down below

perhaps return to tassie for p's birthday in march
revisit mona
and go further south than last time, bruny island and the huon valley



airbnb hobart
battery point - $101 pn
battery point - budget 2 bedroom house, $116 pn
sandy bay - funky studio apartment. $73 pn
sandy bay - private, small 1BR unit close 2 city, $69 pn
south hobart - magnolia stay, $81 pn


bicheno
WATERFRONT Wave Song beach cottage $123 pn

just south of cygnet, at the weirdly named eggs and bacon bay,

cliff top hideaway $140 per night (sold in March 2017, may no longer be available for rent

Cliff Top Hideaway is nestled on a boundary of coastal reserve perched above 30 meter high sandstone cliffs with a view of all of the islands in the Huon river mouth...Step off the front verandah and wander down the coastal track, 5 minutes to the pristine Mickeys beach or continue via a nature reserve for a one hour return stroll to the beautiful Randalls bay...It is an open plan design with two sleeping areas, one with a multi bunk and the other with a queen bed which has a glorious view of the coast

right on the water, on eggs and bacon bay Drift Inn ($160 pn Sun-Thurs)
6 metres above the water, 10 metres of floor to ceiling windows in the lounge dining area open onto a 16 metre sundeck where you can dine or relax on the daybed & enjoy the tranquility of this beautiful bay. It is frequented by pods of dolpnins, dabchicks. seaeagles. swans & seals can sometimes be seen sunning themselves on the rocks.

Lemana, at Charlotte Cove ($130 pn Sun-Thurs)
Set on true water frontage in the D'entrecasteaux channel just a 10 minute drive out of Cygnet, this very comfortable brick cottage can either be the base for day tripping the beautiful south east coast, tourist attractions and towns or launch your boat opposite to fish, dive, water-sports and cruise or just sit in the sun room with your favourite book or music and lap up the water views.
  

Bruny Island 

Three Trees Retreat(bit pricy at $190 pn Sun-Thurs, but nice)

Bed on Bruny Seaside Accommodation ($135 pn Sun-Thurs, 1 May - 31 Oct)

oysters nearby, get shucked

 visit some cheese

frame up

perhaps have some of paul's works framed up for xmas presents...

here are some good frames, united measures

Fine Art Frame Fabrication

p 0412 837 820 e info@unitedmeasures.com

Hours:Wednesday to Friday 11:00am to 6:00pm

Saturday by appointment

located at The Compound Interest:Centre For The Applied Arts15–25 Keele StreetCollingwood 3066

the pal in paypal does not mean friend

a little experiment to put the brakes on casual spending in september
31 august, searching for ipad covers, i found these .... important note - i don't have an ipad
us$95 (for the summit bag), us$80 for the 3degree puffy sleeve
"ethical" soft snake made by a self-managed community of women in bolivia, snake is us$68 made from alpaca wool
yummy velvet pompom pillows $49 from castle&things

lots of pompom pillows

web design development

from a whirlpool forum,

Best way to start getting into web design would be to learn(in order):
(I say this because if you dont understand the basics of html then there is no point of doing dreamweaver when you dont know what the code is for something)
- HTML: The starting building blocks to web design
- CSS: Layoutting which makes formatting a webpage to a certain font and colour, and size etc easier

-----------------------Any web design elective in a TAFE/Uni course will cover this
- Javascript: A bit more advanced on html which lets you create some more complex functions on your webpage.
- PHP: Even more complex then java, which uses scripts that perform functions on a website

-----------------------Any web design/programming course will cover this
- SQL Databases: Which php websites are integrated into. Knowing FTP will be handy with this also.

-----------------------More advanced, There are electives for this in TAFE, but it depends on how far you want to go

Programs: Microsoft Frontpage was originally a popular choice but now that Dreamweaver has released cs3, cs4 it is by far the better option, and the industry standard. Again learn doing html in notepad before working with dreamweaver.

Courses:
Seeing as web design is becoming easier and easier to master, many places dont offer 1-2 year long courses, rather short courses that go for a few days
So for TAFE i found
26410 Basic Web Design (Front Page) – TAFE PLUS Statement
19046 Web Design Skills – Statement of Attainment (NRT)
26078 Web Design Using Dreamweaver – TAFE PLUS Statement

I had a look on some other sites and found interesting stuff
Web production Course: http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/web-production.asp
PHP and SQL: http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/php-mysql.asp
Dreamweaver: http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/dreamweaver.asp
Introduction to html: (Ideal for beginners) http://www.seeklearning.com.au/dynamic-web-training/html.asp

With all that said, its really upto you on how far you want to go. Doing the more complex php and sql courses will get you bigger websites from clients and bigger bucks. But if your happy doing just html and css sites for small clients then thats cool too.
There is also the choice of whether you just want to design websites or do all the extra stuff, like do the hosting, setup domain etc. Of course the more you offer the more you can change.

aphorisms about love

what other people are saying about love,

at a thousand words, i can read, everything you love to hate via ffffound

and all because i took at least one,

pencil me in

ever since i was little i have been in love with stationery

(i can still remember visiting my dad's studio at work. we'd go to a special chest of drawers and he'd open up the pencil drawer - the smell of pencil wood would rise up and fill me with anticipation of drawings soon to emerge)

i'm still convinced it will help save my life

i am realising that i need to "draw" my demons out ...

exorcism by pencil & crayon perhaps

art and about

a (slightly unrealistic) art trail of the eastern suburbs of sydney taking in the following: paddington

• roslyn oxley 9, 8 soudan lne, paddington, 10-6
• kaliman gallery, 56 sutherland st, paddington, 11-5.30

bus to vaucluse/watson's bay, ferry to circular quay, bus up to central, and then continuing

surry hills, darlinghurst, paddington

• ray hughes, 270 devonshire st, surry hills, 10-6
• the artery, 2/221 darlinghurst rd, darlinghurst
• urban uprising - 314 crown st, darlinghurst, 12- 6
• australian centre for photography, 257 oxford st, paddington, 12-7

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123 how-to DIY

well, we got all married up

and DIY'd it

other DIY ideas ....

paper flowers in a jar

pom-pom vines

flower garlands

chintzy table ideas

on top of the cake, wedding gifts for guests

graphic design

fffffound

wasted rita, via this isn't happiness

on ffffound

ffffound,
graphic exchange

ffffound, i love dust


ffffound - lovely stationery

this reminded me of the ace 3-d neon on high st, thornbury

sadly the business is out of business but the sign lives on!

sydneyside

eating locally

kings cross organic food & farmers market, every saturday morning
bourke street bakers, 81 Macleay Street - opening in October, they're in surrey hills though. look yum

la buvette, 35 Challis Ave nice atmosphere .... ?
hole in the wall coffee joint

• peaberry espresso - 166 Riley Street
• room 10 - 10 Llankelly Place

cafe two ants,
70 Elizabeth Bay Road - very good poached eggs (apparently)

mere catherine

166 Victoria St, Potts Point

There's a daggy-sexy candles-in-the-wine-bottles vibe to this old gem. It's honest home-style food snuggled in a cosy corner of Sydney. It ain't the hippest kid on the block but it sets the mood faster than you can say "voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"

The battery
St Margaret's, Shop 15 425 Bourke St, Surry Hills
2000 says,
darlie laundromatic at 304 palmer st, darlinghurst
open from 11 am, lunch & dinner
ooh steak sangas for $14 look good!

art

52 suburbs exhibition
museum of sydney,
Corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney, NSW 2000
9.30 - 5 pm; $10 grownups

shopping

Pure & General
114 Brougham st
Potts Point

collector store

473 Crown Street, Surry Hills.

bits of tasmania

Aurora lights up the night

driving down to hobart from the north east coast, we stopped in bicheno for some coffee

there on the cover of the sunday mercury was the tag line, Aurora Australis Light Shows! page 2

how exciting - we were going to be in hobart at the optimum time.

maybe we'll see it, maybe not, but cool to be in the vicinity

grand mophie

the battery on my iphone is running flat. speaking to a shop person i found out (how did i not know this?) that apple doesn't allow you to "replace" a battery; rather they'll replace your phone if it's under warranty

i was told that there are external battery iphone covers ...!

they're called mophie juice packs

review for mophie juice pack iphone 4

apparently the earlier model (which i'd need for my phone) is bulky - and we can't have that!

also works for ipod touchies...

daylesford dreaming

daylesford accommodation, stayz

astley cottage

A secluded romantic retreat , or just a cosy private getaway. Nestled in the Doctors Gully a warm wood fire

awaits you

**2 night weekend special $320 PER COUPLE - 1 QUEEN BED

**3 night special $400 All stays include continental b'fast provisions.

Central Springs Road

All stays include continental b'fast provisions.

28 Hepburn Rd
Daylesford VIC 3460
0428 106 798

lavender cottage

Lavender Cottage has been lovingly restored with style and quality, and retains the quirky old world character of the late eighteen hundreds. Situated right in the heart of town, with a fabulous view to Wombat Hill, it is an easy stroll to the gourmet restaurants, shops and art galleries of Daylesford.

$340 for weekend

91 Raglan St, DAYLESFORD, VIC, 3460

lincoln cottage

Lincoln cottage is an original miners cottage, more than 100 years old. It is situated near Lake Daylesford and Vincent Street, offering an old world charm with modern comfort. Enjoy an open fireplace or relax in a spa bath.

Features include a queen size bedroom, a sofa bed, open fireplace, spa bath, central heating, air conditioning, TV/DVD/CD player and full kitchen facilities.

2 nights weekend $330 + 30 booking fee, $360

spin me a web

cae web design with flash mac
http://www.cae.edu.au/web/?class=HDQ61905

2 sessions: Saturday 30/07/11: 10.00AM-4.00PMSunday 31/07/11: 10.00AM-4.00PM
Venue: CAE Building B - 253 Flinders Ln, Melbourne
Teacher: Simone Downey
Full Fee: $265.00 - Concession: $257.00 - Code: HDQ61905

Session 1:
Flash drawing tools, basic animation, text tools, creative rollover buttons and publishing files.
Session 2:Morphing, fade in and out (timeline animation), importing video, adding simple Action Script and learning basic functions in Dreamweaver.
Session 3:Creating a basic 4 page website with animation, video, and uploading final website via FTP through Dreamweaver. Alternative applications will also be shown for uploading HTML and FTP files

possible dates,
thursday 14 July (date confirmed!),
this catches the overlap of vic, nsw and act school holidays

wedding at the registry (old treasury building)
wedding photos outside the paperback for ole times sake
a short stroll to the european/

supper club for morning tea, a toast to the b&g

the famous supper club window (what i've read described as the playschool window)

and, of course, wedding cake.

At first i thought an opera cake would be good.
the first description i read simply listed layers of joconde (coffee soaked almond cake) and ganache,
but apparently it traditionally also includes coffee butter cream, - so the kind of sickly sweet and cloyingly rich we used to get once a year from europa and monarch's in acland street.
a flourless chocolate cake with pear will be much better,
(an alternative recipe)
maybe embellished with cake pops for the kids

very fancy ones in london

less fancy

less fancy in melbourne

or there's always diy diy

diyy


diyiy


an alternative idea is those coloured macaroons on a bed of confetti so they look like big fat confetti
finally (maybe after a rest), dinner at the grace darling in the atrium


i love the dinky dodgy lights ...

might even be fun.

then our real moon in the mud house near castlemaine...