nervously contemplating the pain...

I have a gym membership... today will be my first class! OMG... they say the first two weeks is the hardest right? Well i am not looking forward to the pain tomorrow as my legs kick and scream at me for being pathetic. I have been to this class once (body pump) and the next day was a day of pure agony. It felt like someone had beaten up my legs with a piece of 4x2 and then starts hacking them off at the hip with a blunt butter knife all at the same time. those squats are the killers!...just two weeks.. just two weeks...*:(

I will be meeting up with Tegan today for coffee and U-Paint, i am sad that Casey didn't come but there are other days we can all play together :)

Last night Dave and I had dinner with Sal and Adam. that was fun. We had delicious burritos and watched 'Lars and the real girl'. It was actually an alright movie. not what i was expecting, but something that i think Michelle would have loved to see. its quirky, yet romantic, yet... funny in a different way.

I broke my beautiful sewing machine the other day, whilst making a gift for Kaccey. It was a long scarf.. like really long, made with this awesome baseball print fleece that i got from an opp shop for 50c a meter! woot! ( As for the machine, i just broke the needle so no stress, just have to replace it!) As for crafts, i am looking for a way to make a Little stamp. someone mentioned i should carve an eraser, some people say i should use the lino i have. but i don't know. i need to make two little stamps, for a secret project i am working on. hehehe La sir!

Must..get..cotton... some plain white stuff would be nice...
projects for this week include...
1.I have made a fabric pompom- just like a wool pompom but made out of scrap fabric.. its very nice, but i learned that i should make the pieces longer.
2. Started an embroidery of a burlesque-esque type girl on vintage linens.
3. Made a cat shaped egg cozy for Davids..eggs... but it turned out shocking!
4.Made Kacceys scarf- it even had an embroidered K!
5. I got some buttons and some yellow thread to sew them on to my jacket.. which i still haven't finished yet (i am scared of button holes)

All in all a productive week..kinda. Though, i would probably be sewing now if it wasn't for the fact that my needle is still broken, and there is not a screw driver in the house! I need a multi tool..or just one of these...
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Anyway, must get moving... I don't know where too... but maybe to the kitchen... for a cup of nice warm tea... mmm tea....

sunday sunday... a blog about blogs

I made a jacket! yes, a real live honest to stitch jacket! from my own fabric and everything! i am so uber proud of it, because i didn't use a pattern, and just kinda winged it from a cut up old shirt of Davids!


Babel fish translatin'
I go to the golden calamus margaritae, and has brought the book about the tegan gluten free meal. She is drinks prettily, and her laughter is bright and brittle, when the glass dingdong sound has a point to cause to juxtapose to the cane darkness and micro dark, mellow tone. I love her happiness, it is the infection!
This is my fun times i had with Babel fish translation... ahhh ahahahhaha original:
i went to the golden vine and brought a book about gluten free foods for tegan. she was pretty drunk and her laughter was bright and brittle, with the tinkle of glass- slightly juxtaposed to the dark and somber, mellow tones of the vine itself. i loved her happiness, it was infectious!

Inspired by Casey's Shoe obsession, i thought i would stick to the theme of her awesome post and post a picture of some of my very favourite shoes i have seen in the world wide web.

These beauties are from the Helena Angelique line, and god they are beautiful! when i figure out how to make shoes, i am so going to replicate these babies! feast your eyes!



In other news, i am joining Lifestyles gym on tuesday, and hopefully with sal as an extra motivator, i will be able to have many fun early morning gym sessions with her. I spend most of my days being a slack home body who mopes around on her ass all day complaining about how much weight i am carrying, but as of yet, not doing a single thing about it! so! this will motivate me, move me, compell me (for 320 bucks a quarter you would hope so) to get off my ass and do something! i want to be fit and trim for summer, or at least for China and Japan at the end of the year! its a good year for motivation! its a great year for affirming friendships! its a good year for making decisions! and this year is going to be MY year. But onto what its really about...

It is nearly half way through the year and no matter how much i try to look at it positivly, i can already see i have wasted another six months of my life not living up to my full potential. Many things account for this, the main one being laziness. this is manifested in me spending my days indoors, eating fruit toast, and waking up at 12.. things i am not too proud of mind you. we get only a few years on this earth to really make use of our time, and that is when we are my/ our age, and when we are old and grey. The middle is where we are busy, filling our time with work and family, and we look back on this time, the now, and wonder what we did with all the spare moments we had. I will look back and see i played video games, and lounged about the house when i could have been out forging stronger bonds with my friends, or stronger bonds with my self. This "self" includes the body, and the mind. Sometimes i wonder why dont i take up an instrument? why dont i learn a new language? why dont i go out more often with the people who are closest to me ( you know who you are) and make memories to keep me comforted in those long abscences of contact that i know are inevitably going to arrive, when our lives and family bog us down in the future?- why? because i..am..lazy.. and THAT is what i want to fix. its not about body image (although that comes into it) and its not about fitness, its about being motivated, and using the time i have to make myself into the person i want to be, and to me, these years we have now are by far the most important ones to use, and to prepare you for the times ahead... so as a message to all of you out there who have bothered to read this far, and for those who are in foreign lands, i am sending you out a virtual hug and smile with a promise to use my time more wisely in the future, and to promise to make more memories with you, together :)

love christi.

Monday so quiet and lovely

ho ho today was a super fun day!

i got up nice and early today (10.30) and washed the dishes, then i went and did some resin stuff with these awesome glittery stars i found, hopefully its gunna make a cool new bracelet! made some pendants with the glitter too, and im having a go at making a paper weight type thing. tegan and casey came over today and we all went to t,hooft for lunch oh how i love it!) tegs and i shared the frites and chai which is our specialty, and casey had the atlantic salmon breakfast(has browns, smoked salmon, poached eggs, bacon on rye toast with hollandaise sauce and a side of spinach) yum!


then after that delightful foray into the culinary world we headed off for tegan and caseys first jaunt into the world of U-Paint! yay! Today i did a partridge in a pear tree, tegan did a happy little blue bird and casey did a cute prancing stag! they also have aweosme coffee at U-Paint.. awesome i tell you!

after i got home i did some more patches of davids quilt- and drew up a semi pattern for my jacket and t-shirt( i am totally winging it, and we will see how it goes! haha) and took a picture of the squares im going to be using for mine



here is Davids and my last U-Paint fun times-



Tegan and i have decided we would like to do an exhibition together in about a years time, so we are gathering some stuff together to sort of work it into being. i started a peice last night which i think has a lot of potential.. a theme i want to work on.. similarities, and just a whole range of different things all together.. i dont know how i will go- but it will be an adventure!

tomorrow i will be getting up early as we have a dude coming to value the house for the landlord, and i have to do a bit of spot cleaning.. im excited to get started on my new jumper jacket though!

Hopefully Holiday Hobbies

station master says :"Procrastination station! all passengers who wish to disembark should do so now!"*insert train whistle here*

My poor David had to wake up at 7.00 am today because his bosses decided he has to work and extra hour in the mornings from now on! my poor boy, and he doesn't get paid any extra either! stupid contracts... so now he is going to be even more tired than before! speaking of which he went to have a nap and didnt wake up even when i called him for dinner. (hes eating it now even though its 11pm, isnt he sweet!?)

I spent most of my day today smoozing around house doing nothing at all. being on holidays is so much fun! i played some of the wii, Zelda Twilight Princess, then got bored of that and started on the DS and Animal crossing. there are so many things i want to do on these holidays, some of which are: making a quilt out of old scarves ( im about 5% done on that) make some more little plushies, attempt a jumper with fleece, similar to this but plain black:


i also want to make a whole batch of these cuties, lined in felt with funky fabrics:

( both these images are from flickr- random searchings, if you know or have seen where they are from please leave a comment below with the url for crediting, thanks!)

got some stuff back from U-Paint the other day i will have to upload a picture of it, i'm very proud! as well as getting a new book i have wanted for ages " the Wit and wisdom of Discworld" aww yeah bring on the Terry Pratchett love!

P.S: oh, and i had this awesome dream a few nights back that i was dressed up in this beautiful yellow gothic lolita style outfit and was running around bendigo going to sumptuos looking police stations! hehehe i found a swatch of fabric that was very similar to the dress and skirt fabric in my dream!

rosebud, omas, and home.

Well, its been a long few days this passed Queens birthday weekend. Dave and i were very busy!
Saturday morning Dave and i woke early, showered and headed off to my Oma's place: part one of the voyage to Rosebud. We travelled through morning traffic along the Calder, a little bit of mist hung in the air~ we arrived at Oma's at about 12 and had lunch. as soon as she saw my jumper she demanded i take it off and insisted on trading it with me for some horrible eighties jumper with fake garish bright gold buttons, which she demanded i look after like it was baby Jesus himself, As well as a hideous sixties wool kaftan/jumper that i ended up giving to my step mum.- then when two o'clock came round, we bolted out the door as fast as we could before she could delay us any longer and lecture me about all the things she loves to say- but not before she once again commented on my weight, and how i am not doing the right kind of University degree... i guess by now i should be used to it, but it still hurts a little... its like she doesn't think that i know i'm overweight.. she presumes its her duty to tell me so every time she sees me... ahhh well!

Rosebud was beautiful! It is winter, but the grass is a beautiful vibrant green, and the trees along the foreshore are a beautiful species of pine evergreens. The beach boxes are brightly painted and looking lovely, and the water was super clear. There were swans roaming the beach, it was a beautiful sight to see ( though someone once told me that swans only like to swim in water thats unfit for humans to swim in.) Though, it was tide out, and i think they were just searching for lunch under the sand. there was hardly anyone else on the beach on Sunday morning, just us and a few families, kite flyers, and dog walkers..



As for dad, he is well, i haven't seen him for nearly six months and i think he was happy to have me down.. i think. he is losing weight, sorta, and his smokers cough is getting worse, other than that he is doing well. He did ask me if i would make him a pair of fingerless gloves, and i feel very proud to do that.. it means he likes the ones i made Adri. All in all it was good to go down there again. i got to see my step sisters and their new house, my step Mum and my Dad. David got a bit freaked out by the amount of cats my step mum has (13) but other than that he was fine with it. If there is one thing that i a have learned from this weekend is that David is possibly the greatest boyfriend in the whole world.. not only did he drive almost 4hrs each way to and from Rosebud, and has met my grandma (and she loves him) but he has met all of my crazy family and still loves me! (and not once did he complain!)

We got back to Bendigo and have done nothing but play the Wii all day. All in all it has been a great long weekend. Only thing is i have an exam tomorrow at 9... so wish me luck!

the wonders of U-Paint

well it would seem i have a new addiction!

For Mine and Davids anniversary he took me to a place that so reminded me of my childhood... A place where magic reigns and woman and men, children and adults could sit together in harmony, combined with their love of painting pre cast ceramics! sigh* it was awesome, for my first piece i chose a large stein which depicted a snow top ski scene, a large beer tankard some may call it. We sat together on this day, our eight month anniversary and painted our little woodland scene together, surrounded by the chatter of the other women in the little store in the middle of eagle hawk. U-Paint.

that was last Monday, today we went to pick up our fired piece, dreading and hoping our piece of art would be the beauty we envisioned. we ended up selecting a few more pieces and then spent the good part of the afternoon immersed in our own creative worlds, David painting a cat with all the glaze colours of the rainbow, and me painstakingly drawing and concentrating on getting a beautiful damask image i had drawn a few weeks ago reproduced on my porcelain. we also picked up our crafted-in-love stein. viola!

im so proud!