Beach with friends

As it's the school holidays, I've been spending a lot of time at the beach with buddies! When I'm not at work, I'm at the beach!

Birds of tokyo

My all time fave band Birds of Tokyo dropped into Karratha on the 21st of September as part of the 2013 red earth arts festival. I had the best night, singing every word of every song! It's fantastic to have bands like these come up to little old Karratha 

Weekend flowers

This photo was taken out the back of my house the other evening during a walk with morty.

Found the two above flowers in a cave on a hill that Ben, some friends an I went up this afternoon. It was a really good ride! Great way to spend a Saturday afternoon

40 hour famine

Hi Everyone!
I’m doing the World Vision 40 Hour Famine on 16-18 August. (I’m going without food ) for 40 hours to raise money to help kids around the world who are suffering because of chronic hunger. I’m giving up for 40 hours, so I’m hoping you can give up some of your hard-earned cash to support me with a donation.
My goal is to raise $200.

You can donate easily online via my fundraising page

 

https://www.worldvision.com.au/Community/Famine/PreviewProfilePage.aspx?lpos=Famine_top_nav_ProfilePageAvatar_Button

Every donation counts, so please do your little bit to help me achieve my goal and help children in need.
Thankyou
Em

All about me...

I realise that I haven't really told you much about me! Without giving too much away, here are some facts:


Birthplace:
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Birthdate:
30/11/1997
Family:Brother- Ben
Mother- Shiona
Father- Darrin (Dad asked me to write who my favorite parent is... But I'm not in the habit of causing fights!!)
Baby Brother- Morton (Morton is my puppy and little brother)
Favorite colour:
Turquoise, or anything blue. Although I LOVE red!
Favorite song:
I have two- Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison (My fave as Mum and Dad used to sing it to me when I was a baby)
Fifty in Five by Hilltop Hoods (The lyrics are so true!)
Favorite movie:
Tomorrow when the war began
Dear John... (Watch it if you want to cry!)
Favorite book:
The Tomorrow When the War began series
Favorite Television series:
Vampire Diaries (Im sorry... I know its pathetic but I got caught up in the plot!)
I also love Sea Patrol (An Australian Drama about the Navy)
Career Aspirations:
Travel Journalism... I really want to be constantly traveling!
*Dad also said to add in here that I will be paying for my parents retirement :)*
Hobbies:
Reading, Camping, Reading, BLOGGING!!, fashion
Future Travel Destinations:
Back to Africa.... I have always wanted to go back since the first time we went
India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Paris
Best Memory:
How can you pick a best memory?!
Worst Memory:
The Tsunami scare in Thailand last year. That's a story for another day though:)
Greatest Fear:
MATHS
Heroes:
Nelson Mandela
Skye Bortolli
My Best Friend Nikki- for being the strongest and most positive person I know


Id love to hear about everyone else, so if youre up to it leave a comment with your answers to all the above questions.
Have a great week

Em xx

James' Photgraphy

Hey Everybody,
Hope you have all had a fantastic week.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while... A lot has been going on lately!

Id like to introduce you all to one of my very good friends- James Mackinnon.
James and I have been friends since we started high school together, although he has now moved to Perth. James is a really talented photographer and I have asked him if I could show some of his work on my blog. Please comment bellow and tell him how much you love his work... Then hopefully he will let me steal some more of his work for the blog.
Talk soon
Em
xx

 Parrot, rainbow lorikeet's amazing colours, taken in Tasmania

 

 Pilbara Sunset, beautiful sunset caught in the Pilbara outback

Mud Crabs

Hey everyone,
Today we went Mud Crabbing, with Morty!
The ocean was nice and calm on the way out... but the way in was horrible. Both Morton and I got sea-sick :( The worst bit was the fact that after all the hard work, we only caught 1 mud crab and 1 blue swimmer crab. A very disappointing day, but at least we weren't stuck inside BORED all day! The only photos I took were of them in the sink, sorry they're not very good...

 

 

Flower Power

Thought this was a bright and cheery way to end the week! Took this photo of a beautiful flower from a bunch that I got from work this week... Enjoy xxx

 

Art...

 

I thought that this week, I would show you some of the art I have previously worked on... So maybe if you have some advice or tips I can use you can tell me! Enjoy, and as always... tell me what you think!

 

This is my art wall next to my bed, Its a work in progress and is ever evolving.

Some of the wall close up...

The wall in its entirety. You can also see my Africa photos pinup board above.

 

I was experimenting with colours and gloss :) This is one of my favorites

 

 

My Aunty Pam helped me create this one. She is an amazing artist. The base of the painting is No-Gaps (a wall filler)

Little fishies. This is a mini canvas, only about 7cm in length

More little fishies! The bubbles took me ages to make them look even remotely 3D

 

My Lino Print that I did in art at school. Mum liked it so much she got it framed!

The front page of my arty scrapbook. Its a collection of lots of little patterns I have done

This piece was made with a star shaped stencil. I like this one a lot and I think I might do it big on a canvas one day....

My ying and yang painting, done with inks. I really love this one 

My winged creature... This was the original sketch for the lino print seen above.

Camo print. This took me forever... and doesn't look as good as I had hoped.

My midnight landscape. This was another school piece. The trees are 3D, and the picture itself looks so much better in person.

Pam also helped me with this one. Its made with inks!

My little fishy! I have to admit I was looking at a picture on the computer when I did this one

I was experimenting with realism. The eye itself was a pencil sketch, the background its on is acrylic paints

 Another "looking at the computer" one... This one took forever ! I cant even remember what the writing says, but its in Japanese!

 

 

Hope you enjoyed!
Talk soon

Em

xxxx

Trip to the Beach

We took Morty to the beach on the weekend, and I have only just got around to posting these because our wifi died! So here they are.

I found a starfish! Yes... an actual starfish, and it moved!

My little baby Morty, with his brand new Frisbee that Ben brought home from school

 A Sturt Desert Pea, a flower that's native in the Pilbara and is absolutely beautiful.

Dad throwing the Frisbee to Morty, who chased it up and down the beach for ages!

First Post

Welcome everyone to my new blog! I have wanted to start my very own blog for a while now, and finally I have got around to doing it. My plans for this blog are to show you all a little snippet of my life by sharing photos of my art work and daily life. Hope you enjoy,
Em xxx