Change is afoot

Seriously looking at moving out of our grey box and into something with a bit more space...space for projects and grown up type things...

Means a big change cos when you move out of a little box into a proper house, it generally means you need to get things to fill the new space...It will be strange to start accruing again...

Some photos...

Tsunami like cloud formation on the horizon...totally mad looking...

My latest op shop finds...

Dover illustration books! Awesome!

I have a board game 'thing' and have started collecting them again...need to get my box sent down from up north with my Park and Shop, Mork and Mindy, Six million dollar man and sealed version of the Golden Girl Guardian of the Gemstones game, a take off of She-Ra, whose dolls I adored when I was a wee lass...Favourites were Onyx and the leader of the baddies Moth Lady... anyway, I digress...

Heading to Tassie for a few days this week, will be nice...

Raarrr badge

Made a badge for Khannie whilst he was away at a conference this week.

First one I'd tried with the newly learnt blanket stitch...not even sure if yr supposed to use that kind of stitch on softie type things but oh well...

I put it on a card for him too...

front...

and back with rarrr guy...

don't think he's going to wear it though... :(

Big bike ride planned tomorrow....50km for around the bay in a day..not quite around the bay but I think it's a fair effort...

no brain for writings...

it's like a vacuum up there atm...

anyways, some fotos...

been trying to pretty up the dull, small, too modern apartment lately.

Got some new furniture, made some bunting out of old kids encyclopedia and books about mathematics and moved it all around, cos you know what they say about a change...

I know i should take photos with my real camera but It's far easier and quicker with the iPhone...

and i can make it do funny tricks...

yay for the good ol expedit...fits 12"s perfectly...

we have a new friend named Dennis Hopper...he is in the pic on the far right...if you look really hard you can make him out...

I have made something this evening but I can't post pics just yet...tomorrow maybe...

i lied...

I forgot I had been a little crafty a week or so ago and made the awesome Susanator a passport cover for her birthday...

Would love to have tried to make a double version for my upcoming NZ trip (this thursday!!!) with my beau but then there's that icky thing called work and the other ickiness that goes with it of deadlines...

Anyway, til next time...

the month in pickchures

1. New addition to my desk at work...gorgeous!
2. Rapahehu cocktails
3. Skull and Crossbones and Pirates curse cocktails from Tiki lounge bar in Richmond
4. P-man soaking up the love at the poker table
5. Design festival comes to Melbourne Central
6. Grafitti in an old the Donkey Wheel House during the Melbourne Open House
7. Pink stuff dripping from the pavement above in the basement of the Donkey wheel house
8. Flamiiiiinnngggg lips!
9. Truly
10. Awesome!
11. Op shop finds...gorgeous glasses
12. Even gorgeouser pink espresso cups and saucers
13. Pink 1975 Annual and towel origami...scorpions, whales, penguins, cats and snakes out of towels?!? cool!
14. inside
15. New bike!
16. Steam train rides, bike rides and car rides...
    
    p.s. when the hell is blogger gonna sort out the terrible WYSIWYG editor...posting pictures is such a nightmare!

brooding over brooches

well maybe not brooding...but i just thought it had a ring to it...or a brooch to it...heh...

I got busy late this evening...think I had dessert too late and got the sugar rush...

Ok, so 2 new brooches and an improvement to the earrings photo as promised!

First the earrings:

Next brooch number 1:

this idea has been in my head for quite a while...well since i made the measuring tape bracelet...which I'm trying to improve on by finding some fabric measuring tape instead of icky, cheap plastic...

I believe I have the worlds worst glue gun...bought from a $2 shop, it's so crap that I think the glue has melted down inside the handle...the glue sticks disappear and it doesn't come out the nozzle and it appears to be getting heavier each time I use it...

Brooch number 2

A weeny little bento box I found whilst in Sydney...i think it was supposed to be one of those things you hang off yr mobile but it had lost it's chain...I have a fascination with tiny things...always have...I remember getting a boy in grade 1 in trouble because he was trying to get me to give back a pencil he'd sharpened until it was a centimetre in length...I told the teacher it was mine and she believed me as he was the class trouble maker and I was a studious little thing...how evil I am...I still think I have it somewhere in with all my Barbie things that my mum dutifully packed up and kept...

and a couple of other randoms...

I'm wanting to take more photos and get a bit more knowledgeable about how to use my camera...took this messing with the manual focus and changing the aperture (well I think it was the aperture!), may still be a tiny bit over exposed...

Mr Bunny man who sits on my desk was looking overly sinister and Alice in wonderlandish tonight... What's up doc?

A sack of potatoes we bought down the street...I just had to have it cos it was a sack of potatoes...how often do you see a sack of potatoes?!? Just gotta think of what I can do with that once it's stopped being filled with potatoes...

quick one...

had an awesome weekend (GLWE '09) with the high school pals...12 girls (I use that term loosely as we're all over 30 now...) in a big barn in the middle of the country with way too much french toast, wine, cheese and Dr Jurd's Jungle Juice (don't even ask what that crap was...)

Got some gorgeous earrings from a little shop in Balmain/Rozelle crafted from tiny paper cranes made out of japanese paper...I've always had a love for miniature things...

Sorry again...will update with a better photo when I get a chance...

Small tip, the op shops around this area are really good...saw a Parker coffee table and multiple pieces of kitsch homewares I wanted to snavvle up...booo...must plan a trip to the south side op shops...

But, I was very restrained and didn't really buy much else as I didn't want to carry it all around...stupid excuse I know...

My friend also lives basically next door to the wonderful Society Inc. which was unfortunately closed each time I was there...had a very good peek in the windows though...and lots of lusting after was had...

Some more bullet points:

• Tintilla Estates 05 Shiraz is awesome, as is their Rosato di Jupiter (A rose! I hate sweet wines! But ah hah! It's not sweet!)
• Berocca actually does what it says it will do...I'd never tried it before and now I am a convert...
• The new safari is awesome...it is fast, and smart...love the guessing it does as you type things into the address bar, the Top Sites page and the status in the right hand side of the address bar...glad they took on board the feedback from the beta and sped it up!
• I promise more crafting will be done soon..I have a couple of things in the works, just no time...
• Coolest site of the week: http://www.gestalten.com/