Eiffel, je t'aime

Last week it was Luke's birthday, and as usual he received a hand-made present. "What's it going to be this year Karen, a shrine a pot or a book?". I decided on the book, book making is making me happy at the moment. We are planning a trip to Paris again in a couple of years, and so the Eiffel tower was good inspiration for me. I used my own photos, and bought a new packet of lovely shiny water pastels (don't ya just love shopping for art supplies?) to create this concertina book. He loved it, or at least he did a good impression.

Kowhai Journals Exhibition

So every year for the past four years I have been taking photographs of our local Warkworth Kowhai Festival, and I invite other local photographers to join me. Last year, Shirley Vivian took photos and this year both her and I are exhibiting a few of our images at the Tahi Bar. It's a retrospective, but also a work in progress because this year's photographers will exhibit next year. This project is a social documentary in pictures of NZ's second longest running festival. By the time we get to 50 years (in about 8 yrs time) I hope to have enough material to self-publish a coffee table book.