Wings Over Wairarapa

Wintry

Upper Plain

Easter Weekend

Saturday

I'm home with my parents for the weekend. All the snow's melted away, though there's still lots on the mountains. We went for a drive this afternoon and found a few patches in the hills, then stopped for afternoon tea in Clareville.

Masterton Sunrise

Georgia, one of my family's two cats, woke me up at 5am this morning, meowing away. I checked my bank balance and found I'd been paid my annual leave from my old job, so that put me in an instant good mood. I decided to get up and take photos of the sunrise. Turns out it was an extremely lame one, but here are a few alright photos. Back to Wellington today! Can't wait to see my "boys".

Artwork and Updates

Check out these TradeMe listings of artwork done by a 16 year old girl from Wellington named Gemma. She's created the images using mostly song lyrics, and I particularly like this one of Frank Sinatra. Auctions will only be available to New Zealanders, but go have a look anyway. She was apparently featured in Hot Auctions earlier which has generated some pretty decent bids. Good on her parent for listing them.

As you non-Reader visitors will notice, I've changed the layout of my blog a bit. Navigation buttons are now across the top- please feel free to give me your feedback on that. I've added a mouse rollover effect, but let me know if you don't think it's clear that they're buttons... I don't want first time visitors to be missing out on my content. Speaking of which, I've updated the actual Artwork and Contact pages as well. Not huge changes, but a new photo of me and a tidier arrangement of my artwork.

The other Internet "news of note" (for me) is that my Facebook artist fan page currently has 110 fans! As promised, now that I have 100+ fans, I will be arranging some sort of giveaway of my work- probably an unframed watercolour, so I can open it to international fans and readers. Will keep you posted on this blog, but if you haven't "liked" my page, and you would like to be in to win, please head over there now so you don't miss out!

I've been in my hometown on and off for the past couple of weeks now. It's been really nice to spend time with my family, but it has really sucked not having the holidays in Wellington with Charlie as I'd planned. It's also frustrating not being able to dive into the ideas I have for new artwork straight away! I don't have any of my supplies and it's been crazy hot (31°C yesterday) almost every day anyway. But I'll be heading back to the city tomorrow, so will have three and a half days of freedom before I start my new job on Monday! Really excited about that. I'm so glad I had the courage to go along to their Christmas function late last year when I knew no one, as I think that will lessen the nerves considerably on Monday morning.

So yeah, a fairly average start to 2011, having not even seen Charlie yet! But despite that I think it's going to be a great year.

Masterton Sunset

Home

Just a quick post to share with you these stunning photos I found on my parents' computer from my home town. I assume they were taken by my Dad, who has a fantastic eye for photography.

I've loved spending time at home these past few days, but looking forward to going home to Charlie and Wallace tomorrow. Hope you all had a magical Christmas! More when I'm back to higher speed Internet!