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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

My friends taking me out for my birthday lunch

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

kind of like how many smarties in the pickle jar!

bugs

How many caterpillars on the leaf?

Sebastian out with his Momo having lunch and doing his daily exercise

sebastian aug 21 2008

here are some latest pictures of the little man

sebastian aug 24 2008

Friday, August 15, 2008

The time has come

Ok now for the real reason I have not been doing the blog….

Our baby

We adopted a baby! His name is Sebastian James-Manu born June 10^th at 7:30 in the morning weighing 3.47kg and 52cm long. I was given the gift of being present at his birth! It was an amazing experience I will never forget and will always cherish.

Here are some current photos of Sebastian and some from his baby shower. When I have a moment I will add photos from the beginning of our time together.

Sunday, August 03, 2008

art at the oceanic centre

The boys have been commissioned to do some totems for a resort, this is what they have done so far....

oceanic art works

I have been working on some prints as well

prints 2008

Art day!!!

We were finally able to get an art day. Me, Josie and Mel are all entering art into the ANZ art competition that is happening Aug 4th! I am going to enter 4 pieces and the large painting I am working on in the photos is one of the entries.

art day

Thursday, July 24, 2008

France

I am sorry for the long absence from my blog I have been very busy. So I finally got around to selecting my favorite photos of my trip to France, Enjoy....

farovites of france 1

Friday, May 16, 2008

Fun with Fiji water

sillies

I don't know if everyone knows this about me but I love to peel labels off things, my two most favorite things to peel are costco price tags off there books and the labels on my art journals. But now I have a new 3rd favorite label to peel, the fiji water label which leaves a excellent sticky area on the bottle!!!!! This can create a lot of fun...

Our t-shirt project

We decided to start a line of t-shirts that show case Fijian tradition tattoo designs. This is our first shirt...

tattoo shirt

Volunteer at the library

I love shelving books and putting them back where they belong!

library clean up

Stan the softy

stans babies

He does not like to see the dogs uncomfortable and Bowser hates getting wet where Cathlene does not care in the least!

Friday, April 18, 2008

Introducing Like a Lady

I meet a wonderful man while I lived in Tonga (check the beginning of the blog and you will see the adventures of Jay and Brian) Brian and he helped me so much. I don't know if I would have survived Tonga without him! He was there as a peace corp volunteer but his background is in film. He became very interested in the Fakaleiti's of Tonga and wanted to create a documentary about them. So one thing lead to another and the beginnings of a documentary was born! Brian is heading back to Tonga this summer to finish his film!!!

Fakaleiti Like a Lady

congratulations Brian!

Friday, April 11, 2008

The kids school concert!

The kids had their school concert yesterday, here are some photos of the event...

school concert

sweating

Ok its not just sweat. I have been sweating so much because it has been so bloody hot this last week that the sweat stains are embarrassing and there is not enough gold bond to help; but during our run we were bucketed on till the last 10 minutes of the run.

sweating

gardens everywhere

Our Tomatoes are just starting to turn color, the beans are flowering, and the bank across the park is being cultivate for cassava.

tomatoes

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Finally!!!!

I am unblocked!!!!!!!! Josie causally mentioned that she would like to do art tonight and that she specifically felt like doing some prints. I think she had a master plan to help get me unstuck!!!! and it did!!!! I am now totally stoked on my new series!!!! drum roll please.....

SEED PODS:

monoprints seed pods

I love printing, I love monoprints! I started my evening trying to be more painterly but that did not really work out. So I went back to the scratching (which I love and do a lot with my pottery!) and nudes but that was uninspiring so I decided to try my other love; seed pods! It totally worked and now I am in a seed pod groove!
Thank God and Thank Josie from bring me back from my dry barren oasis of non-creativity.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

tomatoes and basil

now if we could only get some really good mozzarella!!! we could make a perfect bruschetta!

gardening 2

where's Cathlene?

The adventures of Bowser and Cathlene!

doggy adventures

Friday, March 28, 2008

Oceania dance performance

Went to an Oceania dance performance last night and here are the fuzzy pictures....

dance

We were asked not to use any flash photography hence fuzzy pictures :(

Easter dinner with Ana and the family

On Sunday we went to Ana's for a wonderful easter dinner...

ana's dinner

Roc market

The Roc market happens once a month and it is sort of an artisan/home baking/junk market. Josie and I were working our butts off to get some t-shirts done to show case at the market. However Fiji had other plans for us so it still has not happened. Fiji could benefit from a customer service course.