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Wooden yarn swift

1 January 2018 by kristarella Leave a Comment

These holidays I took advantage of my husband’s new woodworking hobby to make a better yarn swift! My previous one was cobbled together from pieces found at Bunnings (hardware store) and it worked okay, but seemed to get worse with each use. The wing nut on the top would keep tightening down and locking the […]

Filed Under: Craft Tagged With: knitting, woodwork

PMJ tour, Sydney 2017

1 October 2017 by kristarella Leave a Comment

On Thursday, 28 September 2017, we saw Postmodern Jukebox perform at the Sydney Opera House. The full cast included: Adam Kubota: musical director & bass Chloe Feoranzo: woodwind & lead vocal Dave Tedeschi: drums Hannah Gill: lead & backup vocals LaVance Colley: MC, lead & backup vocals Logan Evan Thomas: keys Nick Finzer: brass Sara […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Music, Photos Tagged With: Opera House, photos, pmjtour, Sydney

Grindelwald, Switzerland

7 July 2017 by kristarella 1 Comment

After WCEU, I took the opportunity to visit my cousin who is living in Switzerland for the summer. Not far from where she lives is a town called Grindelwald and up the mountain from there, Pfingstegg. As it happens, our grandparents visited there about 40 years ago, so we decided to try to find all […]

Filed Under: Photos, Travel Tagged With: Europe, family, Grindelwald, history, Pfingstegg, photos, Switzerland

WCEU 2017 Photos

6 July 2017 by kristarella Leave a Comment

I have finally finished processing all the photos from my trip to Paris & Switzerland! Here are some from WordCamp Europe. See the full album on Flickr.

Filed Under: WordCamp, WordPress Tagged With: Europe, Paris, photos, WCEU, WordCamp, WordCamp Europe

WCEU 2017: Day 1 (much mad sauce)

16 June 2017 by kristarella Leave a Comment

WordCamp Europe is off to an amazing start! w00t! #wceu is on pic.twitter.com/keIlf8ZREW — Kristen Symonds (@kristarella) June 16, 2017 We had Contributor Day yesterday, which was jam-packed and seemed to go really well. I liked having it before the conference this time, rather than afterwards, which was the case last year. This venue is […]

Filed Under: WordCamp, WordPress Tagged With: photos

Leavin’ on a jetplane (to WCEU)

12 June 2017 by kristarella Leave a Comment

Woot! WordCamp Europe (WCEU) is just a few days away; and as I write I am in the airport lounge doing some work, enjoying some dessert, and thinking about WordCamp. I love WordCamps in general for a number of reasons. In no particular order some of those are: learning teaching amazing community swag inspiration community […]

Filed Under: Travel, WordCamp, WordPress Tagged With: Europe, Paris, photos

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Yay! So nice to see old friends and colleagues 🙌🏻🍻
My beautiful happy boy is back! We've had a bit of My beautiful happy boy is back! We've had a bit of a rough trot for a while with teething, growth spurts, and covid, he's been tired and grumpy for some time, but I think we're through all that for now!#marksymonds
New nails on Australia Day; I call it sunset over New nails on Australia Day; I call it sunset over the ocean.I’m also pleased to report that my sense of smell is returning!#sistaco #nailart
So far it's a bit of a trying day with Mark, but h So far it's a bit of a trying day with Mark, but here are some pretties I saw.
Some wins for today! Nail refresh with a 🌈 of s Some wins for today! Nail refresh with a 🌈 of subtle ombres, and yummy home made dinner of pepper steak (recipe in high protein cookbook by @helena__sly) and protein cheesecake with berries. With my sense of smell missing there are a lot of things I can't taste, but I could taste most of this 👌🏻#smallwins #sistaco
I have completely lost my sense of smell. Hopefull I have completely lost my sense of smell. Hopefully only temporarily! It is quite surreal knowing there is something strong smelling and not detecting it at all. Last night I burned these almonds and couldn't smell a thing, so I went and smelled the gin and whisky bottles... Nothing! 🦠👃
Back in the dojo! First training sesh for 2023. Th Back in the dojo! First training sesh for 2023. Thank you Sensei Matt!
#happyplace #karate #stronghumblebrave #gkrkarate
Some of today's feels... Keeping it real. My mantr Some of today's feels... Keeping it real. My mantra this year is, "Breathe. Be patient. Be kind." For the most part it is working pretty well, but I cracked it (in a similar fashion to Mark in the pic) about half an hour ago. It's okay, cry is done, and we're getting on with dinner and bedtime.
#bigfeelingslittlebody #marksymonds #mumlife #mummingishard
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