Happy AUSTRALIA DAY!!
January 26, 2012
Congratulations to all our "New Australians" who receive their Citizenship Certificates in Australia Day ceremonies across the country today. We had the pleasure of attending such a ceremony in our nation's capital, Canberra, in 2009 - it was such a buzz! (or maybe that was the 21 canon salute, or the FA-18 flyover!!).
To celebrate today, I have gone hunting through some OLD photos and dug up a favourite project I did in 2005. I was working on lots of Altered Book projects at the time, and this one had the theme favourite places. The month's project had to include "windows" in the page, so I embedded acetate sheets between several pages and created some windows which I stamped one of our favourite national emblems onto - yes, the kangaroo!
Anyway, here's what it looked like!
The words are just a couple of verses from the very moving Dorothea Mackellar Poem, My Country, one of my all-time favourites.
Don't you love that last line . . . I know to which brown country my homing thoughts will fly . . . ?
It's like when you walk down those long corridors at Heathrow after a month in Europe and suddenly you see row upon row of flying kangaroos - yes the tails of dozens of Qantas jets, and with tears in your eyes, you realise . . . you're going HOME!! Home to the best country on earth!
Have a great day - enjoy this beautiful fresh air and sunshine and I hope your day is blessed with beautiful happy family memories!
Beautiful Kathryn, really beautiful...
love your albums.....
Posted by: samantha west | January 26, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Truly inspirational Kathryn, you are a very talented lady - I am very lucky to have you as my "up-line".
Posted by: Alison Wall | January 26, 2012 at 01:06 PM