Last night we happily stitched away to Feist, Frou Frou and The Shins. Such great music to stitch too, thanks lovely music ladies at Mikes (Brooke and Rin?) . EDIT: Its all Pip's wonderful Music, great taste if I might say so :-).

Here are my favourite Feist songs care of youtube.

I Feel It All this is my favourite favourite....so bouncy and fun...it makes me smile. I couldn't find a film clip for it, but I found this version where she is playing in a bus, I think it was for an American TV show.

Mushaboom my second favourite Feist song. I love this film clip, she does the cutest dancing.

Hope you like them.

I loved my clown dollie.......

Can you tell ?

Oh what a lovely surprise to find out that Erin Paisley is the featured artist in this months Frankie (issue 20) mag.

Also Catherine Campbell has painted the window at Magnation to tie in with the launch of the Frankie Recipe book. Head down to Magnation to grab your self a copy and get a free cupcake.

mmm yummy cupcakes....

Some of my flickr favourites, they are all from Amy's blog which I am loving right now. Go read it !! She creates the most gorgeous little owls and felt badges. I'm particularly in love with the teacup brooch which I first saw in her madeit store Vanilla Bug.

She also sells some really cute buttons under the label Cake With Giants...such talent!

badges by Cake With Giants available here.

Go...get some cheap clothes....do it for us peoples stuck at home on this glorious day.

Poppy, Bec and I

Here is a photo of my pop and his catch for the day. Pop loves fishing and every year he goes on holidays to Yamba to spend months fishing. Pop taught me many important things growing up...like "It doesnt matter how you eat it, as long as you eat it". That was because we always played with our food. My Pop's birthday is Christmas day so every year we get to celebrate Christmas and his birthday. When I was little pop taught me how to play cards, dominoes and do the crossword in the paper. He also taught me about fishing, sport and the art of growing veggies with lots of sheep poo.
I love my poppy.

happy flashback xo

Just some things that are making me smile today

Firstly today was my last uni lecture for the year, thats makes me smile, but also a little queezy as it means exams are near. To celebrate I got an extra large cappuccino with full cream milk and a few too many sugars...ah thats what I call happiness.


Another thing making me smile is the fact that magnation stays open till 10pm tonight (I didnt know that it opens late)
and I can go get an early copy of the Nov issue of Frankie...I heart Frankie... my bestfriend in the whole world introduced me to Frankie and I'm so happy she did so! Love you Jags.

and lastly the other thing making me smile is the fact that its Friday and that means the weekend is near, also Fridays mean I get to reminisce at my old photos whilst I pick out a photo for Flashback Friday (I have one in mind that Im going to scan tonight).

sothats whats making me smile today.....

oh and lastly ( maybe I shouldn't tell everyone this) Kinki Gerlinki are having a garage sale at their Sydney Rd store this weekend. Oh but I have to study...but its cheap clothes.....but study...but.....what to do..what to do.

An exhibition I will not be missing ! Cups and Cuddles is featuring Catherine Campbell, Eveline Tarunadjaja and Lilly Piri and its in Melbourne. Oh my this is fantastic...I'm getting all excited, I wonder what work they will be exhibiting.

Kelly is this on when your in Melbourne? We can all go together.

In other news Kelly and Bec have there websites up and running go look !! they are both so beautiful...what do you think?

Birdy & Me



My Charlie Girl

and Pip I'm so happy for the second Meet Me at Mikes store, congratulations....Ill be in to visit as soon as I can.

Ah what a good day of news...

Whilst at borders on the weekend I found the most beautiful magazine ever, Oh it is just so pretty. It's a UK magazine called Lula and only on its 5th edition. This issue is extra special as Kirsten Dunst is guest editor, so it's full of articles about her movies, life, friends and just everything that is this young, creative intelligent girl.

I have to share some scans with you....to see more from the current issue go here. or click to see larger images.



You can have a peek inside the old issues of Lula on there website.

Ah too pretty for words....

I'm loving these illustrations from the "Seven Sisters" Series by Erin Paisley, bellow is Sisters Five and Six.

The Weaver by Erin Paisley

Forest and Fields by Erin Paisley

I came across Erin's illustrations on ETSY and included her Forest and Field's print in a treasury I did not long ago. Erin is based in Milwaukee and teaches herself to paint and draw, very impressive. I love the mix of ink and watercolour along with the textured paper, ahh so delicate and pretty.

You must check out more of her paintings here or read her blog, Fox in the Woods, oh I just love a new blog find.

ps. ill be putting my flashback friday post up tonight. happy friday :-)

I really want to do a collage on my lounge room wall of the art I have been acquiring lately. The only thing standing in my way is the fact that I really don't know what style to follow...do I go to IKEA and purchase frames in that modern style ? or should I fossic through markets and op shops for mismatched and eccentric frames?

Looking at these interiors is leaning me towards the second option. What do you think?

Well I've been away from blogging for a week and what a buzy week it has been. I have uni exams coming up (yuck) so study has been keeping me buzy and yesterday I was away for work. So now I'm back and already online shopping :-)

Dana reminded me of The Curiosity Shoppe on her blog the other day...I found it once before in internet land and forgot to bookmark it. It's full of beautiful hand crafted items, my favourite if I had to pick one would be these vintage French inspired journals.

ahh so many nice things...

This is my Ninny, here she is showing me how to ride my bike. My Ninny taught me many things, like how to knit and crochet. She was always very encouraging of our creativity and would keep all sorts of things for us to cut up and make into what ever we could imagine.

Love you Nan xox

My treasured card bag...oh what a great find for 50c ! I found this treasure at the local op shop in Thirroul. We used to holiday there in a flat above the local nursing home, my mums a nurse and they would rent out the place to nurses for free...so it became our regular holiday flat. It was only a few hundred metres from the beach and you could catch a train into Sydney or Wollongong. It was a great little town to holiday at !! oh the memories...

...thanks for all the comments and well wishes on my last post. You must of been sending healing energies cause I'm feel so much better !!! thanks xo

Last Tuesday I went op shopping with my friend Sue. We went to Frankston savers where I was armed with my Polaroid camera to see if I could snap anything exciting. This is the first film Ive run through the camera so it really was just experimenting with what looks good and how close I can get etc.

I couldn't resist this owl show and learn, hes so cute. Though I may have picked up a super bug touching it...because three days later I'm struck down with an awful bacterial infection. Hence why I haven't been blogging much of late.


And this is a photo of some dummies in a trolley. Id like to try some more mannequin shots, I think they could be interesting.

Well off to get some more bed rest.

happy blogging. x