Loving the Royal Show

Each year we go to the Perth Royal Show with our friend Richard. We love, love, love it, and wouldn't miss it for the world!

I ADORE the bright colours, the showbags, the sounds, the hot donuts, looking at the huge rides, the rows and rows of fluffy toys, the jewellery stores, the home shopping pavilion, the show bags and the fireworks. So fun!

The best day of the year!

The Maze

I didn't get a chance to see my Dad on Father's Day, as he was out with friends who were over from Sydney for a few days. But we got together a couple of weeks ago and visited The Maze, and had a great time! I'm very time poor at the moment, hence the big breaks between posts, but here are some random shots of the Maze that I didn't have time to put in chronological order!

Ballooning

I had some amazing dreams last night! One of them was about being lifted by one helium balloon to have a short flight over parklands. When I woke up I was fascinated by this because it was so much fun in the dream! I looked up how many balloons it would take to lift a person, and in actual fact it takes 4000 helium balloons!!! The next entry on google was about cluster ballooning, which, while not 4000 balloons, takes some pretty big balloons to get one person up into the air. But high in the air you can go! I think I'd be too scared to do this, and besides, you need a lot of training, but the pictures sure do look incredible!

(All images from here)

So pretty!

Book Week Dress-Ups

Last week during Book Week at school, we all were invited to dress as a character from a book.
Jack won first prize for the Year 6 classes with his totally cool Joker costume:

After I convinced my prac student, Gemma to dress up as Alice (because with her youthfulness and blonde hair she can do it justice!),

I  made my own hat and tie and dressed somewhat like the Mad Hatter

(I just have to have some Wonderland in my life when I can!)

Day 8 - A photo that makes you sad

Okay, so I'm travelling to the beat of my own drum right now, and this post is two weeks late (work has been stressy), but I'm taking this moment to share a photo that makes me sad.

Just looking at this photo from the movie City of Angels, makes me think of its tragic, sad ending which made me cry and cry and cry, you know the sobbing, snorting kind of crying? I still think it's a beautiful movie, but wish it didn't have to end that way. See it when you can, and have tissues handy.

30 Day Blog Journal Day 4,5,6 and 7!

I'm playing catch up again!

Day 4: MY FAVOURITE BOOKS

I've read so, so many beautiful books, but these ones had a huge affect on me:

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Narnia Chronicles were recommended to me by my teacher in Year 5 when I was looking for a good book to read. What a thrill! Genius narration, and my first experience of a fantasy world. (Who has looked into a wardrobe and hoped it lead to Narnia??) I also read the whole set to my best friend when I was fifteen, and we cried and cried during the final scenes of the Last Battle. Brilliant!

Robin Hobb's Books

My Mum picked up the first one of these Liveship Traders books by Robin Hobb at our local newsagency. What a lucky find! I was completely blown away by the writing, the characters, and especially the idea of a ship quickening into a live ship that talks to people! Serpents, dragons, ships, pirates, ballgowns, islands, and tree top living. Love, love, love this series and all of Robin Hobb's other books. Best fantasy book writer of ALL TIME!

The Time-Traveller's Wife

This year's favourite read has been this one. I was so totally drawn into the story and its characters. I love anything to do with time-travel, parallel worlds, fantasy worlds, and this was just beautiful and awful at he same time. Gorgeous love story, and the movie was the perfect visual match. I treasure them both!

DAY 5: FAVOURITE QUOTE

There are many, but I keep coming back to this one:

image by pippiphooray

Day 6: 20 FAVOURITE THINGS

Family

Books
Films

Blogging

TV

Magazines

Paper

Drawing

Crafting

Colours

Rainbows

Balloons

Flowers

Notebooks

Children

Photos

Clothes

Cats

Decorating

Sleeping

Day 7: A PHOTO THAT MAKES ME HAPPY

Cherry Blossoms - I can never have enough of looking at them!