photo post

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!

(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.

boom

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!

Blackheath

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!

go glen coco

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

i love weddings.

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

footsies

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

crazy rat lady

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

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

christmas or craftmas?

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

much love monday: not shopping at westfield.

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.

This is what I think of spotlight

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

graduate

I love productive mornings! started making a new dress this morning, i could be finished by now but I don't have the right fabric, but so far the bustier and middle section is done and made out of some 1970s cotton i found at vinnies a long time ago. I'm so in love with the print uugh!

since then i've been kind of bored, made a cushion, took some random photo to keep me entertained.

P.S It's our Graduate Exhibition tonight! I'm not really excited, I feel rather anti social, I bet I won't be there for long ha ha!

Mr Gecko

I've been rummaging through old photo from Hawaii and found these of a gecko i found almost dead, I think he got caught in the sun too long.

I love the kissy noises they make, I remember being in the bathroom at our holiday house and hearing smooch noises thinking someone was being cheeky, but it was just geckos ha ha

Fourteen hours sitting at the computer......this is what the last week of a diploma is allll about.

what is this?

procrastination (7 assignments due next week, eep!) + I'm forcing myself to take photos every day.. whether they are good or really crap!

It's the end of November and i'm wearing a fluffy robe, It shouldn't be cold, this weather does make it easier to stay inside and study than go outside, I just hope summer kicks in for real soon

weekends

Rosé, Bondi sunrise, Sculptures by the sea, church and cameras!

rainless rainbows

Jervis Bay

worshipped mother nature over the weekend. 

I found a possum in my tent eating an apple on my bed. True story.

friendships

one two three

Its such a beautiful day! I'm going to the Hyde Park noodle market later should be fun!

But with that said I'm having a hard time not letting some politics of friendship get to me.

I used to have this friend who was practically a sister but things changed and it's bean years and I still feel upset about it all. It's at that point where i wish it was black and white... that I want her around or not at all, to just forget. I want to forget.

but with that said i hope that will fill my rant fix for the day so I can get on and enjoy myself instead of feeling angry!

I'm off to go listen to Animal collective reaaally loud