Published June 26, 2009 by

City Morning

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Em, Han and I went to the city this morning. I showed off Piccolo and Chapel St Bizzare. Then we wound up at the Art Gallery to check out the Persuaision fashion exhibition. It was small and quite disappointing, the only real redeeming feature was that they had Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy costume on display, the dresses weren’t very exciting. Had a wander through some of the European section too – love the Mogdilangi that hangs next to Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Then had a sweet little jaunt down Degraves St for a coffee in Hells Upstairs/Hell’s Kitchen and a wander through a few arcades.

And had to get a photo of Han (right) infront of Haigh’s as that’s my nickname for her, Emily just likes being in photos.

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Published June 25, 2009 by

New Look!

If you are viewing this by RSS you will not have noticed that All Said & Done has a shiny new look. It has been very long coming and has morphed entirely. I gave up on creating my own theme (I was nearly there) when I found this nice one typographywp and adapted it to look a little like what I was making in the first place. Why? Well, it’s got some cool little things going for it and is probably safer in IE than mine ever would’ve been.

Along the way I have discovered some lovely new plugins and better ways of doing things. You’ll notice that there is now a quotes (entirely self satisfying) widget and the good-reads/currently reading is lots cleaner. Unfortunately the whiz bang archive method I was going to use couldn’t cope with the oodles of backlog and so is currently not working. It’s a rather large disappointment really as it was quite nice.

So a few minor things to sort out, would appreciate if you notice any bugs/inconsistencies if you would let me know. Which you’ll have to do by commenting because I haven’t re-implemented the contact form yet.

…I’m a bit suspcious the feed itself has changed, which’d be a pain to you all. But better in the long run.

Also interested to know what you think, would you change anything?

Things not working:

  • Gravatars seem to be misbehaving
  • Favicon issue
  • Archives Page
  • List on the Categories page is a bit odd

To add:

  • Twitter status
  • RSS photo in sidebar (once I make photoblog!)
  • Working Archives page
  • Contact form

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Published June 23, 2009 by

Pot of Herbs

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Lets see if I can grow something… I used to like gardening when I was younger. So can’t be bothered putting in any effort while in a rental though.

Chives, Parsley, Basil, Mint.

Just the basics.

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Published June 22, 2009 by

Painted

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Shock horror, I can paint. Yes I cheated and used a technique from a book called The Weekend Artist, but I needed something to kick me up the bum and suggest again to myself that I could.

I’ve never really done abstracty stuff before with paint, nor have I ever used gel medium. Infact for a while it looked like there was snot all over the top section of the painting until I bought a little more red paint to the rescue, dont’ think I’ve quite got the hang of using it properly. Gel medium can be used to make acryllics looks a bit more like oils and it took freaking forever to dry in this lovely cold Melbourne – I might as well have used oils. In this photo the varnish on the lower half is still drying.

It’s no masterpiece, but it sure was fun!

Design Experiments Holidays

Published June 21, 2009 by

Ministry

“At the same time you love it but you also hate it with all your guts” (Thanks Les…)

This is exactly how I feel, or at least in the past have felt about Gush. It intrigues me to work out if this is where I need to again pour some effort or if I should wait for somewhere else to pour that expense. It is an expense. It is time, heart, pain and mental energy. It is well and truly worth it.

Do we get a say in what our ministry is? (I don’t like the term ministry by the way, and I’m not even sure of the concept of it as a stand-alone but just run with it). Or do we just somehow arrive there?

I also reckon marriage is a ministry by this definition. Not in a bad way – of hating it’s guts, ha. It’s wonderful, but at the same time it’s a lot of giving up of self and that’s marvelously difficult at times. Today Geoff made me breakfast in bed and made me lunch (err.. when I was in bed again being lazy/sleepy). It was very good.

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