Reading for Busy People

Finding a bit of time for keeping up with some reading by joining The Daily Lit, a site that send you a few pages of a book a day by email. Great way to read at your own leisure.

We have a Google gadget!

Click here to add us to your Google page.

Thanks to the genius of SPM we now feature a Google gadget. Hopefully this step up in technology will revise our flagging fortunes!

2009 here we are!

Seasonal laziness sets in with the heat of summer in the Hideout but the update must happen before the year is half over. Here's the latest piece of art to grace our rooms, a beautifully crafted sand table, ready for mediative doodling or serious incantations by the full moon. Thanks to MSMS.

We're Stamping!

Been busy stamping for the last few months. After finding a divine shop in Greenwich Village, the Ink Pad, where I bought up big! Next step will be to get the machine to create unique stamps here in the Hideout, but meanwhile here's a great resource if you're looking for unusual rubber stamps.
The Stamping Queen

There's even a monthly giveaway if you want to try before you buy.

We went to New York!

Found my rightful spot in the world - I was meant to be living in a brownstone opposite Central Park, dining at Frida's on Columbus and breakfasting at Ronda's. Checked out all the park benches looking for Woody Allen but he must have been busy on those days I visited the park. Watched the jazz musos by the fountain and meditated in Strawberry Fields instead.

Visiting C&B

Here we are driving down the east coast of northern NSW from Brisbane to Farrants Hill, which is just south of Tweed Heads on the way to Murwillumbah.

The new way of searching?

Living Creatively

I've joined a site to inspire my artist within. Living Creatively is a new place to browse, make and become inspired to sell your creations online. Ideas to make wonderful cards and paper creations as well as designs for aspiring jewellers and artists and lots more. Click the button to look. Very well done online mag to read as well as any print copy.

Facebook Connections

Never thought Facebook would lead to re-connecting with cousins and family not in contact for many years. It's not just for teens, seems people of all ages are finding it a great way to stay in contact, broaden minds (by playing scrabble or taking grammar tests etc) and share photos. One of my cousins has focused his page on our parents lives growing up in Tonga.

That's my mother on her fathers knee, in Tonga about 1927/28. Read her diaries to experience a little of the life of a teenage girl in 1940 when the family came back to Australia after many years in Ha'apai. Click Pat Pyne's Diaries link on the right of this page.

January's Book

First book out of the hideout for 2008. Blank journal 100 pages with expandable access to add more pages if required. Wrap-around cover is heavy cartridge paper treated to aged and textured finish. Added glue and varnish for strength. Secured with leather tie.