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Happiness Engineer at Automattic, lover of knitting, crochet, sci-fi and more

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Moving out

9 March 2006 by kristarella

I’m thinking of moving out of Blogger and into somewhere else – maybe my own domain name and use wordpress or something like that. This way I can blog, have it set up just the way I want and if I want to set up other pages about whatever I can. I would appreciate some […]

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Rude people

9 March 2006 by kristarella

There’s a woman that we are forced to deal with at work who is just rude! We sometimes (or possibly often) have problems either with them or with our own stuff which makes things complicated with them – basically things don’t work which is what happens in science more than half the time. When anything […]

Filed Under: My life & thoughts

Big crash

9 March 2006 by kristarella

There was some kind of car crash outside our place (actually outside the building next door, we couldn’t actually see what happened because of trees) at about midnight last night. It was a really big crunch – I wasn’t sure if it was cars or not because there was no brake squeeking or tyre skid […]

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Questions and maybe some answers

8 March 2006 by kristarella

I’m home sick today. Bummer! I thought I wouldn’t cope today especially with a French tutorial, which is the worst thing to miss but my throat is sore – I don’t want to speak at all let alone try to speak a different language that needs a throat pronunciation. I’ve been thinking of a few […]

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Richard Beeston

8 March 2006 by kristarella

If you read this post you would know that I went to the Beeston’s for dinner a little while ago. They are Alison and Richard Beeston. They are so lovely! I’m glad they are my friends. I wasn’t one of the first people to befriend Ali and I remember being a little intimidated by her. […]

Filed Under: church, Music

Song of the Week!

6 March 2006 by kristarella

This week’s song is Left of the Middle by Natalie Imbruglia. I don’t know how big she has been anywhere else but she was huge in Australia a while ago… in 1997 when this album came out. She was born in Australia, right here in New South Wales of an Italian father and Australian mother. […]

Filed Under: Music

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A triptych of baubles. These are very satisfying t A triptych of baubles. These are very satisfying to paint ❤️💚💙

#watercolor #watercolour #christmas
I have really enjoyed this Christmassy painting! S I have really enjoyed this Christmassy painting! So glad my friend asked me to make some cards for our church helpers, because it set me on a roll!
#watercolor #watercolour #christmas #christmascards #watercolorcards
Had a great Saturday at the GKR Karate State Title Had a great Saturday at the GKR Karate State Titles! I was a sub for @jamesxuereb.me in the Blue Flame Dragons thanks to his sprained ankle; we won first round and came fourth overall!
I did a bunch of judging and officiating, which was really good.
I didn’t place in my individual events, but had a very fun final round of kumite (sparring).

#gkrkarate #karate
More stamping tonight. Even better than last night More stamping tonight. Even better than last night’s!
Did some stamping this evening. Love it! I wish I’d done some pages in other ink colours before I dismantled the stamps 😂
Had an appointment in the city, so I got to visit Had an appointment in the city, so I got to visit the @legocertifiedstores_anz Wicked display!
#wicked #lego #afol #sydney
A little book I made from Bunnings paint sample ca A little book I made from Bunnings paint sample cards. It’s going to be for mini paintings and collages. Sometimes it’s nice to start with a colour rather than a blank white page!
A little while ago I did some swatching of Daniel A little while ago I did some swatching of Daniel Smith and Schminke Horodam watercolours. So soothing! I love some of the granulating colours!
#watercolours
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