11/52 portraits of my children

Claudine-following the chooks on all fours, pretending to be one of them in order to get close enough to rub your face in their feathers!

Findlay-when your awake i want to hold you. when your asleep i want to hold you. so just a quick snap until i get the hang of close quarters portraiture!

*i'm still in auto-mode, since i have about 3 seconds a day to take pictures...

week 11 in the 52 portraits of my children project at che and fidel

i loved the colours and shapes in this, my favourite (gosh it was hard to choose this week) of last weeks submitted photographs http://afairytalecomesalive.blogspot.gr/2013/03/1052.html

Aurora watch

Just a quick, exciting F.Y.I...
Space Weather News for March 15, 2013
http://spaceweather.com

INCOMING CME: A magnetic eruption on the sun during the early hours of March 15th hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward Earth. NOAA forecasters estimate a 70% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when the CME arrives on March 17th. High-latitude and possibly even middle-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend. Visit http://spaceweather.com for more information and updates.

Wishing you a cloud free weekend, literally and metaphorically x

aurora image from here. hopefully the next aurora image i post will be from here, as in my back garden!

10/52 Portraits of my children

Claudine-has to put something between herself and the lens when i take her photograph at the moment

Findlay-such a peaceful wee babe


and my fave from last weeks portrait collection at Che and Fidel? the silhouette portrait by muckle mam

the casserole coffin. Op-Shop-Show-Off March 12th, 2013

we discovered this cooler scandinavian cousin of the le cruset at the Rangiora tip shop this week ($10). my researches tell me that this "nacco" enamelled cast-iron cookwear is Danish, and that sold under the brand  "copco" in the USA, some of it was designed by this interesting bloke michael lax. I have no idea whether this is of his design, but it is rather stylish as cook pots go. i also found out it's designated use is as a fish poacher.
now, i'd love to have cooked up a moorish looking fish-dish to show it off in all it's green glazed glory (or perhaps something retro-yum to suits it's lineage) but to date claud has been the only successful fisher person in the whanau. she even placed second in the pre-schoolers section at the local take a kid fishing competition (that's her in the stripes there being awarded her prize-toys and treats). her catches though have been of modest size (and have been frozen as bait for future fishing expeditions) so we're hoping this op-shop find is a sign of good fishing fortune to come, of the adult-sized, poach-able variety. 
in the meantime i've christened it the casserole coffin. 
because of it's shape and my intended use, not my culinary (dis)abilities!

anyway, have you had any luck down the oppy this week yourself?

Care to show us?

are you an Op-Shop Show-Off? or more modest about your superior second hand shopping abilities? 

do you like to linky?

it’s charitable, green, cheap, exciting, fun, nostalgia inducing, potentially lucrative and often just plain necessary. whatever your reason for second hand shopping we’d love it if you joined us on Tuesdays here at blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.com for Op-Shop Show-Off, a linky open to all, all week, to link up a blog post about any aspect of your second-hand shopping life. tell us your op-shopping philosophy, or divulge your secret hunting techniques. let us know about your wants, or skite (English translation= “show-off “) about your amazing finds. review the best op-shopping spots in your town, or request or give information on your fascinating finds, you’ll always be talking to an appreciative audience here.

 How to link up?
1. post your second hand shopping related blog post.

2. link to Op-Shop Show-Off in your blog post, so your blog readers can come over and peruse or post in the linky too.

 3. scroll to the bottom of my latest Tuesday Op-Shop Show-Off post and click on the linky tool, then follow the three easy steps.

 4. don't forget to leave me a comment to let me know you linked up.

 5. have a look at some of the other linkers posts/blogs, they're all people after your own heart!

 6. grab the Op-Shop Show-Off Button from my sidebar to decorate yours (paste the code into a HTML gadget under the 'add a gadget' part of the layout section in blogger and save).

shiny kitchen treasure. Op-Shop Show-Off March 5th, 2013

i was pleased as punch when Terry turned up with this WMF lemon juicer this week ($2). we had a cheap plastic supermarket one that had driven me mad falling over or apart mid juicing for months whilst i waited in hope of scoring an old school heavy glass one. great timing for tabbouleh making with the cherry tomatoes  cucumbers, parsley and mint from our garden. hopefully next year we will use our own lemons too since the TLC we have lavished on our sorry sapling this year appear to be bringing it back from the brink of death by leaf curl and malnutrition.

are you an Op-Shop Show-Off? or more modest about your superior second hand shopping abilities?

do you like to linky?

it’s charitable, green, cheap, exciting, fun, nostalgia inducing, potentially lucrative and often just plain necessary. whatever your reason for second hand shopping we’d love it if you joined us on Tuesdays here at blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.com for Op-Shop Show-Off, a linky open to all, all week, to link up a blog post about any aspect of your second-hand shopping life. tell us your op-shopping philosophy, or divulge your secret hunting techniques. let us know about your wants, or skite (English translation= “show-off “) about your amazing finds. review the best op-shopping spots in your town, or request or give information on your fascinating finds, you’ll always be talking to an appreciative audience here.

 How to link up?
1. post your second hand shopping related blog post.

2. link to Op-Shop Show-Off in your blog post, so your blog readers can come over and peruse or post in the linky too.

 3. scroll to the bottom of my latest Tuesday Op-Shop Show-Off post and click on the linky tool, then follow the three easy steps.

 4. don't forget to leave me a comment to let me know you linked up.

 5. have a look at some of the other linkers posts/blogs, they're all people after your own heart!

 6. grab the Op-Shop Show-Off Button from my sidebar to decorate yours (paste the code into a HTML gadget under the 'add a gadget' part of the layout section in blogger and save).

9/52 Portraits of my Children

Claudine & Findlay-together at last (you've been so patient claud!)


linking in with the portrait project at Che & Fidel

8/52. Portraits of my children

Findlay-silken haired, three days old.

Claudine-adventuring. one thousand , one hundred and sixteen days old. or there abouts

joining in the kid-capturing clickathon that is the Portrait Project at Che and Fidel..