Thank you all for your patience over the holiday break and for participating in SPC during 2007. I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and celebrated well in your own personal style. I am looking forward to seeing all of these celebration pictures - you can start uploading now.

I am now back at work with a huge to-do list after almost 3 weeks at the beach. I live in inland Australia and my husband and I took the kids for a longer than usual camping/beach holiday - encompassing Christmas and New Year. We celebrated with a beach BBQ and Pavlova, beach cricket and of course a lovely swim in the ocean and lots of sand castle building. The highlights of the holiday for the kids were learning to kayak, jumping off of a rope swing into the river and catching a fish big enough to eat. For me the best thing was that finally the kids are big enough and good enough swimmers to not need constant supervision and I was able to read four books and swim every day in the ocean.

I am excited to see the direction that SPC will take in the next year. I am looking forward to new and old participants and to seeing lots of original an amazing self portraits. Please feel free to send me your thematic ideas for the coming months. email me selfportraittuesday[at]gmail.com