January 31st

What can I say!

This wasn't the photo I was planning on taking. It was meant to be my husband playing with a Christmas present from his son, a mini remote controlled helicopter, but the batteries were flat and then we lost daylight.

These Christmas lights hadn't been put away so I started playing with them and when I saw the rubber chicken in the spare room (doesn't everyone have a rubber chicken in their spare room) I remembered Ice Bunny's bondage chick. Here is my final photo of the challenge and a tribute to Ice Bunny!

It was mostly great fun and I am going to miss it...and am all ready looking forward to the next one...I am now enjoying going back and commenting on some of those I missed...

January 30th

James

This is my favourite and well loved bear, James. I got him around the time my brother was born, I was almost three. He has been cuddled so much his fur has worn off twice. Years ago (pre 1976) when we realised his fur was wearing thin my mother contacted the makers Wendy Boston and asked if she could buy some material to patch him with, they sent us a piece for free all the way to NZ from UK. It was enough to cover his ears and arms and chest. I love my mother, she also made him a red pair of corduroy trousers.

I had high expectations for this photo, I was going to wear my teddy bear winter dressing gown and take my own photo holding James. I don't have a remote and although I had a two second delay I couldn't get the focus right and after the first photos at 29 Celsius inside I couldn't wear my dressing gown anymore.

This was the best I could get. I think it looks like I am holding a young child instead of a 40 something bear. LOL!

January 29th

 

Every year the staff at the Fabuland Resort have a staff photo taken.

These critters were popular in the 80's and were some of the earliest lego sets my eldest and I played with. They had a series of Ladybird books written about their adventures.

January 28th

 

If we had these in New Zealand!

I wouldn't be taking photos out by the woodpile. My daughter bought this cute snake back from a trip to Australia with her father when she was about 10 years old.

January 27th

 

Powerpuff Girls!

This is Buttercup one of the Powerpuff Girls checking out the Tui Brewery high rise apartments for hidden villains. My kids all enjoyed watching their adventures on TV. I bought her last year at McDonald's (she has eyes that light up), before I even heard of the 30 Day Challenge. I have been carrying her around in my bag since, when we had a camera club meeting tonight I found this great background bar leaner. My friend got some blue-tac from the bar and voila!

Buttercup is now safely back in my bag with attached blu-tac waiting for her next photo opportunity. The snake I had photographed earlier in the evening will have to come out tomorrow night for another session.

January 26th

 

Happy Australia Day!

It was so hot here today that my three Aussie friends went outside for some fresh air. I asked them to pose for me in the tree and although it wasn't a gum tree they agreed.

The little koala is about 50 years old. She was a gift from my Aunty, who still lives in Australia, to my father before I was born. The platypus is Finns and the wombat I acquired recently to keep the others company. LOL.

January 25th

 

Lighthouse

I have spent much of the weekend out in my workshop fixing old PC's and sorting out toys! It has become a dumping ground, when tidying up I found that half the cardboard boxes only had packing material in them. I am looking forward to rubbish day.

Anyway while I was waiting for an old PC to install Windows 98, I started doing this 3D lighthouse, it was great fun and a different challenge to the usual flat jigsaw. I had to take a photo of the finished article, it was taken on the top rail of our deck and I had fun adding the lighting effects in photoshop. If I had got less of the jagged right side I thikn it would almost look real. In fact my husband did ask me where I had taken it...LOL