Marching swiftly to the end:

15. Car.

16. Sunglasses.

17. Green.

18. A corner of my home.

21. Delicious.

27. My name.

28. Trash -- as in, my kitchen is trashed.

29. Feet -- or teef backwards.

30. Toy.

31. Where I relax.

You can see that I missed a whole bunch of days in March when things got too busy or I was travelling. I'm afraid April started off the same way so I think I'll pass on April photo-a-day and resume again in May. I'm missing the challenge of taking a little thematic snap each day. It's so much fun!

March photo-a-day, week two:

8. Window 

9. Red 

10. Loud 

11. Someone I talked to today 

12. Fork 

13. A sign 

14. Clouds

(this post is especially for Jess)

March photo-a-day, week one:

1. up

2. fruit

3. my neighbourhood

4. bedside

5. a smile

6. 5pm

7. something I wore

How are your #marchphotoaday shots looking?

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Conversations:

Caitlin -- I'm only a couple of chapters into Veneer, but it's proving to be an excellent read so far.

Brenda -- you'll have to let me know if you end up reading any of them :).

BushMaid -- :D Reading Like A Writer is EXCELLENT. I learnt heaps from it.

Rebecca Simon -- haha! I didn't think of the relationship between Eggs and your husby. Hee! And yes, Ethel Turner was one of my childhood favourites, and even as a grownup, her books still work for me.

Rach da Axe -- Finish This Book is like a journal of creativity. It's basically an entire manual sending you on little secret missions and getting you to do creative mini projects. It's fun and quirky! I think you'd love it.

Wreck these instagrams:

Here are some random progress shots of my journal-wrecking adventures. It's become my happy little quick-burst-of-creative-fun project. Often I'll do a little bit while I am watching a show with my Mum, or late at night just before bed when I find a random scrap of something that I want to keep, but which I can't see myself making a collage from. Into the wrecked journal it goes!

Meanwhile, Instagram is my new best friend when it comes to quick snaps of the wrecking process. I know that Real Photographers purportedly loathe Instagram shots, but to me there is an odd charm in their fuzzy imperfection. It works pretty well hand-in-hand with the whole premise of the Wreck This Journal idea: aiming more for creativity than perfection.

[lately] life in instagrams II

1. biblical literary analysis; 2. bayside picnic with favourite people; 3. bad hair day; 4. camellia from mum's garden; 5. a "cruel king Herod" (by his own admission) lurks at my window; 6. happy bunting! 7. endings; 8. bedroom corner.

lately (four):

I have to tell you: moving house is srs bsns. Not that I didn't know this already; if I hadn't moved about fourteen times and experienced it previously myself, my Mum's experience -- something like twenty-four moves, give or take -- would have enlightened me anyway. Nevertheless, I still forgot to prepare myself for broken fingernails, bumps and bruises, sore ankles, confusion brought on by multiple box-packing, brain-deadness, cleaning, mouldy curtains, and the inevitable tears that seem to accompany any transition stage in my life. So there's that.

However, I also forgot to prepare myself for happy discoveries, the slow falling in love with a new place, the sense of overwhelming generosity of my parents, the struggle to articulate anything remotely approaching the right level of thankfulness, the kindness of a treasured friend (--bearing lasagna, no less!), the happy feeling of melting into bed each night, and the chance to actually pull forgotten treasures from my glory box and set them out in the new wee kitchen.

^ Also, there are red and white tiles.

lately (one):

in a trippy world of floating spheres at the gallery of modern art;

beautiful animation;

we can't walk on water but we walked under it;

postcards to uknown friends;

bright splashes of colour;

seriously not rubbish;

everybody loves lego;

happy happy happy!

wheeeee!
(have i mentioned my favourite art is
the stuff you can actually interact with?)

i spy the socially awkward penguin!

memes: recognised by twenty-first century art!

is it ironic that i took pictures of the technology exhibit
and twenty-first century art on my ipod, leroy?

ps. thanks for your lovely comments and your warmth! i treasure all of it. conversations will be on hiatus for a little while until i get back to my regular posting schedule but i still welcome your comments. if you have any questions -- or really just want to say anything -- feel free to email @ daniellecentral at gmail dot com. love!