Spring is here!

I love the first two weeks of September, when, like clockwork, our cherry blossom tree wakes up and smiles at the world. Here are the first blossoms:



The rest of the garden joins in on the fun too.

I have a theory that a house with flowers in the front yard, has friendly people inside. Do you find this to be true?

Wendy xx

Colour and light

And now for something completely different.... When I was young and ambitious, I wanted to be the singer in a band, and one idea I had for a band name was The Julia Set. I love the way it sounds, I think Julia is a pretty name, and I am intrigued by what a julia set is. It is a type of fractal, which mathematically (although the jargon is a bit beyond me, so I'll leave it out), is a repeating pattern. They occur naturally in the environment in flowers, shells, waves and clouds, and in manmade items such as doileys, fireworks, architecture, and staircases, but mostly they are generated in computer graphics programmes. They look amazing as scrapbooking paper.

Here is a selection of julia sets from Google images. I think they are beautiful!

Finally!! I black- appled my house!

Many of you will be familiar with the black apple etsy shop and blog - I LOVE their work! A few months ago I bought some postcards from the shop and bought frames for them from Ikea. They have sat and sat and sat, and today, just now, I FINALLY put them above my piano, where I've always wanted them!!! (note the excitement!) Part of the delay has just been waiting for a moment when my hubby was free to hang them, but then I discovered...3M Command Picture Hanging Strips, which, given my technological ignorance, you've probably all been using for AGES!! Well, they were up in a blink of an eye, and I am one happy girl!

P.S. Don't worry, the gold line around the room IS straight even if it doesn't look like it in this picture!

Whimsy

For those of you who haven't had a chance to explore my etsy shop, Whimsical Works, I just wanted to let you know that the finished Wizard of Oz card sets look really pretty, like this:

And with the lids open:

Love 'em!

Wizard of Oz drawings

Aaah, tricked you! You thought they were going to be my drawings, but actually I couldn't resist showing you the Wizard of Oz drawings that my Pre-Primary kids made. We watched some of the DVD one day when it was raining, and then I asked them to draw pictures of each of the four main characters, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the Lion. Here are some of their beautiful creations:

Just adorable!

Pinwheels

The Pre-Primary kids made HUGE pinwheels at school. 

We're on the road to nowhere...

My boys went out for a drive in our new car, and I haven't had a chance to post the pictures until now, so here they are.


They found some old, adandoned shacks and machinery.

The ocean looks so inviting!

Jack, having a catalogue moment.

This jump looks like fun!