and darling

so i have a birthday coming up...

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and i thought well, i have found so many lovely things lately that i am not going to buy because i am being good, why not share them? hehe. errr so yes, if anyone would like to get me a birthday present & is stuck on what to get, i would love & adore any of these things!
(all pictures link to the etsy listing :)

i think i've talked about the royal albert 100 years collection before, as i got given a set (as above) for my birthday last year, and adore it. there's about 10 different patterns & i would love anything from that collection! they also have these ones called hostess sets (also above), which are beeyootiful too.
my nonna has bought me part of the tea-set in the polka dot rose pattern (below) but i will only have the teapot, sugar bowl & milk jug so far- no cups! hehe.

i walked a hundred miles so i could give a dog a bone.

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oh hello. long time no see. i just loobook-ed this but thought i'd post the unedited version here :)

snap-happy.

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they're so impressed that i'm taking their photo AGAIN.

love this one

clancy's, freo. pretty.

cool hairs.

cons = <3

jewelry & new favourite nailpolish.

this is true.

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couple more.

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how frickin cool is her cat power tee? want.

playing with macro. my nonna's garden is so beautiful and green and edible, yum!

i want.

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so so so many things. some of them are within my power to make happen, and some aren't. some are regrets, things that can't be fixed. some have oceans to overcome, others are only across the nullabor. some will take a lot of hard work. some will take a bit of luck. some only exist in movies or books or my idealised version of my perfect life. i don't really know what i'm trying to say except at the moment, i'm really sick of wanting. it aches. i'm not unhappy though. i kind of feel like i come off as really shallow on the internet sometimes... i'm not, i just don't tend to talk much about things i think about, if that makes sense. mehhh. i think it's sleep-time for me, this is starting to get very nonsensical.

i could be the girl that you met in the coin laundry.

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here's a lil photoshoot me & steph did the other week in our nonna's back garden :)

skirt is self-made, vest/top is from target, stella mccartney knockoffs are from siren, ring is from diva :)

this is for you.

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modclothery.

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still waiting on my topshop order, wah :( a friend ordered some stuff a week later than me & already receieved hers! so anyway in the meantime i've been drooling over some more modcloth dresses- i'm so in love with the last one i purchased (see previous post) that i need more!

(this one is velvet, mm!)

...only problem is i can't decide which i like best! the last two are probably my least favourites, but what do you think?

oh & this one isn't in my size, wahhh. it's so beautiful!

things.

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i saw nowhere boy the other night and it was AMAZING. the guy playing john lennon was absolutely gorgeous and the whole film was so well done- great performance all round.

super busy with school at the moment- i'm doing a whole law unit in6 weeks and it is a LOT of work, reading & note-taking etc.
also my laptop died :( hence the lack of posting. i'm getting a new one soonish though, yay!
i am completely in love with my new modcloth dress & hope to take some photos in it over the weekend.

also i am so so SO super-excited because we are moving house! (as in my mum, sister & i) fingers crossed our offer gets accepted today- it's a bit below the asking price but as high as we can afford to go. the house is gorgeous and the bedrooms are PEREFCT. i only have one thing to say - three-door wardrobes! okay maybe two - double bed! eee so excited, please keep your fingers crossed for me! :)

that's about it from me for today, over & out! xxx

& cakes.

2010-01-20T23:44:00.000+08:00

solast night i made chilli choc cupcakes! really happy with thedecorating, but need to play around with the recipe a bit more- notchilli enough for my tastes, and would like to use homemade chillipowder rather than store-bought next time.

flashy flashy heart shapey one!

still nommy though!

oh and the one i had straight out of the oven was amazzzzing, though a little undercooked, and i think i overcooked the last batch as the one i had tonight was a little dry damnit. ah well!

the next blog.

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at some point i plan to take more photos of my room, there is a lot to look at.. i love it.

new books.. penguin hardcover classics, they are so beautiful. i plan to collect them all.

(i was fanning myself, i'm not totally demented)

ps a couple of the photos link to a bigger version, if you want to see any of the myriad bits of crap in my room haha

blog the first.

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in which there are a couple of outfit shots, and a few others.

i'm baaack :) puppets behind me are from cirque du soleil & i don't know where else.

a couple of days worth of mail a little while ago- fun!

wearing my new jeans-of-amazingness.. lee, from melbourne. it's lurrrrve!

(i swear my legs do not usually look this stumpy!)

me & mr mustacheman :) necklace was a present from steph for christmas, mm i bought at the leederville unwrapped markets in december.

well hello little blog.

2010-01-15T10:56:00.003+08:00

well hello little blog. you are sadly neglected, from a combination of lack of time, being away from home, lack of internet and TOO MANY PURCHASES to share. hahaha. oh dear, i am terrible.

anyway, i shall be back tomorrow and hopefully will fall into a more regular routine and post a few times a week.

(desperately trying to restrain myself from buying one of these from topshop. damn that moderately affordable hellhole!)

some melbourne snaps.

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way way too overwhelmed with christmas & busy with life to even think about posting properly, but for the moment here are a few snaps from our trip :)

love quotes: nick & norah

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"We're sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We'reclicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. Butbecause our words are clicking into each other to form sentences andour sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and ourdialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoingmovie that's as comfortable as it is unrehearsed."

"I know we're all following the same yellow brick road, looking for that ultimate band, that ultimate night to remember."

"Istand up from the table and wiggle my index finger at Nick. He'll neverget it, but I borrow from Heathers as I leave him to follow Tris. ''Atrue friend's work is never done,'' I singsong.
''Bulimia is so '87, Heather,'' he answers.
HOLY SHIT squared. I think I just had my first orgasm."

"But Iguess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. Youjust get blinded."

"It was my reaction, what I wanted to feeland then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad.That illusion. It was love because I created it as love."

"Maybe...what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking."

"IfI don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so farabout what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able tojust be."

"I'm thinking I would like to dancein the rain with this person. I would like to lie next to him in thedark and watch him breathe and watch him sleep and wonder what he'sdreaming about and not get an inferiority complex if the dreams aren'tabout me."

"I kiss her and she finds thelight switch and turns it off, and we're just lit in Pepsi-can colorsand it's like we've finally found this other kind of conversation, thisconversation in gestures and pulls and pushes and breaths and graspsand teases and glimmers and rubs and expectation."

"Iwant to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her solong that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want."

"There are only bodies and thoughtsand murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes,because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it'sracing toward."

“‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps themost fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it.That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage thatlasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollarcrib. No. They wanna hold your hand.”

"I know you probably think I'm a horrid bitch from the planetSchizophrenia, but I"m honestly not trying to mess with your head. I"mjust messing with my own head and i seem to have dragged you along forthe ride. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me.Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you knowexactly where you stand. Since trust isn't an option, you don't have toget all freaked out about maybe having to trust him. Right now I amthinking about ten things at the same time, and at least four of thosethings have to do with you."

"Singing in the rain. I'm singing inthe rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecteddownpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuckelse can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rainfalls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dancewith it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you'redoing pretty alright in life."

"I'm on a date with a good guy and I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator."

"I don't know if Nick and I are going to friends or lovers or if he'sgoing to be Will and I'm going to be Grace, which will be disappointingalong with boring, but whatever Nick and I are going to be to eachother, it can't be - it won't be - just a one-night-stand thing. Iknow this."

"Maybe that's it... With what you were talking about before. The worldbeing broken. maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces andput them back together. Maybe we are the pieces."

"Nick stands up and offers me his hand. I have no idea what he wants,but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on myfeet, then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in adream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we'redancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden."

"I’m the girl who knows he’s capable of poetry,because like I said, there are things I just know. I’m the one whocould give him that old-fashioned song title of a thing called Devotionand True Love (However Complicated), if he ever gave a girl like me asecond glace. I’m the less-than-five-minute girlfriend who for onetoo-brief kiss fantasized about ditching this joint with him, going allthe way punk with him at a ** jazz club in the Village or something.Maybe I would have treated him to borscht at Veselka at five in themorning, maybe I would have walked along Battery Park with him atsunrise, holding his hand, knowing I would become the one who wouldbelieve in him. I would tell him, I heard you play, I’ve read yourpoetry, not that crap your band just performed, but those love lettersand songs you wrote for Tris. I know what you’re capable of and it’scertainly more than being a bassist in an average queercore band –you’re better than that; and dude, having a drummer, it’s like key, you fuckingneed one. I would be equipment bitch for him every night, nocomplaints"

post o'love.

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lovely surprises in the mail and a book haul from a couple of weeks ago- how gorgeous are the donna parkers? so stoked with the bsc friends forever books too, they're pretty hard to find nowadays. and how amazing is the dinosaur paper? it's from japan & i am so excited to use it, whee! thank you sharni <3

like sands through the hourglass...

2009-12-01T12:34:00.004+08:00

have been so busy this week, by the time i get home i'm too tired to blog :( or have had too much wine, ha. i have some photos floating around somewhere of some goodies i scored the other week, but i can't find them at the moment so for now i'll just show you these:

i bought a typewriter! eee i'm SO excited :) hopefully it all works when i receive it!

aaaaaand i bought a new notebook to write melbourne lists in :) smaller than my current one so it can come with me in my handbag. i am so obsessed with notebooks, it's ridiculous. and the pretty purple paper is to make decorations with for my friend's 21st. i've offered to help out a bit & i'm excited- i pretty much just get to do the fun stuff & none of the hard work! hahaha.

i leave for melbourne on saturday & i am so looking forward to writing my packing list tonight, & then starting to pack tomorrow. sigh. i LOVE packing. and list-making. whee! have nearly finished my list of shops to check out so if you have any others for me, please let me know!

hmm this is a bit of nonsensical post really but i might just end by saying that i love you all & miss a fair few of you! <333

SIGH.

2009-11-26T20:12:00.003+08:00

i didn't leave work til 730 tonight (stayed late making christmas lunch invitations) so consequently i am way too tired to blog. instead, here's something i came across in my travels.. i'm starting to get excited, woo!

lovelove!

a fine frenzy.

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how fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes.

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i also went to see the antiques roadshow talk that's in town at the moment. here's my dad on stage- too funny!

LOVING these shoots calivintage linked to- gorgeous.

(click the photos to go to her posts)

i gots-ded a haircut, yays! + i love this top.

this post of randomness was brought to you by the number 5 and the letter D :)

ps LOVING this song by mumford & sons. youtube here, download here. awake my soul <3

pps lady i work with says to me this morning: "have you had your eyebrows shaped?"
my reply: "no, you can just see them now."
teehee :) made my monday slightly less dreary.

pretties and noms :)

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homemade limoncello is amazing <3

the colours are more true-to-life in this one. also, i heart this necklace so much.

my new dress! i love it, quite different to anything else i own, which is always a plus, and can be dressed up or down. one of the straps snapped at the shop so the girl took half off, taking it down to $50! can you say WIN?

so yes, i wore it to bake cookies earlier in the week :) coconut cookies, to be precise. recipe out of an old book of my stepmum's called cookie magic- it's pretty great! this is at my nonna's- how cute is the apron?
(shit photo, i know, but the lighting in her house is awful)

the cake she'd already made earlier, hehe. super nommy!

ooh la la!

2009-11-21T23:08:00.000+08:00

the lovely livawarded me with this cute lil thing! two awards in as many months- iam so flattered ladies :)

rules

thank the person whonominated you for this award
copy the logo and place it on yourblog
link the person who nominated youfor this award
write seven things that a smallnumber of curious folk might be interested in.
nominate seven Kreativ Bloggers.
ost links to the seven blogs younominate.
leave a comment on each of the blogsletting them know they have been nominated.

one. i always carry a hanky. every day. it’s a habit my nannagot me into :)
two. i am into all things disney/disney channel & i am notashamed.
three. i don’t have a middle name.
four. pregnancy grosses me out SO MUCH. i can’t even describe it.
five. i have a thing for hipbones. & upper arms/shoulders.
six. starting a blog was one of the best things i ever did- ithas changed my life for the better in so many ways.
seven. i'm kinda scared to dye my hair because it's so dark& i want to go lighter :S hahaha, so lame.

anyway, i'd like to nominate:

one. monstergirl - and i know i already gave her one, but with seven to give away- why not! she is lovely + in need of cheering up right now :)
two. gin in a teacup - i love her blog and cannot wait to hear about her melbourne adventures (in anticipation of my upcoming trip)! &don't forget to vote for her in the 2threads Australian Fashion Awards here :)
three. trust me, it's paradise - dane's last few posts have had the most breathtaking photographs in them, you really must go look.
four. lick my cupcakes - go check out my lovely emface's new hair, it's amazing! hee.
five. paper lollies - i love miss shelby's writing and wish she would blog more :(
six. apocalipstick - almie is witty & fabulous and one of my favourite reads.
seven. calivintage - i've only recently started reading calivintage and it's definitely a new favourite!

(crappy camera-phone photo frommaximo park the other night... more on that later!)

and in conclusion, i would like to draw your attention to this post. holywowohmylord! <3

love quotes, part 1.

2009-11-20T09:03:00.001+08:00

"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love."carrie bradshaw, sex & the city.

"One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love once, yelling: “When you’re in love with someone, that person is the lighthouse of your universe.”

(I scrawled it inside Science and Poetry in pencil—lighthouse of your universe—as if I would ever forget that phrase.)

He was a delightful caricature of his position. I could swear he literally tore his hair out while howling at us. He went on, “Nothing means as much without that person.”

One of the men in the class repeated, incredulous, half-laughing “so you’re saying you can’t enjoy, like, a vacation, without someone if you’re really in love with them?”

“Of course not.” the professor replied. “Not completely. You recognize beauty, but beauty means less if they don’t witness it with you. Beauty is less. You see something sublime and your first thought is that they should be there with you. It’s not as good without them. They illuminate. They make everything more."

"If she loves you, if she really loves you, you’ll know it. If you can wake up to her staring at you and it’s not even mildly creepy, if you catch her smelling the shoulder of the hooded sweatshirt you lent her for an autumn walk at the beach, and not for B.O., if she makes you a pancake in the shape of a shark, if she calls you drunkenly at four in the morning “to talk,” if she laughs at your jokes when they’re funny and makes fun of you when they’re not, if she keeps her fridge stocked with Guinness tallboys for when you come over, if she tells you how she wishes she were closer to her sister and that her dad makes her sad: She loves you, of course she loves you."

"When I see you, the world. It stops and all that exists for me, is you and my eyes staring at you. There’s nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The world just stops and it’s a beautiful place and there’s only you. Just you. And my eyes staring at you. When you’re gone, the world starts again and I don’t like it as much. I can live in it, but I don’t like it. I just walk around in it, and wait to see you again and wait for it to stop again. I love it when it stops. It’s the best thing I’ve ever known or ever felt, the best thing, and that, is why I stare at you.

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

"Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous."

carrie bradshaw, sex & the city.

planning to make this a recurring thing, i have lots more to share :) all images from weheartit.

one of my favourites

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Without you every morning would feel like going back to work after a holiday,
Without you I couldn't stand the smell of the East Lancs Road,
Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews,
Without you I'd probably feel happy and have more money and time and nothing to do with it,
Without you I'd have to leave my stillborn poems on other people's doorsteps, wrapped in brown paper,
Without you there'd never be sauce to put on sausage butties,
Without you plastic flowers in shop windows would just be plastic flowers in shop windows,
Without you I'd spend my summers picking morosely over the remains of train crashes,
Without you white birds would wrench themselves free from my paintings and fly off dripping blood into the night,
Without you green apples wouldn't taste greener,
Without you Mothers wouldn't let their children play out after tea,
Without you every musician in the world would forget how to play the blues,
Without you Public Houses would be public again,
Without you the Sunday Times colour suppliment would come out in black-and-white,
Without you indifferent colonels would shrug their shoulders and press the button,
Without you they's stop changing the flowers in Piccadilly Gardens,
Without you Clark Kent would forget how to become Superman,
Without you Sunshine Breakfast would only consist of Cornflakes,
Without you there'd be no colour in Magic colouring books,
Without you Mahler's 8th would only be performed by street musicians in derelict houses,
Without you they'd forget to put the salt in every packet of crisps,
Withoutyou it would be an offence punishable by a fine of up to £200 or twomonths' imprisonment to be found in possession of curry powder,
Without you riot police are massing in quiet sidestreets,
Without you all streets would be one-way the other way,
Without you there'd be no one to kiss goodnight when we quarrel,
Without you the first martian to land would turn round and go away again,
Without you they'd forget to change the weather,
Without you blind men would sell unlucky heather,
Without you there would be
no landscapes/no stations/no houses
no chipshops/no quiet villages/no seagulls
on beaches/no hopscotch on pavements/no night/no morning/
there'd be no city no country
Without you.

Adrian Henri

comment roundup!

2009-11-17T10:58:00.000+08:00

since i'm behind on comments & kinda lazy i thought i would just do a nice little answer post here & get it out of the way, rather than picking back through all the posts.

poppy- thank you! i saw maximo when they came two years ago & loved it, so i'm excited :) and deep fried feta is AMAZING, one of the local fish & chip stores does it and it's my favourite thing ever. oh & you should download whip it- so worth it!

holly- he's a little wooden cheetah (i think), he cost me 50c!

liv- that first quote is one of my all-time favourites. <3

and to everyone who commented on my dear lover post... *blush* thank you :)

get in the water!

2009-11-16T15:02:00.001+08:00

Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing. So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day.

Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone.

If you're a bird I'm a bird too.

My Dearest Allie

I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you.

Noah

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reachfor more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to ourminds.

hey guysss

2009-11-16T09:46:00.000+08:00

have a song! i love this one. tom's diner by suzanne vega. (download link here)

girls wanna be her

2009-11-15T13:04:00.001+08:00

this movie is so amazing, i cannot even begin to tell you. definitely a favourite, i can see myself watching it maybe as many times as i've seen juno.. and that's a lot! it's got everything.. hot girls, cute boys, romance, girl power, independent women, roller skates, drew barrymore!!! & ellen page!!! who are both just epic, and the surpise hottie hotness of kristen wiig as maggie mayhem- i'm in love.

wow, that sum-up of my favourite things about the movie is really shit, i apologise. it's late and i'm tired but honestly- go see this movie! it's totally made me want to join a derby team :)

oh & the soundtrack is fucking FANTASTIC.

and lastly, please have two of my favourite songs about rollerskating!
roller disco dreams by maximo park (who i am seeing tuesday by the way, FUCKYEAH)
& skateaway by dire straits.

cam-whoring!

2009-11-13T15:10:00.008+08:00

just a few webcam shots from sunday, and one from when miss holly was here <3

(speaking of which, perth part 4 is up on her blog, featuring ME (with more to come!) so go check it out :)

anyhoo lovelies, i'm off for the weekend. i've scheduled a couple of kick-ass posts so leave me some lovin' for when i get back!

ricordati di me

2009-11-12T21:48:00.004+08:00

nspired by the lovely monstergirl (which, by the way, may be one of the coolest names in the blogosphere), i've decided to share some old photos of my (maternal) grandparents. this is the same nonna featured in my first post, and she is amazing and adorable and i love her to bits.

this is my nonna & nonno as i remember them. nonno died when i was six.

i love how she's laughing at him here.

i adore this photo.

they were so truly madly deeply in love.

i love my nonna.

nonno always used to play puppets with his hanky.. i had completely forgotten about it until i saw this photo. he & nonna slept in separate beds for as long as i can remember, and when i slept over at their house i would sleep with nonna in her bed, and in the morning nonno would come stomping slowly down the hallway pretending to be the big bad wolf.

this is my favourite photo of the two of them.

(i think that's my mum.) nonno was pretty handsome, i have to say!

lazy post!

2009-11-11T22:27:00.001+08:00

this is basically all i wore for the last two weeks studying for exams - this tank top in about three different colours and leggings + jumper on colder days.

sooo comfy. i'm in love with my nikes at the moment, they will definitely be coming to mebourne with me; most comfortable walking shoes ever!

umm so yeah, i don't have much to say- been making mixtapes all night, funfun.

<3 to all!

dear future lover

2009-11-10T13:16:00.002+08:00

there are many things that i would like to do with you.

go to the park and lay in the grass and watch the sky. take walksaround my neighbourhood arm in arm. go for long drives out of the citywith our favourite music playing. drive though king’s park at night inwinter blasting edith piaf with the windows down and the heating up. goon picnics. go places i never go - the zoo, museums, ice skating,roller skating, anywhere we can think of. play guitar together. learnto play the harmonica. explore new suburbs. take dance lessons. lay inbed and explore each other. watch foreign movies. talk about stuff thatmatters. road trip. make forts. travel. go camping. cuddle lots. eat churros. take lots of photos. learn photography. buy a holga.and a polaroid. bake cakes & eat all the batter. try out newrecipes on each other and slowly learn to cook fabulous things. learnto make pasta like my nonna does. (and eat all the leftover dough, mm.)be honest. not care what people think. go op shopping. you know that i hatemodern jewellery but love antiques. you pretend to care about the shit icare about. love my sister. do puzzles. sit on the beach and eat deepfried feta. carry on traditions. (and make our own.) have a secrethandshake. watch disney channel. dance. be silly together.

12.07.09
29.07.09
03.08.09
to be continued.

frog-in-a-pond!

2009-11-09T07:06:00.000+08:00

nom nom nom! click the photo to go to cuileann's post & hear all about our adventures @ the zoo :)

(um also if you've never had frog in a pond, get on it PRONTO)

retroooo!

2009-11-08T21:43:00.004+08:00

so today i headed off to the retro market in northbridge, where i was very restrained & only bought a cute little wallet/clutch thing for $5 and steph's christmas present, a super awesome mini antique-ish globe of the world.

i also went up to my local swap meet this morning where i saw MORE globes, bigger & totally gorgeous... think i might have to go back next week and grab myself one. i also scored some anne of green gables books to add to my collection, so that was exciting.

i freakin loved wearing this today, i felt super-cute & happy with my hair all curly & my hair-bows & my saddle shoes.. so fun :)

dress: op shop ||| shoes: dangerfield, saddle-fied by me :) ||| hair-bows: diva ||| bangle: sportsgirl. (non, je ne regrette rien. lyrics from an edith piaf song)

here, have a song: penelope by of montreal, it's ace. <3

wanting to move.

2009-11-07T15:55:00.002+08:00

Continually, a bell rings in my heart.
I was supposed to go somewhere, to some other place,
Tense from the long wait--
Where do you go, will you take me
"With you, on your horses, down the river, with the flame
of your torches?"

They burst out laughing.
"A tree wanting to move from place to place!"
Startled, I look at myself--
A tree, wanting to move from place to place, a tree
Wanting to move? Am I then--
Born here, to die here
Even die here?
Who rings the bell, then inside my heart?
Who tells me to go, inside my heart?
Who agitates me, continually, inside my heart?

Vijaya Mukhopadhyay
(trans. by the poet)

yanked from cuileann, here. i love poetry, and this is so beautiful.

built well you're a strong letter I

2009-11-06T13:10:00.002+08:00

when you’re holding me we make a pair of parentheses
parentheses, the blow

i adore this song so much & cannot stop listening to it at the moment. (download link here, full lyrics here)

i can’t stop thinking about the parentheses metaphor, and it’s kindof blowing my mind a little bit. i realised you can’t havea single parentheses, they always come as a pair. the implications forthat when you apply it to people is kind of amazing and kind of scary.in one way it would be a beautiful thing to have, and in another wayalmost frightening to be so.. i guess, attached, to someone that youwould think of yourselves that way. does this make sense? i mean,personally i’m very independent, so it’s interesting for me to thinkabout what i want- i mean obviously i want that special someone, but towhat extent? buttttt i’ve never been really, trulymadlydeeply, headover heels, real grown-up in love with someone, so who knows.

(image via here)

writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in luxembourg.

2009-11-05T10:34:00.001+08:00

ohh, the smiths. words cannot even adequately describe my love for this band. it makes me ridiculously excited every time something to do with them pops up around the net, so here's my little collection, plus a few of my fav songs :)

bigmouth strikes again
girlfriend in a coma
william, it was really nothing
still ill
that joke isn't funny anymore
there is a light that never goes out
some girls are bigger than others
ask

lovelies

2009-11-04T14:03:00.004+08:00

just a few things delighting me today :)

this song. (the blow - parentheses) i heard it on the lovely shelby's radio show the other day (monday mornings 9-11 perth time, link here if you're interested!) and i rushed off and downloaded it and now i can't stop listening to it, it's lovely. and i love the imagery! "when you're holding me we make a pair of parentheses" in fact i downloaded the whole album, paper television, and it's great.

cute storage idea: using teacups to keep your jewellery in! i might hit the op shop a bit later & see if i can pick up any cute ones.

how to use apostrophes (link via miss bambola) the thing that annoys me about the misuse of apostrophes is that out of all the types of grammatical/spelling errors you can make, it's the easiest to get right! it's either a contraction, in which case you un-contract it and see if it still makes sense, or it's not! simple.

this post from a beautiful mess, one of my favourite happy-making blogs.

& this post from expansions. i'm so in love with pretty/unusual mugs, i have a mini-collection :)

and lastly i received this adorable award from the delightful tara at gin in a teacup. thank you so much my dear! and i'd like to pass it on to the lovely lass at monster girl writes. i've only just discovered her blog, but i like it rather a lot!

currently craving

2009-11-03T11:12:00.015+08:00

i made the mistake of having a look on modcloth today... bad idea! they have the perfect lace-up flats at perfect prices, and all manner of other goodies...

(click for a link!)

*sniff* they're all so beautiful... sigh.
look at these boots but! craziness. unfortunately the leeloo boots are out of stock, fingers crossed they get some more!

jeffrey campbell - $160 leeloo boot - $48

edit: oh lord, and this!

reasons for waiting

2009-11-02T10:35:00.002+08:00

What a sight for my eyes
to see you in sleep.
Could it stop the sun rise
hearing you weep?
You're not seen, you're not heard
but I stand by my word.
Came a thousand miles
just to catch you while you're smiling.

What a day for laughter
and walking at night.
Me following after, your hand holding tight.
And the memory stays clear with the song that you hear.
If I can but make
the words awake the feeling.

What a reason for waiting
and dreaming of dreams.
So here's hoping you've faith in impossible schemes,
that are born in the sigh of the wind blowing by
while the dimming light brings the end to a night of loving.

Ian Anderson

best. costumes. ever

2009-11-01T19:58:00.001+08:00

i mean c'mon, who doesn't love mary poppins & dick van dyke?

i love #1 - cuileann

2009-11-01T16:09:00.005+08:00

i've decided to do a running feature (maybe weekly! if i remember) on my favourite posts/bloggers.

first up is the lovely holly! i have been reading through her blog while avoiding study, as she came to visit recently and i miss her.

so. i love a lot of her posts, and they all show different sides of her, which i don't think you get (in? on?) a lot of blogs. the ones i'm linking you to, however, are mostly of her own writing and photography.

Have soy milk, will travel
Joyful Girl instructs herself on getting ready for swimsuit season
My sister when she came back from Mauritania
My astronaut sister left today
I love you all, Explosionism
Gelato and smoke and wisteria, all on a Saturday morning
Freewrite, from three semesters of college and Tuesday night's dream
Saturday wanderings
Bubbles in the subway
and of course this one: Not today, but sometime soon

peace out dudettes!

number one inspirations, always.

2009-10-31T18:46:00.002+08:00

i need me a grey maxi skirt!

beauty in a boot.

2009-10-30T19:14:00.000+08:00

my babies arrived today! finally. it's been a loooong 2.5 months since i ordered them. haha ;) anyway, i'm not sure they're worth what i paid for them but i sure do love em! and they seem pretty comfy so far, which is always a bonus.

*sigh* aren't they beautiful? i can see myself being rather obsessed with these over summer... particularly since i don't do sandals. closed in shoes all year round for me!
now, which pair of ankle boots to buy next...

sometimes i play photographer.

2009-10-28T17:55:00.002+08:00

for my sister. she has a lookbook and i get roped in to take her shots for her, which i highly enjoy. here's today's batch.

(of course most of the ones she's actually going to use are in-focus, haha)

le gru

2009-10-27T17:00:00.007+08:00

the origami obsession arose out of a project for italian class. we were required to instruct the class on how to make something, and my friend jonelle & i decided we wanted to do something that everyone could participate in, hence origami. we chose cranes because there was a bit more to talk about than any other animal.

i'm sure you all know the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. if not, Sadako was a Japanese girl who was only 2 years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. at the age of 11 she was diagnosed with leukemia (as a direct consequence of the radiation from the bomb) and not given long to live. while she was in hospital, Sadako's best friend told her the ancient legend of the paper cranes (which are a symbol of long life) - that anyone who could make a thousand of them would be granted a wish. Sadako died before she made it to a thousand, but her friends and classmates finished them for her. there is now a statue of Sadako in Hiroshima, and people still go to lay cranes at her feet today.

floral dinosaur i made for the lovely em :)
for a first attempt i think it's pretty okay!

the beautiful holly with a crane in her hair.

cannot get this song out of my head

2009-10-26T22:23:00.000+08:00

you're directing me
your eyes focused like a microscope
get the cuts you need
eyes focused like a microscope

go steady with me
i know it turns you off when i
i get talking like a teen
i get talking like a teen

you're directing me
you dressed up
i lose my grip my focus
make those eyes at me
i lose my grip i lose my focus

go steady with me
i know it turns you off when i
i get talking like a teen
i get talking like a teen

you're directing me
eyes focused like a microscope
get the cuts you need
eyes focused like a microscope

you're directing me
you dressed up i lose my grip my focus
make those eyes at me
i lose my grip i lose my focus

go steady with me
i know it turns you off when i
i get talking like a teen
i get talking like a teen

on directing, tegan & sara
sainthood is amazinggggg <3

download here :)

i wanna hold your hand

2009-10-26T19:50:00.013+08:00

hi. this is me, and this is my bike.

saturday i made saddle shoes, following this diy. i like them a lot.

these are the two people i love most in the world.

these are my bookshelves. they are very big. that makes me happy.

this is a lovely package i received from a friend a while ago now. mail makes me happy.

currently i am obsessed with making origami, mostly cranes. (more on that later)

le gru :)

welcome to my place.
love minteva.