6 things i love...

i'm on the hunt for a bedhead, like this.

i adore lisa's way of installing her artworks, see more at lisa&wilfredo.

brownie love. it's everywhere, and on flickr...sugar&meringue.

this is my christmas present to myself, all i need to do is win it now.

I'm not quite yet but elsie's cute photos say it how it is over at abeautifulmess.typepad

bird in a bundt - little doodles' on flickr...cake and bird combo gets me everytime.

let's do this together.

6 things i love...

Wow, this week has really flown, it's sunday night already and i'm exhausted. Heading into a new week, these are the things that make me wanna get up and play.

image courtesy of epicute.

i know what i'm wrapping my gifts in, thanks to blafrebloggen.

i can never get enough of these paumes books.

could this be any more perfect? Found at avril loreti's etsy shop.

could be a necklace, could be a wallhanging...either way, it's perfect. Check out neawear's etsy shop.

paint by numbers ANNNND plaster owls, deliciousness overload, and something i'll play with (plaster) at my byron exhibition. Image courtesy of a beautiful mess.

watch and learn.

what i've been doing this week...

spending far too much on nara merchandise at the gallery store...this little angel and dvd, just a couple of things i couldn't leave without.

buying pretty plates to frame my cross stitch pieces...new exhibition works that are underway.

watching nara at work...it was the most incredible week watching one of my most favourite people creating an artwork just metres away from me...i love my job.



picking up a few gems at paddo antiques...this little cake decorating set...

& the rose needlepoint and retro autumn print cushions that i've been eyeing off for weeks.

Playing in nara's cubby house that is one of seventeen kids activities at GoMA right now...this is really what dreams are made of.

6 things i love.

I've decided to start a weekly post that brings together a few of the beautiful things that i've come across during the week. Elsie from a beautiful mess has inspired me and is one of my latest favourite blogs. I can't wait till sunday and blogspot is too fussy for 10 images so i'm going to call mine '6 things i love weekend'. Enjoy!

1. best of both worlds...a pumpkin pie pup.

2. deer tattoo via we heart it.

3. bunting necklace found here.

4. i really don't know how my boyfriend puts up with me.

5. table displays never looked so good.

6. Someone's getting this for their birthday!

i cheated on you...

and spent the night with Andy Goldsworthy.

I was lucky enough to see the man in person when he came to GoMA last night for a one off lecture in Australia. He was amazing, and makes me want to trek the scottish land in search for beautiful natural happenings. Managed to scoop up a signed book aswell, now that's just made my year.

i love my job.

for a talented bel johnstone. she's an illustrator, day and night. i love HER job!

deer me, is it christmas already?

With a boyfriend out of town, a hunger for rock cakes, a thirst for mugs of tea, and a crazy obsession with cross-stitching...i deemed it necessary to start thinking about christmas. This is my excuse for a rather indulgent post anyway. I started making rock cakes in year 7 food technology class which usually involved us forgetting to add the sugar or emptying a whole bag of flour in after adding too much milk. The only thing i've changed is removing the fruit and adding chocolate, lots of it. So really it's like a giant choc chip cookie but you're less likely to be judged by it's sugar content if you call it a rock cake.

You know it's just another excuse to show off my latest find from the woolie antiques centre. I'm a fiend for staffordshire potteries.

I've also been 'real living' it up for christmas ideas, especially gift wrapping. I'm going to trial some christmas tree shaped cranberry, white chocolate & almond shortbread soon too.

I've been working on a billion artworks, and the cross-stitching is on a roll. Here's a sneak peek of a new work coming soon...

and a sweet old deer...

keep an eye out a for a dear old spice rack collection in the making.

oh nara...

It's days like today that make working at one of the most exciting art galleries in the southern hemisphere sooooo worth it. The artists for APT6 opening in december were released, look who's coming to town...

Together with Graf, Nara will build something a little like this. Excited? oh yes.

images courtesy of http://rawartint.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/ , http://www.cemetiarthouse.com/en/exhibition/2008/kita and http://alemdocubobranco.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/yoshitomo-nara/yoshitomonara/

i wish...

you ate bananas so i could make you this for breakfast. x

image courtesy of my favourite bloggers, Shauna and Stephen.

defining bedroom windows...

the vines, they grow

through the glass

they encase my dreams

and store the words i haven't found yet in their veins...

The sunlight coming through my bedroom window at #48 of an afternoon is something i'll really miss when i move out in january. I only get to see this light on a weekend as i don't get home till sun down during the week. It blows me away everytime and i'm so glad i get to enjoy it as much as i do. It's not the biggest bedroom in the house or the tidiest (see below), but this outlook makes it all worth having.

Is it time to move my studio out of the corner of my bedroom you ask? Indeed it is, my lovely collectables are suffering, all piled up and most of them hidden. Goodness knows the true amount of deliciousness that hides away. Guess we'll see in the new year when i pack it all up. Until then, i'll ferret and i'll play and i couldn't be happier.

Beautiful words are by Kylie Johnson, inspiring as always. x

strawberry sponge with lashings of cream & a woodland sneak peek.

If you don't care for tea, you could at least make polite conversation.

sneak peek...

new creations straight from the kitchen...more soon!

cross-stitch on canvas with acrylic paint, ribbon, japanese paper, fabrics.

cupcakes.

head on over to my newly refurbished cupcake blog whilst you wait for new artworks, coming reeeeeeeaaaal soon...yum!

http://www.lauras-cakes.blogspot.com/

my christmas present to myself...

...this print by Anthony Burrill.

work in progress.

it's like tupperware and betty crocker had babies and set up home in my dining room.

yum yum yum.

Bernice's Designer Brooch Proves To Be A Serious Posture Problem
Erin Flannery
Aerosol/Acrylic/Pencil/Vintage Doily on Linen
123 x 76 cm

Phoenix Park Wallalong
Dale Frank
Varnish/Linen
200 x 200 cm

Canaria Part 1
Abbey McCulloch
Mixed Media/Canvas
120 x 90 cm

i was told there'd be cake...

new title of works for '09 coming soon!

new job.

i get to hang out with nolan, olsen, blackman, fairweather, riley, leger, picasso, de kooning, drysdale and kapoor on a daily basis. hello heaven.