but you have to start somewhere …..

This is a big project; one we have sat on for many years, just ask our kids, but have finally began.  We are at demolition stage, or as our daughter mentioned to her class in show and tell yesterday … our house is being demented.  And just looking at it here well the word demented is appropriate although she meant to say demolished.  Delightful Miss B wrote it up in her comments to keep book.

So this doesn’t relate to print as art directly.  But as crushed and demented as it now appears it is a canvas nonetheless and our vision is big and bold and beautiful.  Above all it will be a home for family and friends and it will be filled with our art.  So I will use these pages as part of an artful journey and a keepsake.

Some of the best photos are the ones we take because we can click a look, an expression, an action, a moment that will be savoured over time because at the time it really meant something to us.

Sorrento Back Beach | Rockpool

This year for the first time we took our children to Sorrento.  This is Ethan jumping off the big rock into the Sorrento Rockpool for the first time.  The kids watched from the sidelines until they plucked up enough courage to do it for themselves.

I reckon these bags are the bestest Christmas present.  Custom Printed, Custom Designed, Personalised with Your Children’s Artwork, Durable, Functional and Beautiful Mementos.  Our grandma uses hers for knitting!  Put it in the gift file for 2010. These bags were sent only last week, all sixteen of them to Glebe in NSW.  News in is that everyone else has seen the final product at the kindergarten and they all want one. 

Sally Jo changed the design to add a black and white pattern print to the sides of her bag and kept the children’s drawings on the front and back.  Sally Jo downloaded the pattern from Fotolia. Lauren wasn’t so sure that it would work but I knew where Sally Jo was going, doesn’t make it look so much like a kiddy bag.  The contrast works really well.  It’s a hit! 

Here’s the end result.

Hilder Booler Kindergarten bags

Childrens’ Kinder Drawings, Printed Shopping Bag, Fete this weekend … will reveal more next week.