Ink and watercolour - "shells and seedpods"

I found these prompts in the Sunday paper. They are so much fun, I think I'm addicted to them! You might like to try them too.

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• I am obsessed with - making art.
• I can't live without - my family, without question.
• I am petrified of - negativity.
• I am proud of - my strength in adversity.
• I really need to - cut down my food portions - I love my food!
• I don't get why - if the small print is so important, why isn't it bigger?
• I think alternative medicine is - a good thing to try, but always along with traditional medicine.
• I relax by - doing Yoga/Gardening/Reading/Creating Art
• my worst vice is - I haven't done this for ages cos I'm trying to give it up - vegemite (yeast extract) on toast with lots of butter.
• my fridge usually contains - vegetables, cheese, olives, mineral water and mysterious items in jars at the back.
• my teenage years were - lots of fun - days at the beach, movies at the drive-in, watching football, playing netball, dancing the night away.
• my family is - the most important thing in the world.
• my favourite thing is - breakfast on our deck reading the sunday papers with a good cup of coffee.
• friends don't understand why - I don't seem to listen and retain info I've been told. Just absent-minded I guess.
• attitude to exercise is - very good. I like to mix yoga with walking and gardening. It should always be relaxing.
• my relationship with my body is - one of acceptance and gratitude.

Coffee Karma

This design was made originally for a mosaic that I created a while back and is an age-old design that I have always liked. It symbolises the astrological sign of Pisces and also reminds me a little of the Yin/Yang symbol and that fish are powerful good luck energy in Feng Shui. I think they look luminous and mysterious.

I have been reading a post by Bohemian Mom who is making many healthy changes in her life, one of which is to try and eliminate coffee, which she LOVES to drink. I really admire her for this but I was not so sure that coffee was actually a bad guy, if drunk in moderation. So I hunted down a couple of recent Australian articles (both respected sources) about the benefits of coffee and it seems that I was right, coffee is not all bad.


I managed to cut down my coffee intake quite a few years ago, as I found that it can make me jittery and will keep me awake at night if I have more than one cup. Now I have just one LOVELY cup each morning. Because it is my only cup, I make it quite a ritual and buy the best quality I can (more anti oxidants in the good stuff - this is true for chocolate too - have I told you about the benefits of eating chocolate? :):).


I find a sunny or cosy spot to drink it, and of course better still, share a cup with someone. I know all you coffee drinkers out there are nodding your heads in agreement. I know I can't pass up this kind of pleasure, could you?

"I'd Like To Be, Under the Sea.................."

Another friendly creature from under the sea.

I am currently working on another Bush Series painting - a moonlight grevillea, lots of green and yellow this time.

My son is on school holidays at the moment, so the house is full of kids again. I'm painting every chance I get and I'm back into Yoga, (I can't keep away!) it is essential after sitting still and focussed for a couple of hours. The garden is having its winter rest, which means I get a rest from garden chores too.

I am listening to birthday CD's - Missy Higgins latest (popular Australian talent) , Coastal Chill 07 - a compilation of laidback Australian musical talent and a Melanie album with her songs from the sixties Woodstock era. She is an acquired taste for some, but I love the raw and unusual sound of her voice, and of course I'm big on the sixties era, as you know.

Now, I am headed for the kitchen to make some meatballs and tomato sugo for dinner. They were debating on a radio show this morning about whether it was "authentically Italian" to add garlic to the tomato sugo. Me, I just love garlic, so it's going in! Ciao!