It's getting to be that time of year!

I love Christmas, so much! I'm not even kidding. 

Last year I made {from scratch} gingerbread men for all my work peeps and other besties and gingerbread reindeer as gift tags for all my family. I also managed my first ever stocking and my market stall was full to the brim with handmade felt tree decorations and garlands.

Anyway, this year my sisters and I are joining creative forces, I can't give much away just yet but here are some photos from last years markets to get you curious!!

All the felties are made by yours truly, the ceramic decos by my sister Ash and the timber trees {painted green and gold} are done by us both {with some Dad help}. The timber trees have been a feature of our Christmas' since forever and we decided to give them a bit of a come back tour this year. They stand about 40cm tall and come with or without decorations {each branch had a small hole drilled into it so you can trim your tiny tree} and are painted green with the star being gold and a slight mist of gold around the branches as 'tinsel'. We love them and hope that they'll be a hit outside our family too!

Oh Anthropologie..

How does a girl decide?!

Here are my pick for the summer, loving the chunky bright colours and different materials!

Choose your {credit cards} poison in the accessories sections online at Anthropologie.

The sweetest thing

Just a little something I couldn't pass up when I was buying myself a treat online.

Sadly Mia won't fit this for probably another 6 months but when she does, going to be SO cute!

In search of the perfect burger...I thought it was a little weird, but still cool. This was the shirt I made my treat for the day!

Both t-shirts are from a little company in the US called Dressing On The Side. You can find them on etsy here or on their own website, here.

I would definitly 100% recommend checking them out for both guys and girls t-shirts.



Red Hill Kindergarten Art Show!

Hola tiny dancers!

 

This is just a quick spruik for a group art show that both my artwork and jewellry will feature in in a couple of weeks time. So, because it's in conjunction with the Red Hill Kindy, alongside the selected guest artists all the kids will also have pieces of artistic brilliance on display {i'm just saying now, future artistic genius right there!}.

 So if you're in the area please come along to support your local artists and kindergarten. All artworks will be for sale and will include but not be limited to painting, photography, ceramics and jewellry.

Guest artists include
* Imogen Macdonald
* Kristyn Roberts
* Xani Kennedy
* Rachael Sedgeman
* Nikki Roberts
* Chris Kemp
* Kim Aitken
* Morgan Kennedy
* Nadine Sawyer
* Kate Knapp

 

and you'll find the art, wine and nibblies at The community hall next door to Red Hill Kindergarten.

 

93 Enogerra Terrace, Red Hill

Brisbane, Australia

And did I mention it's one night only people so get on board!!

 



{an example of my work}

 

On a bicycle built for two.

A very close friend is getting hitched tomorrow and asked me to make the ring pillow seeing as I am cushion extrodinaire! So here it is, silk, embroidery and pearls, all put together by these sexy crafty hands!

Sarah and Craig I hope you have a wonderful day {please note I will be taking my payment in free champagne and baby cuddles at the reception}.

Again with the fatty recipes..

So i got bored of trawling the internet for design inspiration {for uni I have to design a house, great to start with but i've hit a GIGANTIC wall} and started just trawling for delicious sounding recipes, the nutella was my inspiration for this act of immenent fattiness I'm going to guess. Anyway, not the point. The point is that I love pancakes and here are two variations of your regular run of the mill pancake that I'm pretty much dying to try out. If it wasn't such a hot sunny day I would probably already be in the kitchen, frypan in hand!

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes from Recipe Girl look like a heart attack just waiting to happen but holy moly don't they look too delicious to pass on!

And then there's this one time when french toast met pancakes at tastykitchen.com...it says it all really. The two best breakfast treats combined, who could want for anything more?!

So here ends my procrastination...maybe...untill I find something else to waffle on about whilst pretending to actually do uni work. Inspiring photos for my design is a start but when the thing is due on Halloween and id worth a good 80% of my mark I'm thinking maybe I should pull my finger out...maybe.

peace out breakfast homies! xx

Study + procrastination = fatty boomsticks

So I know that it was my choice to go back to study and all that however, it's not a word of a lie when I say that the amount of procrastination that's coming out of this degree combined with the blog trawling I am doing as a result will no doubt turn me into one giant fatty. Especially when I come across blog posts like this one from icanhazcheeseburger.com....hello nutella deliciousness! See for yourself...smores-just-got-fancy

New dress!

New dress from Cue and sweet new opshop clutch purse, hello wedding outfit! Now just need to find some shoes that match....

Opshop gold!

Last week I took a trip down to the NSW north coast to visit family with my mum and along the way {both to and from} we stopped in at more opshops than I can count. We also took a trip into Bellingen {which is only about a half hour drive from Coffs} had some delicious organic somethings for lunch and hit all the wee boutique-ey shops and vintage stores they had to offer. The moral of this short and sweet post is I landed on some opshop vintage gold and can't wait to start new summer crafting projects!

My new, very plastic, very gold, very awesome clutch purse!

This ice-cream pillow case delight is double sided and I'll be making two sweet {pun intended!} cushions out of it, first come first served I'm afraid.

Who doesn't need more buttons?

or more zippers?

The golden find of the trip! Multi coloured zippers are so hard to find i'de say they're almost extinct, this is only the second one i've found in close to 3 years of zipper op-shopping and it's even more fabulous than the last one! Now my conundrum is what to make with it? Earrings? Brooch?

Lady of leisure

Well i'm on uni holidays and usually that would mean crazy amounts of work buuuut because I'm an invalid with a bung leg i'm only doing one subject AND ace-ing it {suck it proper first years who havn't even hit puberty yet, the old lady is winning!} so I decided to get my green thumb on and turn into some kind of gardening extraordinaire. I've recently been down to Coffs Harbour to visit family and was sent home with two cherry tomato plants, basil and coriander so yesterday I hit up Bunnings with my mum to add to the collection and find out what else I needed to ensure these plants didn't die {I'm not known for my gardening skills if I'm honest}. I came home with potting mix, liquid food for the plants {who knew!} AND rosemary, sno peas, rocket, strawberries and bok choy! Then my mum added mint and pineapple sage {??} from her mammoth vegie garden and then all I had to do was find space for it all in our not so enormous 'backyard' {that need some serious er, pruning/ ripping out ugly weed plants to make space for my glorious vegies...}

...Here is the proof that I can garden and plant things, and get filthy doing it. Now we just have to wait and see if they take and will have the good graces to grow things for me!

Ready, set, go!

Found these guys in the garden, i'm hoping for a gnome next!

I had to transplant these babies! I'm practically qualified...

Gardening face!

My, er, 'green thumb'

My fabulous climbing plants, sno peas and tomatos!

Finished!

{a friend came over and found me sitting actually in the garden trying to dig holes..this photo was to prove to my mum that I actually gave it a shot!}

For a bun in the oven

I bought this a little while ago for one of my best friends in the entire world, well her bun in the oven anyway. It's nanna knitted and pretty much one of the cutest things ever and even though this baby girl won't fit into it untill she's about 4 years old I simply had to buy it! For $4 who wouldn't?! There's so much work in it and the buttons alone are amazing. So moral of that story is I can no longer go shopping ever because I have reached the point where I will rationalise any and every purchase...ANY!

Camilla I hope you and your jellybean like what the coolest Australian Aunty that kid is ever going to have bought it xx

Sunshine, lollipops...

Yesterday had to be one of the most relaxing, delicious days I've had in a super long time! It was my first day back at uni after the op and things were going swimmingly. The sun was shining pretty well all day long and on my lunch break I had the latest Frankie to read and an awesome {if I do say so myself} salad to eat. Let's just say I couldn't help but take photos and here they are.

It even rained last night! {down the coast, I don't know what it did up in Brissie...} A perfect day topped off with beers, steaks and potato salad with my mate Souperman, too good.

Materialistic at Reverse Garbage

What a delicious sunny afternoon!

Today has been full of surprises and treats so far, all of which I am going to share because I'm just that kind of person today.

First of all, my knee was free-ed from the prison of bandages and leg brace that it has been ensconsed in for the past two weeks post surgery. I tell you what, even though it's a bit of a weird feeling not having all that support around it anymore, it is SUPER nice to feel the sun again! {now to work on that summer tan...fake style of course!}

So in between that and then my physio appointment {not the most fun} Mum and I went down to the city to have a furkle around and landed ourselves in the L'Occitane shop. Let me just say if you havn't treated yourself it really is divine and smells SO good. They have two new moisturisers for spring, cherry blossom and orange blossom and a new peony fragrance - all amazing. I got myself a new lip gloss from the spring range and some awesome shea butter hand cream, love a good hand cream.

Then after physio {pain pain} mum and I quickly popped into Reverse Garbage where I found out that all the stock I took in a few weeks ago was being saved for the Materialistic exhibition that opens on Saturday night! Along with my old faithful zipper creations there are also newly created vintage button necklaces, leather earrings and vintage fabric gift cards. There is also a blog post about the show over on the BrisStyle blog where you can read more about it and see some of the other types of pieces that will be on display and for sale.

So if you're around on Saturday evening and find yourself without a plan, head down to 'Reverse Emporium', the new gallery space at Reverse Garbage to check out the show!

"materialistic"

Opening Night: Saturday, September 10

Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm

Where: 20 Burke Street, Woolloongabba QLD 4102

What do we think?

{and by we I mean, all of you}

about the new colour scheme?

I didn't want to change it up too much in the way of set up but it definitly needed an over haul. I'm still working on a banner but am waiting on my spiffy new desktop to be setup {my dad has to help me because I am what one might refer to as technologically impaired...completely useless} and then I'll bust out the CS5 photoshop to give me a hand with the banner situation. Until then though, ideas on content for the banner? I'm sick of the polaroid, it's too big and the blue is out too i think...maybe..see this is why I need input!

..heeeelllppp! {please xx}

To Ray Ban or not to Ray Ban?

A friend of her way back from bali holidaying {so jealous - i miss the sunshine!} brought me back an awesome pair of fakeys, black in colour, ray ban in the fake ness - love it! Another friend, who arrived back in the country only a couple of days after brought me a thankyou present in the form of black, the real deal, ray bans...win! Except now she won't let me have them because I already have a black pair {no matter that they're fake or not} and is waiting on me to choose another colour so she can do a swapsies. Here in lies the problem, there are

 a) too many colours to choose from and

 b) i am the most indecisive person in the universe!

help meeee!

I hopped onto the website and found a few, and then hopped onto the USA website and found even more sweet ones...now I need help to chooooooooooooose.

i'm thinking these are my first choice...summery much?!



perhaps borderline tiger stripes are not for me? but they're pretty cool..