Introduction : Hobbies : fun facts: I hugged ORLANDO BLOOM ..lol

Hi everyone, I'm sarah.

I'm an Expat Kiwi based in Brisbane. Please don't hold the Kiwi against me.... lol I actually speak like an Aussie now. Except when i say " The six sailors were on the deck of the ship, drinking Pepsi out of a chili bin..."

My daughter is an Aussie though, so hopefully that counts me in enough. Thanks @choogirl for posting somewhere that i managed to find. I'm new to the big world of Steem. I love blogging and i'm liking the platform but getting a bit lost getting around at the moment. Not sure who to follow :-) @centerlink can please register me for the Steemit Dole :-) laughs

TEAM AUSTRALIA

I would love to follow you all. Shoot me a message on this post saying hi and i'll pop over to your blog. I just don't even know where to start with all the blogs everywhere and such great creative and funny stuff about.

I love anything that is a bit creative and have dabbled in just about all hobbies that you can imagine... ok...

your task

is to come up with some LEGITIMATE creative hobbies that i haven't tried yet and i will blog about trying them.. Nothing terribly obscure people...

INTERESTS:

you can read about my hobbies in a bit more detail over on my hobby page https://steemit.com/life/@steemedge/sewing-gardening-crypto-mumlife-cooking-art-sustainability-nursing-history-piano-australia
Basically:
Sewing
Art stuff
Writing stuff
Ballet
Cooking and gardening stuff
computer stuff
mostly creative stuff... In fact there really is an awful lot of stuff... Fabric has taken over bookshelves in this house. (Don't fret book lovers i bought the books new shelves in the front room...)

Blah blah blah blah blah

FUNFACT:

So I know i started by telling you all a story about a murder. Its true. I'm into #familyhistory and i was researching the family tree. Nana would NEVER tell us about the Patrick side of the family. Went tight lipped and refused to allow mum to call me Elizabeth. Didn't find out till 10 years AFTER she passed away the reason.

Basically my great grandparents were "patricks" Florence Elizabeth was my GGm's name. just before she was born, her uncle, Harry Patrick, got into a little bit of strife... He had a "fit" which at the time they called Epilepsy, i'm suspicious it wasn't something else but anyway... he came home from work and found his "girl friend" that the papers called a "girl of loose morals" in his room.

Anyway the story ends with him slitting her throat.

Naturally he was arrested and sentenced to death in dec 1885. BUT he got off!!!!! it was a precident case because the reduced his sentence on medical grounds. That RARELY happened in those times at all. He had an awesome legal team and petitions from the public attesting to his usual good behaviour.

By let off he was sentenced to 10 years hard labour. So not pleasant. But he had a family afterwards.

ACTUAL FUN FACT

I GOT A HUG FROM ORLANDO BLOOM!!!!!

At the Kiwi grande premiere of LOTR, I was chatting away to Aragorns height double. Viggo wasn't tall enough for the bridge scene where he has to kiss Liv Tyler. So they got a height double to do the kissing scene. Apparently he said, giggling away, he kept mucking up the scene so the had to reshoot it... again..... and again.... and again.....

lol.

Then he went and got Orlando Bloom for me... I also met Elijah Wood and the other hobbits :-) it was amazing!!