June is serious business. In Australia, June is the time for stock take and if you are an employee who has to do end-of-financial-year activities (like my husband!) it really sucks. Even though I have a creative job, I am feeling the pressure… I’m in the middle of setting a business up, and also...
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Tags: designed by natalie, desktop, drawing, Free Stuff, iphone, paisley, samsung, u700, wallpaper
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The other week you would have read my adoration for Heidi, an amazing person and blogger. I have never met anyone who discusses their life and its trials so openly, and she has been a big role model for me when it comes to “opening up”. The other night, something terrible happened. Her father...
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Tags: bloggiverse, depression, friends, heidi, Life, my talented friends, suicide
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I think I am in a holding pattern right now. So I’m trying to keep a little momentum up by defacing frankie pages with my doodling.
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Tags: Art, doodles, drawing, frankie, paisley
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If you’re still devoting your lunch break to clicking through bookmarks just in case your favourite blogs have been updated, this blog post is for you. I have been on this here internets for a long time, so subscribing to blogs and doing other internetty things is like second nature to me. I always...
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Tags: blog issues, bloggiverse, feed readers, google reader, Nerdery, RSS, syndication
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Amaya asked me if I’d write up a post about the contraversial ad created by The Foundry for The Gruen Transfer’s Pitch segment. I said “heck yes” and put on my fat activist (or, FATSPERT!) hat. You can read the post over at nerdgirlarmy.com – Gruening with flaws: fat acceptance in Australia.
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Tags: bloggiverse, fat, fat acceptance, fat activism, guest blogging, nerdgirlarmy
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In this exciting installment I divulge five more names from my list of the world’s up and coming awesome folk. They dabble in writing, modelling, designing, entrepreneurship, art and being pretty cool. Heidi – writer and fat celebrity Heidi has to be one of the sweetest and most honest people I have ever met,...
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Tags: A Creative Career, artists, bloggiverse, Brisbane, fat, fat activism, illustration, illustrators, model, my talented friends, Photography
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People often tell me that I’m “so creative” and that they wish they could be “gifted” in similar ways. When I thank them and tell them that I’m still learning and that they can probably draw too, they usually look at the ground, put their hands in their pockets and kick at something imaginary...
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Tags: A Creative Career, creativity, goodie bag, talent, Video, you tube
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I have discovered that a big part of what I do involves buttloads of time and love. People must think I’m crazy for spending hours drawing tiny lines or baking things from scratch, but it’s one of the only ways my primitive consciousness knows how to properly convey love and affection. A small part...
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Tags: A Beautiful Life, cupcakes, drawing, family, hand lettered, hand made, love, mother's day, recipe
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Photo by Kate O’Brien I haven’t spoken much about body issues here, or about how I’m a fat advocate, but I figure this is as good a platform as any to discuss my own issues with fatness*. It is not acceptable to pick on, alienate, ostracize or discriminate against fat people, and I’m continually...
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Tags: active wear, Fashion, fat, fat acceptance, fat activism, fatshion, health at every size
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I bought the domain eatsleepcupcake.com to start a group authored cupcake tumblr – for people who make cupcakes and like to show them off. Unfortunately I failed to realise that the submission tool used around tumblr is only for private beta testers, not for me, so my plan collapsed :( Eat, Sleep, Cupcake is...
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Tags: A Beautiful Life, Baking, cupcakes, eat sleep cupcake
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