Welcome!

This is us, two friends - Karen (left) and Janelle (right). We *found* each other online in 2005 through our mutual obsession for scrapbooking and quickly developed a very special friendship through our shared conversations about our craft and our families...discussing the usual things that two friends and mothers do :o)

But, by no means do we have a *typical* friendship. We can't catch up with each other for coffee whenever we feel like it, go shopping together, or have our children play together at each others houses while we scrap and chat happily. In fact, even though we have been friends for 18 months, we have physically met only once.

Why???

While we both live in this land we love called Australia, we are separated by distance...1116kms of distance...1116kms of dirt and trees and brick and bitumen road. Still, our friendship survives...and it continues to grow and thrive every day. We have emails and phone calls to chat through instead, and we both have blogs of our own through which we can share our photos and scrapbooking. We make the best of it :o) So...this little blog is a continuation of that friendship. It's another means by which we can communicate and share our everyday lives with each other; you know, those little things that make us...well,*us*.

But it's more than that...

It's a visual record of two friends living their lives in separate and very different parts of Australia. It's an avenue through which we can both hone our photography skills. It's a way in which we can inspire others who may be separated from their own friends by distance to continue their relationships. It's a way for us to share our daily happenings with our respective friends and family members around the country, and to make new friends along the way. And, it's a display of womanhood, motherhood, strength, solidarity, support, nurturing, and love...it's a display of mundane things, sometimes sad things, happy things, exciting things, and fun things (can't forget that!). No two posts will be the same, that's for sure!

Explore. Enjoy.

And thank you for sharing our journey through our friendship with us - we'll be back with more soon :o)