go,go,go!

time has flown by and with 11 days till we move interstate, there is so much to do! i will be taking a break until we are settled and in our new home!

down south for weekend

i'm catching the brand new train to mandurah this afternoon after work. sounds boring? actually, it's a momentous occasion as for all of my life i have been travelling between perth city (dad) and mandurah (mum). there was not even a freeway at one point. then it progressed to a freeway.

now, a train that only takes 48 minutes to get there! i feel like an excited child.

i can't wait to be loved up by my mum and have my sister file my newly grown nails.

uno momento of reflection!

this is a picture of my uncle and my dad in their cowboy costumes when they first moved to australia. it makes me laugh. a lot!

i love my friends

when things get crazy (or other people get crazy) i always just feel so lucky to have some of the most amazing friends.

honestly, how would i feel about this world if i didn't have those people to keep me strong?

i'm back!

what a lovely day it was! and an even lovelier honeymoon....dammit why does normal life have to return? thanks for all of the well-wishes xox

cya soon!

this is my last post for a while. these are some beautiful flowers that Nina arranged for me on her rooftop in India in celebration of K and i getting married on 19/01/08.

i've got a giant pimple on my chin (and i'm not really a makeup girl) and i am gravely sleep-deprived so sure, what the heck - bring it on! and bring on that honeymoon!

fifi xox

well my friends

pretty blogness is rather low down on my list of things to do at the moment. 3 days until we are married and we are tired and grumpy! just want to nap right now but we have a gazillion family dinners with all sorts of family that have flown over. yeah yeah - nice, i know. K and i just want to sleep in bed for a whole day but i don't think we're going to get the chance.

these are very nice.....

geometry rules

enough said....Hanna

so cute it's sick!

if pre-schoolers can look this great, what bloody hope do i have?

happy!

well after a pretty ordinary day yesterday, today has arrived and i'm not feeling so grumpy. i started looking for an illustration to feature in today's post to adequately express my good mood and i found that the majority of indie illustrations are tragic, woeful and pretty much always sad in content! this made me feel slightly angry....*eeep* but then i found this by yumiyumi and my happiness is here to stay!

if i was an illustrator, all i'd do is make happy drawings. bjork once said when discussing songwriting that it's much harder to make something that is joyful rather than painful. i agree!

anti-perfection

in defiance to all of those blogs out there that portray a perfect existence (but that i find inspiration from most of the time despite this)

i've been drinking coffee when i said i wouldn't (because i'm getting married in a matter of days and coffee makes me very jittery and nervous which at this point in time does not need to be encouraged).

my landlord screamed at me this morning and it made me cry and feel useless because when i was given the opportunity, i didn't say how much i was hurt by it.

i have the worst, most boring job in the whole entire world and every second i sit here it becomes more boring.

i have smelly breath right now (from said coffee before).

my period is late.

2 more people are moving into the house i live in at the moment. i'm grateful for the room at this house but it brings the total of people up to 6. 3 couples. i need space.

perfection blows and isn't real.

don't know why i'm sorry

no one reads this really, so i don't know why i'm sorry that i'm hammering out the posts. just finding loads of fun, cute stuff. after all - the best thing in life is collecting.

find this wrapping paper and some very nice mugs here

wrong

it is wrong to be working on a sunday. especially when the sun is shining and the beach is calling. alas - these are the cards i have been dealt today! luckily, between wrapping canvases for delivering back to artists i am able to peruse such wonderful blogs as 'kindra is here' which is jaw-droppingly gorgeous and inspirational!

really must get around to posting some photographs of things i've been working on lately. i have my eye fixed firmly on tomorrow! ha-ha! day off at last!

craft drawers

any every house i've ever lived in i've had some sort of 'craft drawers' - everything from the bottom shelf of a coffee table (a-la-vancouver) or my dad's chest of drawers from when he was 6 (a-la-doubleview).

i am very excited about setting this all up when we relocate to melbourne...found these excellent ikea drawers via a very lovely blog called kirin notebook and they look like just the boy for the job!

happy new year!

i don't really have many readers so i guess i'm wishing the universe a happy new year!

this year is going to be a pretty big year. first year of marriage. moving to melbourne. new job. more craft! I have some specific and non-specific goals for 2008

specific

• crochet my first afghan blanket (oh it's going to take me a long time to even decide on the colours)


• buy and illustrate/paint/decorate some blank matryoshka dolls


• take the handmade pledge


• keep on bloggin'

non-specific

• ever-continual expansion of my culinary knowledge and obsession


• do as many road trips/weekends away exploring my new state


• continue taking as many photos as i have done in the last year


• be more generous, kind, open, loving than ever before

oh my!

came across these prints (which are currently out of stock) at Ork Posters and think this may be the perfect reminder of K's super casual but super excellent proposal whilst we were in Brooklyn, NYC. I can see this framed and hanging in every place we'll ever live....definitely purchasing this once we settle in, in Melbourne.

one last thing

i got back into twine this year....especially since i have started to boycott wrapping paper (unless it's recycled of course!) and this looks like the perfect twine accessory! made by the small object

oh, to nest!

we are moving to melbourne in february and as we have been travelling hobos for a while now, i am so excited about being able to have a house and to be able to buy things in aid of decoration!

found a site called cut and paste which has many cute things and will definitely help with the handmade pledge i am about to make! they stock lots of gorgeous hand made things! including this print by ashley g.

(after posting this i realised that my subconscience must be running wild....the above image appealed to me so much and after looking at it, it is of a man, woman and 'child'....nesting indeed! damn that clucky feeling! eeeep! i can't help it!)

best christmas ever

well folks, that would have to have been the best christmas ever. an extended celebration spanning from the 22nd - 28th and it was LOVELY! Instead of rushing around like crazy, we had days designated for different parts of K and I's family and it was beautiful. not to mention HOT. it was 44 degrees on christmas day and 45 degrees on boxing day....

i've only been blogging for 2 months and have to say, after witnessing everyone's pure genious (craft genious that is) i am already looking forward to the year ahead of continuing on with everything crafty. plus, taking the handmade pledge and delighting in sending my friends and family handmade things. sometimes craft gets hated on....people just need to give it a chance!

check out these cute trees - there is a tutorial at the small object

although now christmas is over it seems like there is nothing between me and the day K and i are getting married. it's seriously soon.....i have major butterflies in my stomach.

am i being greedy?

okay, this always happens. you buy something. you think you are happy. then you see something else and your mind starts to wander....

the white ones of these would go PERFECTLY with my wedding dress!

kyo hashimoto's jewellery is amazing. and not too expensive either (still $72 is a far cry from $5.95)