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Stitching Snoopy (24 June)
I loved Snoopy and Peanuts when I was young. In fact, I still love them. So when I saw a sweet cross stitch pattern of Snoopy and his doghouse on eBay, I snapped it up.I completed the stitching in...
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200th post :) (25 June)
If my enumeration is correct - and I think it is - this is my 200th blog post!So I made an index card to celebrate the occasion :)Short and sweet tonight.
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#ICAD2015 week 3 round up (26 June)
I mentioned my battle with watercolours last week, and in this week's #ICAD2015 (Index-Card-A-Day) round up you can see some of the results:I've been trying to master the swirly abstract watercolour...
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Prevaricated Frequencies (26 June)
I popped into the city to run some errands yesterday, and as I'd heard of a new art installation called Prevaricated Frequencies by Victoria University's Skunk Control in the Flinders St station /...
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Special collections at the William Angliss Institute (28 June)
One of my first library jobs after completing my Grad Dip was at the William Angliss Institute. For those who don't know it, the William Angliss Institute in Melbourne is a training institution that...
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The unusual experience of having a photo featured on Flickr Explore (29 June)
So an odd thing happened yesterday. One of my index cards was featured in Flickr Explore, and it was a very interesting experience ...I first realised something unusual was going on when I started...
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#ICAD2015 week 4 round up
June flew by, as it always does. I managed 20 blog posts, and a similar number of index cards. I'm pretty happy with that, considering everything else that was going on at the same time.At the very end...
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#ICAD2015 week 5 round up
I'm still trundling along with the index card creativity challenge, even though July is now over. I'm not going to try to make it to the full 61 cards, but I haven't quite decided on an end point...
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#ICAD2015 week 6 round up
Well it feels like ages since I last posted, and I guess it has been. I finished my last week of index cards over a month ago (I decided to stop at 42), but I haven't blogged about them until now due...
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A lovely last day
Last week I finished work at OCLC, having been there for just over 18 months. It's been a great experience, doing something different to any library-related job I've had before. I love to learn and...
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Cherry season
When we first bought our Melbourne home, one of the attractions was the number of fruit trees in the backyard. Since then, we have added some and lost some, and they are still a huge part of the...
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25 decorative days ahead
It's that time of year again! I do love Christmas time - for the family memories, the nostalgic traditions, the seasonal cooking, and of course the decorations!I've already put up the tree this year...
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25 more Christmas decorations in 25 days
As promised, here is the wrap-up of 25 Christmas decorations in 25 days for 2015 - the second year I've taken photos of Christmas ornaments on my tree for each day in December leading up to Christmas.A...
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#ICAD2016 week 3 round up (30 June)
I'm running behind on the index card challenge (and #blogjune too), as I really needed a few days off after the semester finished. I'm not really worried about trying to catch up or keep up, though, as...
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UTS Library Artist-in-Residence Program (30 June)
Last night I attended the VALA AGM and 2016 Williamson Lecture at the University of Melbourne's Baillieu Library.Mal Booth is the University Librarian at UTS (University of Technology Sydney), and the...
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Triptych
For one of our assignments in first semester we were tasked with creating a triptych (a set of three works that are designed to be displayed together), with a focus on the principles of composition,...
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#ICAD2016 week 4 round up
I had a bit more time at home to work on this set of index cards (school holidays!), so it was a good opportunity to get messy and play with paint. In fact, I've just looked back at all of my weekly...
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Japanese collage postcards
This project was one of the last assignments in first semester, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. Our task was to create a set of postcards using mixed media collage. They could be created manually or...
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#ICAD2016 week 5 round up
I'm running behind both on creating daily index card art and blogging about it. I finished this set a few weeks ago, and have completed more since. I'm not sure yet if I will complete the full 61 cards...
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#ICAD2016 week 6 round up
Okay, here's another week of index cards to round up. This post is quite late, as I finished these cards about a month ago and have since completed the daily challenge for this year. At the point that...
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