Holiday Adventures- Hartford House.

Next on our trip we went to Hartford House to visit my mom's cousin and have tea.  It's in a super pretty area and the tea and scones were delicious.

Holiday Adventures- Howick.

Today we got back from being away on holiday.  We've been to a couple places over the last week or two so I thought I'd share them in a little four or five part series of photo's that I took while I was away. This holiday was one of the first opportunities I had to use my new lens that I got as a Christmas present and I have really enjoyed using it.  So without further ado, here are some pictures I took in Howick on the first part of our trip!

Howick Falls.

The cutest, fluffiest cat.

An old wooden chest in a second hand store.

More to follow soon!

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Bubblegum princess.

Last weekend whilst looking through our dress up box in search of old bits of fabric to use as head scarves I found myself looking at old fairy and princess outfits that last fitted me around 2003.  In particular I found a pale bubblegum blue chiffon number that I can remember often strut tin aground the house in when I was five.

Here it is.

Anyway I decided that I quite liked the fabric that the bottom part of the dress was made out of, so I gave it to my gran and viola! Now it's a skirt.

Attempting to recreate the pose.

The material is super floaty and as there is lot of it when I wore it I felt like a cross between a Disney Princess and one of the girls from the movie Grease all at once

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This top belonged to my gran but recently found a new home in my cupboard.

These are some of my mom's old rings from her varsity days.

My sister helped me take these photos and, like in most things we do, we soon got distracted by the daisies in the garden and so these happened.....

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From Tree to Tree.

A short stop-frame animation that I made with my younger sister while on holiday.  She isn't the most patient subject and seemed to think there was a possibility that there were snakes in the leaves despite the fact that it was the middle of winter, so it is unfortunately a little shorter than I would have liked but hopefully she has learnt how fun it can be.

                            

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Game reserve.

On Sunday our family got back from a short holiday to a game reserve up the coast.  It was nice to get away for a couple day and we had a good time looking for animals on our game drives.   We saw plenty of buck of all shapes and sizes, giraffe, zebra and all of the Big Five bar leopard.  I must admit, I've was rather jealous of the overseas tourists that were there with their fancy big cameras and super long lenses as I sometimes battled to get good pictures. Sigh. Anyway here are some that I took with my trusty little Canon.

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