my first giveaway!

Ok, so going along with Pip's week of hello and happy I am going to giveaway my last 3 FAUX MO's.

I've been making FAUX MO's for Movember with all the money from selling them going to the Movember group who are all about raising money for men's health issues including supporting research into prostate cancer and depression.

I haven't made many and haven't really made a huge effort in my marketing campaign to sell too many as I've been too busy to sit down and make them! I only had the idea midway through Movember so am a little under prepared! But I have raised $114 for the cause which I think is OK...Maybe next year I will refine the design, my marketing and get making earlier so I can raise tons of money!

Anyway, for your chance to win one just leave a comment! I will draw some winners next Thursday. For each one given away I will donate money to my team, The Hirsute Gentlemen.

Here's a pic of my friend Karin sporting one...

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/

No news is not so good news...

I've been busy...still am and should probably not be writing this post as I have work to do...seems the old adage of when it rains, it pours is ringing very true at the moment...

I did have time to go op shopping last weekend in Sunshine, the main focus of the adventure to get denim for a double denim party in the Hunter Valley I will be going to over the Queens b'day weekend. It's part of an annual Girls Long Weekend (GLWE) where my old high school friends get together and drink lots of wine and eat lots of cheese. This will be my first as I have been overseas when the others have been held.

Anyway, successful in the denim department but also got this:



I'm dying to make it into brooches but am struggling with the 'how to' of it all.
They have holes in the sides and I was thinking I wanted to make it reversible so you could wear either the picture or the letter, depending on how you felt that day...
I'm thinking something that clips into the existing holes to secure it somehow but I haven't had any flashes of inspiration...

If anybody (out of the 2 of you) who reads this blog can think of a way, lemme know eh?