Busking

Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon,   A & R

Well it was a beautiful weekend! On Saturday we went busking on the Sunshine Coast at the markets. It's so much fun, especially because you are so close to the people listening. You can really see that they are enjoying the music. The money we made busking is to go towards our trip. We are still trying to come up with ideas of how we can raise the funds. So, if you have any ideas please let us know. You can contact us through our Contact Us Page. Also if you are new to our blog have a look at our History Page and our Video Page.

Then on Sunday, because the sun was still shining, we worked in our green house. At the moment we are experimenting on different plants to see what will grow from cuttings. This is one of our projects for school this term. We will be posting again on Monday.
Nana has updated the Healthy Hints page and is talking about turning a nightmare into a positive, so have a read. It's a cool story.

Tune in Soon  A & R

A String With a Difference

Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon,   A & R

Hi everyone. We thought that we would tell you about violin strings. There are so many different types of strings. When we started playing violin we had no idea of the different quality of strings that you can choose from. Strings range in price, starting with very cheap and going up to quite expensive. As you get better at playing the violin and start to try the different strings you notice that there is a big difference in the tone that the strings make when played. We like to use 'Larsen' strings which are silver strings and an OK price. But we have just got a new E string (because they break and need replacing) and it is a gold string (not much more expensive than silver). It is amazing. The sound is so smooth, it's just beautiful to play on!!!!!!!
We have been asked to do the music for a wedding which is exciting. We used to live near the bride-to-be when we started on the violin. She was lucky enough to hear us play 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' badly for months! We have improved quite a bit since then. Ha Ha! We will be playing
1 - Hornpipe from Handel's Water music
2 - Pachelbels Canon
3 - Flower Duet from Lakme - Delibes
4 - Winter - Vivaldi
5 - Dream a Little Dream of Me
And a couple of others yet to be chosen.
The wedding is on 24th June - we will let you know how we go.
We are planning to go busking next weekend to raise some more money for our trip. Don't forget if you would like to help us get to Europe you can contact us or donate on the Support Us page.
We will be posting again on Monday next week.

Tune in Soon   A & R

Winter in OZ

Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon,   A & R



 Winter is nearly here!

Our Pumpkins


Hi, well it is now already getting cold. At our house we have been putting the fire on (in the pot belly stove) every night for a week now. There is nothing quite like sitting by the fire with a good book. Another thing that is great about winter is all the wonderful soups and, fortunately for us, our pumpkin vine (that we planted in December) is packed full of pumpkins! We counted 32 in an area of about 20 square metres. Last night we made our hearty vegetable soup and tonight we are having pumpkin soup. We have put the recipes on our Recipe page for you to try. Did you know that they call these pumpkins JAP Pumpkins which stands for 'Just Another Pumpkin', there is a strange fact for you!



Astar and Rawhinia playing for sponsor

 Today one of our sponsors came for afternoon tea. Here we are thanking our sponsor by giving him a private performance. We played some Vivaldi concertos, 'The Pirates Of The Caribbean', 'Allegro, 'Hope Tells a Flattering Tale', 'Take to the Hills' and some other duets. It was a great afternoon!
By the way the painting in the background was painted by Nana. She loves to paint and is very good at it!!! Nana has posted a new healthy tip, this time about Honey check it out on out Healthy Hints page.
We will be posting again next Monday.


Tune in soon  A & R

Mothers Day

Mum's Special Day

Happy Mum's Day

First we want to say that we hope that all the mum's had a wonderful weekend!!!!
We had a great weekend! On Saturday the orchestra that we play in had a Mum's Day concert. It was so much fun, we love orchestra because the music is great and we have such great friends. Then in the afternoon we snuck over to Nana's house and made a cake for mum. On Sunday we went for a picnic in the Rain Forest. It was a perfect day. Lots of assignments this term so we are quite busy but we will post a new blog soon.

Tune in soon  A & R

P.S. Nana is a published author on health. Nana has updated the Healthy Hints page so check it out.

Back to School

 Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon,   A & R

Back to School

Rawhinia and Astar just finished year 8 English

 As we have previously told you, this is our first year of Home schooling and we are in year 8. So it was back to school work last week and we are very excited for 2 reasons. One is we have now finished year 8 English and nearly finished year 8 maths, which means we are starting year 9. COOL HA! If you want to find out more about what we do for school you can have a look at our Home Schooling page. Anyhow the other very exciting thing is we have found an amazing science teacher. She is the coolest person we have met for awhile and extremely passionate about science! How lucky are we!


Nana has updated the Healthy Hints page with a few stories about music and health. Check it out.


Also don't forget to have a look at our Youtube clip if you haven't already. You can do this through Our Video page.


Tune in Soon  A & R