hooray for fashion week!
hooray for beautifully ridiculous and ridiculously beautiful prints and that blazer in the third picture!
hooray for scuffed shoes and messy hair!
and hooray for dresses and skirts over pants!!
Category Archives: life
awesomeness
caroline zucchero hurley is my new crush / person that i’m deeply envious of.
she can paint, she makes amazing necklaces, and just look at these hand-printed textiles. and she’s got a new collection on of a kind.
jeeeaaalllooouusss. (and reaching for my credit card…)
marimekko
gosh, i really have been a bit pathetic around here.
you would think with all this extra time on my hands -i’m still not working – that i’d have more chances to post, but apparently not.
but here are some wonderful marimekko lovelies from takanna for you to sigh over. pretty pictures on the internet: almost as good as seeing these things in your wardrobe, right? hmm…
glasgow
i want to be here, now.
and by ‘here’ i mean glasgow, where all of these pictures were taken.
it’s been more than six years since i moved from glasgow back to melbourne – and realising that has just blown my mind because it feels like it was only a couple of years ago…WHEN DID I BECOME SO OLD?? – and almost three since we (my glaswegian boyfriend and i) went back for a holiday.
three years; that is mental. MENTAL!
discovering this website this morning has brought to the fore two things that i already knew:
1. glasgow is pretty awesome and i miss it: i spent almost two years there, and although i admit i didn’t fall for it immediately (unlike tokyo, where i got off the train from the airport to be greeted by a 6-storey image of ewan mcgregor drinking milk tea and i thought ‘i freaking love this place already‘,) i grew to really love living there, and it most definitely has a special place in my heart, and there’s nowhere in the UK that i’d rather live (take that, london!).
2. glasgow is so cheap and WHEN DID MELBOURNE BECOME SO OBSCENELY EXPENSIVE: look at the price list for those coffees carefully… less than two pounds for a coffee?! that’s SO MUCH cheaper than melbourne (just ask shaq). and don’t get me started on the difference in beer prices: i still remember the time i was at rooftop and i took $20 up to the bar to buy two pints and the guy just shook his head at me as i handed it over (and then had to push through the crowd to go and get more money), and that was about three years ago. and $14 isn’t unheard of for a pint these days. (MENTAL).
it’s a long way to travel for coffee and beer, but i think a holiday to glasgow is very much needed. off to look up flights now…
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all images from blank inside
free stuff for kids
one of these days i’m just going to buy a freaking ipad.
i think i’ve been planning to since they came out, but then every time i get close to actually purchasing one, i check some apple forum and see that the new one is supposed to be out soon. that always happens with apple products: there’s always some rumour about apple just applying for some new patent so that MUST mean new products will be launched soon.
the next generation model WILL BE MINE, though, wayne’s world style. for sure.
but for those of you lucky enough to already have one – or just not as easily convinced by some guy called M@cGeik4 or something – you can download these awesome ipad wallpapers for free here.
greenery
love my $5.99 camera. if only it wasn’t so expensive to get film developed…
colour
yesterday i went to the art gallery of ballarat with mum.
oh my god: anyone who has even a vague, passing interest in australian art NEEDS to go there. their permanent collection is like a ‘best of’ australian artists (painters, mostly), and while one might presume that as a small, regional gallery, the works on display would be inferior to those at, say, the ngv, it was not the case at all. perhaps i’ve just been to the ngv too often and thus some of the works have lost their appeal (or, perhaps i just don’t get some of the more ‘important’ paintings like the pioneer), but those on show at the ballarat gallery more than held their own (go here to see some of the highlights).
and the temporary exhibitions were also outstanding. there was a wonderful display of recently acquired ceramics and works on paper, all of which i wish i could own. but the one exhibition that stood out the most was aurora by lars stenberg and marion east.
these (hastily snapped iPhone) images above were painted by stenberg as a response to the contrast of the light of victoria to that of his native scotland. when i first moved to scotland i couldn’t get over the light, and how beautifully muted it was, particularly on a crisp autumn day. so soft and inviting, particularly when compared with the blinding, burning, headache-causing glare of the australian sun.
i must admit that i hate this bright light.
i hate how it saps your energy and how you can feel it penetrating your clothes and scorching your skin, even on a mild day. i hate how it makes everything look old, or cheap, or dusty. i hate that it makes colours all blend in to one, and that on a bright day everything is either blindingly white, or hidden in dark, impenetrable shadows. i will take a long winter over a hot summer any day, not because i prefer the cold or dislike the heat, but because i just don’t like the bright light.
but just look how beautiful this light is when seen through another person’s eyes.
perhaps i have it all wrong, perhaps i haven’t been looking properly, or i’ve been taking it all for granted. but i will try to look at things differently when summer inevitably comes about again, because images like these are just too breathtaking to miss.
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see more lars stenberg images here
blushing
thank you all so, so much for your kind comments – and emails and messages and tweets and links-to-potential-jobs – about my lack of employment.
very humbling, but also encouraging, as it seems many have found themselves in a similar situation before but survived. which of course i will, too.
but, sincerely, thank you x
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melbourne
camberwell market / chasing the sunset / on way to the museum / mother’s day brunch
making shit happen
so. i am now officially unemployed.
it was going to happen one day or another; i’m a part-time sessional teacher whose position is entirely dependent on student numbers, which, unfortunately, are down this semester. hence no work for this 12 week term (at least).
it’s pretty shitty.
i’m not sure what to do.
i’m trying to be positive and look on the bright side, but it’s hard sometimes. i’m very romantic and all ‘happiness > money’ but there is something to be said about job security and knowing that you have enough money to pay the rent.
but i’m not going to get down about it: i’m going to make shit happen. you heard it here first.
chloe
okay, i don’t love absolutely everything from this see by chloe resort collection, but the fabrics and the textures and the colours and the ideas are super ace, especially all of the jackets. and everything in that first picture (except the pants). and that splotchy dress.
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(as i was typing that spotify – confusingly – played ‘freedom at 21‘ three times in a row and the visual / audio matching was perfect and suddenly i want to be the kind of girl who stomps about in toeless heeled booties and aviators and jumpsuits. oh, jack white: look what you’re doing to me!)
studios
is there anything better than blogs devoted to photos of artists studios? i didn’t think so.
these pictures are all of val britton’s immense workspace at in the make.
and, for fellow brit pop tragics, there’s even a visit to justine frischmann’s place (it was so sad when she and damon split, though i never really liked elastica, THOUGH how good was connection and BLAH BLAH BLAH apparently i’m 15 again…).
