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The evolution of the baked bean and cheese sandwich

30 April 2006 by kristarella

Mr Fabulous thought my love of the baked bean and cheese sandwich is really weird. So I’m going to post more about it! When I was living at my grandmother’s we were feeling lazy and hungry. I looked in the cupboard and found a tin of baked beans. We decided to heat this up and […]

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Essay writing

29 April 2006 by kristarella

I’m taking a food break from essay writing at the moment. Writing a structured thing like that takes so much brain power! I don’t know how Janet writes her blogs the way she does. She always has such a well formed, flowing story or point or argument. She has a very well written blog. Where […]

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Strip Generator

26 April 2006 by kristarella

Breaking News: Tricia from Tricia’s Musings is renting here this week! Yay! So please visit her. On other news: There’s this site called Strip Generator. It’s totally cool! I made this comic on there: It’s how I like to think love should be. Petits amis.

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C’est horrible!

26 April 2006 by kristarella

Oh no!!! Hubby accidentally went over our download quota for this month and now the internet is slow. Some pages won’t even load. He was downloading something slowly, having it trickle in, it was taking a really long time but there was no hurry, then in the night it sped up. I wish we just […]

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Tree

25 April 2006 by kristarella

These are the images I’ve been playing with, with my tree drawing. I still like the skelton of the tree, not sure about the rest. This is the progression from drawing to scene.

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Public Holiday!

25 April 2006 by kristarella

Woohoo! Today is a public holiday. We got to cath up on some much needed sleep after hubby’s restless night on Sunday. He’s a bit sick and Sunday involved some lach of sleep, hydration and alot of loud nose blowing. It wasn’t cool. He’s still run down but a better on the nose front. I […]

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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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