This blog is turning into a bit of a preggy pic post shop but it seems I don't have much time for musing...unless about pregnancy!  God, it's rather consuming isn't it?   We're really busy - moving house in a few weeks - to a much smaller place - so packing and organising, buying Christmas presents (15 people to buy for this year...just...

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Andy's gone to Wellington for four nights.  Boo's wandering about looking sad and sniffing his shoes.  I'm watching episode after episode of Project Runway, eating nashi pears noisely and star-fish-ing on the bed.  We just deal with it in different ways. Andy's gone to Wellington for four nights.  Boo's wandering about looking sad and sniffing his shoes.  I'm watching episode after episode of...

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It's weird - when we decided* to try and get pregnant, I didn't really think much about it all.  We were really lucky and it happened very quickly so maybe we didn't realise what path we were setting ourselves off on.  It's not like we're young and/or foolish, we're 34/35 and been together for 12 years and we wanted to make a baby...

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I know it's early days but the excuse to shop for baby's room has been irresistible - even if the room doesn't yet exist.  I just hope the new house (we have yet to find) is big cause I'm showing no signs of slowing. And I realise I'm leaning on the girly side of decorating but I figure this room is really for...

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A weekend to remember.  On Friday we found out we are having a beautiful wee baby boy!  The lady doing the scan put the jelly on, touched the doppler-scanner-thing to my tummy and bingo!  Balls on screen!  She said she's never seen a baby boy show his bits so quickly and later on, when I pressed her to make certain it was a...

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I've not been updating this blog for the last couple of months mainly because of two things...one awful, one WONDEROUS! Awful: My camera kit was stolen from my car - a total bummer and the second time we've been robbed since we've been back in NZ.  I've just ordered a new camera and I'll be back snapping and squirreling memories away on this...

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Peru and Bolivia 2010 Just went through my images of our travels in Sth America, Maria and Mike want some for their new apartment in Athens.  Good memories.  I'm wondering if I have enough for a small exhibition at The Depot so  I think I'll go through them and post those I think might work as prints, build up an idea.  Any feedback...

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Glorious day at Muriwai Beach - walked for a few hours along the beach and saw horses play in the surf, tons of happy dogs and a washed up shark.  Finished up with beers at Halletau.  And the best bit is we have tomorrow off too.  Thank you Queenie. And Boo is MUCH better too - he is showing us his true colours...

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Little Boo is part of this home now and he has taken over.  He is a rascal and a monkey and a very, very sweet little creature.  He loves to be held and carried, not so keen on pats, loves clawing our sofas and skidding across our polished wood floors, likes to burrow under blankets to nap, sit on keypads, hang with his...

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1234567 1.  Checking out Charlotte Rust's house in Auckland (The Selby) 2.  Being told by our landlords that we can get a cat - YAAAAY! This little guy's a Devon Rex. 3.  Sarah's dahl and yogurt  4.  Finding new vintage fabrics   5.  Reading Gordon McLauchlan's 'Loving All of It' with the windows open to the rain "Life can only be understood backwards...

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Moved in to our new house and slowly getting our things out.  We have tons of artwork to be framed so the walls look a little bare and I have several furniture projects which include sanding and reupholstering so it's going to take a while before it'll feel finished.  But I love that we don't need curtains for our bedroom window as the...

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1 - 5.  Spreewald in Berlin.  It used to be the place to go for East Berliner's.  Abandoned after reunification and left to rot while liberated Germans holiday-ed wherever they pleased.  I was very lucky to get entry and went and shot there.  You could almost hear the Oompah bands and smell the wurst but it had been empty for  20 years. 6....

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Pictures I took in Istanbul.  The guy selling tickets is blind.  People were feeding the pigeons and going to mosque.  The bazaar is up the hill and around the corner.  We'd spent hours choosing the right coffee grinder to buy and trying to find out prices of beautiful rugs without actually asking - we knew we didn't have enough money anyway. ---- The...

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Today I went to a mannequin factory which we hope will be the subject of a documentary project.  I thought it might be cliched, art school photographers always manage to pull out a few mannequin shots but it was pretty special.  Little vignettes play out everywhere, a glance thrown over a haughty shoulder, an accusing finger pointing out a sheepish character in a...

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