My First Photo Club Meeting

25th August, 2010

This is my new hobby. For my birthday I purchased a new camera a Nikon D5000. Spent way to much money but hey I don't do it that often. So with this new u-bute Camera that I don't know how to work I went along to the Shoalhaven Photography Club. And what a night to go for the first time. They held a workshop on low light. Here are a couple of my photos from that night.

Who knew you could do such cool things with a camera. So....................

When we had no power for 60 hours, to fill in our time before bed we went for a drive and had a play with a few things.

Clay Animation day 3

19th August, 2010

Well it was the final day of animation. Today rather than working just with clay, the kids used different mediums. Master J & L painted a back drop for their mini movie and used bionicle men.

 The world created by Masters J & L

 Miss E kept her self busy with painting

We are still waiting for the finished product to be put onto a dvd for the kids. hopefully we shall have it soon.

Baking with Ruby and Leonard

August, 2010

I know I am seriously behind in my blogging but better late than never.

Miss E borrowed the book  "Ruby and Leonard and the Great Big Surprise" from the library, which then led us to a baking frenzy. Below are the results of our own great big surprise.

Miss E's Artwork

August, 2010

As the title says this is just a photo of a drawing by Miss E who is 5.

Cup Biscuits anyone?

2nd July, 2010

We have taken on visiting a nursing home and doing some activities with the residents there. For our first adventure together we thought we would make some cup biscuits. So before doing it at the nursing home we thought we had better have a go at making them ourselves.

First you need a packet of Tic Toc Biscuits, a roll of musk life savers, Marshmallows, Chocolate Freckles and icing sugar.

You need to cut the musk life savers in half. We found that most of the time it was easier to break them in half with your fingers. You also need to make up a paste with icing sugar and water. You do not need a lot.

Take a  marshmallow and put a small blob of icing sugar paste on the bottom and join to a biscuit.

Take half of a musk and join it to the marshmallow with some icing paste.

Take a chocolate freckle and put some more icing paste on the bottom and join to the top of the marshmallow. Repeat steps until all biscuits have been made.

They look great, they taste great.

Clay Animation

June 10th and July 29th, 2010

We had a gathering of homeschoolers to do a clay animation workshop. Lucky for us the nextdoor neighbour of one of the homeschoolers  runs his own animation business, Bunyin Films, and he was happy to run a couple of workshop with the kids.

We we get get a copy of their 3 second films I shall try and work out how to put them on so you can view their creations. We have one more session left to go on the 19th August.

Catheter Covers

I was asked a couple of weeks ago if I could sew some covers for some male residents at a nursing home. After all who would not want to cover a catheter bag. The ones that strap to your leg are not so bad as they sit under your trousers, but some have the night bag during the day that hangs from 2 hooks. So I took the challenge.Here is the catheter bag that I brought home to use as my model.

And here is the end product:

The two tabs at the top allow room for the hooks. The bottom is left open for easy access to drain the bag and for checking. I made 7 bags today, all the same material so I hope the guys like motorbikes.