you and me

jazmin berakha

2012-01-10T16:11:00.000-08:00

I'd love to buy some of her work! website

Dr Zuess

2011-12-22T18:20:00.001-08:00

love this!

Outpost Festival, Cockatoo Island, Sydney.

2011-11-13T14:18:00.001-08:00

was really good. There were a few artworks by Banksy hanging in the gallery in the first image, I would love his work (or a print if they exist) of "throw flowers not bombs". The installation by Kid Zoom of his child hood house, a bunch of smashed up cars and a film is really good, but most of all I'm fond of works by Shida

Resolutions

2011-11-02T18:32:00.000-07:00

There's never a bad time to make resolutions! I've been thinking about a few things I want to do (and don't want to do!)

I want to:

Use less plastic - Harder than it sounds, even when you buy fresh fruit you place them in plastic bags, bulk buying beans -> comes in plastic. I was somewhat inspired by this. I have already started by purchasing some bamboo toothbrushes which are biodegradable which can be seen here

Op Shopping - only buy things I will use, ignore the potential of selling it online (I find online selling a pain in the butt)

Re-purpose - make an effort to repurpose things such as second hand dresses, photo frames, housewares

Stop drinking tea - It's one of those things that is enjoyable in the moment but leaves you feeling icky, the taste in your mouth, acidity, soy milk...gross. I will however keep drinking green tea and coffee!

Eat Less Sugar - I eat practically no cane sugar as it is, but I do still have two sugars in my coffee, I must get that down to none!

Get my Conservation on - Everyone has causes they are drawn to, for some people it's starving children, for some it's cancer research, for me it's conservation of environments and animal protection. I want to hone in on a few that I can lend my time to

Use facebook less - something we could all do.

Kings Beach

2011-10-22T03:55:00.000-07:00

Narrabeen.

2011-10-21T17:07:00.000-07:00

Anna-Wili Highfield

2011-10-12T21:35:00.000-07:00

In love with her paper sculptures. She uses ink, watercolour, cotton papers and cotton thread as the materials for most of her works. This is the kind of art I want in my future home.

check out the rest of her work here

Caloundra.

2011-10-08T21:57:00.000-07:00

Down by the river

2011-09-18T17:26:00.001-07:00

Brighton

2011-09-07T01:00:00.000-07:00

thursday!

2011-08-24T18:53:00.001-07:00

Catherine Hill Bay

2011-08-03T02:00:00.000-07:00

Thing's I love right now

2011-07-27T02:42:00.000-07:00

coolhandluke

♥ Beading ♥ vegetarian food for thought podcasts ♥ Transitioning to being natural ♥ olive oil as facewash/moisturiser ♥ olive oil in food ♥ White Miso ♥ Green tea with stevia ♥ dreaming about Caloundra ♥ This adorable simple Proposal video ♥ Winter sun ♥ 70s everything ♥ Maybe taking a drive into the mountains t buy some nice things like local Miso with a side dish of sight seeing ♥ compassionate eating ♥ one minute mug brownie ♥

what do you love?

Gotye Ft Kimbra "Somebody that I used to know"

2011-07-22T22:47:00.001-07:00

This song is on repeat at the moment. I think Gotye's a bit of a spunk just quietly

2011-07-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

I'm in love with this top by Future of Frances, I'm thinking it looks pretty easy to make, might have to give it a crack!

The Caravan Chronicles

2011-07-06T16:50:00.000-07:00

All images are the property of Zigwicks

Thought Id share some pictures of a caravan that my cousin Michelle did not long ago. She made all the curtains, seat covering, bunting herself - I love the black fabric.This caravan is officially the new poster child for funky caravan makeovers.

She also makes delicious candles and soaps that smell divine!

check her out: Website Blog Flickr Shop

2011-07-05T00:20:00.000-07:00

Meet this sweet juvenile Blue Tongue I found in my garden while planting lettuce. He has the most beautiful eyes! I never imagined lizards to have such beautiful eyes.

2011-06-25T18:23:00.000-07:00

closet visit - One Claire day - Fieldguided

need is water.

2011-06-23T17:42:00.000-07:00

Tea

Its too cold to function. i have things I need to make, things I need to post, things I need to hem, things I need to sell, need to buy film, need to hear back from some people, need it to be springtime.

doona weather

2011-06-20T22:51:00.000-07:00

This is the view outside my window, I love it, so ominous...feels like a tornado is about to spring forth any moment. If the weather is going to be dodgy it should be spectacularly dodgy. If it's going to be cold, it should be cold enough that it snows so that we can at least get some excitement out of it!

anyhoo - I think this weather calls for a mexican feast and a dvd. Also....I love the word doona. doona doona doona

2011-06-20T06:16:00.000-07:00

Something that I'm struggling to grasp right now is that quality costs more. I've grown up in a time when everything you can imagine has been mass made on production lines in foreign countries so that we pay the lowest prices. The repercussions of this is that workers are underpaid, end up with health problems from working long hours, the products are usually of less quality.

A good example is kitchen appliances. We've had 2 or 3 ovens in the past 15 years, yet my sisters's old 1970's flat had it's original oven that worked like a charm.

problem is.. there isn't alot of it around! I want to shop fair trade and vegan but I also want to look nice.

I think this is pretty good motivation to go to vinnies, and may be the thing that will make me actually step into a vintage shop!

It's going to be a long road, one that will be filled with non fair trade items like jeans (because where would I get fair trade jeans that look nice and actually fit my shape!)

anyhoo here's some inspiration that trying to be fair trade/vegan/eco is fun

click images to go to their source

Corduroy

2011-06-16T01:33:00.000-07:00

How cute are these lovely bits n pieces by Corduroy on Etsy.

I'm a bit in love with "Action mole with Mittens" in the second pictorial! I think i'm going to get a print of "I Am a lion". I love scribbles!

places I really want to go.

2011-06-14T04:02:00.000-07:00

1. Lake Como 2. Gibralter 3. Sardinia 4.Piltivice 5 & 6. El Nido 7.Lord Howe Island

2011-06-12T20:32:00.000-07:00

Mrs Fawlty

2011-06-12T18:30:00.000-07:00

I love love this dress I picked up at Salvos last week. I'm going to shorten it and get the underarms tailored to fit me a bit better - I'm not really into the whole batwing thing. The fabric itself is the winner, velvet rectangles.

wintersun

2011-06-09T18:55:00.000-07:00

winter sun i love you.

Double Rainbow

2011-05-28T19:06:00.000-07:00

I love these. By Maya Huyuk & Jen Stark

Saturday Night

2011-05-28T01:30:00.000-07:00

surfers/byron

2011-05-22T02:04:00.000-07:00

got 2 rolls developed, only one showed up. Bummer! the roll that didn't work was full of Byron bay photos. It was the first time i had used the camera i had used so it's nice to see it works

2011-05-14T16:38:00.000-07:00

I want to go sit in the sun with a cup of tea and to pat my boy.

love you smellyboy.

shopping

2011-05-08T02:17:00.000-07:00

I went shopping today and saw that in regards to clothes, accessories and all things in fashion....the money doesn't equate to the product...

I need a nice handbag, but i don't want a piece of plastic made in a factory by an underpaid woman, I also don't want to pay $300 for something that just needs to hold my phone, lip balm and a bottle of water

I want a baggy button up shirt, but I don't want to pay $80 for it, especially when it's only cotton.

I don't want to buy things that are so mass produced that they have no love and meaning.

I have money, but I don't want to spend it, but I NEED clothes. I feel like i'm going to have to force myself to buy a whole bunch of things. Have to start somewhere. I don't want to go shopping every weekend, but there is just no other time to do it!

sucks

oh hey rain!

2011-04-28T01:15:00.000-07:00

Raquel Aparicio

2011-04-25T18:35:00.000-07:00

So in love with this girl's work! I'll have to acquire some sort of print from her work at some point.

Mad Men....

2011-04-23T06:33:00.000-07:00

I've heard lots of people talking about Mad Men, how good it is, not only visually but the writing, the whole thing. I'm up to episode 5 and I'm bored out of my mind. Im trying to stick with it hoping it will liven up at some point. The only thing I like so far is Don Draper's receptionist.

end rant.

Winger

2011-04-22T22:06:00.000-07:00

I have a mega crush on Jeff Winger/Joel McHale. He's super handsome for his age(39)!!!

quotes

2011-04-20T17:02:00.000-07:00

There are a handful of quotes that I love so much! but what to do with them? I've got about three that are kind of like adopted personal mantras and so i feel they need to be visual in some for or another...

tattoo.....might regret it, i'll get saggy and it will go blurry. i'd only ever get my ribs as I can hide it.

Type art....I suck at typography.....

Embroider cushions for myself....super tame and doesn't really have the "bang" i'm looking for.

I don't know. any ideas?

Much Love Monday

2011-04-17T20:16:00.000-07:00

I love drinking my morning coffee (in my favourite mug) in the sun with my dog.

Also reminiscing about that dust storm a year or so back. It was so eerie, my sister hadn't heard about it so she was freaking out when she woke up, I just remember trying to use it as an excuse to stay home from class. It happened the day before I flew up to the sunshine coast, a day into my holiday the dust storm and I met up again. I love natural events

Nutella loves Vegan Mug Brownies.

2011-04-15T19:45:00.000-07:00

It's cold, time for mug cakes, fingerless gloves and coffee coffee coffee

2011-04-13T17:49:00.001-07:00

I love autumn, it's so fresh and full of butterflies

Morgan + Me

2011-04-08T03:07:00.000-07:00

So my sister and I have started selling cute chalkboards and necklaces out of found industrial items for fun! We don't have much stuff yet (not limited to the above)

check us out!

Etsy

Facebook

got to get down on Friday!

2011-04-07T20:38:00.000-07:00

naw.

Does anyone know what kind of tree this is? Some birds pooped on a dirt pile in our vegetable garden (under construction) and now there's this plant (with new branches and leaves growing from the tip? I've never seen that before) as well as some sort of pine, weird but cool.

free plants are cool... our neighbours passionfruit vines have totally moved into our yard too. But with that being said the delicious smelling apple blossom behind our place is making me sneeze like crazy!

photo post

2011-04-06T01:34:00.000-07:00

1&2. My Dad found a baby mouse, most likely orphaned by my dog. It was so small and beautiful but died the day after we found it. I kept her warm, tried to feed her and make her go loo, I never would have known if I didn't google that with baby mice, after they eat you need to rub their belly etc to make them go to the bathroom otherwise they get blocked up.

3. I picked up this driftwood when I was 12 in a little harbour somewhere up the coast, It's been sitting behind my door since, So I finally got the courage to drill holes in it. I might put in more hooks as I have many more necklaces that need a place!

Pretty Beach House

2011-04-04T15:45:00.000-07:00

If I were a millionaire in Sydney, This is how I want my home to be like Pretty Beach House. Part of three boutique accommodations on the peninsula just above Sydney. The wood, the trees, the water, it's so beautiful. I initially thought this property was on the South Coast but instead it's in an area not too far away that I've never been, I think I might make and effort to check out the Bouddi Peninsula

2011-04-02T15:36:00.000-07:00

i've caved! I'm obsessed with the Instagram app on my phone.

I love the last photo, I think what makes this photo is that Mr Bean parked his car accross the street and I didn't even know

Byron

2011-03-23T01:57:00.001-07:00

2011-03-22T16:56:00.000-07:00

Byron. So nice! It was a bit more commercialized than I had imagined, but still good!

New Cameras!

2011-03-12T00:25:00.000-08:00

yay! My lovely friend Jon gave me two old Cameras (I'm not saying the word vintage.. it's been ruined by pop culture). One of them is this lovely 1963 Voigtländer, It has such a nice weight to it. they started making cameras in the mid 1800s, not too bad.

2011-03-11T17:18:00.000-08:00

1. Fat rat (she's not as fat as pictured). 2. Sneaky Jo drinking my juice!

2011-03-10T21:25:00.000-08:00

(printing on fabric yay, if only the ink wouldn't run when washed.)

Today's just one of those days. No motivation to do anything but eat and watch tv. Today's selections include series two of Big Love and a steady stream of cranberry juice, carrot juice and hommus (My sister and I are doing some sort of pre-holiday detox). Not nearly as satisfying as watching Big Bang Theory for days straight and living on vegan crepes with lemon and sugar.

I'm also admiring one of my ratties, she's a bit of a fatty and not as mischevious as her sneaky sister. She's currently in a nest she's made in an empty box under cabinet, she's so happy lounging in the dark on a bed of newspaper and fabric offcuts, I can only ever lure her out with treats, and she knows it, but I can't do anything to get her out so I have to bow to her demands

The end, I'm hungry and going to watch another episode of Big Luuuurve.

wanr

2011-03-06T22:40:00.000-08:00

1 2 3 4

2011-03-05T18:28:00.000-08:00

op shopped brooches = cute rings = happy hands = happy Laura.

good morning

2011-03-05T14:59:00.001-08:00

you know... just chillin'.

...inspiration

2011-03-04T22:12:00.000-08:00

(I feel bad I don't know the sources of these images, I grabbed them off my computer)

Will be needing some decoration inspiration soon.......

rainbow paddle pop

2011-03-03T22:33:00.000-08:00

We have a flame wheel tree in the backyard that attracts lots of birds this time of year when the flower/fruit pollenate. I'm a bit of an animal nerd so I've decided to catalogue all the birds in our backyard..

so far..

Rainbow lorikeets (so many, you can't sleep in they are so loud)
Peaceful Doves (they like to eat the dog's food)
Mynas
Starlings
Sparrows
Eurasian Blackbrids
Willy wagtails
Budgies
White plumed Honeyeaters
singing honeyeaters
Olive backed Oriole
Red Wattlebirds
Kookaburras
Magpies, we have one, a young juvinile that likes to stare at you
Magpie Larks
and a mystery bird I can't identify that resembles a legendary bird pokemon

Like I said, nerd.

2011-02-23T05:38:00.000-08:00

I'd love to be a tourist to Australia and be in awe of the colours of lorikeets. Perhaps their screaming wouldn't be seem as insane in the morning either. chirp chirp

2011-02-17T22:00:00.001-08:00

makin stuff....

2011-02-17T21:55:00.000-08:00

how weird are skinks that they drop their tails, mega creepy.

it's been such a bleh week. I'm too sleepy to do anything.

2011-02-14T00:16:00.000-08:00

You always get what you want when you're not looking for it! (...like a letter punching labeler).

2011-02-05T00:55:00.000-08:00

You're Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades

2011-01-31T01:26:00.000-08:00

I love this!

mushyboom

2011-01-30T23:58:00.000-08:00

(click for source)

I love these mushroom things made by a girl living in a forest in Minnesota.

2011-01-27T23:52:00.000-08:00

I'm awful at painting neatly. all up my arms, on my feet, on some plants, even on my back. aah

boom

2011-01-27T23:06:00.000-08:00

sooo.... a resin factory blew up today...No one died thankfully, but it makes for good local drama! That explosion in the last photo was so loud and hot!

2011-01-26T22:14:00.001-08:00

meeeeow

Bunny Crueltea

2011-01-25T17:19:00.000-08:00

(credit)

I found out recently that Lipton test their tea's on Bunnies (and rats and piglets too). I never wuld have thought anyone would be testing tea.. it seems so innocent! But what they do is feed the animals really unhealthy foods to make their arteries clog and give them bacterial diseases and then test if drinking tea helps them get better. But ultimately they get rid of the animals. It's disgusting.

I'm never buying lipton anything ever again. I'll continue enjoying twinnings!

think before you drink

2011-01-25T17:08:00.001-08:00

2011-01-20T04:01:00.000-08:00

star map, nutella.

2011-01-17T16:43:00.000-08:00

Freshwater. Fave.

2011-01-15T17:50:00.000-08:00

mixtape...friday?

2011-01-13T19:43:00.000-08:00

making mixtapes and drinking too much instant coffee today

anyone want to do a mixtape swap? I've got so much music, and everyone likes free stuff! come on :)

sew sew sew your boat

2011-01-12T21:34:00.000-08:00

I'm on a sewing spree. I finished a dress last night (circle skirts + hemming + chiffon = grrr). This morning i made this, crop toppy thing, or if i never wear it, i'll add a skirt. It took every inch of this fabric i had left (bought it 9 years ago at the fabric shop across from my work). I was silly and didn't anticipate how much room i'd need for elastic, the position of the straps screwed that up, that'd what you get for not using a pattern! I'm going to have to replace the elastic with those bra clasps... how nerdy.

next stop... a baggy singlet thing, and a cooool tote.

Now, I'm off to go watch Sabrina the teenage witch! love it.

want want want wednesday

2011-01-11T15:11:00.000-08:00

1. a nice big chunk of peacock ore

2. A kitty, or a cute kitty print

3. This cute Modcloth dress

4. This leather free handbag (can't find the source)

5. A Lubitel camera

6. Angus and Celeste ceramic bangles, i really want these!!

7. These Sass and Bide shorts with a tucked in black or khaki singlet

you know what else is fun.. looking at this

BEP

2011-01-11T05:27:00.000-08:00

papa sucre etc

2011-01-11T02:52:00.001-08:00

I will always love sass and bide. Unless i'm a millionaire i don't think i'll be getting much of their stuff.

stacked

2011-01-07T16:07:00.000-08:00

I loooove photography, and we all know you don't have to be good at it to have fun with it. I put some old 52mm macro stacking lenses on my 58mm lens, attached with sticky tape which turned out rather fisheye-ish, and the above photos are foggy because it's soooo humid here.

Also started doing reverse lense macros...which so far have been more like abstracts, hard to get used to, i'm going to be making this soon to help out with it.

oh and isn't sleepy Nutella cute!

Byron

2011-01-05T17:37:00.000-08:00

I love this, I just wish summer would turn up like this although I can't say I don't love all the storms that have been happening

2011-01-04T03:26:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, as you might know I'm vegan, but every now and then i'll watch a vid and read up on stuff just to keep reaffirming why I made the wonderful lifestyle choice that I have.

I grew up as a christian, always going to church, summer camps as well as the majority of people in my life. Since realising how violent and violating the meat & dairy I've always wanted to bring up the topic with some of my church leaders as it doesn't sit in line with the idea of peace, care and compassion. I'd ideally love for them to have a viewing of Earthlings which brings to light not only the cruelty involved but ecological impacts of the meat industry.

I want to share some of my reasons and quotes that affirm why i've made the choose to live as compassionately as I can. I can honestly say I feel fantastic about doing my best to live a life that doesn't require the needless sacrifice for my own benefit, and It wasn't hard to make the change.

I won't eat anything I wouldn't harvest/kill myself if I had to.
I love animals, when I look into their eyes I see emotion and thought.
drinking the breastmilk of another creature that is soley for their offspring (and filled with growth hormones for calves, which has been attributed to causing acne as well)
because it feels good to look at the world with your eyes open and your head up and still be able to respect yourself

Some quotes

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal; when a man destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman. - Joseph Wood Krutch

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ~St. Francis of Assisi

The taste of anything in my mouth for 5 seconds does not equate to the beauty and complexity of life.

Please, educate yourself on the process of how your food gets to your plate.

Red Bird Photography

2011-01-01T22:55:00.000-08:00

I have to share these wonderful photos from Sydney based Photographers Red Bird Photography, I'm really quite in love this the duck!

They specialise in pet portraiture as well as taking photos for the RSPCA and do beautiful work! I hope to be as good a photographer as they are one day.

check out their: Website Facebook

NYE

2010-12-31T03:52:00.000-08:00

so, another year has gone, I vaguely remember thinking to myself that 2010 was going to be amazing, but it hasn't but thats no ones fault but mine( studying full time and not being employed ha ha). So hopefully this coming year will be alot better!!

so my resolutions are

* Get a job = Money = social life

*Replace pretty much all the clothes in my wardrobe

*get more into animal welfare

*buy a cheap but cool car so i can reliably go places

*Volunteer at animal shelters/rescues (requires the above)

*Seriously consider moving to south east Queensland

hope you're al doing fun things for NYE, I'm at home with a monster headache watching Pride and Prejudice. I've also made my ratties a little haven on the couch where they are currently munching on vitawheats and lettuce awaiting the fireworks on tv.

skinny

2010-12-31T02:37:00.000-08:00

Whoa look at these! I stumbled across these pair of "jeans", I'd call them more like "I can't sit down or the worlds gravity will be displaced due to the immense force caused by the ripping of my pants" or something of that fashion

They're Sass & Bide's THE LOVER SUPER SKINNY

i've never seen someone with legs like that, and if I did, I'd be VERY worried. I don't mean to offend anyone out there who is naturally skinny skinny, but I think it's a bit extreme and negative for sass and bide to come out with a pair of pants so skinny, promoting this type of skinny as cool, after all S&B are pretty trend setting, I love their stuff.

fringe festival

2010-12-29T04:35:00.001-08:00

I can't justify paying for a whole "style cut" just to get a fringe, seems like such a waste of money, so i hacked it off myself. It's just a shame its annoying having fringe half the time, I wake up with it pointing skywards.

Blackheath

2010-12-28T03:07:00.000-08:00

Went up the mountains (something we seem to do once a year). It was a balmy 7 degrees! so cold. We drove around to different vantage points but they were so packed with tourists we just kept driving and found this place, completely desserted!

Being in Katoomba is like being stuck in a art deco 1950s town, in England, grey clouds, red brick buildings. If you ever go up the mountains make sure you go to Leura, so much more artisan and pretty!

2011, what?!

2010-12-25T22:54:00.000-08:00

Christmas is over, again!

Everyone's lights will be coming down, which is a bit sad.

time for some resolutions? long and short term!

◆ Start working again = get my social life back

◆Get the kind of body I should look back on in ten years and thing "ooh I looked good"

◆stop caring about silly things

◆Be less sensible

◆Move to Qld

◆Make friends

◆Be creative and not feel bad about it.

I've been in my comfort zone too long.

go glen coco

2010-12-24T01:10:00.000-08:00

Making chalkboards of bunnies, speechbubbles, moustaches etc things to please/xmas presents

Glen coco.

2010-12-19T23:55:00.000-08:00

I have to admit something...

I hate christmas songs, christmas movies and tv shows. I probably wouldn't if it weren't for reruns of National lampoon every year and hearing Hilary Duff covers of xmas carols when I worked in retail. and has anyone noticed alot of cars with antlers and red noses?!

But, I do love:

★ Our christmas is spent in the pool or inside because it's too hot, falling asleep on the couch because we ate too much.

★fairy lights (this love extends way beyond christmas)

★finding something nice to wear to christmas lunch

★Champagne! Champagne! Champagne

on another note, I'm sick of cooking, I want to eat something other than dahl, seems to be all i make. Im trying to figure out something to make for chrissy lunch as it'll be all meats, cheesy bakes and roasted potatoes (roasted along side meat), so as annoyed as it feels I'm pretty much bringing every course for myself!

so far I'm thinking:

● A balsamic salad w/ semi dried tomatos, grilled zhuccini, sweet potato and caramelized onion.

●Beetroot, asparagus, sundried tomato and cashew cous cous

●Raw strawberry "cheese"cake

●Potatoes w/ mushroom sauce... because potatoes are the best.

i love weddings.

2010-12-19T01:58:00.000-08:00

and... I love weddings in great locations. The reception was in Cockle Bay and there was a huge christmas fireworks display, how perfect!

little birdy

2010-12-16T20:29:00.000-08:00

I feel so bad for this little birdy.

I found a juvenile Starling out the front being attacked by crows, I don't think there was anything wrong with the bird apart from It's inability to defend itself. It couldn't fly for some reason, nothing felt broken.

I took it into the vet where I was greeted by a vet nurse who didn't seem to care (left me feeling a bit annoyed! When I'm a vet nurse I hope i never get like that.). I know Starlings are pests in WA but I wonder if the vet is just going to put it down because it's not native.

Starlings are pretty.

Exhibit a:

stretch time!

2010-12-15T20:05:00.000-08:00

G e t H a p p y !

2010-12-15T19:31:00.001-08:00

(link)

how cute!!

Indian hangy thing

2010-12-13T22:07:00.000-08:00

I LOVE these things, I don't know what they're called, but I bought a few today, Can never have enough (is eight enough?)

♥ the colours

footsies

2010-12-13T20:55:00.000-08:00

I have a habit of when i'm travelling i take photos of my point of you, showing my legs and feet etc, I suppose it's like photographic proof of where i've gone, not just anyone's photos, MY feet have gone there. This is especially the case when I holiday solo!

does anyone else do this?

1. Rangitoto, NZ

2. Wellington, NZ

3. Lake Mackenzie, Fraser Island, Qld

4. Wreck Bay, NSW

5. Sitting under Urangan Pier, Hervey Bay, Qld

6. Sunset Beach, Hawaii

Baby basil

2010-12-12T20:35:00.001-08:00

grow my children, grow!

crazy rat lady

2010-12-08T02:01:00.000-08:00

it's official, I'm weird!

I couldn't help but make some xmas decorations of my girls

(note: the cage is not actually decorated like this, i did it for a fun pictorial!)

Good Morning

2010-12-07T14:35:00.000-08:00

It's so nice to sit in the sun in the morning, real nice

christmas or craftmas?

2010-12-07T02:30:00.000-08:00

making xmas pressies begins! (12 days of Craftmas? or craft mess...goes both ways!)

Kelsey Genna

2010-12-05T20:55:00.000-08:00

beautiful dresses from their Avant Garden collection

much love monday: not shopping at westfield.

2010-12-05T20:24:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I went to Westfield to look for a summer dress, and all i left was a cheap pair of shoes. It's probably a good thing I don't like shopping at places like Sportsgirl and General Pants as alot of the stuff is over priced anyway, but I have a hard time finding things that look good on my "curvaceous" figure.

and today i did the rounds of all the op shops here and found heaaaaps, fabrics for making dresses, lots of vintage zippers in cute colours for mega cheap, acid wash denim for purses, new belts, new bag, shirts, i'm so in love with the shirt in the first pic, such cute shoulders!!

so much more satisfying. I think i'll just op shop and make my own dresses from now on ha ha.

hi, my name is Veloura

2010-12-03T22:27:00.000-08:00

70s reclaimed fabrics make me happy. so does the colour mustard.

This is what I think of spotlight

2010-12-02T18:45:00.000-08:00

Spotlight have a hopeless selection of fabric that barely goes outside the realm of silk, crisp cotton, fleece and calico. I realllly want to finish this dress i'm making but nowhere seems to stock soft drapey cotton (really common in commercial dressed.. so why so hard to stock it?)

there is only one other fabric store around here (because spotlight made it too hard for the others that used to exist them survive) which is "foreign owned"and full of cheap toddler dance costume material and other gross stuff.... they don't even know what jersey is.

I really want to finish making my dress but there is no way in hell i'm going to use jersey or crisp cotton!!!!!!

That's my gripe for today

Ghibli

2010-12-01T20:51:00.000-08:00

Today: The Cat Returns