My new website is finally up and running, I really appreciate all the support I have received from my followers on LiveJournal over the last six years but I will be discontinuing this blog and continuing at my own domain name.
 I would love for you to take the time to join me. 
Scattered Reflections Studio

See you over there Janet

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This is an articulated dump truck used in mining and road construction.  My husband is currently operating an excavator on a major road upgrade on the Cardwell range, about 120km from home.

The truck driver drove through a metre deep hole filled with mud on one side and over rock on the other side which unbalanced the tray and tipped it over.

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On the weekend we went to Mystic Sands, it was a glorious day and you would hardly think we were heading towards mid winter and the shortest day of the year.


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I found the glasses in a supermarket carpark in South Australia when I was on holidays.  My son looked at me and just shook his head at the fact that I had put them in my suitcase and brought them home.  I was sort of  heading towards a self portrait but when I asked my husband if he thought there was any resemblance, he said well maybe 10 years ( Read more... )

After finishing my lessons for the creative embroidery class on Joggles, I took a little time out to create a series of pages on demystifying Art Journaling.  I have created a group on Motley Soul Mixed Media.  There is a pdf to download on creating backgrounds, lots of my journal pages to see as well as insights as to how I go about working in my ( Read more... )

The lyrics are from Van Morrison. Body and mind, Heart and Soul, Meet me on the river of time.

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This is my latest class with Joggles.  It starts on June 14 and runs for 3 weeks.

Each panel is embroidered either with one stitch or variations of one stitch.  Learn how to embroider.  I have included video and pdf instructions of each of the embroidery stitches with each lesson.

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This is a photo of the established bower, the plastic container encircled by the pink ribbon is where it all began in this post when I first discovered his bower in 2010.

This guy has been busy, notice the Warhammer 4000 Figure. (At least that's what my son tells me it is.)


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So we are feeling the cold in the tropics.  Snuggled up in bed watching re-runs of Stargate Atlantis at 18 degrees C. expecting overnight minimum of 11, so will no doubt put the heater on soon.... Yes I know we are wimps.......


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