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March 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

finishing up

A temporary change in work commitments means I have the day at home to myself, which really means time to catch-up on my to do list.

And it will be all about priorities and deadlines today.

Today I will be:

  • meeting a couple of freelance deadlines;
  • giving the house a long overdue tidy;
  • finishing off my Souvenir Foto School alphabet challenge. And nothing like leaving the hardest to last, x and z;
  • battling the puddles after  Mother Nature dumped about 100 millimetres on us in the past 24 hours; and,
  • thinking about blog posts, newsletters and the beginning of autumn.

And Facebook introduced timeline for pages overnight, you can see Lime Lane’s here, and thank you Facebook but I really didn’t need the distraction today of all days.

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{my creative space} a sky full of stories

February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

sky trails

Today, I thought, “I got nothing”. I’m still playing with my food but apart from that I’ve been busy changing routines and walking the tight rope of work-life balance. There hasn’t been much creating.

sky trails

But there has been al lot of  getting up early, which brings me to this.

Apparently, just before sunrise, the country skies are the equivalant of the main street at peak hour, with no less than six planes streaking across various parts of the aero landscape. I looked out my little studio window to see the first rays of the sun picking up the trail of a high-flying airliner. I grabbed camera, and iPhone, and raced outside.

sky trails

I wonder where they were all going, what they might have planned for today.

sky trails

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{my creative space} busy … getting nothing done

February 16, 2012 By 8 Comments

Visiting the land of procrastination, with a detour down distraction street

This week I’ve been visiting the land of procrastination, with a detour down distraction street.

And I’m betting we’ve all been there.

So the most creative thing I’ve done this week is writing that first sentence up there. Apart from finding ways to not do the things I’m supposed to be doing.

As well I’ve been:

  • I’m still playing with my food
  • I’ve been helping the eldest with a slideshow project for school
  • And working out new homework routines
  • I’ve been playing on the photo blogging site tadaa
  • And  avoiding to do lists

After thinking about being busy versus being productive yesterday, I’ve got to say that today I’m neither.

Some times, I find it easy to procrastinate by writing the to do list. Because hey, that’s working, right. But on reflection, I think I need to write many lists ~ for today, for tomorrow, for the chores that need doing, for the someday projects, for the things to remember.

And then maybe I will know where to start.

Directions. The lists are the map to the land of productivity.

Yep, time to stop being poetic and get some work done.

What’s your favourite destination in the land of procrastination?

 

 

 

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{my creative space} playing with my food

February 9, 2012 By 22 Comments
{e} is for egg

{e} is for egg ~ and yes, that's an E cut out of a hard-boiled egg

As you may have already seen, I’m participating in the Souvenir Foto School 2012 Alphabet Challenge, photographing something a representing a different letter every day.

Leading up to the start on February 1, I was racking my brains for a theme. I couldn’t quite lock in on something I was happy with. I even recruited Hubby for a few ideas. I started off hestiantly, and looking back I’m not as happy with ‘A’ now that the theme has taken shape. I may go back and change it.

So my theme is the actual letters ~ that was my starting point. And I’m using a cookie cutter set to display the letters in some way {checking five days in to make sure I had every letter, talk about prepared!}. And then it became about food. The theme evolved over the first few days and is now taking on a life of its own.

{f} is for fungi

{f} is for fungi ~ one of my favourites so far

At first I was a little unsure, thinking maybe it would be too much of a challenge. But I’ve since brainstormed ideas for every letter, put the occasional call out for ideas, and the month is taking shape. And some of them have been a lot easier than I envisaged.

I was sharing them here everyday but have since gotten out the habit. So this is a catch-up, but this project is also pretty much taking up most of my creative space at the moment.

g is for grain

{g} is for grain ~ if you stare long enough, you can see the g

a / b / c / d /

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{my creative space} it’s going to be foto february

February 2, 2012 By 4 Comments

photo time

Let’s all sing that familiar refrain ~ where has my week gone?

It’s Thursday, the smalls have almost completed a week back at school, and I still have a to do list as long as my arm.

Never mind, because things are getting creative around here, and now that I stop and think about it, it’s also getting exciting.

For starters, my week started on Tuesday. After the epic Australian Open final {which I had to wait for as a news hound}, I decided that Tuesday would be the  new Monday.

And amazingly it was quite the productive day.

But yesterday is when things got exciting, and busy. My day was caught up tending to one of the small’s needs, which blocked out most of my day, but inbetween, some amazing things happened.

  • We launched a new month, a new theme and a new design for the Creative Collective as it celebrates its birthday this February. Do stop by and check it out.
  • I won a spot in Vivienne McMaster’s Light Hunters course thanks to tinniegirl. {thank you thank you thank you Cathy!} I’m so looking forward to seeing how this reflects in my photography and I’m already taking more notice of the way light falls.
  • And Souvenir Foto School has started so I’m deep in thought about working around a theme.

And today, well, it’s time to start taking some photos.

So it’s going to be a bit of a foto February. Be ready for a slide show.

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