http://mooimadeit.com Things I make. Things I grow. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:58:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [image from flickr] We are back from Bali and we had the most wonderful time. Ate ourselves silly and didn’t get Bali belly once! Had jumbo prawns the length of a dinner plate, fresh snapper right on the beach, delicious Balinese fair. Beautiful gardens. ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/07/03/fighting-the-winter-blues-the-best-way-i-know-how-ginger-tea/ We’re off to Bali tomorrow! We’ll be gone for a fortnight. Looking forward to daily massages, lots of walking and delicious food. We’ll be spending the start and end of our trip in Ubud, up in the mountains, doing a road trip to the east coast Amed ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/06/01/back-after-this-break/ This just arrived in my inbox. We have been on the quest for photographers for the wedding and I stumbled across j-studios via downtomysoul. Jessie from j-studios is a member of an organisation called the Australian Community of Child Photographers. The ACOCP is a purely volunteer organisation that sends ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/05/28/a-feel-good-photoshoot-fundraiser/ A Rainbow at Sunset & a natural Palette by Monday Morning Photography from flickr Oh woe. I had the best of intentions. This morning we had an assessor come by to assess our site for solar panels. After getting very excited about the idea, following the info meeting I attended, my ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/05/22/dont-let-the-sun-go-down-on-me/ On the weekend I had the priviledge of attending the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Melbourne Chapter of Ikebana International. For those of you that don't know, Ikebana is the ancient Japanese art of flower arrangement. But this is not simply putting some flowers in a vase. There are many different ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/05/13/the-delicate-art-of-ikebana/ Just a quick post to say I went to an info night at Maribyrnong Council last night about a solar panel group-buy proposal from Eco-Kinetics and I've registered my interest in getting a 1KW PV system! Fingers crossed we meet all the requirements for the system but I'm pretty sure ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/04/28/you-are-my-sunshine-my-only-sunshine/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Under The Tree from flickr"][/caption] The changing of the seasons is well underway in Melbourne. There are blushes of autumnal colour starting to peek through everywhere. I really think it's my favourite time of year in Melbourne. And it also seems like a good time to ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/04/23/there-is-a-season-turn-turn-learn/ I do believe it's my Moo Day! My Moo-niversary. I can't believe it's been a year since I've joined the blogger community! What a wonderful 12 months. I love getting comments and emails from readers around the world. It blows my mind that you have stumbled across my blog. I do apologise ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/04/21/moo-if-youre-one/ [vegetable garden baby originally uploaded on flickr - click image to link to source] What a week! It's only Wednesday and I AM EXHAUSTED - physically, mentally, emotionally SPENT. Do I sound mildly overdramatic? Well, I have to tell you, our Bali June trip could not come quick enough. So AA is ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/04/01/planting-seeds-or-planning-a-wedding-i-know-what-id-rather-be-doing/ Just a quickie update on my first laser acupuncture treatment today coz I'm so excited. *ALERT - a little bit of women's health talk in this post. Nothing too gruesome but I understand some people don't like health talk and if you'd rather not know, I won't be offended if ... http://mooimadeit.com/2009/03/24/laser-love/