A Heart Connection

For the first time this month Kat at Kat's Eye View is hosting a Heart Connection link up.  This is where we can post our most heart grabbing photographs of the month.  You know what it's like, you take a shot and maybe you dozens, hands up here I am totally guilty of over shooting, oh well, the beauty of digital cameras.  You look at the shots and there amongst the dozens is one that just grabs you, it says something to your heart it connects with you.  Well that is what the link up is all about, finding the shot you took in the last month that grabs you the most.  So I am contributing this one.  I took this on the beach front in a little town in New Zealand,  The girl is a total stranger to me.  She was wandering along totally absorbed in her own little piece of the world, oblivious to any of us.  Her chubby little arms, her pretty floaty dress and those gorgeous little bare feet, oh my I love it,  I have edited this shot and posted it another time I think, but this is the one for my Heart Connection.  I love shots of people walking away, I'm not distracted by their face then.  I can imagine what they are feeling, what they look like, I get a little bit of creative license with this.  So here my heart connection for January 2012.  Come along on the journey with us at Kat's, such fun.

Mainly Music with Elle

Hello again, I know it's been a while hasn't it, but here I am and I'm all excited!!!!  Today Nanny and I went to Mainly Music.  It's at a church in town in a big room and there are lots of children and some little babies too and we sing and dance and play instruments together.  It was a lot of fun.  I was a bit cautious to begin with, well you have to be don't you these days, you know you have to get a feel for things before you just jump on in, well I do anyway.  So for a bit I just sat on Nan's knees and listened to see who the real competition would be.  Some of those kids can sing let me tell you.  And the others well you know how it is!!  And then the dancing well I got down and shook my bootie yeah I did.  

This is a photo of me on nan's bed before we left, I just had to check and make sure she had enough money for the outing, there is nothing worse than going out without enough cash is there?  She was fine though.

After the music day nan took me back to childcare, she says she misses me and so one day a week we are gonna hang out together for a while.  When I get a bit bigger we might even do other stuff after music, I can't wait for that.  I think I might wear nan out a bit, I like to be carried and she can't say no too often, and then I see her kinda rubbing her back, I think that's my fault.  Oh well she better just get tougher and tell me no, ha ha not likely.

Oh and look what was in nan's yard this morning.....

See the big bulge on the kangaroo, well that's a joey in there, maybe if nanny had a pouch her back would't hurt so much.  This kangaroo was right up near the house too, I like roos.  So gotta go now see ya next week maybe.

Love 

Elle

xo

Textur Tuesday - An Ode to Char

Do you remember Char's profile picture, her hands holding the camera reflected in the car side view mirror.  I do and I remember the post that went with it.  She talked about how her hands reminded her of her mother, I remember it well, it made me post on the likeness's I have with my mum.  Thanks Char.  So today linking in to Kim's Texture Tuesday link up I am presenting my hands in the side view mirror.  The texture we needed to use was a new one by Kim called Simplicity.  

I changed the shot to Black and White and then lessened the opacity and added the layer at 100%.

To you Char, remembering you still.

Today is your Day

Well I am claiming today as my day, as the day I begin my new life with, now that sounds really dramatic and a little over the top, I admit it.  But how else do I declare I have had enough!!!!!  I have had enough of eating the wrong food, and being angry at myself for doing that, as soon as the food is in my mouth.  I am sick of beating myself up for it all day long after that.  I'm tired of not moving enough, of watching TV too much, of drinking too much, of being lazy when it comes to my art.  All in all I'm just tired of the old life I have been living.  I am sick of the pain in my back that stops me from walking, which I love to do.  This weekend I am undertaking a 2 day mixed media workshop and I am so excited.  So I want to start today and make this my day, oh and I love this song.

Silent Sunday

alone but not

at odds with yourself

going forward one step at a time

battered but not beaten