Photography

Happy Monday, I hope you all had a lovely weekend! I had a busy weekend but a good one. I spent some time with Nicholas and his friends on Friday. We walked the dog, ran around in the park and played board games. In the afternoon I took Nicholas out for coffee and cake in order for us to have some mother/son time then we went shopping for new school supplies.

Saturday was a busy day for me with a full day course/training so I was inside all day, however the training was beneficial and the day was productive.

Sunday was lovely, after church we went to our FOOD Affair and wandered around the 40 odd stalls of local produce and wines. Sampled lots of yummy things and relaxed in the shade, on the picnic rug, finishing my glass of wine and reading the free Country Style magazine that they were handing out! Perfect afternoon!

I also spent some time playing with WH's camera. You see, he is the photographer in our house and he is very talented where as I just point and shoot and I don't know what any of the fancy buttons and dials do!

I received a bunch of flowers from work on Thursday and promptly dismantled the bunch and arranged them in my garage sale bottles/vases. Do you leave your bunch of flowers as they come or do you take them apart and arrange them as you like? I do both. WH usually buys me a bouquet of Oriental Lilies and the florist always arranges them beautifully so I put them straight into a big vase and enjoy them as they are! Once they start to die and I have less and less of them I transfer the remaining blooms into smaller vases/containers so that I can get as much mileage out of them as possible. I really love fresh flowers.

If I get a bunch of mixed flowers I will usually take the bouquet apart and rearrange them in smaller groups.

I was inspired to practice my photography skills after reading Kat's post over at Low Tide High Style. Kat is giving away an autographed copy of Scott Kelby's book - The Digital Photography Book. I am so impressed with Kat's photos and I would love to improve my skills so here's hoping I win. If you are interested head over and check it out. The giveaway closes tonight. You can click on the link here to visit.

In the mean time I will keep practicing and asking WH for his tips! Have a great week! xx

Monday Catchup

I am back home and back at work : ( It is so hard to get back to reality after spending time away relaxing but one good thing is I can catch up with all of my favourite bloggers and enjoy some really beautiful images and reading some very inspiring posts!

I have also found these wonderful giveaways from some really generous and lovely people!

Home and Harmony The beautiful Rie at Home and Harmony is having her first giveaway and the lucky winner will get to choose between two styles of glassware. To find out more about Rie's giveaway at Home and Harmony click here Low Tide High Style

Lovely Kat from Low Tide High Style is hosting a giveaway and up for grabs are these gorgeous sterling silver and blue pottery shard earrings. Tara designs and makes her own jewellery and you can visit her site Scarborough Shells by clicking here

To find out more about Kat's giveaway visit her at Low Tide High Style here.

My House of Giggles

The adorable Tracey from My House of Giggles is having a fabulous giveaway and offering her lucky readers the opportunity to win Atlanta Bartlett's 'At home with White'.

For more details on how to win this lovely book visit Tracey at My House of Giggles here.

I had a great time in Melbourne but unfortunately I did not take many photos as we forgot to take the camera most of the time. I will check what photos I have and see if they are worth sharing. In the mean time don't forget to enter my celebration giveaway here!

Hope you are all having a wonderful Monday! xx