http://www.spittingchips.com/blog Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:54:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Picture 747 Originally uploaded by therubynest http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=188 Originally uploaded by Cristina Grueso http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=187 This is by far my favourite little toy at the moment. I call him Space Monkey, but really cannot think why. I made him out of upholstery fabric samples that I salvaged from a certain ill fate at the local dump. The phrase, I Made This, was of course part of ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=167 Chicken, recycled scupture Originally uploaded by michelle3duk 2.8 metre tall chicken made from recycled materials. Materials include wood, yellow pages directory, gloves, fabric, plastic bags, coffee tins, juice cartons, coffee cup lids and cardboard packaging. http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelle3duk/ recycled yellow pages. I like it. (as I quietly eye off the use by date of our ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=166 Originally uploaded by Cristina Grueso How unexpectedly compelling it is to place a portrait of The Wolf next to The Girl. It's like a snapshot just before the climax of the story. We all know what the tension is! I was almost going to call this post 'Good versus Evil' but it ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=165   I may be the last person on planet Earth who is not yet switched on to muffins.  Although I've been known to quaff the odd Double Choc Mocha chip or Banana Maple Pecan number, I've never thought 'oh yeah...muffins' in the same way I might think 'oh yeah...cheesecake' or indeed ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=145 It's been a furious four months, up and down that highway to school and back twice a day. 46 kilometers all up for the two trips daily there and back. The road gets no easier. The drivers get no less tetchy and idiotic. I am no less aware of taking ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=134 Jack's first day of big school. Which is not really big, you understand. It's relative to the concept of Kindy/Day Care/Preschool.  John took the morning off work and came with us out to the school (a fair hike I need to remark). We were in plenty of time, there was ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=121 I admit to it; the last week I have been dreading the end to Jack's Day Care days and the beginning of his Primary School days. They call it Prep. I've never heard anyone call Prep anything else but 'prep', but it appears to be short for 'prepartory'. The concept, hatched ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=111 We never used to do a lot of things to do with Australia Day. When I was a kid, you'd never wish someone a 'Happy Australia Day" on the 26th of January. You'd never ever hoist up an Aussie flag in your yard, unless you were a resident of Government ... http://www.spittingchips.com/blog/?p=104