My place and yours...on the wall

 Hello.  How's your weekend going?

As usual, the days seem to just whizz by, tomorrow we have a family birthday to go to, and then it will be the start of another week, I haven't really got into a good rhythm for school routine and 'school term stuff', I am still in summer holiday mode.  Better snap out of that soon!

 I am joining in over at Vic's Place for My Place And Yours today, trying to get back into a bit more regular blogging.  The theme this week is  'On the Wall', so here is a bit of a look at what's on our walls.

I realise our house is quite colourful when I see these photos!! 

Most of the things on our walls are paintings, I used to have other bits and pieces hanging around, but when we had the walls painted, I never got around to putting all the hooks back.  It was 10 years ago, so I probably should get onto that!

I have dabbled in a bit of painting over the years, and this one above is supposed to be of snapdragons........ I seem to come back to a similar colour palette in everything I do, it's a bit too coordinated for my liking, but I seem to be drawn to a certain pool of colours no matter what I do!

.......I like these 2 abstract colour paintings that were rolled up in a corner of my aunts cupboard.

I think they are happy in their new life.

 I also have a fair bit of the boys early artworks on the walls, I love Andre's Toucan that he drew with oil pastels (one of my favourite mediums) when he was in prep (about 5 years old)........

 ......More art from the boys down the hall.........

 ..........this one is of a bushfire, by Andre, (age7 or 8) pretty good huh?......

Unfortunately soon after this prolific period of creativity, the art from the boys dried up and I have nothing much after they were in early primary school.  Must try to encourage them to get creative again.

Having said that, Jesse is doing Visual Communications and Design as a VCE subject for year 11 this year, and they do do art at school, but they don't do much at home anymore. Sigh.

Hopefully they will come back to creating things at some time in their lives, it is such a joyous outlet to have.

 ........This is a bit of my 'inspiration board' , unfortunately, it is looking a bit sparse, I've had to use a few cards for presents!

......and finally this is my port-holey mirror in our room, and you can see some of Gary's Doctor Who book collection in the reflection.  Yes, there is plenty of colour in this place!

Hope you all have a fun day! 

Bye.

My Place And Yours....GREEN!!

OK, I'm joining in with the girls over at Vic's Punky and Me and her meme 'My Place and Yours' today.  How could I resist?  The topic was GREEN!!  One of my favourite colour bits of the spectrum!

So here we go, a gorgeous spring green here, 

plenty of green at our place, 

in small stuff,

found hanging around,

in from the outside,

 still outside and not quite in,

fab fabrics,

on the walls,

  

in the kitchen,  (all action here for a late night  birthday bake up),

even the window frames don't miss out.

In fact every where I look here I find bits of green in all it's beautiful shades.

I might search out other colours in our place for something to do one day, and make a series of rainbow- at - home posts, might be a nice colourful series.

Have a look at the other guys  MPAY green visions over at Vic's.

Have a great day, see you soon.

Christmas (twig) tree..........

Our Christmas twigs looking a bit forlorn and presentless.

 It has been a full on week here, blogging got put on the back burner, but I am back into it now!

I am joining in with My Place and Yours over at the lovely Punky and Me for the first time today, I saw the theme was Christmas and thought I might as well jump on the band wagon!

We did the tree yesterday, I use the term 'tree' loosely, as it is kind of a sticky, leafless version of a tree.   We are going for an airy, eclectic, whimsical Dr Seuss-y feel at our place this year, and this is how it turned out. You may laugh.

It is surprisingly tricky to find suitable twiggy branches that have enough little stubby bits to hang our assortment of children-made, me-made and trashy decorations.  Very tricky indeed.  I thought it would be easy as we live in a kind of bushy place, but gum trees don't make very good stubby branches, too smooth and not branchy enough, and the scrubby undergrowth doesn't yield much in the way of sticks at all.

So our stick collecting was a bit of a fail, I had to resort to the pruned bits of our flowering cherry tree and cut off all the dead leafy bits. But they do work well I think.

We were going to spray paint the sticks, but my son's spray paint stash was down to gold only and it wasn't a very nice shade (looks more like vomit green to me), so we have gone with the naturale colour scheme.

Had to wedge the star off to the side rather than the top, as this was the only bit of suitable Stick Intersection.

Looks good at night though.

Definitely lots of airy bits!......

.....and I think once I do some Christmas shopping and get a few pressies under it, it will look like the super freak tree that it is!!  It will...I just know it.... I promise.....yes it will....I'm sure....

Oh well, the boys think it looks pretty interesting (it got the high praise of 'cool'), so that is the whole point of decorating the Christmas tree anyway, isn't it?

Hope your festive preparations are going well too!