Penpals!

We all love to recieve mail! not just Email, but personalised letters that come to your actual real life letterbox. I know there is a special kind of thrill i get when i recieve a letter, and i really feel that in our modern, online, society this doesnt happen all to often. Thats why i was pleasently suprised to stumble across this wonderful post on Indie Fixx, a great little website on its own, about Penpals! Now dear reader, most of the people on there are American, but if you are looking to bring some letter writing and spice back to your mailbox, choose a commentor below that post and get writing! I know i will!
http://indiefixx.com/2010/02/19/the-penpal-project/

image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohhellofriend/

Opp shop finds and Stormtroopers!

Today i had a fun afternoon with a good friend of mine, Katy. It was meant to be a crafty day, so we did a pre shop and then returned to her house for a crafternoon. But first, we stopped off at one of the many oppshops on the way... here are my super finds today:

...in an oppshop i found an uncut pattern for American civil war costumes! wow! this scarf is lovely too, and the book? We loved the cover!

I saw this somewhere on the internets.. and decided to copy it! Although it was my beautiful friend Katy who did most of the work! It feels so good to have stormtroopers on me...but it feels strange actually having nails instead of the bitten down stubs i am usually sportin'

A new skirt i finished today. Its probably the first one i have been happy with! Plus this fabric is super adorable, and teamed with a beautiful vintage heavy weight cotton given to me by my grandma. I am yet to try it out on the town but i am eager!

Graduated!

May i present... me as a graduate with my darling boy, Davey!

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