Angie

I had a great start to the day today! Woke up early with a brilliant idea for a wedding album, and found a good friend online so we chatted. As it happens she is a bride to be so I asked her some questions. We were both up at 3:30am!!! and we chatted till around 6:30 am , yes that early we laughed, chatted and discussed her wedding to my longest friend every Andy!

She made me cry, in a good way that is and made me snort with laughter and joy! Thank you Emma! But the most important thing she made me feel great about me, about life and about everything in general. A great pick me up from a 3 hours chat on facebook! 

She was going for a run, she is training for a Triathlon in September, and I decided that since I’m already awake might as well go for a walk. 

While walking I realized that its been almost 12 months since I did my last everyday walk. Where I was taking photos on my walks just for the hell of it!  If you know me you would have heard me say that I always have a camera in my hand and looking back through this blog you will see that, which also makes me realise that I’ve had this blog now for over 12 months. WOW how the time flys. 

So here are some photos from my walk today…

on my way back I found this leaf, it just jumped at me. It wasn’t under the tree that it came from and its bright read. I had to take a photo of it and pick it up.  Made me think of our chat this morning with Emma, everything happens for a reason. I was meant to find this leaf and pick it up. 

Ok I know this is going to sound weird, but the stop sigh also jumped out at me, it was so much more brighter than I thought it should be, as well as the red bottle brush that grows just above my letter box. Just had to take a photo of it. Everything happens in 3′s so here are my three red things for the day. 

I’m excited to see what else the day has in store for me!

So here are Alex’s first 5 days.

More to come!

Everything in bold is the new update. Once I go and update again the things in bold will go back to normal style… does that make sense???

Angie

Oh last satrudays wedding has also been posted on www.angieking.com.au

We started off with Emma’s Wedding which was wonderful! They went away to Queensland for a week and a bit, she found out that she is expecting again, Congratulations Emma and Lance.

Have been booking weddings right left and centre which is great. (note to self: need to update 101 page) ACN Packaging has been very quite, too quite for my liking. I hope Feb does pick up…

Lara turned 8 in January! Where has the time gone… my baby is growing up! We had a bit of a party for her and everyone had great fun!

We have another new member of the family. James 2. He is Lara’s birthday present, last James was her bunny too but he died and she has been crying for him every since.  So when I found this sweet little boy I knew that I just had to get him for her.

I had a birthday in January too! Didn’t do much went out for lunch with Paul and the kids, and the next day which was my names day had lunch with Mum and Dad.

Australia Day was lots of fun. We finally went in the Camden Australia Day Parade, as Paul got his FC Holden fixed up! The kids bailed on us and went in Loftys big RED truck instead. Photos below were taken by my dad!

Me taking photo of dad taking photo of me

dad taking photo of me taking photo of him…. get it, got it… good!

Alex and Lara in the Big Red Truck! they loved it and blew the horn all the way down the street!

After the parade we went to Thirmere Lakes for a quite picnic with mum and dad!

Jennifer and I have decided that we are going to try to lose 15kg together, we are going to keep a blog of our progress and keep a daily food diary there. Which will make us more accountable to each other. It can be done, we just both need a bit of a push. www.less15kg.wordpress.com if you want to check it out. Anyone out there want to join us, just send me an email! The more the merrier.

Alex and Lara started school on the 28th of January. Alex has the same teacher that he had last year, which is great. She knows him well and he should have a great year.

Lara is in year 3 already!!! She has a male teacher who might be Polish or Polish decent by the sound of his surname.  Mr Kowalick.

I haven’t done any of my course this past month… which I feel a bit slack about, I also haven’t scrapbooked this year yet! Need to fix that up too.

I missed out on doing a photo a day in January but I’m thinking of doing one in February. I know its a short month but I want to give it ago! then maybe I will do another month down the track. Just thinking of a subject… might do Alex this month and Lara next month…

I worked yesterday (the 31st) I had a last minute wedding booking. The sweetest couple, check out www.angieking.com.au later today for a sneak peek at their Wedding Day.

So this is about it for January… I don’t think I missed anything…

As I also had a wedding to photography in the afternoon, I had the opportunity to also photography the sunset! Again it was a wonderful sunset. And I’m very happy that I captured both, I can include it in the photographys I give both Brides as “Their Sunrise / Sunset”

Sunries 10th of January 2009

Sunset 10th of January 2009

But here are some photos from the 1st day of the year!

This is the first sunset of the year!

Here is a late entry…. taken tonight

This year I’m having a harder time deciding on my word for the year. I have read the list over and over and over and I can not decide on one word. Here are my choices.

Capture – to seize the moment
Simplify – to make  less complex
Renew – reestablish, make new, freshen up, revitalise
Focus – to direct ones attention on a task / idea
Today - the present moment in time

After leaving this open for a few hours I have come back with a more clearer vision of what I want my word to be and to do for me this year.

FOCUS: to direct my attention on TODAY. To CAPTURE the moments in my life that are important to me. To FOCUS on simplifying my lifestyle and to RENEW who I am and who I want to be.

Simplified:

FOCUS to CAPTURE moments of TODAY, SIMPLIFY my life and RENEW who I am.

I will update this list as I go along, for the upto date version click here

Start Date: 1st January 2009
End Date: 31st December 2009
Number of Items Completed: 2/101

So here it is.

1. create a master list 101 (hehehe thats cheating I know)
2. do a 52 week project
3. create a 52week blog to keep track of the project
4. finish my 52 week project
5. create a favourite photo blog
6. photograph a birth
7. book 3 birth session
8. photograph 30 weddings
9. book 40 weddings in 2010
10. take the kids to the snow
11. do a Shelton Muller workshop in Melbourne or Sydney if he comes to do some here
12. do a photoshop course
13. take the kids on a real holiday interstate… gold coast would be great or anywhere in  QLD
14. finish my photography course
15. finish my scrapbook on Poland from 2006
16. make handmade cards for everyone for every occassion
17. go to a day spa for a few days
18. photograph an interstate wedding
19. enter a photography competition
20. win a photography competition
21. finish painting the house
22. go to the beach with the kids over 10 times in the year
23. go camping in a tent with the kids and Paul
24. go away with just paul for a few days
25. have a date night once a month
26. do at least 3 photography workshops with great photographers I admire
27. make a photographer friend so we can talk shop and learn together
28. lose  5kg
29. lose 10kg
30. lose 15kg
31. buy two new fast lens for my camera
32. buy the Sony Alpha 900
33. coach dad to be a second shooter for me
34. go full time in my photography business
35. sell ACN
36. sell ACN Gift
37. build our new deck and pergola
38. buy a new plasma tv
39. buy a new lounge
40. go away to a scrapbooking camp
41. learn how to play the piano
42. spend a whole week at home not working
43. scrapbook every day for a whole month
44. blog daily for a whole month
45. sort out my finances
46. go overseas for a holiday
47. give up drinking diet coke for good
48. walk daily for a whole month
49. buy a vw bug an old one just for the fun of it and drive it around
50. get another tattoo
        find another 50 things to add to this list…. ( OMG how hard is this)
51. get a new Word for 2009 and blog about it and stick to it.
52. do Ali’s December Daily for christmas, start it and finish it…
53. simply my life!
54. do more fun things with the kids
55. Identify 100 things that make me happy.
56. Do regular planned postes for the business blog hints and tips on planning a wedding… maybe
57. Dance in the rain
58. have a movie marathon with girlfriends
59. hold a fundrainsing function for Beast Cancer
60. keep my office tidy for a whole month ( not the scrapbooking month thats just impossible)
61. create a photo book of old photos for mum and dad
62. go to movies in the park
63. get into yoga
64. photograph a sunrise and sunset in one day
65. spend a whole day on my own shooting in the city (sydney) just for the heck of it
66. Identify 25 things I like about myself
67. Write and send snailmail to 5 different people
68. Donate blood
69. go to Luna Park in  Sydney with the kids and paul
70. ride my bike to work (acn gift) for a whole week
71. walk into Camden to get shopping instead of driving at least once a week
72. Construct a proper address book of addresses, birthdays and phone numbers
73. back up all my personal photos to dvds
74. read all the books in my collection that I haven’t read
75. go with out the computer one day a week
76. organise a girls away weekend
77. take a bellydancing class
78. drink only water after I stop drinking diet coke… see #47
79. Get a motorbike licence. Paul wants to so I might get one too
80. make a budget and stick to it
81. clean out all my old magazines cut out what I want and throw away the rest
82. host a NYE facny dress on the 31-12-2009
83. make some sushi from scratch
84. finish all my sewing projects for around the house
85. frame and hang up my photos for my photo wall…(after painting the house)
86. scrapbook 2004 photos
87. scrapbook 2005 photos
88. scrapbook 2006 photos
89. sell stuff on Ebay that I no longer need or want
90. get a veggie garden going
91. do a first aid course
92. get Jen to blog
93. put away $5.00 each day to send on myself on my birthday 2010
94. drive to Tasmania
95. take mum out for the day
96. take dad out for the day
97. do a  NaBloPoMo
98. start looking after my skin daily
99. grow some fresh flowers in my garden so that i can have fresh flowers in my house for at least one whole month
100. enter photographs into Camden show and win at least one category
101. take photos and scrapbook this 101 list!

Then and only then if more than 90% of these are done start another List!!! HA

Ok this was much harder than I though it would be and I hope I didn’t repeat myself in any of the above… Any one want to join me in this quest? Comment below and post your blog so we can keep tabs on each other!