Missing the Colours of Spring...

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Alexander McQueen S/S 07

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Balenciaga S/S 08

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Sunstract, by artist Michelle Armas.

Love those colours!

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I hope hope hope we'll be able to take ya'll there the next time you come to Melbourne Lillycakes!

Summer Succulents

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I took these photos at a local nursery and I wish I could've taken them all home with me!

You can see bigger versions on my flickr here:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

I'm so in love with succulents right now because they're money savers as well as water savers.

They're super easy to propagate!

Pondering...

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Polas I took at the Blue Lotus Water Garden, unfortunately there were no Lotuses (they bloom in December) only Water Lilies but still well worth the drive!

It was all so inspiring, I wanted to stare for hours and hours looking at all the strange alien shapes and insects (maybe ghosts?) skipping and gliding across the surface of the lake. You can see more pictures here...

Lately I've been making notes/thinking about different ways to create images, and experimenting. Putting restrictions (I don't know if that's the right word?) on the material I use to make things. Maybe experiment with tactility, thread, toothpicks, leaves, pins. I think the trip yesterday spurred these thoughts on even more, and while I'm typing this I have a little box of things next to my laptop I've collected and want to experiment with. It will mean sticky fingers by the end of the day. I hope to make prints to share with you all, I hope you will like them. Most of all I hope the experiments will work out, but you never know until you try.

Is there a word to describe feeling excitement and fright all at once? I've never been good with words but I feel just like that...

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An interesting short interview with Yohji Yamamoto's daughter Limi, who is also head designer of her own label Limi Feu. I'm still pondering over her view on the male designer's 'fashion reality' versus a female designer's personal perspective on body and proportion...

Phenomenal prints at Jean-Pierre Braganza.

Random and Weird

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We went to the Lotus Garden, but I'll share more photos tomorrow when I get them all uploaded!

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I was tagged by Bibbi yesterday and will follow these rules...

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.

2. Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well
as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Hehe ok... so 5 facts...

1. I work better at night and during winter. Night, because it's darker and I'm easily distracted by things in my peripheral vision during the day. Winter, because I don't feel like a sweaty pile of goop. And I like the sensation of drawing with frosty finger tips and socks on my feet.

2. 98% of the time I draw/design on the floor, not sitting at a table.

3. Pet peeve: When I hear/see people complaining about global warming while nursing a cigarette between their fingers. I know, it's not cool to get all preachy. But c'mon smokers, cigarettes don't pop out of nowhere. How do you think they get rolled and packaged? And don't get me started on people who flick their butts on the sidewalk... anyway moving on...

4. I could happily watch episodes of Iron Chef (Japan) and So You Think You Can Dance all day.

5. I obsessively collect images of Wagashi from the net.

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Jenny, Ah-Yi, Rirry san, Catherine the Goof, Kat... tag, you're it!

Ossum Possum!

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I sent these three to Save By Art's Exhibition/Silent Online Auction 'Wild Things', part of the proceeds from each piece will go to Friends of the Earth Australia.

Also... last night I saw three Possums hanging out on the clothes line in our backyard. I really think the neighbourhood Possums have made our clothes line their official meeting place every summer because I always see them loitering/gossiping there. I wonder what they talk about and what they think of our clothes? But most of all I wonder if any of them can tell me if Koala's are related to Satan...

Click here to hear a Koala grunt...

Eyelash on cheek

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Photos from one of the most beautiful Saturday's, I wish I was small enough to curl up in the big-bellied pink one and fall asleep. I ended up buying two Paphs! :}

What's in a name?

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I'm starting up a collection of my favourite names and surnames, an ideal collection for anyone really because they're one of the things in this world that you don't have to pay for. I have no names for 'Q' or 'U' and for some reason most of the names I've collected so far start with 'A':

Adelaide
Agatha
Agnete
Aaren
Agnes
Abbott
Abe
Abigail/Avigayil
Adair
Agnete
Aiden/Aden
Ames
Aimee
Ainslie
Alphonse
Alva
Ana
Andersen
Andres
Anete
Ann
Annis
Ari
Arkley
Astrid
Aubrey
Augustine
Aurelie
Aurore
Ayres
Anais
Attiicus

Lithops / Living stones are high on my plant list especially since Melbourne (and most of Australia) are on water restrictions. A native of South Africa these plants need little to no water to survive especially during the summer months. They also make fascinating little house plants to boot.

A beautiful sort of Sophia Kokosalaki-esque collection by Toga
found via Lena!

Carpe Diem

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Looks like the Koi I saw at the Chinese Garden of Friendship in Sydney got dolled up for Australian Fashion Week too!