Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
Aside from everything else that went on this Easter, we also took a few days off and went to Cowes (Phillip Island) and stayed in a Holiday House with some friends. I have been trying to get to Phillip Island for awhile now, and finally managed to fit it in. My main goal was to…
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Daydreamer challenge – Day 7 What was my favorite part of the challenge? I think I will try and keep this short and sweet. I have hardly had time to read everyone else’s post and I am trying too. I liked Day 3 and Day 4…………made me think outside my comfort zone, which is a…
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The Daydreamer Challenge – Day 6 Yesterday, I asked you guys to write a question at the end of the post. This is because I wanted to write down every question and you can just answer them! Easy peasy! Also, check out the blogs that gave the questions because they’re awesome! 🙂 Question time –…
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Wow, Day 5,6 & 7 got a little away from me, it has been such a busy, busy weekend. So for Day 5 of Little Daydreamers Challenge. My goals and achievements for my Blog, essentially my hopes and dreams I guess. I too an a relative newbie, I started blogging in October 2014, so maybe I…
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The Daydreamer Challenge – Day 4 – Blogging tips I know when it comes to blogs I really enjoy reading it is when something is genuine and usually amusing, I also like pretty pictures, but they should have a reference, for instance why put up a image of a cat playing piano if you are discussing…
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In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “If I Had a Hammer.” If you could learn a trade — say carpentry, electrical work, roofing, landscaping, plumbing, flooring, drywall — you name it — what skill(s) would you love to have in your back pocket? I am sorry but that is what MOTH is for, he…
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Today, the challenge is to say something nice about another blog I love seeing Wiley’s Wisdom come up in my Reader, the posts are always wonderful, usually funny and always heart warming. I am a four-year-old terrier mix with a heart of gold and lots of stories of joy to share with the world. Wiley…
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The Daydreamer Challenge – Day 2 Choose/take a photo of something that represents you. It can be anything from a colour to an object. Whatever you feel represents you and your personality. Include a short paragraph about how it represents you and what it means to you. The image is a little strange I know,…
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Day Dreamer Challenge – Day 1, looks like I have a little bit of catching up to do. Day 1 was kind of hard, as I love both the beach and nature. I have just come back from the beach, so I guess it is fairly close and recent in my memory. Long walks, with…
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In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Ripped from the Headlines.”
Click over to whatever website you visit most frequently to get news. Find the third headline on the page. Make sure that headline is in your post.
Well this could be slightly embarrassing I guess, but I do not read newspapers, or even go online looking for the news. I will listen to the news on the radio, and occasionally watch the news headlines on TV, but apart from that I don’t bother. Yes occasionally you will find me transfixed on some travesty unveiling before our eyes on National or even Global TV, I am not completely cold. However I just find that the news is more like a horror show than a news and current affairs show. And most current affairs shows are about bad neighbors and the latest fat pill!
There is no good news anymore! Everything is so horrible, people and animals being killed in more gruesome ways than ever before, the murder and mayhem, ensuing in riots, natural disasters and plane crashes. I’m sorry it is just so depressing. I know when something happens, we need to be told about it, but over and over and over and over and over………it all gets a bit too much. And they all fight over who gets the more gruesome images.
Football stars and sporting ‘heroes’ are not super heroes (nor villains), they are just people. Don’t raise them so high on golden pedestals and then push them off. What about the REAL Heroes? Armed Forces, Police, Fire and Ambos……..these guys literally put their life on the line every day, we rarely hear a good news story about them! Who cares what football player supposedly took what drug and then lied about it. Give me a break!
And finance………….seriously before the GFC nobody really cared about anyone’s dollar (apart from Stock brokers and bankers I guess), now it takes up 1/4 news………….it goes a little bit up, a little bit down, round and round. In a week it really doesn’t change that much does it. In one ear and out the other, blah, blah, blah. Maybe I should pay more attention, but I just can’t.
OK so some Movie legend or old politician dies, that’s sad, and yes I would like to hear about it, but just once or twice, not constantly for weeks on end. Let them die in dignity and peace.
Honestly folks I am not heartless, in fact I think it is the opposite, I take too much on board. But I can only take so much on board and then I become depressed and morbid and no one wants to be around me then! So now I have had my rant……….here is some cute puppies (care of Google images) to brighten our day, honestly it is what I would rather look at!
– Julz
