Sturt Wood Fire Weekend

This past weekend we were lucky to go to Sturt, an art school south of Sydney. We were involved in a wood fire, raku and saga fire with visiting artist Bede Clarke (who teaches at Mizzou, small world!). The first two pictures are of Sturt outside.

And then a not so lovely photo of us at the caravan park that we camped at.

This is the kiln where we did the wood fire. Both chambers were packed and then the doors closed in. We started the fire at 6 pm Friday night and finished adding wood around midnight on Saturday. It's all closed up and will sit until Thursday when they will open up the doors. As the fire got hotter and the night darker the flames looked fabulous.

This last photo is a bit fuzzy but is of Owen and I with some of his classmates and Bede.

And I've Graduated!

Well I have finally 'officially' finished my masters of art admin course. This weekend was the graduation and celebration weekend. Here we are before the ceremony began (Josie and I).

After the thankfully short ceremony we went outside and took a few pictures with Josie, Owen and his parents.

Then it was off to a pub crawl.

And finally.... no this has nothing to do with graduation, but we uber cleaned the apt last week and while it was clean i took a few pictures. But they don't really provide much information so I thought I would just attach a view of the wall in our lounge room.

Day Off!

So it has been absolutely beautiful here the last few days. Today Owen and I went to Shelly Beach, a cove near well known Manly Beach. This first picture is taken from Shelly Beach of Manly.

Today also happened to be the day of the lunar eclipse. Sadly with no tripod the photo is a bit fuzzy, but that reddish spot is not a random light but the moon. Not as crazy as I was expecting but still good.

Owen's Birthday Cake

This would be my lovely decorating capabilities. I had a little difficulty this year and ended up being creative and making Owen a monkey Birthday Cake.

Emma's Bday

I was going to wait as this week is Owen's Birthday and just put all the pics in one post, but why not make it two? This is Emma, Gina and I at the Rose Hotel pub. We all went to uni together. I'm not a very exciting writer about these things..... it's probably best for me to stay away from rambling stories that somewhat have to do with the pics!

Quick look at the new haircut

Here is a picture of my new haircut. A girl from the cafe was back visiting from Japan so we went out to eat dinner at a really good Czech restaurant. This is a picture of Yui, Kyoko and myself.

Birthday and a bit of Travel

A group of us from the cafe celebrated Kyoko's Birthday. We went over to Yuriko's place. She no kidding made about five entrees and three main dishes for five of us to eat!!! Too much but it was all good. Here is picture of Kyoko, myself and Dani.

On the couch is Anthea, Kyoko, Yuriko, Dani and Me.

This past weekend Owen and I went down to Canberra to visit his mates. I decided (because I always think about doing it...) that I should take a few pictures of the countryside, from a rest stop of course.