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Sunday, 3 June 2012

New Shoes - Oh Yeah!

I love this song. I've gotta get this into my ipod so I can bounce down the street to this beat.

Journey Into Yesterday, Part 2

A continuation to blog entry Journey Into Yesterday, Part 1...

Lovely Kate from Circa Vintage.
We had a nice little dialogue about the vintage clothes and hair style.

When I was a teenager this building housed Minotaur, a comic book shop.
The ground floor is a Cotton On store, but you can see the upstairs windows
are still decorated with the poster art from Minotaur days.

A horse and carriage ride - something for the romantics and tourists.

Retrostar Vintage Clothing housed at Nicholas Building.
I could not believe just how much stock they had.
It was truly a clothing smorgasbord.

One of Melbourne's special alley ways. It reminds me of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter.

I bought Owl Know How from Outre.
Outre is such an inspirational gallery, supporting incredible artists.

I bought these hilarious cards at Circa Vintage.

Journey Into Yesterday, Part 1

Yesterday I took the train into the city and went on a vintage and art journey. I visited a whole bunch of colourful vintage stores such as Circa Vintage and Retrostar. It was incredible. Who would have thought history was so colourful.
I then finished my journey with a long awaited visit to Outre Gallery. I hadn't been to Outre in so many years [my most favourite gallery] - I loved it and came away with a cute Australian made book called Owl Know How.

Just stepped off the train at Spring Street

So sad! The Job Warehouse fabric shop is closing after 60 years. It is said that
"When the world runs out of fabric, Job Warehouse will still have fabric".
That will, of course, change after 29th June.

One of the entrance gates to Melbourne's Chinatown.

I love Melbourne's terrace houses. This architecture is a part of
what makes Melbourne special.

One of the vintage/vintage inspired boutiques lining Gertrude Street.

More photos to come in Journey Into Yesterday, Part 2.

Friday, 1 June 2012

Oh My! That Dress

Carla Coulson put me onto a fantastic photographer known as Sharyn Cairns. She can create wonderful atmosphere in her photos. But the other thing to capture my attention in one of her photos is this white and red flowery dress. Oh how I would love to wear that dress...

Photography by Sharyn Cairns

What's A Bug To Do To Get Some Sleep Around Here

Yesterday whilst doing some gardening this little fellow popped his head out of his home to find out who was making all that racket.

Photography by Melissa Gaggiano

Thursday, 31 May 2012

My Creative Space

This week in my creative space I have a few different things on the boil, including knitting a Barbie blanket and a paper mache project [attempting to build a Pinky Ponk], brainstorming future projects, writing and doodling.

Knitting a Barbie blanket.

Paper mache - the beginning of a Pinky Ponk body.

My doodlings.

More of my doodlings.

Oh, and look, even more of my doodlings.

Check out other creative spaces for this week.

Move 3 Spaces and Save Ferris

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

One of many iconic film figures from my childhood is the charmingly uncatchable, saveable Ferris. For the uninitiated [or anyone born after the 80s] I am of course referring to the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Several months ago I was excited to find that illustrator Maxim Dalton created a board game based on this film. The board game was created as an art piece for exhibition, so sadly there was a very short run of this board game. Oh my! That board game would have made a great addition to my home. Only I do not know if I would play it, or frame it.

Art by Maxim Dalton

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Wednesday Peeps

This week I am attempting to write a story, in week two of a course called The Artist's Way [by Julia Cameron], knitting a blanket for Barbie [at the request of my eldest], doodling drawings, attempted to cook a poached egg [I mention it now but let us not speak of it again - absolute disaster], dreaming of eating a pecan pie, wanting to wear sparkly sneakers and a pink cowgirl hat.
The other night I dreamt that I met Harry Kim [of Star Trek: Voyager] up the street. And he excitedly shows me a letter press that just happened to be out in the street. I see that a template zine is already set up in the machine and I imagine making my own zine with it. Yeah! Welcome to my brain.