Our fridge is mostly covered in photos, which is pretty much just life every other part of our house and life! I’ve been scanning old photos, so there is one up there of me and my mum when I was one day old.

There is something really beautiful about scanning old photos. I kind of like how they always seem to have a really wide frame, and the people seem to be far away. The light is always interesting too…

Which one is your favourite?

You can view the rest here…

Here are some of my favourite snaps of the day. I love the details. xo

Tim, the guy who married them is the same Pastor who married us.

Two of our beautiful friends- Gaby and Sarah.

An unconventional way of signing the register…

This Kim’s brother and a friend. They played Love Cats while they signed the register! It was awesome and everyone was singing along!

Morgan is french and the had a bit of a french ‘theme’ happening. This must have been a family friend? and she played the accordian. It was so fun.

Me, the bride, and Naomi.

They had all these tea cups set out with little sayings tied to them. You took one as you got a drink, but then you got to take it home! It doubled as the bombinere! This is such a good idea, no?!

Instead of like a guest book, they had slips of paper and coloured pens that you could write some kind words onto.

And then you pegged them up to the line in the courtyard!

Handmade bunting! I totally love bunting, and after this I am very inspired to make my own! Great for birthday parties!

They had heaps of pretty flowers in random bottles on the tabels scattered around! So beautiful!

Last, but definitely not least- the bouquet. Is it not GORGEOUS! I seriously thought it was beautiful!!

We’ve gone to two ‘teaching’ passover meals, and learnt SO MUCH about the symbolism involved in Passover. It’s just amazing how much Jesus’ death and resurection is paralled in the Passover traditions. We really love celebrating these Feasts of God that the Jews celebrate- we love jewish people, and Jesus was a jew! The bible and the things Jesus said and do make so much more sense now that we are putting them into context.

Four glasses of wine at Passover, each with their own meaning. Salt water and parsley, Charoset (sweet apple mix), bitter herbs (endive and horseradish), roasted egg. Lamb shank not seen on this plate...

It’s been a big eye opener this last few days about how much I don’t know about my own religion. Being the learning geek that I am, makes me terribly excited- So much more to LEARN!!

Anyway, I took some photos of the first passover meal we went to, for the Seder, but didn’t take any photos of the second one, or the meal I made for my family last night. This is a major bummer, because I was quite proud of what I made!!! Anyway, here are some photos…

I am hankering for a hot cross bun SO BAD, but part of passover is removing all the yeast/leaven from your house, so yep, no bread of any kind for us! Yeast represents sin. God commanded the Isralites to remove it from their houses in Exodus 13:3-7. For Jewish people it’s a reminder of the haste in which they left Egypt, after the plagues, and the very first Passover. For us, removing it is a reminder of what Jesus did for us- removing our sin.

It’s been a constant reminder, and I think I have grown more spiritually, from this passover, and this constant reminder, then I have at any other time of year in my life. I guess because I’m a ‘practical’ and ‘visual’ sort of girl, it makes it easier when there is physical reminder, then just trying to remember…

Passover doesn’t end till Tuesday night. You can be sure that I’ll be making some sort of baked bready delight on Wednesday.

(Dates of Passover, and what to do each day/night here)

The woman of the house lights the candles.

Reading from the Haggadah…

Our Haggadah.

Friends. xo
Aaron & Rachel.

Mmmm… Matzah! *jokes*- this unleavened bread that this crispy like a craker. Tastes quite bland and boring…

Luke- sick of photos probably!

Last Sunday was her Kitchen Tea, and we celebrated and gave lots of pressents and played some games. I love games at events like these.

All these photos were shot of my Canon 400D. Aperture/SS etc. vary. Sorry- was trying to capture the moment and not focus on the details too much!

I really want to know what YOU think. This blog is, after all, a place where you (hopefully) come back too, and I want it to be about things you want to read. The survey is here, and everyone who fills it out for me will be in the draw to win a secret prize! It’s not long, only a few questions, most of which are multiple choice!!

Now, back to our regular programming…

Last weekend we went and saw Alice in Wonderland for Luke’s birthday. We gave it 4/5 stars, which is pretty good for us!

To celebrate I thought I’d share with you some ‘Mad Hatter’ inspired photos I took last year…

Do people think you’re hard to buy for or are you constantly dropping hints? What’s on your ultimate gift list? If you were to write a list of 5 things that would be on the list of perfect presents for your next birthday what would they be? Would it be a particular thing or anything from a particular store/shop? An
experience or something with pretty bows? Practical or whimsical?

I’m going to be heaps practical about this. Not cause my birthday is any time soon, but because CHRISTMAS is just a few short months away. My FAVOURITE time of year!!

1. Spotlight voucher. Yes! fabric, craft supplies, scarpbooking, knitting… it’s all there! A few hundred dollars would be perfect…

2. Embroidery threads. I know that sounds kinda boring, but didn’t you hear?! Embroidery is my new thing!! I need to stock up on some more colours…

3. Walls. Okay, so this one isn’t so practical, but I have heaps of stuff I want to put on the walls, and just no wall space really left! (P.S my newest thing I’m doing is framing small embroiderries and putting them up on the wall!

4. Photos Printed… you know I love scrapbooking? And I’m working on my travel scrapbook from Jan/Feb at the moment, but I have HUNDREDS of photos that I need printed from post-schoolies week (2004) to well, now. The earlier part of my life is already scrapbooked. So if all those could just get printed out for me, that’d be great!!

5.  Suprise me! As much as I love getting what I want, I really, truly, madly, deeply (Oh GOD, Savage Garden moment…*shakes head in shame*) love SUPRISES!!! They’re my favourite, and really make an gift giving time special!!

Click the picture of Pepper (below) to see all my Christmas photos from last year (there’s not too many- I promise!)

My best girl stuffed after all the unwrapping on Christmas Eve "08

Quite Pepper...

Because of that (and because we’ve been putting together all our new furniture and cleaning up  the various areas of the house) I haven’t had a chance to edit any photos to show you, or to blog about the quilt show I went to on Saturday or ANYTHING!! Here’s a slideshow of the Quilt Show. If you’re viewing this in a reader, then you might need to click on the actual post link so that you can view the slideshow.

Also, have you had a look at my new blog, Cooking For Two? If not, I’d really appreciate you having a look and leaving me some feedback!

In fact, one could describe me as an ‘anti-people person’.

It’s not that I don’t like fixing problems or what not, I’m just not that good with people. I get grumpy and frustrated easily. So this is something that I’ve really had to work on and try to improve, and by goly, being nice to people works WONDERS!

So it has been my mission the last few days to be nice to people and not get frustrated with them. It’s hard sometimes, but I’m getting there! Of course, this is mostly relevant to work, but is sometimes related to at home and socializing!

In other news, my parentals and A-mon-o-me (Amon) came home from Myanmar, formally known as Burma. Click the links to learn more about it via Wikipedia, though it may romanticise it a bit… So here’s a little collage of the weekend…

1. The rose I picked from my parent's garden. 2. The new iron we bought. $100. 3. Luke playing the burmese harp my parents and Amon brought back from Myanmar. 4. The white gold and diamond bracelet my parents bought me from Myanmar as my graduation present. 5. Amon and Luke trying on Myanmarian clothes...

Of course, I also enjoyed taking lots of photos with Rachel, and catching up with Zoey and her family (including the always adorable Mayana!) randomly at M’ba.

YESTERDAY I was taking some snaps of my friend Pete, who’s a mime. Here’s a sneak-peak shot- no others have been edited yet. I really enjoy taking photos, and I’m going to be doing a photo course with Carmen and Rachel in a few weeks/months, so that’s pretty exciting.

Poiter, the mime.

Taking photos those makes one TIRED! And I seem to spend so much more time in post-production then actually taking the photos. Is this NORMAL?!!?!

AND I have so much to do! I’m making a bag for my fabric ruler. It’s my first sort of patchwork thing, so I’m pretty excited.

I GRADUATE tomorrow. I’m a little non-excited about it, and a little nervous. More nervous about my hair actually, and it’s black roots… My initial thoughts were, “I’m wearing that cardboard hat, so it’ll be okay” and now I’m not so sure… I’ll be calling Suanne today to see if she can fit me in for an emergency colour. Rachel is so much more organised then me… *hangs head in shame*.

Also, I thought I would post it out there that if you are following me on twitter, @sunshinetalia is my personal account, and @taliacarbis is my geek/education account. If you’ve never re-followed @sunshinetalia from the handle swap a few weeks ago, then you’re probably missing out.