swimsuits and giggles

We are a happier household  now the warmer weather is here. It seems we went to sleep on the last night of Winter and woke up to  Spring delivering  her  glorious sunshine right on cue! On Friday after school Isabella went and got dressed in her swimmers and of course Maggie had to follow suit! We have no pool (like I said, the sunshine is making us all a tad high), they were just out in the backyard so I  ran inside to grab the camera . I recently read somewhere that a photograph  need not be' technically'  perfect, as long as it makes you  'feel' (or something along those lines). So I think this sums up these shots of  my ratbags, I missed focus at times but hell they sure do  make me 'feel'.

I asked Isabella to stop jumping on the trampoline to give me a lil' something ... then  Maggie had to have her moment too! Mmmm, does the word 'copycat' come to mind here?

A good witch

Today was 'come dressed as your favourite book character' day at Isabella's school. The night before saw us sorting  through her book collection  to choose a character. In her imagination she had pictured some grand costume looking exactly like one of the gazillion  Rainbow Fairies that there are but  in reality there was not a lot of options. This caused a major meltdown, oh the tears over not knowing what to be! She finally settled on going as the witch, as you can see from the  sticky taped cat to the mop handle fancy dress props are not my forte but she was happy enough  working that outfit at the parade!

Bedhead

1 hour after waking up. Bedhair - check. Sleep in corners of eyes - check. Dried up runny nose - check. Cuteness - double check. Ooohhh, love those little front teeth, I could seriously just smooch her little face all day long!

My babe

So... because I post about the important people in my life I thought it was about time I introduced you to my partner Trevor. Please excuse the greenish tinge to their skin reflected from the overhead trees that I do not know how to get rid of yet :) Here are some reasons why I love thee.

 He's pretty cool - you know, one of those people who don't even  try to be, they just are. That's him. He's a listener, I know people listen but he actually hears, you know what I mean? He loves  music and introduces me to bands I otherwise would never  have heard of  and end up loving. He's got a  greenthumb, loves to potter around the garden, planting this, replanting that, pulling weeds here and there. He is domesticated (yep, how great is that?), he hangs and brings in the washing without ever being asked to  and cooks way better than I can. After spending all day with other people's kids (he's a teacher) he still comes home and gives ours 100%. He's a newspaper junkie, if I want to know what's going on in the world of current affairs I just ask him!

 Sometimes I think he knows me better than I know myself, even though I hate to admit it! But that is a good thing. We're not perfect but we are learning our  lessons from each other...and that is good too.

a Maggie post

Maggie's favourite thing to do is go for a walk down our street. Anytime. Heck, we even went out this evening  when it was virtually dark! Her and I were all rugged up our PJ's and dressing gown (I have no shame and besides...it was dark!) doing the walk thing. She loves it so much. It all started way back when her daddy took her often as a baby as it was the only thing gaurenteed to settle her and it  has stuck. It's never boring, she searches high and low for the neighbourhood cats to pat, kiss and cuddle (luckily for her they are mostly obliging). Thank you Katie (who lives across from us)  for being okay with Maggie letting herself into your yard whenever she feels like it to stalk, oops I mean love your cats! She also likes to check everyone's  letterboxes and collects any newspapers/junkmail that are lying on the ground and hordes them back into our yard. No flower is left untouched along the way, she is compelled to pick every one she sees  from it's bush, except at number 28 where I've been protecting their lone gerbera from her picky little hands!

We  go to see 'Bella' - a Golden Retriever and then down a bit further to see the 'Mean Dog' - a Pigdog whose name we don't know  so this is what we call it (sorry doggie, you are probably very nice but I'm not gonna risk finding out). I take my camera along every now and again and these are some I shot over the weekend. xox

Ode to black & white film

For me, there is something captivating about images captured in B&W film. There is grain. There is an intensity about the subject. They are just more...soulful. This picture was taken tonight while she was watching 'The Adams Family Values'-  processed as an ode to black & white film days.

so excited...

to be be putting this be-yew-ti-full set on my bed today!!! LOVE. It's from Lazybones and I can already tell I'm going to want more! What can I say, I'm a sucker for wanting to make my home pretty =)

http://www.lazybones.com.au/