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happy friday!

now all of you go check out my cute as friend's blog and check out her friday post

also i would like to show you all a sneek peak on some fabric prints a have recently designed. let me know what you all think. inspired by the oriental flavour that is coming through some of the fashion blogs and rumour mills.

reality. wish.

just thought you all should know my bike has been less of a form of transport of late and im hating on public transport a bit lately so i am trying to like it by taking pretty pictures of it. here is a tram on collins st on a sun-filled-sunday.

reality


but sometimes i just really wish i was like this plastic dude making every trip an adventure by riding on the roof's of cars with a makeshift rope harness. and... a gun.

wish

milk and sugar pants

seer-sucker fabric colours

the other day at work i was asked to draw some seer-sucker shorts...

now ive heard this word a lot lately in regard to upcoming trends and pictured it being some sort of sucky-inny pant thing. similar to a body con sports illustrator look.

my discovery to this strangely named fabric came when someone show me a swatch and i realised i had a pair of high-waisted shorts in that VERY classic blue and white stripe seer sucker that i bought from an op shop in my home town!
i asked my good friend wiki to tell me more and found that the seer sucker name came from "Hindi, which originates from the Persian words "shir o shekar," meaning "milk and sugar", probably from the resemblance of its smooth and rough stripes to the smooth surface of milk and bumpy texture of sugar."

and i also found out that it is a very American fabric particularly from the south and was designed as a summer and spring fabric as the bumps make it so that there is air between the skin and the fabric, making it cooler!! AMAZING!

so i broke all the rules and wore my own seer suckers to work on monday (with tights of course) and felt very trendy. yet another $2 buy that has adorned me with now-ness.
here is the outift the night before i wore it as i was colour blocking it (sorry i forgot to take a photo of me in it) i ended up wearing it with a navy blazer (i realy tried to work in my Anorak!) and not sure if you can see the mullet hemmed lace crop number i wore on top. cant wait to spring to be cool in two ways! (apparently they are everywhere in America for spring/summer atm)!


Anorak with yellow and white stripe top & high-waisted blue seersucker stripe shorts and lace crop top.

a very colourful day.

visiting my family is always fun. this time that i went we all helped make an amazing cake! i saw a picture on a blog and was inspired, so i conned all my siblings into helping me...

So we all went and bought the ingredients and mixed and licked the bowl.





Then we put them in the oven...

then played monopoly while they were in the oven...




and 1.25 kg of icing later.... we had a 100's and 1000's logistics crisis!




but alas, the end result was bright and colourful and most of all delicious!

i tried copying this & ended up needing the hairdo to top it off.

cho chweet

look how cute this blog is! ahh gush <3

seriously genius.

wowing me.

sometimes i get so frustrated when i see something uber tremendous and i am overwhelmed with feelings of love and jealousy which eventually turns into mad creativity at how i could make my own version of it. ah yes well that what happened when i saw the window display of this reesh lighting store. its paint on clear vinyl cut out in geometric shapes.
see more (and more professional) photos here

Apparently the display was for the designer Rowena Martinich for her work Chromaphos. sorry for not uploading sooner the exhibit is kinda over now... what about an online exhibition though...check out the site... its not as cold as standing outside a store front in melbourne right now. gosh i love central heating.

AND i found out:
A chromophore is part (or moiety) of a molecule responsible for its color.

wikipedia makes me feel like there's hope for humanity... kind of like the chewy gum wall in camberwell.

make a ch-ch-ch-chewing change

um so quite a number of weeks ago i went to the camberwell market with some new sydney friends and i was very broke so i side lined it so that i wasn't depressed and just watched people. while i was people watching i noticed this wall. imagine being the first person to put their chewy there. they started something that has made a difference and when they put that first piece of chewy there, it wouldn't have made much of a difference but as people worked together, the atmosphere of that wall changed. mm deep

a look im liking right about now.

did someone mention texture and khaki? anorak even. it will be the new black leather bomber.... oh did i say that out loud?