ever since my dad died, once a month i take my mum to a swap card fair in melbourne to hawk her considerable wares. (these are the playing card variety that people collect, not the greeting ones). normally i leave the children with frank and take some stash and scrap in a corner somewhere for the day.
with frank away of course the kids came too. mum has a mantra on slow days at the card fair - ‘if you can’t sell, buy’ – when nothing’s happening it means she has time to check out everyone else’s collections and see what she can onsell to others.
i borrowed her mantra yesterday with the kids in tow, took my camera with me and turned it into ‘if you can’t scrap, shoot’. And shoot we did. The light was beautiful and my wonderful willing subjects had the best day. These shots are straight from camera and complete with dirty faces, but you know, that’s how life is :)
climbing trees

climbing other trees



posing

playing with the last of the autumn leaves
trying to capture mid air flight

and a couple of shots that melt my heart.
love these kids. and love that they can enjoy each others company so much. in between me following them around like the paparazzi, they completed five missions – from securing the area for an alien landing to defeating an enemy before he let all the criminals in the jail escape and ‘adding an element of risk’ with a bomb about to go off. apparently. there was another little girl there yesterday - we only saw her once. she sat in the front room on her ds the whole day. all my experience of them just reaffirms why we only have a playstation that you can’t carry around with you (i know alex would if he could.!)
and more on beautiful light – my bogan girl (check out the white vest and tattooed arm!) creating potions on the driveway
and my boy – this was actually homework about volume and this photo went in his homework book – the only things under a litre i could find for him to put in size order on were his half drunk pop top and alcohol. oops.
and because it’s been a while, thought i’d share some um. scrapbooking. that’s right. that’s what i do!
these two for aussie scrap source – on glimmer mist
what bugs me :)
and finally i’ll share one from my new venture – before we even launch online the pack of goodies that created this layout is all sold out.

on that note i’ll wrap up this mammoth post, and go back us some solstice cookies. winter makes me happy :)