Bye Bye Birdie

Andy and I went to the Flemington Market this morning to get him some socks. Had a wander around. SO many prams!! Bumped into Shellie. =) And I also picked up this. A little make your own paper bird kit. I bought 2. This is my first one. The paper is a french map. Love it!

The streets of Melbourne....

Two photos...

A little friend I purchased at Singapore Zoo.






My awesome new $5 watch from the Bugis Street Market in Singapore. Love it! It does this awesome disco flashing when you press the light.

Time flies....

I cannot believe it has been 4 weeks since we've gotten back from Malaysia. It has been so busy.



This week I started doing a DSLR photography course at CAE. I've only had one session so far, but it has helped me to understand the basics of my camera a bit more already.



He showed us a program that puts together panoramas really easily. I went back down to Brighton today to take some photos to create one. I know now that I needed to have less overlap and more photographs. Cause they don't actually look that much like panoramas! I took one other one and when I put it together it looked all warped. Weird!!

Exhausted!

Our holiday was amazing, but I am absolutely exhausted. I worked non-stop in the week before we went away - with several late nights at work. As soon as the term was over we were off. Only got back on Sunday (which we slept for most of). Back at school yesterday. My body seems to be punishing me. I'm off on school camp tomorrow, so a recount of our trip and some photos will have to wait until the weekend.

Finished!

I convinced Andy to make dinner for us this evening (thanks Andy xx) so I could try and finish off this wallet. I just needed to put the binding on the edges. To be honest I was a bit concerned that the machine would not make it through the think material and interfacing, but it succeeded.





My binding isn't on particularly straight. From the inside it looks pretty good, but the front is a bit all over the place. Having said, for a first effort, I'm extremely happy! =)

Creating a Travel Wallet

It's only two weeks until we go overseas! I'm so excited. Last time we went we took a travel wallet that my aunt had given me for Christmas. I really loved the idea of it, but unfortunately the design wasn't perfect. I wanted to keep our passports in it, but the pockets weren't big enough. Anyway, I've been on the lookout for a new one and hadn't found one that I loved. I liked one in Kikki-K, but wasn't convinced. Yesterday I decided that I should just try and make one myself.



I googled up a few tutorials this morning and decided upon this wallet by verypurpleperson. I'm really liking her blog. Will definitely be back to try out a few other things.



I tried to alter it a little so that it would wide enough for two passports. Not sure how successful I was with that.



It isn't finished yet. I still have to do the binding on the edges. I'm tossing up whether to create my own out of the spotted material or buy some pre-made black. I just know making binding can be tricky. Hrmmmm.