Day 61 - 3rd Marh 2010

This photo just didn't work for me in colour. Lighting was wrong, temperture was wrong and many other things too. Like her eyes (the white) where blue! Sure if I fooled around in photoshop I could have achieved what I was after, but just wasn't in the mood to, so I converted it to black and white was like yay that's exactly how I want it.

The 3rd Day The Frost

Is the 3rd book in the Tomorrow Series by John Marsden

Live what you believe in... die fighting for it.

The third day comes a frost... a killing frost.

The enemy spreads across the land, cold and relentless. They invade. They destroy. They kill.

Only the heroism of Ellie and her friends can stop them.

When hot courage meets icy death, who will win through?

The Third Day, the Frost is the third volume in the award-winning Tomorrow series.

Great series, full of action. Last read them about 10 years ago. Appealing to teenagers, and young adults. Can't wait until the movie (series?) comes out, shame it has to have Geoff from home and away as Kevin, what a drag.

The Shadow Thief

I read this book out-loud as the good night book to my kids. Kayla said it was boring (hence why i read it so she would fall asleep). But I know she was paying attention because she would refer to it as the 'shadow book'.

Drabville is a model town, where Milli Klompet lives with her slightly offbeat family and spends her time longing for adventure.

Then one day, along with her cautious best friend and amateur geologist, Ernest Perriclof, Milli discovers ′Hog House′. But the afternoon′s entertainment takes a different turn when they are held prisoner by the wacky Mr and Mrs Mayor and a cohort of evil magicians, led by the sinister Aldor.

Aldor is eagerly anticipating the Great Guzzle - a horrifying ceremony during which he plans to swallow the shadows of every citizen in Drabville, absorbing their skills and talents and rendering himself invincible.

Milli and Ernest must evade the Shadow Keepers and outwit the sinister Aldor before the shadows are swallowed and Drabville loses its soul forever.

Ages: 10+

I have no idea how this is an aged 10+ book. Sure the adventure of the book is 10+ but the words! omg is it wordy. Some of the words I could say properly outloud (i felt like a retard let me tell you!), but some of the other words I didn't even understand. And if I couldn't understand then how is a 10 year old!
The girl who wrote it (Alexandra Adornetto) was 13 at the time, but serious, who at 13 knows some of the words in the story.
It was ok. But not omg i want to read it again. Will keep it for the kids for when they are older.

Fallen

One of the things that I wanted to achieve in 2010 was to read 12 books. That is essential 1 book a month. Which is totally achievable considering I read 17 books last year.

I ended up not reading anything in January. Opps my bad. But I have made up for it.

The 1st book read and completed is Fallen by Lauren Kate

I 1st heard about this book thanks to the double day magazine that I got in the mail.
The blurb was very interesting and it had me intrigued and hooked.

Appealing to Twilight fans, Fallen is the addictive debut in a new paranormal romance series that revolves around the forbidden love between an 17-year-old mortal and a tormented fallen angel.
Like a moth to a flame, Luce is drawn to Daniel, a handsome student at her boarding school, despite his frosty almost frightening demeanour. Little does she know, their love is doomed and she is destined to die before her next birthday …
Daniel is equally drawn to Luce, but is determined to keep his distance. As a fallen angel, he has learnt the hard way that he's not entitled to lasting happiness – for centuries, he has been cursed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years – and then watch her die.

It ended up that I had to go to 3 bookstores to find the book, and I got the last that they had in stock.
Having read the twilight series, I thought ok, I'll give this one a go. And well I loved it from beginning to end. I couldn't put it down. I ended up reading it in 2 days. Which with 2 kids I have to say is pretty impressive.

So if you are a twilight fan, then this could be the new series to get hooked into.

now registered

micreations is now registered!

I'm still working on the website. But the web address will eventually be www.micreations.net.au

of course there is nothing there and if you try to go there it will tell you 'hello mistake', but give me time. All this behind the scene stuff is hard work.

Day 60 - 2nd Mar 2010

Decided to walk over to Main street (as it's a lot more busier than Barnes) and do some long exposures.

I got a lot of looks from cars driving past. I should also mention it was quite windy, so the sign looks out of focus, but it's just the wind that was moving it.

Day 59 - 1st Mar 2010

We drove down to Hamilton to celebrate Pa Russell's and Nana Russell's birthday (it's not until Thursday/Friday but this was the only day that everyone could meet up).



I just love this shot. I cheated and used the auto functions and the inbuilt flash. So it is a bit grainy as the iso went from my default 200 to 800 (that's what happens when you choose the auto function).