Point + Shoot: 38

 


Fish and Chips on the beach - what a lovely perfect Sunday.
Taking it easy this week as my due date is nearly here... YAY!!


What did you get up to this weekend?




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@ my house


we have had an abundance of green tomatoes. just not enough sunshine this season

so my husband made them into a delicious pickle

& we also tried our first ever batch of

fried green tomatoes

they were quite yummi.

Chocolate filled Dessert Table

Happy Monday everyone.  
We had another busy event filled weekend which was made all the more interesting with the torrential rain that Sydney received over the past few days - more rain in one day than we have seen all year.  It was lovely however to catch up with new friends at the school kindy cocktail party.  While I did organise the party it was held in someone else's home which spread the load - I also put together a little dessert table to finish off the evening - it had a chocolate feel about it but there was still plenty of non chocolate items for those who can't eat or don't like chocolate! (imagine that!)

Just a few photos to show as it was evening so a little dark and guests were arriving.  
Desserts included macaroons, decadent cupcakes, nougat, choc raspberry mousse cups, rosewater cream filled meringues, choc chip biscuits, vanilla wafer sticks, kringlets, chocolate hearts and of course my cookie pops.  I used little mini blackboards to let the guests know what was on each platter.

Happy to say there was not a single item left on the table at the end of the evening!




 

Leanne

back to work...

Had my first client meeting last week. Doing my best impression of 'stay-at-home-mum confidently rejoining the workforce', I decided to pop on some heels after wearing flats on the train. A train I almost missed! Arriving at North Sydney, it was all starting to feel so very bloody peak hour. Just enough time to sit down in the gleaming white office foyer for a quick shoe swap. Got them out of the bag and discovered that they were covered in two years worth of dust. Doesn't say much for the state of the shoe rack or my domestic prowess! Dived into my bag and began a frantic tissue search. Nothing. Then I remembered there might just be some nappy wipes in the zipper compartment. There were two left - just enough to clean my shoes. God bless those baby bottom cleaning squares! There will always be room for nappy wipes in my life.

A Peachy Easter

A Peachy Easter
This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you pretty Peach Easter Treats with these gorgeous pics. This week I bought polystyrene eggs to needlefelt. Check back soon for some more of the most inspirational photographers on Flickr.

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites (From left to right):


Have a sweet day!

It’s a ratio thing


I am not a mathematically minded person by any stretch of the imagination.

That is such an understatement that I can hardly type I am laughing so hard. What I meant to say is that my whole life I have loathed Maths with the passion of a thousand burning suns… or is it 1001? I’m not certain because there is a number involved.

Once I was introduced to excel in the early nineties, this numbers business picked up considerably. Excel was The Incredible Hulk blasting straight through my titanic Maths-Block. It seems that working out how to get something else to work out Maths seemed infinitely easier than doing the Maths myself. I never looked back, to the extent that for a brief, bizarre moment in my life, I actually worked in Trade Finance in London doing Bulgarian and Nigerian oil deals. Why yes, yes I did.

I think all along I was actually a much more logical thinker than I ever gave myself credit for. You see, I’ve been a slave to ratios my whole life.

Food requires a good ratio of X to Y to taste right. If the ratio of sauce to pasta isn’t exactly right, for example, eating pleasure is considerably diminished. Ratios become critical when you’re dealing with strong flavours like onions, chilli, honey or garlic. Get the balance out of whack and the whole dish needs rescuing.

In art and design, the whole success of a work depends on ratios. The ratio of X colour to Y. Between light and shade. Negative and positive space. And on and on.

I’m rabbiting on about all of this because lately I’ve been investigating why I ever had a Maths-Block in the first place. I think it’s important for me to know because I am in danger of thoughts such as ‘Cappers is a creative person’ and ‘Maybe Maxi-Taxi will be a numbers guy?’. There’s those pesky labels again!

I think I learned at an early age that you were either a Maths person or a Creative person and I wanted to be the latter. Nowadays, I don’t think it has to be an ‘either / or’ thing (more on the ‘Golden Ratio’ in a future post). I think you can be both and I’m doing everything I can to find the parallels between the two. I think if I can find out more about that, I can help my children to learn the ‘other’ way of thinking with a lot more ease than I managed at school.

Are you a ‘Creative’ person or a ‘Maths’ person? Do you think you can be both?
Did you also struggle with a particular subject at school?

[Image via weheartit - please let me know if this image is yours so I can correctly attribute it]
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