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003: My Sweet Memory
Hubby and I had a date tonight: dinner, coffee and a movie. The coffee was at My Sweet Memory, a cute new “café, dessert & stationery” place. They had shelves full of cool stuff, including these...
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004: My baby bunny
This is Kaylee. She is 13 weeks old today, a mini lop rabbit, and too cute for words! Today was a good day for lying down and doing nothing; I think it was too hot for her to do much else.
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005: Polka Tea
I love tea and I love teapots! Today I felt like shopping at Hornsby Westfield, my old local shopping centre. I saw these pretties in The Tea Centre window.
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006: Tomato tree
I paid my husband’s grandmother a visit today. She is quite a good gardener, at least from my black thumb perspective she seems to be! Her tomato plant (I suppose technically it is a vine, not a tree,...
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007: Kaylee’s igloo
I bought a little pet igloo for Kaylee, thinking she would like the enclosed shape of it. She hasn’t used it much, but she had a play in it today!
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008: BSG: the board game
We played the Battlestar Galactica board game for the first time today. It was long! But has a pretty good dynamic. I look forward to trying it again soon, hopefully with 5 players.
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010: All fours
Kaylee looks so cute when her little paws line up in a row like that! Well, she looks cute all the time, but this is a specific pose she does!
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011: Sunset
I only took one set of photos this day and they were pretty poor: bad focus, nothing special about the composition. So this is a photo from the night of the 10th: there was a gorgeous sunset.
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012: Mood lighting
I spent a bunch of time at Pablo & Rusty’s — a great café — eating, drinking and writing.
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St Andy’s
This redesign was a refresh for St Andrew’s Wahroonga. The site uses some great plugins like Sermon Browser and Slidedeck, which are featured by the design. Link to site: St Andrew’s Wahroonga
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Lia Halsall
This is the second design I’ve worked on for Lia… sometimes you just need a change! It’s fresh, which really reflects what Lia is about… fresh food, being healthy, living well. After a long stint in...
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Aerial Sydney
We flew out of Sydney for the US today. I love my city from the ground and the air. Also, Happy Easter!
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Aerial Los Angeles
Flying out of LA to Denver we took a pass over the coast and then turned back inland. My goodness, LA is hazy (smoggy?) from the air! The beaches looked nice though.
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From the air
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Tulips
I’ve noticed in Denver and even more so in Boulder that tulips are a featured street-side flower. It’s a bit fancy to my Australian eyes: it’s too hot to grow these so easily in most parts of...
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Books
I love bookstores! This store on Pearl St has some great value books and graphic novels too! I can’t remember the name of the store, but it’s at the west end of the mall and has a little cafe attached...
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Denver Zoo
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Denver Botanic Gardens: Sights and scenes
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Denver Botanic Gardens: Flowers
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WordCamp Sydney this weekend!
WordCamp Sydney 2014 is on this weekend! September 27-28. I am on the team organising WordCamp Sydney, having helped organise the local user group for nearly two years. It also happens to be WordCamp...
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WordCamp Sydney 2014: Day 1 is done!
Phew! It actually happened! WordCamp Sydney 2014 is on and going pretty well as far as I can tell. I had no idea how different organising would be to attending; obviously the lead-up is extremely...
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App integration on iOS
I just discovered that app integration and sharing on iOS is so much better than it used to be! I might be way behind the times on this… I knew that photo apps integrate across the OS in some ways:...
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Zentangle #62
Using TanglePatterns String 058 and patterns cubic and a ribbon (don’t know if there’s a proper pattern name for it). I like overlapping edges with curves.
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Zentangle #63
Using TanglePatterns String 059 and several patterns including Antidots, Baton, Flukes, and Rufflz. I really like how rufflz turned out, and I like leaving the corners empty sometimes as well.
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Zentangle #65
Using TanglePatterns String 061 and patterns Floatfest and Cinquefoil. I really like cinquefoil, but I find it difficult to get right, I get it wrong more often than not… one of these is right, and one...
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Frangipani
My third watercolour is of the frangipanis in our front garden. They’re pretty amazing: they start life as a bud with a slightly pink tinge, then a mainly yellow and white flower with a pink tinge,...
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Libzoid
Libzoid sports a simple gallery and blog design to display Libby’s beautiful art jewellery. Link to site: Libzoid
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Marquette Turner
Marquette Turner is a site for international luxury real estate. This was a BIG project! It involved custom taxonomies for defining the features of properties (bedrooms, bathrooms etc), a custom search...
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WordCamp Sydney mobile site
I wanted to create a quick mobile-friendly site for WordCamp attendees to access the schedule and check the social stream while at the conference. I used the Quark theme and the brilliant Tagregator...
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IART
The International Alliance of Racquet Technicians is a membership site that provides information, services, and a social environment for tennis (and other racquet sports) stringers around the world....
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Board Direction
Board Direction is a membership site that provides services for people looking for employment on company and organisation boards. Its features include a job directory, which accepts submissions from a...
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My Colombian Recipes
My Colombian Recipes is a bilingual (English/Spanish) recipe blog. It uses custom taxonomies to specify ingredients in recipes and fancy page templates to allow users to browse recipes by categories...
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ACC
The Artarmon Community Church website was terribly out of date, so it was a pleasure to modernise the logo and make a website much more useful to members and visitors. One of the new features of the...
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BMDO
Bushcare’s Major Day Out is an annual nation-wide event. The purpose of the website is to allow event organisers to register when and where bush care events are taking place and advertise that...
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Divine hat
This is a really quick and clever pattern! It’s called Divine Hat and it’s on rheatheylia.com and Ravelry.
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SEO for beginners
I recently did a talk at the North Sydney WordPress Meetup about Search Engine Optimization for beginners and best practices in WordPress. It was the longest talk I’ve done because there’s so much to...
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Zoe’s giraffe
I gave this giraffe to my niece for her first birthday this weekend just gone. It is an almost one piece pattern, which makes it a lot easier to finish: I always take ages to make all the limbs and put...
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Craft Icons: Free Download
I recently wanted to make a Keep Calm and Crochet On poster. I know the whole Keep Calm thing is a bit over, but that’s just how I was feeling that day. I was rather disappointed at the complete lack...
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Craft Icons
I just published some free downloadable icons on my main site. http://www.kristarella.com/2015/03/craft-icons-free-download/
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Crochet wrist watch
I wasn’t going to post this, but last night one of the girls at youth group asked, “Is that a knitted watch?” and I replied that I’d crocheted it earlier that day, and several people said “Cool.” So I...
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Cam Cam the Elephant
I’m dubbing this one Cam Cam since I gave it to Baby Cameron. This is from the fantastic pattern that I’ve made before.
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Crochet watch v2
This is the finished product of my lace weight crochet watch; using Schoppel Wolle Lace Ball 2ply. In the end it wasn’t very practical as a watch, but it was a good experiment!
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WordCamp Brisbane
Is happening May 30-31! I am super excited! Yes I am, I’m speaking! 15 Cool Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know WordPress Could Do. Who knows, it might end up being more than 15 once I am finished writing...
View ArticleA thought on sharing & helping
My name is Luka I live on the second floor I live upstairs from you Yes, I think you’ve seen me before If you hear something late at night Some kind of trouble. some kind of fight Just don’t ask me...
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Tea tasting today
I decided that today would be a good day to try a few tea samples I’ve received! Strawberry Bliss Chai From T2. Green tea, ginger, cardamom seed & husk, clove, pepper, chilli, strawberry pieces...
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Automattic totally just acquired Woo
WooThemes has been acquired by Automattic! There’s not too much I want to say about this apart from: exciting! The focus is going to be more on WooCommerce than the themes side, at first at least. I...
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Kristen is an Automattician!
This month I officially joined the ranks of Automattic! For those in the know, I am a Happiness Engineer on the Store team. For everyone else, I do support for WordPress.com, mainly for Business plan...
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