Trend Alert

Rolled-down bobby socks are back. Mark my words.

... okay maybe it's just me but this primary school trend is enjoying a wonderful comeback in my wardrobe at the moment. Hop on the bandwagon, people.

I went etsy searching mad last night.
Shoes. So many shoes. Zombie noises.

My favourites are either the first or the second one down, those red boots are really something special, but I was actually considering buying those brown victorian booties last night. Until someone else bought them. Glare.

Mmm. Shoes.

Around the World in Eighty Years...

A list of places I want to visit - it's quite comprehensive. Bold means it's on the cards for the next couple of years (yay!)

Adelaide (Australia)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Ankara (Turkey)
Athens (Greece)
Auckland (New Zealand)
Barcelona (Spain)
Bangalore (India)
Bath (England)
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Berlin (Germany)
Bombay (India)
Brandenburg (Germany)
Brighton (England)
Bruges (Belgium)
Brussels (Belgium)
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Caernarfon (Wales)
Cairo (Egypt)
Cambridge (England)
Cardiff (Wales)
Catalonia (Spain)
Capetown (South Africa)
Chicago (U.S.A.)
Christchurch (New Zealand)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Corfu (Greece)
Crete (Greece)
Cyprus (Greek/Turkish Republic of Cyprus)
Dublin (Ireland)
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Freetown (Sierra Leone)
Geneva (Switzerland)
Gibraltar (U.K. Territory)
Glasgow (Scotland)
The Hague (Netherlands)
Hanoi (Vietnam)
Helsinki (Finland)
Istanbul (Turkey)
Jerusalem (Israel)
John O' Groats (Scotland)
Kathmandu (Nepal)
Kodiak Island (U.S.A.)
Lhasa (China)
Limerick (Ireland)
Lisbon (Portugal)
London (England)
Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Madrid (Spain)
The Maldives (Republic of the Maldives)
Mandalay (Myanmar)
Marseilles (France)
Melbourne (Australia)
Mexico (Mexico)
Monte Carlo (Monaco)
Montego Bay (Jamaica)
Montreal (Canada)
Moscow (Russia)
Munich (Germany)
Muqdisho (Somalia)
Nagasaki (Japan)
Nairobi (Kenya)
New York City (U.S.A.)
Noumea (New Caladonia)
Osaka (Japan)
Oslo (Norway)
Oxford (England)
Paris (France)
Perth (Australia)
Philadelphia (U.S.A.)
Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
Porto (Portugal)
Port Louis (Mauritius)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Quebec (Canada)
Rabat (Morocco)
Reykjavik (Iceland)
Rome (Italy)
Saigon (Vietnam)
Saint Petersburg (Russia)
San Francisco (U.S.A.)
Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Saskatchewan (Canada)
Shanghai (China)
Stockholm (Sweden)
Sussex (England)
Taongi (Marshall Islands)
Tokyo (Japan)
Tunis (Tunisia)
Vancouver (Canada)
Vatican City (Italy... sort of)
Venice (Italy)
Warsaw (Poland)
Washington D.C. (U.S.A.)
Wellington (New Zealand)
Yerevan (Armenia)
Zagreb (Croatia)
Zurich (Switzerland)

Sunday in Potter

In the aftermath of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows depression overcame a lot of Harry Potter fans.

As many people know, the best way to overcome bouts of depression is through thereputic baking... ta da!

Harry Potter Peanut Butter Cookies!


And what better way to spend a day than to curl up with a good book and cookies between rounds of Harry Potter Cluedo...


Any comments on my crazed fangirlishness will be responded to only with scorn.

Happy-Colours!

I've been feeling a little grey lately...

I've been getting a lot of dizzy spells and feeling a bit pale generally...
So imagine my delight when I was given these beautiful happy-coloured gerbras this evening...

Pretty yellow flowers.

What a lovely boy.

I love the sea.

There is nothing quite as wonderful as the ocean on a burning hot summer day.
I spent the other day beach-hopping with my beautiful pink hibiscus sister...

... and ferny orange hibiscus cousin.

Balmoral baths are a favourite. Lilly and Roman and I took turns jumping off the jetty.

And I was very happy with Roman, who likes beaches about as much as a cat would, for his swimming and sand sitting. Roman good boy.

There's something about sticky wet swimmers, sandy feet and burned shoulders that just feels right. Do you like my ocean coloured nailpolish?

Lucky

I'm a very lucky girl who has just got to spend a month staying with my darling boy, relaxing, organising and getting my mind back into order.

I've been attached to my laptop for the most part, making lots of lovely lists and tables and charts and sending emails and getting well acquainted with the image editing program GIMP.



I've enjoyed far too much delicious food, including ice cream with butterscotch sauce... mmm.


Perhaps most of all, I've enjoyed the funny sweet company of my darling Roman and his beautiful kitties, especially when they find adorably unorthidox sleeping places.

Meow.

I hope everyone is having a lovely week.

Girls on a Roof

On the roof of an apartment block on Stanley St, we found a little grotto for fairy girls...

I do love my city. And cactuses. And dear friends.

Musings of an Evening

I had a very domestic day by myself today, cleaning and cooking and not doing very much at all. It gave me a lot of time to think about things and I have got a list of goals and resolutions for the new year...

Things I Will Do in 2009

• Costume a musical and a play and a lot of other things besides


• Learn silk painting


• Make a dress out of my painted silk


• Make a corset


• Make several corsets, actually


• Get an etsy shop up and running for prints, silk, clothes, and gruntles


• Keep my soon-to-begin routine of two hours of dance and two hours of yoga each week


• Get a credit average without having to go part time


• Direct my first show


• Cook good healthy food often


• Do lots of kissing and loving and be happy with my beautiful lover.

... It looks like rain!

Sunset

The light of a fiery Australian sunset against the wall... I just had to capture the beautiful movement of the light and the trees.

Sunday in Pictures

Sunday

By the blue purple yellow red water

On the green purple yellow red grass

Let us pass through our perfect park

Pausing on a Sunday

By the cool blue triangular water

On the soft green elliptical grass

As we pass through arrangements of shadow

Toward the verticals of trees

Forever

By the blue purple yellow red water

On the green orange violet mass of the grass

In our perfect park

Made of flecks of light

And dark

And parasols

People strolling through the trees

Of a small suburban park

On an island in the river

On and ordinary Sunday...

All Things Renewed

All things quiver with excitement...
All things romantic unfold...

All things become chaotic...

... and all things are renewed.

In 2009, please creative, explore, question, fight, and love.

Happy New Year.