Canberra in the autumn

I'm cheating slightly; these images were taken a couple of years ago at around this time (my youngest brother, in the fog of the first photo, is much larger and man-like -- they grow up so quickly!). But the fact remains that I love Canberra in the autumn. Blue skies, a slight (or major) chill in the air and falling leaves.

I've been in Canberra visiting my family this weekend. It's been lovely, and it's given me a small break, away from my life, to re-stock and quietly re-examine where I am in that life.

On top of that, obviously, I've been able to spend some time with my much-loved family, which is always a very worthy way to spend my weekend!

And so I feel (just vaguely) re-invigorated, after a week of busy-ness and exhaustion. I might even be ready for my thirteen hour day tomorrow!

Perfect Saturdays

Now that I'm no longer working on Saturdays, I've been doing a lot of relaxing and drinking coffee.

Seeing I'm not working Fridays anymore either I'm able to get all of my jobs done and leave the weekends for taking it easy!

Today I met up with my sister for a coffee and a chat, some shopping and some discussions about our new project. It's so nice having her a little bit closer than she use to be, and it nice to have someone to go and waste away the afternoon strolling through the city with.

hiding away

....no better place to be on rainy days like this, than hiding away in my workshop. Except for maybe being rugged up in bed??

storybook locket

So, anyone would assume going part-time would give me so much more time to work on creative projects.... It has, but its also made me lazy.... hey, its okay to start with right? I was going to lie and say I've been busy, but really I've just been having a mini-holiday :)

I LOVE making things that move or have secret little hidden compartments. Like lockets! So my idea for this month's project was to make a little book that opened up and was either going to be a locket or just a little box the wearer could keep something in.


At the moment its still in pieces on my bench, but I plan to get finish it off so I will add some photo's at a later date. I think it is going to look good! Eventually..... okay from now on I'm being more organised I promise!

Thanks to everyone that got involved this month!

Miss Maybel
Mr sketchy
Hybrid J
Sophie

Its so exciting to see a range of different responses to the same idea. It was interesting I thought that while my response was quite literal, all the writers seemed to end up with quite sad stories? Or maybe they weren't necessarily sad but that was the impression I got and how they made me feel. A list of anyone involved will be added to the side bar today.

New project starts today, the idea is "missing you". Feel free to play along!! Make sure you send us any links or responses so that we can post them up for everyone to see.

Monthly project: Missing You

So, perhaps off the back of me missing a certain city, this month's theme is 'Missing You'. Of course, the 'you' could be a person, a thing, a place -- it's entirely up to you!

The deadline for responses to this project will be a month from now on Monday 6 April.

As usual, please send any responses through to themondayproject85@gmail.com (you can send us a file, as long as it's not too big, or a link to your response posted on your own blog/site); and they can be in any medium you like.

We'll be posting up this month's responses shortly, so keep an eye out.

Happy creating!

a new little something

Here is a little something I've been working on with my sister. It's fun to be working on something with her, and it gives me a chance to show off how awesome this city of mine really is. It's very early stages so far, so not too much to see, but head over and have a look.

Sundays

I love Sunday mornings. I like to get up (relatively) early, before my housemates have emerged, and read or write in the muted light of my bedroom. Oftentimes I'll have a cup of tea.

Sunday mornings, I've decided, are a good time for me to get things done. Uni things; writing things. I've just finished my first week of the new semester, and I'm feeling excited about the two subjects I'm doing. I'm looking forward to writing a screenplay for one of the subjects; and challenging myself to use the other subject to take another story I'm writing in a vaguely experimental direction.

Part of the second story I'll share with you tomorrow -- I've written it as my response to the Storybook theme. Looking forward to seeing some other responses!