Friday, March 18, 2011

smile for the weekend

quote: Kobi Yamada      
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Friday, March 11, 2011

8 legged homes

Another sign of autumn are the number of spiders spotted around our garden - if they capture insects, especially mossies, stay out of the house, they are earn their keep to stay!

st andrew's cross spider
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Ok, they are not cute or cuddly but the St Andrews spider has some lovely colours and pattern markings.

leaf curl spider
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golden orb weaving spider
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The golden orb has been around since about mid summer, however now along with their webs they have got much bigger - the little packages on her web are past meals to show off how good she is at catching her dinner.
 
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I wonder what is hiding in there?  On second thoughts, when they hide in holes that is where they can stay.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

purple autumn

A week into autumn the darker mornings with a slight chill are creeping in. Once the sun comes out and warms the day up, it becomes one of those beautiful Sydney autumn days topped off with the sight of a lasiandra in full bloom.

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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
 Alice Walker
 
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Friday, March 4, 2011

hanging around?

fruit bat (current home The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney)
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Where ever you are hanging out this weekend, have a good one.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

monkey island

Like many boys, my son choose a pirate theme for his party.  As a party does not happen without invitations, I set to work on a few sketches for them, and went with this.

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We had already got a 'Happy Birthday' banner with a monkey on, so Monkey Island had to be the party island for all these young pirates.  The finished invites were washed over with paint to give an aged look and painted  (unfortunately, I did not make any spares nor did I take a pic of the finished invitation to show you).

The same design was applied to the cake.

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Then one sunny day the pirates arrived, played their pirate games, found pirate treasure, ate a pirate's feast and of course some pirate cake.