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here are some more cool things i saw when i was abroad....

the most amazing pad thai lady. so cute!

a line of birds that you often see in designery things but these birds were real!

my selection of sugar on the plane.

the world

i can show you the world (well some of it)

shining shimmering splendor
over sideways and under on a magic carpet ride!

ok so it is no lie that i have spent some time overseas (in thailand for a friends wedding and singapore for fun) and have far too much col stuff to show you about what i saw so i will attempt to spread it out into bite size chunks for you all... x

firstly here is a gorgeous stall in Patong beach who had the COOLEST and CUTEST little clothes out of the whole market. she has these very sweet little cropped shift tops that she sews herself. and i got the most amazing jumpsuit from her but i want to use in a proper photoshoot so i will wait to show you that! it was so refreshing to find such a cute fashion conscious, handmade stall amongst the fake ed hardy and tiffany&co.


this is me with the stall holder and garment maker. I'm wearing one of the little cropped numbers that this stall is famous for.


more of the shift tops - i bought all the coolest fabrics, these are all thats left!

moreover...

so i heard a cool thing today that sparked my interest...
in the old bible theres a verse in exodus chap 31:1- 7 where it says how God specifically gave creative ability to this dude named Bezalel to design and work with wood and gold & silver. pretty cool right...

but its verse 6 that gets me... the bible says "Moreover, I have appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to help him"

um so like i have been thinking about community lately and how it is the only hope for our society to operate in love and so that the poor are helped and everyone is leaning on each other (will go into my in-depth thoughts on this another time)
and today i realised the connection between brilliant design and art and how it comes when you have help. whether it is someone to give you creative feedback, encourage you or help you come up with the idea, some of my best work has come when i work with others help.

community + design = goodness

amazing things can be done. and i realised God thought of this thousands of years before i did.

my friend seb(dash)brown

seb brown. look at him getting all famous on frankie and what not.

bondi style

stolen from a book called bondi style

patched/ripped denim is about to enter your world (if it hasn't already)

goldfinger(tip)

when a tooth falls out, you can get a shiny gold replacement to show how wealthy you are (and im sure there are other boring, medical reasons you can read up on here)
i didnt exactly lose a nail but i decided that my aqua nails needed a reesh-looking friend. theres something comical and classy about the one-gold-nail thing. its quite liberating... just use the tester at your local beauty counter and try it for yourself. but dont tell anyone i told you!




seeing as i have had a lot of compliments on my tiffany blue nails of late i have really enjoying wearing them out and when i saw this guitar today i thought i should probably live up to my nails, buy the guitar, get lessons and become a superstar.

allans music - like around $299!!

its thursday, so make a paper crane!

verandah bags

oh deary me, its has been a while since i have written...

in my weekends and very short night-times at home i have been designing the encourage magazine, celebrating the 23rd annual "me" festival (my birthday) and perusing online shops (i am officially addicted) seriously! miss selfridge, asos, urban outfitters, forever21, topshop, LA vintage! i cant keep my eyes off them! i have only made one purchase though because i am saving for my holiday which is in precisely 12 days!

i have decided to share some of my findings and things to add to my wishlist... these are something i found yesterday on a site called needsupply.com

awe bloss...

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?

jokers on me.

the other night the weather was lovely and i spent the evening with my lovely friend, and brilliant designer, mike and lovely housemate dave. we went to a typography exhibition. i dressed up in a spotty dress and wore some lovely pinky red lipstick (something i rarely do).
i enjoyed my leisurely bike ride home and dropped past the supermarket to pick up things for dinner and as i walked in, i noticed that i turned a few heads, "that dang lipstick must make me look like marilyn munroe..." i thought to myself.walking down the lolly aisle where i probably shouldnt have been, i noticed a pick smear on my arm. in all my "trying to be lady-like" i had forgotten not to wipe he sweat of my upper lip with my arm and turned out walking through the grocery store looking like the flipping Joker! oh heck.
lesson learned: lipstick + bike riding = dont mix
i saw the funny side immediately and felt the need to share it with you all. x





(ill admit this second photo is a tad it enhanced but it did look like this at the supermarket. i just waited til i got home to take the picture and of course when i realised in the supermarket i immediately and crazily wiped off all the embarrassment.)

capitalism never looked so good.

some more 3d type i discovered today on this visual diary of the dude who captures the photos for face-hunter so its his more fun and edgy stuff. amazing please promise you will do yourself a favour and let your eyes soak up this creative goodness.

more sticky outy type.

since tasmaniac, i have noticed 3d typography every where. got this pic in a drive by maneuver on the way to midnight kebabs.

little ALB. ERT.

a little cafe opened down the street in the smallest little brick building that used to be a little weighbridge checking point once upon a time. i cant wait to see if their coffee is as good as their cute little signage.

everybunny needs somebunny.

how cool is my new rabbit ring? and putting it next to me little christmas bunny... i can see a trend with the gifts i get...
turns out i was born in the chinese year of the rabbit.

little gems

in life there are little gems. sometimes you put them in your ears like these earrings i own and love (ummm how cool do they look with the sun streaming through them).

God gave me some very precious gems in my life, some rare ones too... you see there is this amazing girl living in singapore whom i absolutle adore and she is one of my favourite people. she is beautiful and has such amazing charm and is extremely stylish. she helped me out with something lately and again i am wowing at her amazingness. ahhhh gush <3

clock ya; clock ya.

it no secret... i love clocks.
i dont think there is a deep underlying meaning beneath it but i just like the way they look.
i like that they are practical and beautiful at the same time... not like a vase that is only practical sometimes. here is my favourite one that i own, it is gorgeous and i longed for it for a long time before purchasing it and it was then that my realisation that my love was there and it is a love and a collection that i will always have.
(if you are switched on you would have noticed the new addition to my blog recently the lime clock... i go the idea from Bloom cosmetics' blog. everytime i look at it i imagine that the citrus juices are making it work.)

and below is another clock i have bought. i have my eye on a massive KARLSSON one on ngv gallery shop and i imagine putting it in a small small room in my awesome apartment i am going to live in one day, just to accentuate the large-ness of it. here are some that are on my "one day" list...