought it would be an interesting progression of shots... ) BUT, the good 'ol Brisbane City Council had it fixed up before I could get a shot!! (just my luck!) So here's this one of the trees along the road instead!

Head on over to Hey Harriet's blog to see more great Shadow Shots!

Happy Sunday everyone - and don't forget to head over to the BrisStyle blog (if you haven't already) to go in the running to win one of THREE very special packs of BrisStyle goodies - what a very special start to Christmas that would be!!

Shadow Shot Sunday #18

Wow, I'm up to #18! That's 18 weeks, 4 1/2 months that I've been taking more notice of the shadows! This week's shot is another taken on my my walk to the train station.


There's something about road signs that appeals to me; something about obeying the 'rules', the simplicity in their design, and they also remind me of Jeffery Smart's works - which I love.

Head on over to Hey Harriet for more info on Shadow Shot Sunday and to see the other great shots!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Shadow Shot Sunday # 17

I love these spring mornings with the big and boundless sky ; the blue goes on forever.

This lovely old tree lives at the top of the hill. It has little holes in it where the parrots and cockys nest.

Thank you again Hey Harriet for inspiring so many people to take joy in the simple magic of shadows! Check out the other SSS participants here at Hey Harriet.

Happy Sunday everyone!

Shadow Shot #16

Happy Spring Sunday everyone!
This week's shot was taken on my morning walk to catch the train this week. I love the early mornings, particularly now that spring is here; the air is so clear and the sky seems so big. And I love my walk to the station - it's like this little avenue of trees all the way ... and I have my iPod on so I can block the busy road right alongside me!

Head on over to the fabulous Hey Harriet for more Shadow Shots!
Happy Sunday!

Shadow Shot #15

The Jan Power's market today at Blackwood St was a successful morning for me - lots of 'admirers', some customers and a great vibe. Hopefully I'll go back next month, that's if they don't up the stall fees again (not too happy with the lack of prior warning!). Anyway, it was fun - it's always nice when others like your handmade work enough to pay money for it! My picture of my market table is a bit hard to see because of the bright sun and the shadows ... could've been my shadow shot for this week!

My 'Little Jellies' loved their sunny outing, a couple even found new homes! Happy.

My Shadow Shot for this week is of my new market umbrella (pretty green, brown and blue stripes) with dappled leaves shadowed on it against the hot blue sky. (The light 'glare' on the brolly is actually a stripey glitch in the camera ... might have to invest in a new one!)

Visit the amazing Hey Harriet for more details about Shadow Shot Sunday and for other great shadow shots!

Happy Sunday!

Shadow Shot # 14

These shadow shots were taken on the hill overlooking Glen Innes in the Northern NSW highlands.

They were erected in 1988 to commemorate the Celtic settlers to the area. There are over 30 standing stones, all significantly positioned and representative of different things.

While they are not quite as moving as Stonehenge, the surrounding bush is beautiful and they were fun to play hide and seek around!

Head on over to Hey Harriet for more Shadow Shots.

Happy Sunday!