if there is one thing that i love....

Its old propaganda posters!
look at these beauties!












All of these beautiful images were taken from the fantastic online collection of Stefen Landsberger. This website has to be my holy grail! its awesomeness is unrivaled! view way more located here--> http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/

perfect outfit

I was thinking about ,my perfect outfit, that i would love to wear/ create whilst looking at the wonderful site of definatalie. (http://www.definatalie.com/) A fellow Aussie blogger. She has a competition right now open for australian residents to create am ultimate NYE outfit! WOO! so here is my entry:

spanish chic!

credits:
Mcqueen cardigan (via polyvore)
Ezi Buy: Sara Harem
flamenco lady portrait:
hair band of red flowers
earrings (via polyvore)
bracelet 1 (via polyvore)
bracelet stack (via polyvore)
gorgeous ‘ginger’ heels

Yay! Thanks to Natalie for hosting such a lovely give away!

happenings

I have recently made my first 'zine'! a mini craft booklet choc full of happy surprises! find issue one at various places around Benders. For example at the Uni, Allens walk run space, and so on.

At the end of a 'year' of magazines ( every 4th issue) i would like to collect them all together to make a happy little book to sell!

In other News, It is official that I will be returning to China soon. Now I just need to find a job for six months to tide me over until I can go!
I am very excited about this, and have already begun to plan my lessons in advance!
However, I Have applied for a few jobs around town, but as of yet no biting on the line... perseverance will win out!wish me luck!

p.s I f you know anyone who is hiring give me a heads up!~

things that inspire

here is an awesome list of things that inspire me to craft, things that i love and things that are just plain awesome. done in an old time favourite format of an A-Z

A architecture,Animals,Art,archetypes,adventure

B Birds, Bees, books, babies, Buddhism, brass

C craftMag, creativity, crayons, china

D drawing, dremel, driftwood,dolls, dirigible

E encyclopaedias, eating,earrings,eccentrics

F Fashion, fantasy, friends, family, forests

G grunge,gold, glass, Goth,gods

H hot air balloons, hugs, homes, Holmes :)

I imagination, intaglio,impressions,

J jewellery,Japan,Jungian theory,

K kitchens,kawaii,keys

L leather, lace, love

M models, make up,masks, metal, military,moon

N Naoto.h,nature,names,nautical,nesting dolls

O old people,organs,opulence,opera,octopii

P paper,pottery,pokemon,perfume,photos,peonies

Q queens, quinces, quirky.

R rabbits, rain, rarities, recycle,recipes

S steam-punk,sci-fi, starwars

T tea tins, toys,theatre, tea,tulle,tutus

U university,universalism, unique-ness

V Victoriana,vinyl toys, vegetables

W wonderkammer,wood,writing,wool,world making.

X Xtreme sports, Xmas, (cheating i know)

Y youth, Yule,

Z zoos, zodiac, zombies

Ni Hao!

Well the gym is still going well. this week is the first week I have deviated from my normal routine... but I do plan to make up for it. Soon enough I will be a bridesmaid, so I really need to start moving my body to be as healthy as I can be on the day :)


A new colour scheme for the Yokai masks. This one was made for my friend Dominique's birthday. Dominique will be travelling to China with me next year. Speaking of China, my introduction letter, and my 'job application' have been sent off to China, now I just await my reply! I have a few back up plans, but some may require my friend and I working at two different places within the same city... we will crack that egg when it comes to it!

Lets learn some Chinese!

A bee in your bonnet!

Hello!
I have been back at uni for a while now, it is all pretty crazy, must.. stay.. ahead of the game.

I am working on a few steamy steam-punk inspired pieces at the moment, and i am gearing up to do a market stall some time in the near future. The weather is starting to clear up- two weeks until beautiful spring!

So with this idea i was thinking of doing some scientific like drawings with pen on to leather, then making them look as if they were sepia and labelling them with their scientific genus- eg: the magpie would be Cracticus tibicen, of the corvid family-


and the bee would be Apis mellifera.


For a project at school I am doing some research on the history of perfume in the middle east. With this I have discovered a love for perfume, and the art of blending your own signature smell. It is because of this that I have spent a fair bit of money on obtaining beautiful essential oils from around Australia, and even looked into producing some of my own!
My project focuses around a piece of literature from a Muslim perfumer, and it is his words I have taken as inspiration for an exotic perfume I am working on.( that sounds so pretentious. ha!) The writing is called Attars Exordium, and is one of the most beautiful praises to a god I have read.- I will keep you up to date with this work in progress as time goes on.

gym II

... I have yet another gym membership. this time for Fernwood. lets see how long this one lasts!