flatus

We are avid Mythbusters fans and they did a segment about Flatus that we thought it would be fun to do. So armed with personal recording devices (notepad and texta on a beaded necklace, we recorded our 24hours of flatus. 

Lots of fun with some very interesting results.

christmas 2018

With harvest being a bit tricky this year we've not finished prior to Christmas which is unusual for us. This year was to be a Firth Christmas as last year we spent it with my brother as it was our first Christmas since Dad passed away.

With partners and kids away on Christmas Day, we all celebrated Christmas on Boxing Day. We drove over on the actual Christmas Day to Adelaide in the heat and spent time with Sharon and Steven that evening. It was our Christmas Eve.

The next day was loud, busy, relaxing, noisy, family, hugs and lots of banter. And it was our Christmas Day. And it was perfect.

These guys just rocked it. I'm looking forward to next Christmas's coordinated wardrobe effort.

Harvest was calling so we hot footed it back home early next day. It was effing hot (Pt Aug was 46) but thankfully the aircon in the car copped remarkably well and the engine didn't over heat, thank goodness. We were home in good time and out to the header he went. 

14 hours round trip driving for 36hr stop over in Adelaide. And it was all worth it.

explore

Gotta love a silhouette cut file. 

tumby bay christmas pageant.

I took the Trishaw over the hill to Tumby to visit our sister Cycling Without Age chapter on Thursday for the Uringa Christmas lunch for the residents there to have a look at it and for them to have a chance to go out for a ride in it. It was awesome to see the enthusiasm there as I took out 10 passengers for a lap around the block and along the foreshore to feel the breeze and to smell the salt in the air. 

On Friday evening was the Tumby Christmas Pageant and I had two very excited +90 year olds in the front for their unique perspective of the parade.

We stopped often for their friends to trot out into the slow moving parade for them to hug, a handshake, a kiss on the cheek or a quick hello for the passengers. Kevin and Melva, were absolute gems. So excited, throwing out the lollies with abandon, blowing crazy amounts of bubbles and certainly didn't want to get out of the trishaw when we finished up. I loved their zest for life and thanked them for being the ambassadors in Tumby Bay for others to see what the trishaw is all about.

Nipper the Crab, the Tumby Bay mascot, danced alongside us with our 50 different versions of Jingle Bells playlist. She certainly did have twinkle toes.

I was excited to feel and see the impressive amount of interest from the Tumby Bay community for their upcoming trishaw, due late January.

Natasha Clark instigated the dream and has worked long and hard towards it becoming a reality. With help from Lisa Fitzgerald, who wrote the successful grant, and Julie Elliott who loves (??) the paperwork side of it so they ready to GO GO GO as soon as their trishaw lands in Tumby.

Merry Christmas Tumby Bay, and we here at Cummins, cant wait to see your 2019 Christmas present get on the road and the bike path right along the seafront.

present & in awe

Love the watercolours in this one. Paints pinched from Gina's paintbox. xxx

movember 2018

Every now and then I set up a photo just because of the embellishments I have in my stash or have found recently. And Movember is just such a case. I found the big mo as a drink straw fun thing in Kmart recently, and I knew I had the tiny little mo's that I found in Cheap as Chip ages ago. The Moustache style guide is from the Movember website. And the green circle embellie mo was as and punched out from patterned paper. The little strip of mo's under the photo was the reverse side of a product company strip that's on 12x12 printed papers.

cool

Layout lifted in essence from Stefanie Ried. I was able to use all sorts of bits and pieces. All I kept in mind was a basic colour scheme throughout which was mint, pale yellow, kraft, blue and black. The only leave from those colours was the round question mark paper clip, but I love it so I wanted to use it with the circular theme.

merry christmas

Apt timing for this layout as its December, even tho the photo was taken 2011.

The silver snowflake embelly was found in Kmart a couple of years ago, the Merry Christmas was a cake topper, the holly doily in our local IGA last year and the holly leaves in IGA this year. The fine silver mesh was from Cheap As Cheaps a year or so ago.  And the poinsettia is years old from Prima. I use the berries from the hollies to make up the centres of the poinsettias.

eagles

The minis coach and I worked on a secret squirrel project during the 2018 footy season with the players. All the kids knew was I had to take a couple of photos of them in their guernsey and an action shot or two.

The coach had the brilliant idea of making footy cards with their own footy photos, their number, their stats and a comment. These cards were presented at the end of the junior season at the Club Junior Count night.

The kids (and parents) LOVED it. 

I must acknowledge and thank Lisa Warner, Meryl Weetra and Kate Hancock who supplied action photos for those players I wasn't able to get. I couldn't have done it without their help.