Sunday, August 28, 2011
Day 217- Fail
6 August 2011- I need to come up with a nifty graphic for this, I do it so often. In all fairness, this is about the time I was diagnosed with EBV (glandular fever/mono) so I was a tad distracted.
Day 216- Shopping trolleys
5 August 2011- Blogger ate my clever words about the trolleys, so no further explanation possible
Postcard 105- Russia
Received 4 August 2011- A very snowy card of St Petersbourg. Part of the round robin
Day 215 - Crochet
3 August 2011- I enrolled in a learn to crochet class- it was a fun exercise. Here is my first project, a face washer. It is entirely double crochet (UK terms) and very simple.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Day 214- Like a Spoon
2 August 2011- My new mouse from Japan- a nice cordless model called (seriously) "Like a Spoon". It is a nice mouse to use, and since it is wireless, it doesn't matter that I prefer to use it left handed (the cleaners used to switch my old one back to the other side of the computer).
Day 212- Resting the eyes
31 July 2011 - I think Greg may be a little tired in this picture. I would have been sitting at the close end of the couch, which is why he sleeping with his feet on the side table.
Day 211- Art precinct
30 July 2011- Brisbane now has two nice art musuems, with the State Library in between. The walk between is nice, with a cafe under the Library and trees and open spaces. We went to see an exhibition of an Australian artist couple from the impressionist era.
Postcard 100- China
Received 29 July 2011- from China, although the sender usually resides in the Netherlands. Part of the round robin
Postcard 99- Ukraine
Received 29 July 2011- From Ukraine, as part of the round robin. It is apparently an illustration for a story, the artist is Alena Kudryashova.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Day 210- Cake!
29 July 2011- It was my sister's birthday, so big family dinner. The remains of the chocolate cake.
Postcard 97 Ukraine
Received 28 July 2011- This is the national museum of art in Ukraine. Received as part of the round robin
Postcard 96 - Netherlands
Received 28 July 2011 from the Netherlands. Art influenced by Tintin artist Herge.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Postcard 95 - Russia
Received 28 July 2011, as part of the round robin. A postcard of St Petersburg, a city I would love to visit. I studied St Petersburg in college, when I was in Geneva. So the mention does bring back the faintly stressful air of being a mediocre french speaker in a post-graduate class (I can't beleive I was allowed to take it) all in French. I still remember the day the Professor informed me of the exam that I thought I wasn't going to take. Scary.
Postcard 94 - Belarus
Received 28 July 2011 from Grodno in Belarus. It's a school. Another round robin card
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Postcard 93- China
Arrived 28 July 2011 from China as part of the round robin. A cute and interesting illustration
Postcard 92- Germany
Another card received 28 July 2011 (it was the first day for about 10 days that we checked the mail). This was another round robin card from Germany (despite the card itself being a picture of Ecuador!)
Postcard 91 - Australia
Received 28 July 2011 from Melbourne. A Monet from the Musee Marmottan in Paris.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Postcard 90- Netherlands
This card received 28 July 2011, as part of a round robin. The artist is Monica Maas, I think I will be looking out for some of her other illustrations, I would have loved a cubby house like this as a kid.
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