Loved up..

So things have been rocky on the love front. Maybe more than rocky, treacherous even. However, I have great mates, a new self imposed wingman (i didn't have a choice), an awesome lot of support and a butt load of new TV to watch! I also was treated to a 'breakup' brownie care of one Laura Mitchell (kit and nancy fame). The photos aren't fabulous but I promise you it tasted MORE than fab!!

delicious dark choc brownie with raspberries AND cherry ripe!!

My lovely housemate Erin also gave me breakup treats in the shape of hilarious animal chocolates. The look crazy but god they were delicious! (and made it hurt just that little less for a moment)

What have I done?!

So you may or may not know that I have taken it upon myself this year to head back to uni at the ripe old ages of 25 and start another undergrad. Crazy you say? Yes I'm aware that this is probably not the most sane thing I could have done but I will stick with it, or so I thought until my epic melt down the other day. I have an essay due today, this afternoon in fact and whilst now I'm quite calm now, getting here was not an experience I wish to have again. I somehow had forgotten what study was, and how to research properly..and even how the hell to use a library?!
Good god I'm out of practise but I went to woolies, got myself some treats and then sat them on the kitchen counter until I had finished. Essentially I could have an oreo each time I finished a paragraph (I only managed 3 in about 4 hours!!) and the magazine, well I still havn't let myself sit down and read it properly. A mere flick through the pictures is all I've had, I did cave and use the mascara though (and if anyone's wondering, it's amazing!!). A good mascara is so hard to find so when you stumble on a winner it's fantastic, a free one even better!

my study buddy..!

Bleeding Heart new-ness!

Hurrah! I've finally got my act together and taken some treasures down to the gift shop at Bleeding Heart Gallery on Ann St in the city (Brisbane city that is...)

Now I wasn't 100% sure how to display or what was available so please don't judge too harshly when you see my initial photos. I'm heading back in hopefully today with some vintage picture frames and floral fabric (care of the waaay to generous Laura from Kit and Nancy) to do some sprucing up of my cube. I will also be adding some hand drawn cards to the mix so please head down and check me out. I promise you will find somethinhg that excites whether is be the delicious crafting, the artwork or just a really good coffee!

Single Saturday!

Well this is a hard one but the first single saturday in three and a half years I felt should be documented, regardless. This is my choice of nail colour to spend this day with, love it!

Gift wrapping and exciting times

It's been a while but I promise I've been working on important things and not just lazing about! Not only has uni started {which I am super excited about and have since discovered I am SUCH a closet nerd!} but there a few exciting things in the pipeline ready to explode into reality...in a week or two so watch out!

This last week had been a wee bit rough with starting uni and mister matthew being away for work but we got there and all's going to be ok. I got an amazing amount of credit from uni from my prior degree which cut three quarters of and year off my new one, Soundwave was on saturday and was simply fantastic, I found out another one of my friends is having a baby AND I got to do a special gift wrapping etsy send off for lovely Katie in the UK who was sending to her sister here in Australia.

the lovely sunny location of my new uni!

delicious gift wrapping {i hope you like it girls!}

Soundwave in floral, can you dig it? haha! gosh it was fun!

Echos gift shop

Just back from my road trip and it's time to re stock the new gift shop at the new reverse garbage store in Woolongabba. I took down some of my new vintage fabric purses, leather heart shaped earrings and also a bunch of my zipper earrings and brooches.

Reverse Garbage re-opens next week the 21st of Feb at

20 Burke St

Woolongabba

and opening night is Saturday the 26th.

Hope to see you all down there!

That time I went solo.

This weekend I took a road trip, solo, down to Coffs Harbour. It was my cousins 18th and I was the only cousin who was able to show for this side of the fam. Anyway, a boys 18th, in the country, with 44 gallon drums for fires, marquee tents for the TV to be safely under {for the footy}, more eskies than you could count, party pies and sausages in bread. A great night.

I hit the beach at my grandmas and a retro shop or two in Bangalow, nearly got run off the road by a truckie and had a issue with the in flight music, here are some happy snaps of the trip!

My in flight music...ipod style

The pub, i didn't go.

Road trippin'!

Awesome retro shop on the road out of Bangalow.

Damn truckie

In flight meals...bbq shapes style.

Love the beach,

and love my grandma!

So there it is, not an overly productive few days but a fun fun time! I wish that I'd had a couple more days at the beach, that is all.

And then came Sunday.

And with Sunday came the first real size suitcase rummage for the year. It was also hot, with a slight rain panic at about 1pm followed by boost juice and sushi.

As always it was a fun day, a great catch-up day and awesome bargains day!

Our set up, the posse from Laneway + one Laura friend.

the bargain of the century! ..the cutest shoes in the world!

Would you care for a moo card?

{all new stock including cushions, love bunting, earrings and purses can be found at under the stairs studio on etsy shortly}

Weekend shenanigans.

It was going to be a long hot summers day, the humidity was through the roof. But we packed our sunscreen, umbrellas and suitcases and headed on down to St Jeromes Laneway Festival to show the world that suitcase rummagers are made of the tough stuff!

Such an awesome day out, hanging out with the coolest kids {Trudy and Sarah-Jayne}, making new friends {Jeremy and another Sarah!}, delicious nachos, free fairy floss, amazing people watching and some alright music {i'm not going to hide the fact i'm not a massive fan of the scene, but i'll admit that I still had fun times}. All in all it was an awesome opportunity and even though there weren't huge sales made it was a great day!

Keeping shaded..but still smiling!

Paper cuts {Trudy} and zipper jewelry {Me}, neighbours.

Next door was Jeremy with more zines than you could poke a stick at,

and on the other side of Sarah-Jayne, Sarah with the Tell Tale zine and cupcakes!

Loving the free fairy floss...

and the not as free nachos.

Watching over the crowd and trying to catch a peek at the main stage {in the background}.

They were pretty alright.

There are more photos of the day, including our wee markets section on Laneway at Flickr.

...and some more

Moving on up!

Since my last post I have
a) moved house
b) been made temporarily unemployed because of the floods
c) watched waaay too much tv
d) gone and got my student card sorted, hello cheap stuff!
e) bought my first ever sewing machine

AND

f) been asked to be part of the markets at this years laneway festival!!

Here is a sneak peek at what i've been working on. It includes but does not end at new brooches, hearts and zippers, valentines specials, leather heart earrings, wee purses for your treasures and lovely throw pillows to rest your head.