E’session: John + Vanessa
About 14 e’sessions have missed the blog due to this crazy-busy time for vibrant, so it’s nice to blog one again!
I met John & Vanessa just a short drive from where I live, in Jamberoo. We dodged the fickle weather and the drunk-looking bikers 😀 for a gorgeous afternoon. Their Berry wedding will be in May this year. I’m looking forward to going back since Genevieve’s wedding earlier last year. I promise donuts again for the bridal party at Berry Donut shop if its open (please please please!!)
Some shots around town before getting into the fields…
sky was very cool for a while…
Thanks guys for a perfect afternoon 🙂
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The first time I realised that Josiah’s easter hat we were creating would be a failure was when its shape was resembling more of a retarded soccerball than looking like an egg. Less than a week ago, we were told that a ‘compulsory’ easter hat parade would happen at school and all students were ‘required’ to bring a homemade easter hat. Bad news people, bad news!
When I was younger my dad made me an easter hat. It was a paper-mache construction made over a balloon. Coloured foil was layered over it to make it look like a big easter egg which sat on my head. Excellent! I had a plan for Josiah’s hat.
I ‘briefed’ Naomi on the project and somehow she was left with it. To be fair, the final product was both of our doing undoing.
This morning I went to finishing Naomi’s ‘handiwork’. The inside was still wet – an oversight by mache’ing the entire balloon. I lined the hat with a plastic bag so the cornflower glue didnt drip into Josiah’s hair. I then had to wrap just about the entire outside in clear stickytape to prevent the delicately glued foil from shedding off.
I then cut a hole in the base for Josiah’s head. His head is big to start with, but I over-estimated its size and the hole was cut too big. so it no longer sat on his head properly. Undeterred, and minutes away from having to get him to school, I came up with a simple, yet I’m sure you will agree, elegant solution — another plastic bag filled with scrunched up newspaper to fit inside it and prop it up on his head!
Suffice to say, I didn’t walk Josiah into school today, I dropped him off at the gate outside.
without the above bag the hat was more of a helmet…
added some cheesy selective colouring… and this look says it all really…
…but the very best part is when we asked Josiah what it was.
“Its a mushroom hat!”
reminds me of the toad character in his wii game – mariokart…
If it does indeed survive today, its fate will involve being filled with lollies and tied up to the clothesline!
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