News & Updates from Vicki Avcin ~ AusCrafts · Page 16
While my son and his family are tripping around the US, he is calling into police stations and fire stations (I think in the US they call them fire house) as with daughter being a police officer and me in the fire service here.
Being that those in emergency services world wide are one family, he is making sure he visits and sends us photos.
So far he has been to both in Miami and they have just visited New York. He spread his wings a little and sent photos of the lifesaving tower in Miami too.
They visited the 911 memorial also and said its a lovely tribute (and sad) to those who lost their lives in that horrible attack.
Bit of a weather change from Miami to New York and they said it was quite chilly in NY. Their next leg of their trip is to work their was to Montreal and then on to Ottawa.
I am going on my own little trip tomorrow down to Sydney for a few days. Our family is certainly on the move at the moment.
Hubbys son and his family live in Townsville in North Queensland. When we left up there our son Jamie hadnt met his future wife.
A few years after splitting with his previous partner with whom he had a son who will be 16 next month, he met a wonderful girl who after a couple of years became his fiance.
They have two children together, Bella whos 6 and Clay whos 4. Although Hubby has met Chiquita I havent had the pleasure until yesterday.
Her and her Dad had to come down to Brisbane for a medical appointment and we decided to meet up for lunch before they flew home today.
So finally I got to meet our (future) daughter in law. She will have to come back down in a couple of months so we definately will have to catch up again.
Neither hubby nor I have met their two children yet but distance is an obstacle but we do chatter to them on the phone.
We have done video calls which is great but nothing like one day being able to meet them face to face.
That is something that we are hoping to do before the end of the year.
My son and his family are enjoying their big adventure on the east coast of the US. One stop was Miami where they visited NASA.
Photo of my grandson is taken there with him in front of a launch pad, not sure if its just for people to look at, which I suspect it is, because I cant imagine theyd allow them near the real thing.
Still how cool would it be to stand so close to something like this. They only had a couple of days there and werent at NASA to see a proper launch but they did see a launch the following night when they were having dinner (insert photo).
He sent a couple of videos of it as even from kilometers away it was still able to be seen.
Theyve since left Miami and headed off to Baltimore and onto New York, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Going to see Niagara Falls, Buffalo, back to New York, Philadelphia, Los Angles and fly home.
What a fantastic holiday!
The other day we couldnt find the grand daughters cat. Narla often hides in cupboards (she can open the sliding doors), or on one of the kitchen chairs, but we tend to be able to find her pretty quickly.
But this particular day we checked every cupboard, in every room and simply couldnt find her. Thought she might be hiding under the fluffy blanket on the end of the bed as that is another favourite place and you can only tell shes there because there is the slightest bump on the bed.
No hope if the blanket isnt spread out and just in a pile on the bed. We checked on top of cupboards, under cupboards but she was no where to be found. Just by sheer chance hubby thought hed check the kids room again and yelled out I found her.
I went to the room but he wouldnt tell me where she was, just said to keep looking. Well Narla loves her Nanny (me) and I called her and heard her meow. Call again and again meow………found her finally. Curled up right at the back of a drawer that kids had left open when they went to work.
Of course once she knew she was found she didnt want to hide there any more and moved out onto the bed.
But talk about panic mode when we couldnt find her!
I dont like AI much but its all the rage so I thought Id try it and make an image of my birth Mothers cat.
She is in a Residential Aged Care facility and cant have her beautiful boy with her.
Kingston II is a Ragdoll with (what I found out) the Turkish Van markings. She doesnt have any photos of him as he was relatively new before she was put into care.She absolutely adores her Kingston and we have quite a few conversations about him.
Now how do I make an image that would bear some resemblance?
I thought Id try this new found way to generate this boy and after many attempts I managed to get pretty close.
A cousin in Sydney (because thats where BM is) visits every week so I sent a myriad of images to him and he took them in and with instructions from BM I put images into PSP and adjusted colouring and markings until the last lot of photos where one was pointed out as being her Kingston.
The reason for all this was I wanted to have Kingston printed on a pillow so he could sit on her bed or she could cuddle the pillow.
I sell on a platform where people choose the offered designs and the image can be printed on a heaps of different products so put the image in there and chose the two products, ordered from my account and they are now in production.
Besides the pillow I also put the image on a spiral notebook also, as when I visit, BM always has bits of paper with notes and phone numbers on them which she keeps in the seat of her mobility walking aid.
Figured that way she can put all her phone numbers into the book and less likely to be lost. So after many many hours of manipulating the original generated image I will be now able to give these things too her.
Why did I spend so much time getting it right, well it really was a labour of love to be able to have a way she could have her beloved Kingston II with her.
She previously had another kitty called Kingston hence this one is Kingston II.