'w' family - {gold coast family photography}

botanical gardens - {gold coast photography}

jesse & i spent our morning at the botanical gardens.  i watched him explore the sensory garden and chase water dragons.
i'm drawn to helpless animals like a magnet.  we helped to rescue a lost water hen chick.  he was so tiny.  broke my heart to think of him not making it back to his family.  after being scooped out of the pond, he then had to survive being dropped on the path.  i hope he's ok.  we put him with a group of birds nearby and they seemed to take him in.

hope you had a beautiful day.
Jx

burleigh ♥ - {gold coast photography}

our morning in beautiful burleigh.  i wanted to dive into that cool surf.  as we wandered down james st. i discovered monsoon homewares.  full of pretty, pretty things.  i'll be back :)

p.s. ♥ my little cherub's squishy face
Jx

thursday - {me day}

kind of feels a little selfish as i type 'me day'.  this is the one day of the week that i have time to do something just for me.  i can sit in our house in complete silence.  do i tackle some housework?  should i go and do this errand?  i should really do some work on the computer.  pay bills, walk the dog, exercise...the list goes on.
today i met up with my friend, tanya, at max brenner's in broadbeach.  don't blab it, but it's really quiet in there and you get served straight away.  my passionfruit & strawberry shake was mouthwateringly yummy, followed by a 'chocolate lick' - a little bowl of max's melted milk chocolate, topped with white chocolate drops.  drooling?
talk started off with how the kids are doing, then moved on to the usual secret women's business that us mothers women need to vent to each other.  of course we eventually moved on to photography and stayed there a fair while.

i had been wanting to check out retrospect gallery, just across the street.  we wandered in and were casually browsing (as you do) and checking the price tags as we went and discussing how one day we would love to invest in a huge work of art for our equally huge homes :)
lorraine very kindly invited us to stay for an 'art talk'.  she is such a sweetheart.  we met some lovely ladies who are self confessed "art addicts".  there was even some discussion on the canon v. nikon debate, over coffee.  i highly recommend you check it out. 
for me, the art is even better when you find out a bit about the actual artist.  i am now a fan of ross tamlin, shane martin, & lisa lee.  amazing.

sooooo much better than housework.  on the way home i picked up my frankie ♥. 
hope you are having a beautiful day. Jx