Liebster Award

My cheeky and fun friend Mit at www.creationsbymit.blogspot.com.au has this week secretly given me The Liebster Award! (which I only found out accidently...I think this is all part of the game!!)

So I had to do a little research ...

The Liebster award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers.  What is a Liebster?  The meaning: Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome.

So if this is the case, I am very honoured! Thanks Mit!!

Here are the rules for receiving this award:
1. Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
2. Choose 11 people and link them in your post.
3. No tag backs!

So.... 

1. My sister lives in remote Thailand and I live in remote Australia but we still play scrabble most nights...the magic of the internet!

2. It is very likely my two little boys will be taller than me by the time they are ten.

3. I didn't learn to drive till I was 30.

4. My mum didn't let me and my sister cook when we were growing up because she thought we made too much mess but before I left home she taught me to make lasanga and apple pie with home made pastry.

5. I almost never ever wear high heels (despite my height) but love shoes especially boots and am constantly on the look out for unusual colours and styles.

6. My middle name is Lorna after my grandmother who was named after the book "Lorna Doone", a romance novel published in 1869.

7. When I was 17 I accidently ended up studying fashion design because the course I wanted to do, millinery wasn't running that semester. I had failed sewing in year 9 but was convinced I should try it. I gave myself six months and ended up staying three years and loving every moment of it!

8. I have lived in eight cities, three countries and two many houses to count.

9. If there was no other junk food in the world except ice-cream I would be satisified.

10. I am very very uncoordinated!

11. By day I manage an indigenous art centre. (see no.11 below)


And the Liebster Award goes to:

1. http://fawa-shah.blogspot.com.au
2. http://francescony.blogspot.com.au
3. http://lauriesharp.net/blog
4. http://hedwigml.blogspot.com.au/
5. http://aliciasillustration.blogspot.com.au/
6. http://kazartgallery.blogspot.com.au/
7. http://www.tracystokesart.co.za/category/paintings/
8. http://janetsdibbydabby.blogspot.com.au/
9. http://abbyabbydoo.blogspot.com.au/
10. http://kathrynboyleillustration.blogspot.com.au/
11. www.minymakutjara.blogspot.com.au (this is a little cheeky because it is my work site but it links in with the 11 things about me above.)

Apologies to my blog friends Roberto, Mr The Pen Mover and CindyD. I thought I should come up with a different list from the last time I wrote one of these!

Illustration Friday - The Future

This is late but I have been travelling again the last few weeks and missed a couple of IF's...I had to get back into it!  I really liked this theme and I had been thinking about it all week. So... I had to finish what I started. Now I have six days to think about "liquid"!

Illustration Friday - Farewell

Illustration Friday - Training Trains and Wild Things

 

The last fortnight I have been in the sky or on the road so Illustration Friday has been mostly neglected. I've crossed four states and am ready for the weekend....but before I crash I'm going to just scrape into this week's theme of trains. Below are my doodles for last weeks "wild" theme that I found amongst conference note on Indigenous Art's Law. The horse was an idea I had for a Wild Wild West scene that never got any further....maybe another time!

Illustration Friday - Urban

Listed on cracked.com as the fifth Creepiest Urban Legends (That Happen's to be True) is the phenomenon of being "Buried Alive"!!

The Legend (to quote the website):
"Some poor schmuck is committed to his or her eternal resting place, even though they aren’t quite ready to take that final dirt nap. Scratch marks are later found on the coffin lid along with other desperate signs of escape."

The Truth:  
"This not only happened, but back in the day it happened with alarming regularity. In the late 19th century, William Tebb tried to compile all the instances of premature burial from medical sources of the day. He managed to collect 219 cases of near-premature burial, 149 cases of actual premature burial and a dozen cases where dissection or embalming had begun on a not-yet-deceased body."

"The concern over being buried alive back then was so real that the must-have hot-ticket item for the wealthy and paranoid were "safety coffins" that allowed those inside to signal to the outside world (usually by ringing a bell or raising some type of flag) should they awake 6-feet under. Though, answering that bell sounds like a good way to get ambushed by a zombie if you ask us."

"Unfortunately safety coffins aren’t in vogue anymore, so if you’re at the cemetery and hear a muffled voice calling out "OK guys, joke’s over. Let me out!" it might be a good idea to inform someone with a shovel quickly!!!!"

Nathan Birch on cracked.com

Illustration Friday - Egg (Head!)

Illustration Friday - Swim

swim against the tide and swim against the current 

1. Lit. to swim in a direction opposite to the flow of the water. 

2. Fig. to do something that is in opposition to the general movement of things.

from The Free Dictionary