Tuesday 18 April 2023

visited HOTA on the Gold Coast.

 HOTA (Home of the Arts) Gold Coast is a great reason to visit the Gold Coast. 




Fun isn't it?

For those of us not enamoured with surfing, sunning and other adventure sports we are very happy to add this Gallery to our activity list when heading South. Being only an hour away from our place, I do tend to treat the Gold coast as an outer suburb of Brisbane.

The current featured exhibition comes from the Mugrabi Collection in New York; a glorious treat of Modern art featuring Warhol, Hirst, Basquiat & Haring, among others.

For the 'Creed' of this Group, see below.



Did you know that......


Examples here:-



and here:-














Slide Show continues with other favourites.








And to support their theory that 'Art is what you can get away with', a piece by Damian Hirst.






The Exhibition continues until 2nd June.......

& I'm off to my Art Studio; I have a few ideas!

Tuesday 11 April 2023

go for a drive in the Scenic Rim

 Easter Saturday, a good day for a drive in the country.

 Morning Tea and Lunch at 2 new to us cafes and a bonus of views to Cunningham Gap.


 

Lake Moogerah & nearly morning tea time.

Lake Moogerah Cafe full of vintagey, garden goodness.


On our table, vintagey and garden goodness.


Just for fun, a collection of retro waterskis & more plants.



Moving onto the Scenic Rim Farm Shop......

Table on the verandah to watch the shenanigans...and enjoy the feast.



Happy Easter to all.

Saturday 8 April 2023

look back 10 years to family birthday fun.

 April is a very busy birthday month for our family. 2 sisters & 3 cousins.

Just for fun we recreated photos shown on my Blog; 10 years ago to the day; 7/04/23.




Mia and Lexie 2013



                                                                      Mia 2023 (Lexie working in Beijing)


                                                          

Suzanne Leesa and Manda 2013


Suzanne Leesa and Manda 2023



Emma, Annabel, Jess Lexie and Mia 2013



Mia 2023

(Annabel Qantas FA on her way to HNL, Jess living and working in Florida, Lexie working in Beijing, Emma working at Mater Hospital, Springfield)


There is some empty nesting angst as you might imagine, but we tried to have an enjoyable day anyway.



















Wednesday 5 April 2023

am revisiting my Blog.

 The last blogpost I made was back in 2016.

Such a lot has happened since then. Should I revisit this medium? I've thoroughly enjoyed re reading my previous posts, so let's see how we go.

It'll cover Art, Creativity, Travel, Family & Friends, Food, Nonsense... all of the important things in my life.

I'm going to take a deep breath and push the Publish button!