More gum leaves transformed

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In between tasks to do with the preparation for a Garage Sale on Saturday, I get onto the computer to make a few new images which started as a few red gum leaves I'd picked up. Using Picasa and Photo-edit, the new images are very far from the original because I used 'negative colour', or 'thick line', or 'crop' or 'gamma', etc. All I want for Christmas is another Image program? But then I wouldn't get any cooking done! Our house is like a transit lounge at present, friends coming and going, some to sleep overnight and I'm a bit overwhelmed about it all as I'm really a loner at heart, although last night I went to a Deakin University Writers group and it was so good because I met up with two friends I hadn't seen for years. We did get some writing done, some stories read, even though the leader didn't turn up with the wine, Timtams, cheese and bikkies!

abstractions

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From a photo of four white balls I played about with the shapes using different colours, overlapping, etc. to create a few variations. There are no titles but I like curved lines in a picture so got a bit carried away. The mood of a picture shifts with the different colours or tones so I guess an artist could just make up some title to suit! Meanwhile there's a party being organised in our back yard today as Peceli and friends are making an underground oven - taro, sweet potato, pork, chicken. There's enough food to feed a hundred people, so we had better start inviting the folk in the streets and lanes to eat it all later in the evening! The reason for the party - a visitor from Sydney who we didn't know a week ago! A guy from Gau Island in Fiji.

A symmetrical garden - kind of

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While waiting for a visitor (who never came) so I had all afternoon to fiddle with cutting and pasting shapes to make a paper collage of a kind of symmetrical pattern, perhaps a garden. Then, as I waited, I messed about altering it.Eventually I rang my friend's number - 'Oh, I solved that computer print problem so I put a message on your phone!' 'Oh, I didn't know our phone received messages,'I said.