There is a lot more to come!

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 found that this blog has been devoted way too much to i heart faces challenges and have decided to reclaim it for myself!

Don’t worry, I will still be entering challenges but will be posting the entries from my old blog over at blogspot.

That blog is called k8tography – the Challenges please come over and visit.

I have also decided to do a personal Project 365 Challenge. This is to take one photo a day for 365 days. These daily shots are also hosted over at the Challenges site.

Cheers

Kate

The challenge over at my favourite photo blog this week is

Let’s celebrate families this week!

It doesn’t matter to us at all if your photo represents a “traditional” family or a “non-traditional” family. We are looking for photos that show off a cool way to capture a family together…be fun, creative, unique and enter the most awesome photo you can! We would also like each photo entry to have at least one (1) adult in it and even possibly a wide variety of ages represented.

Well, I looked through my photos but really wanted something that captured a special person in our children’s lives. Her name is Joycey. She is not ‘blood’ family but really she is our family. She lives two houses away from us and she has known our children all of their lives. Let me take you back….

We first met Joyce when we moved into our house in 1989. She has been there for us in the good times and the bad times. She has known our 3 kids since birth and looked after them on many occasions. She is the first person I call when there is a crisis. From when I was having a miscarriage to when my father died unexpectedly. She helps when she can and we help her. Her husband died before we met her and so when she needs a dead possum removed or something fixed, she calls on us. We see her just about every day. She has five adult children of her own who have their own children. Even some of her grandchildren have children which makes her not only a great Grandmother but a Great Grandmother.

Joyce turns EIGHTY years old on the 27th of February.

One of the many amazing things about Joyce is that she is so active. She is a gifted musician although she can’t read a note. She plays by ear and all you have to do is start humming a song and she can pick it up. She plays the Piano Accordian (squeezebox), she plays the piano, she plays the mouth organ. Her latest laugh is that now she plays So What? by P!NK on the piano.

She has been taken by each of our children to school on many occasions as ’show and tell’.  She volunteers at nursing homes and plays the piano and/or piano accordian for all of the ‘old’ people – many of whom are younger than her. She is fun and thinks she is hip.

When she goes on an outing lets say on a boat – she will dress in a nautical theme. If she goes on a train trip she dresses in a train theme. (note: this CAN be embarrassing!)

On St. Patricks Day, she comes to our house dressed in a red wig, a green top hat and shamrock shaped sunglasses. Every birthday we have, she phones us at 7am in the morning with the ‘birthday’ song. We have to listen. She makes us wear the ‘birthday hat’ which is a hat that is shaped like a birthday cake with candles on it. She has a large collection of outrageous wigs. She laughs a lot. She makes us laugh.

She often takes our kids, now aged 15, 14 and 11 out. Every school holidays she takes them for what she calls ‘muckin’ rubbish day’. This means that she takes them to a kids movie (her excuse to see something cute and fun – today it was the Fabulous Mr Fox), she buys them junk food. Choc-top icecreams, popcorn – whatever they want. They see the movie and then go to Intencity where she plays the Pinball Machines. Then they go for more ice cream at the ice cream parlour…

She has been around our family for EVER. She is our family and here is a photo I took of her today with our three kids. I don’t know who is more of a kid though. She does not stop laughing. I made her lie on the ground and she thought that was just silly but she did it anyway.

Because. She. Loves Us.

Joycey and the kids

Please head on over to i heart faces and check out the wonderful family photos!

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

This is a very special challenge over at i heart faces. It is in celebration of their birthday! Happy Birthday to you guys – you have helped make my 2009 fun and challenging!

This challenge, we allowed are FIVE entries! Yay. Each photo MUST have the i heart faces logo in it. This was so much fun! Here are my entries….

1.

Showing the Aussie spirit by using QANTAS and flying the i heart faces flag!

2.

Super Cool Clark Kent Glasses with fab logo as modelled by Joyce

3.

Tattooed Bee

4.

i heart faces clubhouse?

5.

Super Cool Balloons for super fun people!

Please head on over to i heart faces to see the many wonderfully creative entries. They are mind blowing!

“I am submitting this photo into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.”

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

It’s pets week over at I Heart Faces so today, I decided to take some more photos of our 4 month old kitten, Mikki.

If you read my blog, you will know that at the end of August, we found a mother cat and her 7 one week old kittens. We bought them home and helped her look after them.

After having them for 6 weeks, we decided to keep one (how could we NOT?) and added Mikki to our family. We have another lovely looking cat called Jasper.  Notice I said lovely looking. He is. He is truly handsome. He is a stunning Silver Tabby. However, he is not nice. He doesn’t like us much (but he does stay around). So, we have given cat ownership another go, and by all accounts, so far Mikki is not only gorgeous to look at – he loves US!

I am thrilled to report that all other kittens and mother cat, Sunday, were found homes.

Here is Mikki, in Bronte’s arms in the very late afternoon sun. I love the glow.

Don’t forget to pop on over to i heart faces to see all the other amazing animals!

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Well, I don’t have a photo of a super gorgeous baby sleeping…my lot are way too old for that! I do  have plenty of photos of them asleep though and all are super cute of course BUT I couldn’t resist entering this one….for something a little different!

Sleeping Kittens

There is almost nothing sweeter than cute little kittens. We found a mother cat back in August along with 7, one week old kittens. This photo was taken oh probably a week after we found them. The ginger kitten you see is ‘Ringo’ and I adore how he is sleeping with his little mouth open and his eyes too! We ended up keeping the kitten behind him and thankfully found the other 6 good homes.

Anyway, don’t forget to take a look at the many gorgeous sleeping babies and people over at I Heart Faces

This was a fun shoot, lots of laughter and giggles.

Taken at Brighton Beach, Melbourne which is well known for their gorgeously colourful Beach Huts. So, here is your sneak peek – hope you enjoy!

Ahhhh sunflare. My one true photographic love. When I saw this weeks challenge I just KNEW that I had to enter. I immediately thought of this photo of my eldest boy child, Samuel. He is 15 and not my normal victim (that would be my 14year old boy child, Zachary) so it is nice that this one let me take photos AND he enjoyed it.

I have quite a few from this ’shoot’ to choose from but I think this is my favourite. You can see his gorgeous eye(s) and I love the way the light acts as a halo around him but most of all I love HIM. He is a nice person. A little weird (I wonder where he gets THAT from!!!) but oh so nice.

Oh. Can you spot the heart shaped sunflare on his face! I just spotted it now!! Yay me! lol (of course I meant it!!!!!)

So, this is my entry for the Sun Flare challenge this week over at I Heart Faces please go and take a look at all the gorgeous flare from around the world…it is divine!