Weeks 121 - 130 *mega catch up*

Week 121

L -  65 Years - We had a family gathering for Shane's grandparents who have been married for 65years! WOWEE. They are still happy and she even sat on his lap for a photo...fun. Congrats to Vern and Joan!

R - On the tracks - Went out for dinner at Roberta's this weekend and discovered all sorts of goodies on the tracks of the L train at Morgan Ave. Random!

Week 122

L - Happy Beer Day....ooops I mean Australia Day! Beers ready, BBQ sizzling, sun shining! Pretty much sums up Australia Day! Although I am not an Australian I do happily partake in a day off to enjoy all of the above!

R - Half Dozen - As you know, we have been following a slow carb/low GI diet = eggs, beans, meat, veggies. I'm totally sick of eating egg/white based breakfasts but everytime I prepare the whites I feel sad that most of the sunshine of the yolks is tossed in the bin. So, I wanted to capture their glory for the blog and had a tough time choosing which photo to use but decided the symmetry of this photo worked the best.

Week 123

L - Grass Level - These little floaty seed things were all over our garden last week. A combination of hot weather and high winds I guess. I ran around like a lunatic trying to catch one of these in flight but they were just too fast. So I got down to their level..!

R - Half Dozen - As you know, we have been following a slow carb/low GI diet = eggs, beans, meat, veggies. I'm totally sick of eating egg/white based breakfasts but every time I prepare the whites I feel sad that most of the sunshine of the yolks is tossed in the bin. So, I wanted to capture their glory for the blog and had a tough time choosing which photo to use but decided the symmetry of this photo worked the best.

Week 124

L - The Tropics in my backyard - How is this little guy in my back garden feasting on our fig tree! It really never gets old for me - coming from the land of dull animals - that these colourful birdies hang around in the suburbs of Melbourne. They are Rainbow Lorikeets and I love them, even though they chirp annoyingly in massive groups first thing in the morning. Feast away on those figs little friend.

R - Fresh Corduroy - I took this on my phone so not the best quality....but, I've never snowboarded over so much fresh corduroy that I had to take a photo, there was still come cord late into the afternoon, I was definitely happy to have planned this midweek trip to Mount Snow.

Week 125

L - Melbourne Underground - This photo is a snippet from perhaps the best thing I have had the pleasure of seeing this year. Yep, you read that correctly! I visited one of the coolest spaces in Melbourne this weekend, Melbourne Project Underground. A very normal office building sits above this artistic treat, over 60 graffiti artists both local and international were asked to come and get creative with their spray cans in the building owner's 3 story basement car park. All I can say is that it's both inspired and amazing. I am a HUGE graffiti art fan so this was heaven for me. I had high expectations and I was not disappointed. This is one of my faves of the day. Amazing.

R - Thank You Mood - My friend Kylie was in town with her Mood gift certificate, we decided to choose some jersey material for Kylie to make us some American Apparel circle scarf rip offs for next winter at a quarter of the price. We got this black and white and a fun neon stripe.

Week 126

L - Backstreet Crates - My photo for this week did not come out the way I wanted it and I am using a pic from the previous week. Anyway, with all the amazing graffiti it missed the cut but I just love all the texture and general grime. So it made the cut! This was a random laneway in South Melbourne. The crates provide the pop of colour needed to brighten up an otherwise drab backstreet.

R - Spring Sunrise - the clocks have gone forward so it's a little dark in the morning but there was an amazing sunrise on monday and looking out my bedroom window I was reminded of Mary Poppins and all the chimney sweeps dancing on the rooftops! chim-chim-iney chim-chiminey chim chim cher-oooo.....

Week 127

L - G'Day Mate - We had a 'family' day the other week at a country park and I was making friends with the Kangaroos. I really LOVE me some Australian animals! "G'day mate!!"

R - Remember me? Look I'm all grown up!

Week 128

L - New Goodies - So I had a great day on Saturday buying all sorts of new goodies for the house! I have been coveting a Hans Wegner Plank Chair (repro) for a while now and decided to buy one for this empty nook in my living room. The cushion was also an indulgence, but it is from my ALL time fave designer/shopspacecraft. When I went to the store I met Stewart Russell in person and was kinda star struck. I had a wonderfully informative chat with him about all things screen printing and he has even told me that I would be most welcome to visit his studio to see how things are done. I mean WHAT!!! That is the most awesome thing ever. I also stopped in to my fave beauty product store Aesop for some new products! YUM!

R - Sunrise in Scotland - a sudden trip home :( but a beautiful sunrise through the bathroom window, I seriously didn't touch the colours!

Week 129

L - Cosy Power Cut Candles - Whilst settling in for a night on the sofa with a beverage and some crappy TV - the brewing storm hit and a lightning strike took out all the power! Just as well I like candles and have them everywhere! Very useful at times like this!

R - Beware of the dog! We were up in DC for the weekend and I spotted this in an alley, SCARY!

Week 130

L - I need a dollar - Preppin for NYC! Gots me some $$$ all ready for some shopping! Yeeha!

R - Arapahoe Basin - View from the chair heading up to the top of the A-Basin = 13,050 ft or 3977m = HIGH! 

Weeks 119 and 120

Week 119
L - Where Christmas Trees Go to Die - I kinda thought this was funny as our Christmas tree has been dumped at the bottom of the garden till we can get rid of it. I hate seeing my tree all dying and sad. Its so pretty when it's in its prime.


R - First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum - Not the best photo in the world because it's from my phone and it was dark, but this is the Brooklyn Museum and the first Saturday of every month they are sponsored by Target and have free entry in the evening, bands, talks with artists, movies and a dance party! Was fun!

Week 120
L - Sunflower Envy - I posted a sunflower photo a while back, in fact almost this time last year of some sunflowers that Shane gave me. You see I am a big fan of the sunny happy flowers and I have developed serious Sunflower envy. The house behind us has a wonderful crop of the beauties and I am always plotting ways to snaffle one. I know, i know I am not going to scale the fence to grab one in the dark of night. Or am I....???!!


R - So we've been doing a Slow Carb Diet as featured in the 4-Hour Body book! No sugar or fruit, no dairy and no carbs! it's tough, we've been eating eggs, meat, beans and veg all week. The exciting part is that you can eat whatever you want one day a week - Saturday = Dieters Gone Wild Day! So this is a photo collage of everything I ate on saturday, it's really gross after eating so well during the week. The best part.......6.5lbs lighter in just 5 days! can't believe it! we're going to try and do one month and then start to incorporate this diet back into our normal diet, not sure I can eat another egg white for breakfast!

Weeks 114 - 118 catch up!

Week 114

L - Tis the Season - I did take a shot last week similar to this but it was no good so I took another. The reindeer decoration from Ikea is my new favourite decoration, but the tartan bauble in the background is a close second. Yay....I love Christmas!!


R - Christmas Tree is up! thought I'd try a wee bit of lensbaby blurry action!

Week 115

L - Handprinted Wrapping Paper - I may be a little mad to even think about doing this BUT I did it anyway. I carved out a snowflake stamp and went to town with some white paint and a roll of brown kraft paper. I am pretty happy with the results.


R - Frosty Mornings - The colder mornings were drawing in and ice is beginning to form on the glass brrrrrrr

Week 116

L - Joyeux Noel - As part of my rustic and homemade theme I made these little tags for the wall. I also decided to go a little European with the lovely french version of Merry Christmas. Joyeux Noel everybody! Check out the full view at my Little Letters Blog


R - Hi London, it's been a while....I was in London to renew my visa and wish I had my real camera with me! I did however manage to get this photo of Tower Bridge in the afternoon sun and used a lomo effect to give it that old-timey look 'ello guvnor!

Week 117

L - If I look cute, I won't be in trouble - Little Missy 'found' a Christmas tree bauble and was enjoying some frantic fun with it I appeared in the living room to investigate what the noise was and she dropped and rolled into the "if I act cute, I won't get in trouble" pose! Too funny, although glass baubles do not mix with wooden floors and cat entertainment!


R - Back in Brooklyn - a wee bit of street art with a bow-tie to remind me I was home

Week 118

L - Sparkler fun - Happy New Year, we said goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012 in the mountains which was fantastic. Despite having a very quiet night I still managed to get the sparklers out to accompany glass of fizz. Here's to an awesome 2012.


R - Mwah-ha-ha I got a TTL off camera flash cord for christmas and seeing as I was slow in taking a photo this week I tested it out on my trusty model Diego! His expression is HILARIOUS, love it!

Week 113

L - Rad - I love the NGV Studio in Federation Square, its an active little space focusing on 'youth' apparently! Currently there is an exhibition called Board which presents a collection of 1970s & 80s skateboards and ephemera from Tony Hallam’s (Australian Skateboarder) collection alongside contemporary decks created for the exhibition, it explores the evolution of board graphics and design. I have a blank deck of Shane's at home that I have been meaning to do something with...now I feel inspired.


R - Just Drop Some Turkey on the Floor and Stop Taking Pictures - HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I have grown to love this American holiday (as has Diego) you get 4 days in a row off work, and get to eat your face off!

Week 112

L - New Shoes - We had a wedding to attend this weekend and I decided on a very high pair of new shoes to finish off my outfit! Wowsers....they are my fabulous disco shoes! So I decided to add a crazy gold bokeh overlay for added effect!


R - Good Idea.....Spotted on the streets of downtown Brooklyn, snapped on my phone.

Week 111

L - Setting a Scene - I have been messing around with some styling for the first few of my prints I plan to post up in my online shop and I like how this looked...sunny and relaxing!


R - Fall Leaves! It's my token AUTUMN photo, the leaves are changing, it's beautiful.

Weeks 109 and 110

Week 109


L - Letterpress - We had a sad week as we had to say goodbye to our little dog Zak after 18 years (I have only been around for 8 of them) so to take my mind of it I immersed myself in creative projects my first being setting some metal type and trying out my Letter press machine. Super exciting - it worked too. Some results to follow soon. 


R - Do you smell bacon? Thought I'd save you from the gory site that was my face, and just show the creepy halloween masks we wore this year, the make up turn out creepy awesome and luckily all the blood washed out.

Week 110


L - Hail Storm - The weather has been crazy in Melbourne over the last few days...sunny then rain..sunny then rain! Tropical almost, which sucks cause my hair gets it's frizz on but its awesome because we get heaps of thunder and lightning storms. YAY. These gigantic hailstones were falling from the skies, awesome.


R - Old School Shed - We were down in Virginia visiting C's Mum and staying with some friends who have just bought a new house in the burbs. They have a fantastic back garden with this old shed which has something creepy horror movie about it. Love the shape, the leaves changing etc.

Week 108

L - Crazy Babies! A parade of giant demonic babies engaged in a battle of good and evil have invaded central Melbourne as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Crazy babies alright!! Its caused quite the stir in Melbourne though...


R - Too Many Drinks - Really cheating this week, and doing 2 pics from our trip to New Orleans! We had such a great time it was hard to choose which photos to use for side by side. So the French Quarter (spared by Katrina) is beautiful all except Borbon Street which is a clusterf**k of tourists and drunk frat boys. It was however a lot of fun and we had a signature Hurricane like all the best tourists! There's something about being able to walk around with a drink in your hands 24hrs a day that brings out the party animal in people!

Week 107

L - Coffee Art - With my brother visiting over the last few weeks, we have been sampling the coffee delights of Melbourne. One of the best both in taste, and for the amazing Barista skills. The place is called Manchester Press named after the old printing press office that used to be in the building. It might be my fave place in Melb at the moment.


R - VooDoo - This is a wee snapshot of the resting place of the Voodoo Priestess Marie Laveau in New Orleans. People draw 3 X's on the side in the hope that she will grant them a wish. A picture I took of the front shows all the offerings that people have left for her. So cool, but I have to admit it was a little creepy!

Week 106

L - Modern History - It was my Birthday and I am now 33! Eek. One of my wonderful gifts was a refurbished 70s polariod SX-70 camera! Its fantastic...although I am a little scared to use it because the film costs so much! Also in the shot is some photos of me as a kid taken with our trusty polaroid. My Dad would get film from work and as a result A LOT of my old photos are polaroids. You can see my awesome birthday costume where I was dressed as a domino - I think I was 9 or so. Random!


R - Parachute of Love - Scamus and Amanda got married this past weekend and we were up in DC for the festivities! This is snap of a parachute that was over the courtyard where they got married to protect us form the sun. So lovely!

Week 105

L - Is that a chicken? I went to take some shots of these and it was too dark last week and I tried again the other day when we were visiting sadly its a phone shot! These are Japanese silky chickens! No I did not make that up and I also did not take a crap photo where you can't see any eyes or beaks etc this is what they look like. They freak me out because you can't tell what there are up to - they are like toilet brushes on legs! So funny!


R - Loaded Longboard - I tried out longboarding in central park with the NYSG, loved it and my new longboard is on it's way!

Week 104 - 2 Years!

L - Haste Ye Back -  have been working on a little Scottish print for my spare bedroom,which I have decided is going to have a bit of a flavour of home. Haste ye back is Doric for come back soon.
I have designed the whole print myself and after a lot of changes and layouts. I am super happy with it. I also got a modern deer head from Pulp to add to the 'theme'.

R - Bright Idea - Nothing too exciting this week, was struggling to think of some ideas for a photo, then I lay down on my bed and there it was.....

Week 103

L - Primary Positive - Random photo alert. Shane is like a Womble and likes to re-purpose and recycle. Anyway, he has few car batteries ready to be taken to the recycling place and I was liking the colour and shapes of them all lines up. Primary colours a plenty.


R - Chairs on The High Line - I walked The High Line with Michaela on friday before a wee bit of Soho shopping and I discovered these chairs that I didn't see last time. Great colour combo, giving me paint ideas for the apartment

Week 102

L - Chocolicious! I made Molten Chocolate Puddings on the weekend - Yummers! This is typical of me, but the remaining chocolate that I didn't use has sat in the packet for the last few days and I don't have any inclination to eat it. Its a family joke that I could sit with an open packet of chocolate and not eat it - much to the dismay of my Mum and Bro. I look at it as one of my key skills in life, cause I reckon I would be a few kgs heavier if I didn't have it! :-)


R - Goodies from Scotland - Michaela came to visit, she brought goodies, mum sent goodies, it's almost too much to take!

Week 101

L - The weather has been fantastic and it looks like Winter has gone and Spring is here. We have a big old fig tree in our back garden and the leaves and little figs are already popping out all over the tree. (oh and a little overlay action - Prismatic Paper 2 overlay from lostandtaken.com/)


R - Not the most exciting photo from the weekend, but we did a crazy hike up Mount Major and were rewarded with an amazing view across the lake including a view of Keniston Island where we were staying. We called the neighbours and had them signal us by reflecting the sunlight on a mirror, very cool!

Week 100!

L - X marks the spot! X marks 100!! Wow we have been doing this for 100 weeks! That sounds nuts! This is a random metal 'thing' Shane found and thought I might like it to paint or something and turn into a door stop or similar. I indeed do like it's industrial look and after a bit of filing and grinding (by Shane) its had its first coat of white paint and is already looking better. A paper weight perhaps?


R - Best dance floor EVER!  was at my friend Tricia's wedding last friday which was rescheduled from Saturday to avoid the hurricane - STRESS! Got some fun shots of everyone getting down on the LED illuminated dance floor! yeah!

Week 99

L - From the Shadows - We headed up to the snow this past weekend for some snowboarding! Its much like spring here which is WAY too early and it looks like the snow wont hang around this year sad :-( Still we had a great time with what is there and enjoyed the sunshine! Ooh and I got a new snowboard which was all kinds of awesome!!


R - EARTHQUAKE! here was an earthquake just south of DC we got quite the shake up here, was scary! we haven't had earthquake evacuation training though so no one really knew what to do. Eventually we 
went out the emergency exit, I laughed at the sign! Oh and this is Rebecca!

Week 98

L - A Snail's Pace - I am kinda fascinated by snails in that they appear from dark damp places when the rain appears and slide around the back garden and then disappear again. Crazy crawlies!


R - Lady Liberty - Scott and Katie came to visit, we went on the Staten Island Ferry, drank cheap beer and got this nice shot of the lady herself!

Week 97

L - Lovely Gift - My job is a dull place these days with the many 'characters' shall we say moving on. I know you are there to work but a bit of fun never hurt anyone. 
Anyway, Jane (or Jane-O/Janester as I would call her) was my creative outlet in my otherwise dull day. She worked at reception and always happy to have a chat about some new idea or just bounce my artistic ideas off. She left last week and gave me the loveliest little gift to say thanks for supporting her and generally being crazy old me. With my wee pressie she picked a fresh poesy of spring (early) blossom and blue gum leaves. So great...THANK YOU JANE-O!!

R - Vintage cameras at the flea - There are all sorts of treasures at the Brooklyn Flea and the vintage cameras have to be my favourite! a touch of ye olden days on the edit and this is what you get.....

Week 96

L - Fruits of my labour - Well a couple of weeks ago I posted a pic of my Lemon tree and this week I thought i would post a pic of my efforts using the yummy lemons. So I cheated a little and used a pastry case, mainly because I didn't have quite the right tin. The rest is all home made! Yummers.


R - Bare Bulb - this is from the bathroom in one of my favourite neighbourhood bars I enjoy the concrete, that's all really! oh and we can bring diego there, so we go a lot :)