seattle
after a 3 hour delay in narita and the immensely frustrating experience of boarding, stowing luggage, sitting on the ground for 90 minutes and then being herded off the plane again….we finally arrived in seattle. to be quite frank, the entire customs and immigration process, with finger-printing and mugshots, passed in a sort of tired [...]
narita
we arrived in narita in the evening after an unventful flight and pretty much vanished into various hotel rooms to recuperate and prepare for the slightly longer narita-seattle leg.in the middle of the night, tokyo was hit with a reasonable-sized earthquake, which, woke my husband with rattling glass and shaking bed for a minute or [...]
seattle
after a 3 hour delay in narita and the immensely frustrating experience of boarding, stowing luggage, sitting on the ground for 90 minutes and then being herded off the plane again….we finally arrived in seattle. to be quite frank, the entire customs and immigration process, with finger-printing and mugshots, passed in a sort of tired [...]
narita
we arrived in narita in the evening after an unventful flight and pretty much vanished into various hotel rooms to recuperate and prepare for the slightly longer narita-seattle leg.in the middle of the night, tokyo was hit with a reasonable-sized earthquake, which, woke my husband with rattling glass and shaking bed for a minute or [...]
some random etsy favourites
pretty things that have caught my eye recently:new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(5251488, ‘favorites’,'gallery’,4,2).renderIframe();
soapmaking frenzy
production is at a peak of manic volume around here….with only 5 full days left before we take off for canada and the USA. we’ve managed to already pack and ship the august orders for our big accounts…..but it still means that a crazy amount of soap has to be stored for the next month.deep [...]
some random etsy favourites
pretty things that have caught my eye recently:new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(5251488, ‘favorites’,'gallery’,4,2).renderIframe();
soapmaking frenzy
production is at a peak of manic volume around here….with only 5 full days left before we take off for canada and the USA. we’ve managed to already pack and ship the august orders for our big accounts…..but it still means that a crazy amount of soap has to be stored for the next month.deep [...]
update from the coalface…err, soapface.
not a lot of blogging happening here of late!i am suffering from a rubbishy internet connection (thank you telstra)…and i’ve been busy with one thing and another. we had a lovely lunch party here on saturday.we were celebrating the imminent departure of a friend, who is off to shanghai to teach english for a couple [...]
update from the coalface…err, soapface.
not a lot of blogging happening here of late!i am suffering from a rubbishy internet connection (thank you telstra)…and i’ve been busy with one thing and another. we had a lovely lunch party here on saturday.we were celebrating the imminent departure of a friend, who is off to shanghai to teach english for a couple [...]
pink ginger
my friend charlie gave me a bunch of these dramatic pink gingers….he grows them and sells them at our market.
a winter dinner
my mother and my husband cut soap tonight…which left me with an unexpected window of time to make something gorgeous for a late dinner. first, i peeled and roughly chopped some apples.i threw those in a pot with some apple cider vinegar, sherry, water, sugar, allspice, fresh ginger, muscatel raisins and orange zest.i let this [...]
pink ginger
my friend charlie gave me a bunch of these dramatic pink gingers….he grows them and sells them at our market.
naturally black and white
i adore black and white photography….there is a very pure melancholy about it.here is our elegant miss mousie….a silver tabby.who better for a black and white close up?
a winter dinner
my mother and my husband cut soap tonight…which left me with an unexpected window of time to make something gorgeous for a late dinner. first, i peeled and roughly chopped some apples.i threw those in a pot with some apple cider vinegar, sherry, water, sugar, allspice, fresh ginger, muscatel raisins and orange zest.i let this [...]
naturally black and white
i adore black and white photography….there is a very pure melancholy about it.here is our elegant miss mousie….a silver tabby.who better for a black and white close up?
grevillea
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } L1010240, originally uploaded by pattiflynn. i love grevilleas and have had quite a few planted in our garden.this is the very first bloom!the tree is still tiny, but it is going to be covered [...]
something blooming in my garden
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } L1010221, originally uploaded by pattiflynn. took a pic of this pretty little yellow blossom in my garden this afternoon.
grevillea
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } L1010240, originally uploaded by pattiflynn. i love grevilleas and have had quite a few planted in our garden.this is the very first bloom!the tree is still tiny, but it is going to be covered [...]
something blooming in my garden
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } L1010221, originally uploaded by pattiflynn. took a pic of this pretty little yellow blossom in my garden this afternoon.
serious about soap
today i was talking to one of my gorgeous customers at the market, and she tells me about her house she is building. she has just had to get the builders to redo the contract for the bathroom because the original contract had allowed only for a “little tiny standard soap dish with only one [...]
serious about soap
today i was talking to one of my gorgeous customers at the market, and she tells me about her house she is building. she has just had to get the builders to redo the contract for the bathroom because the original contract had allowed only for a “little tiny standard soap dish with only one [...]
i can haz vegieburger?
iz big bok choy….
a soap photo by certified su
i met certified su on flickr, while i was admiring her dramatic images of our local scenery.she came to yungaburra market last saturday and came in and introduced herself and bought some soap. i went to her flickr site this morning, to show her work to my husband, because he met her too.and there on [...]
eating locally
my husband has been obsessed with fish farms for years.they’ve always seemed a bit unnatural to me.here we are MILES from the sea…and yet, you can catch a fresh barramundi…..bizarre.i’ve always subtly vetoed the fish farm dinner….but every time we drive past one, he makes a comment or he just stares wistfully out the window, [...]
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