Things are gettin' hairy!

Christmas and New Year...





were...




wonderful...



and then...

Now I know you have all heard about the rain in Oz, especially in Queensland where I live. I was talking to Cat, from La Dolce Vita the other day. She was asking if we had had any of the awful flooding here where I am and I answered that most of the serious rainfall has been north of where we live and things are wet here but pretty good, no real flood damages in our area, but after today there might be a bit of a reassessment.

The heavens opened here today...

just for a few hours we had some serious, and I do mean, SERIOUS rain.


Looking out my front windows the yard suddenly became this...





Then this when I opened my front door...

In the space of 15 minutes the front door mat had sailed away down the river that had begun to flow from the front, around the side of the house and into the pool in the backyard.


Do, do, do, lookin out my backdoor!
(Channelling some Credence for you all, LOL)




Don't know if you can see it but it was bucketing, even for subtropical us!

Oh, No, gotta go!
Down tools and every man/girl/there's only me here, gulp, to the rescue the water is risin real quick folks!

2 hours of, digging trenches for drainage, siphoning off the pool of 6 inches of water and setting up some ag pipes to carry away excess water and I finally got to go inside again.

No-one home but me, and thank goodness I was!

The view over my back fence...

We have lots of native bush and parkland around us here but over the backfence which is about five feet lower than the yard this is the stream running through the land now! I think the local bush turkeys have lost their nests!

Thank heavens I managed to save everything and the weather has eased back to mere normal rainfall instead of torrential bucketing!

This is the forecast for us until approximately mid April!

The thump was my jaw hitting the ground today when I was told the long distance forecast.

In need of some middle ground here I think.

Anyway's can't let you all go without leaving you with some art to look at.

The last of the journal pages for 2010.

Look into my eyes...




Told you things were gettin' hairy, LOL!


Looking for a way out?

Hope your 2011 is fabulous!

So what are you up to?

Caio!

Alpha & Omega

So it's the end of one year and the beginning of another. What a busy but fun year it has been, hopefully followed by an even better one! To everyone out in cyberspace, and any other place you happen to be inhabiting, have a fabulous new year filled with everything you could wish for or at least need!

Onto the arty stuff. Here's the last of the christmas cards to post. I had little time this year for cards so only a few for work friends as the family ones had to be mailed earlier at a time when I had no time for art, blah!!! And so...
Hard to see here but a lovely shimmery shiny background made from twinkling h2o's and a little glitter. A girl's gotta have some bling right!

What can I say, Dolly is very persisitent and was adamant about being included in the card making :)

She even contacted Santa! Quite the pushy girl is our dolly!

And onto the xmas photos here's the latest. A typical Aussie xmas scene!

The ds and 2 of our favourite nephews relaxing together... then...


The women in the kitchen! Ahh well maybe next year a swap! I can hear the groans of protest already... well one can always dream!

Kicking Off

So I finally made the leap to blogger land, how exciting, well at least for me anyway! I have to admit to stalking loads of blogs and learning everything I can from so many wonderful people out in cyberspace, and to all of you many hugs for sharing your wonderful work and providing we newbies to the aty world with so much help and inspiration. Many of you probably have no idea how appreciative the rest of us are and how much you inspire and help to tune the creative urges of others out here so a huge hug to everyone who blogs and keep up the great work! I suppose this blog will really be a place to ramble on about the everyday stuff but mostly somewhere to post my own arty stuff in an effort to share with everyone else out here in blogger land. The aim is really just to share and maybe someday someway help to inspire someone else to find their creative spirit.

Okay enough with the ramblings it's down to the nitty gritty stuff! We have just gotten over, through, and survived the xmas hoohar with the family here in sweaty Noosa in Queensland and it has been fabulous as always to have them here and at least soak up a little airconditioning for xmas, phew, but it's going to be hot here today, 33 degrees C and climbing, blah:( I love xmas and all the fanfare that goes with it, really it should just be xmas all year around and I would be perfectly happy but I suppose I may not appreciate it all the same way then. So here's my fav snap so far bearing in mind I haven't recieved all the family's collection of snaps yet (that would be a big hint to you all out there who may be reading this)

It's my dd on the right and darling neice on the left, aren't they gorgeous, yes yes family the other pics will be uploaded soon I promise but for now that's all there is so far!
So onto some arty stuff now, I promise:) I suppose I should start with the christmassy things before the season completely runs away from me. So here they are some cards I made after being inspired by so many other's work out there.
Well I did warn you I have a bit of a quirky sense of humour, so there! Isn't he just too cute to resist!

I just couldn't pass this pic up either, those babes are just asking for some christmassy fun! Well there it is that's all for the first one. Will be back soon with more cards and other assorted stuff.