well known in our area for lovely food and good, friendly service.

Well known with my family for being a fun place to eat and …draw.

Here is Bee’s drawing of Mikki, our kitten who has just turned one year old!

Love this drawing – I know I am biased but I think it is pretty darn good!

(photo taken with my iPhone)

On our trip to St. Kilda yesterday, the oldest and youngest got some new shoes. Well, they were on super special! Both love Converse All Stars. Sam already has a pair of red Chuck Boots so he opted for the Red runner style. Bronte wanted some ‘real’ Chucks and opted for this sunny pair. Gorgeous eh?

It is school holidays here at the moment and I had two of my 3 children at a loose end so we decided to drive in to St. Kilda which is only about 20 minutes away.

Luna Park was our first stop. We didn’t go on any rides as it just didn’t seem like we should do that with the middle guy missing – so we just wandered around and I took a few snaps.

Then we walked past a famous Melbourne landmark, The Palais…

Then down a little laneway that had the coolest graffiti…

a trip to the toilet….I couldn’t resist the lines and light and patterns!

and finally, just a couple of fun shots to finish our outing!

it was such a foggy morning here in Melbourne – it weirdly inspired me to get my camera out. I took a stack of photos so will do some different posts to show them off!

First of all was the foggy Hampton train station and train track…

I do love me a bit of fog – lovely and eery – makes you wonder what is happening ‘just up there’.

Just testing out my new, wider layout. I like the look of it so far! Yay!

February the 5th, 2007, my life was deeply affected by a tragedy.

A beautiful 3 year old super princess died. Here name is Ava Rosemeyer.

Her passing touched my heart and soul deeply.

I ‘knew’ her through her mum, Sheye via an online forum where we got to know eachother and each others families through our mutual addictive love of gorgeous children’s clothing.

Ava loved the colour pink. Ava loved dancing. Ava loved.

We were all devastated to read of Ava’s passing. The most beautiful and spirited little girl, gone.

Our friend, Sheye and her family found themselves in the most horrible place any parent could ever be.

Read their story here

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Ava’s leaving. Each year this day is remembered by thousands of people all over the world.

Each day, I think of Ava and her mum, dad, brothers and sister. Of her grandparents and of all that knew her. Each day, I am touched by her memory and her spirit.

This song, as written by Ben Harper but sung by Damien Leith,  always reminds me of Ava.

Gorgeous song for a gorgeous girl.

Waiting on an angel
one to carry me home
hope you come to see me soon
cause I don’t want to go alone
I don’t wanna go alone

Now angel won’t you come by me
angel hear my plea
take my hand lift me up
so that I can fly with thee
so that I can fly with thee

And I’m waiting on an angel
and I know it won’t be long
to find myself in a resting place
in my angel’s arms
in my angel’s arms

So speak kind to a stranger
cause you’ll never know
it just might be an angel come
knockin’ at your door
knockin’ at your door

And I’m waiting on an angel
and I know it won’t be long
to find myself in a resting place
in my angel’s arms
in my angel’s arms

Waiting on an angel
one to carry me home
hope you come to see me soon
cause I don’t wanna go alone
I don’t wanna go alone
don’t wanna go
I don’t wanna go alone

I’ve been away for week or so as it is summer holidays here in Australia so have nearly missed out on entering this weeks competition. And boy are there a lot of entries! 700+ – must be nearly a record?

So, the rules are as follows: “Best Face Photo.” You should enter the face photo that you love the best that you took either in the month of December 2009 or in early January 2010. This is not the week to look through your archives for a favorite photo! We want something that is fresh and new and that shows off where you are in your photography journey right now.

I think this photo of Bronte really fits the criteria. My photography has evolved over the last year and I am loving where it is at at the moment.

I love this lazy, hazy summer days look (on the day this was taken it was just over 35 degrees celsius!). We were lying on a blanket in the back yard of where we were holidaying.  Lying under a big tree in its shade, just trying to cool down. She {we} had a snooze and this is just after she woke up….smiling at me when she realised that I was taking her photo….

I love her eyes. I love her emerging grin. I love her smattering of freckles.

Being Bronte

Head on over to i heart faces for some absolutely AWESOME photos of faces.

k8 xxx

looking at times gone past…I do that once in a while…it is lovely to see how much my children have changed and grown over the years. I found this photo of Zed that I took oh, I think back in July that I had not touched.

I remember this day. We were at Inverloch, Victoria and it was such a cold, wintery winter’s day. Zachary and Bronte wanted to go fishing (blerk) and Stan was in the city so it was up to me. I lasted about 10 minutes and went and sat in the warm car, reading the paper but not before I took some photos. Here is a favourite one of mine of Zed – before and after….

Zed Boy - Original SOOC (straight out of camera)

Zed - Processed using Eye Candy Actions - Honey Child

What do you all think a) about the actual photo and b) about the difference between the original and the processed?

Cheers

Kate

I had the pleasure of ‘shooting’ the gorgeous Maddie the other evening in celebration of her first ‘formal’ dance. It was so much fun. Isn’t she just beautiful?