Archive for September, 2009

Daydream Lily posted about Renee and Angela‘s new venture, {twin set}, which is an online vintage fashion store with some really gorgeous pieces. If you are bigger than an AU size 18, you might have discovered that plus size vintage is pretty scarse. As a result, I am so used to dismissing straight sized...
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Today is my sister’s birthday! I made her a head piece out of a remnant of sky blue satin and drew her this card. Sometimes I think it’d be a lot easier if I just bought presents from the shops! Happy birthday Manda. Annnnd I wanted to leave a photo of her dog, Stanley....
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Thanks to Nick for giving me the idea for this month’s desktop. Moustaches with curlicues! To download one of these wallpapers, click the link to go to the flickr page where you’ll have to go to “All sizes” to download it and pop in to your background. 1920×1200 1680×1050 1600×1200 320×480 240×320 This work...
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Saturday was a big day, with a Tupperware party and two footy games on the big plasma tv at my sister’s. I’m not really into footy, so I decided to kick into frou frou mode for the Tupperware party to spite the cloying masculinity of the day, where I was recruited into holding one...
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I bought some books from Book Depository the other week and two of them were typography related, Mike Perry’s Hand Job and The Handy Book of Artistic Printing. I really relish these books because I don’t often by them for myself, and I’d been eying them for a while! As a result, all I...
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I went into South Bank to meet Ms Rósek and have tea at Tlicious. Dress: Basque Woman Tights: Kmart Shoes: Spendless Brooch: gift This is the brooch – a vintage lamb from an old uni friend. She also gave me a red pony, but I’ve lost it in my drawers of clothes! Alex gave...
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⇒ My friend Pete posted this video on twitter yesterday, it’s just gorgeous! ⇒ I said it on tumblr, and I’ll say it here: So fancy it makes my eyes water. Via Design*Sponge. ⇒ Lady Agnew by John Singer Sargent. I saw a few of Sargent’s paintings last Friday night, in the flesh! ⇒...
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You might remember this from when I wrote about entering this piece in the Red Bubble/ Stefen Sagmeister collaboration; it’s open for voting now and if it’s not too out of your way, I would love you to vote for me! Thank you!
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Yesterday a huge dust storm covered the eastern side of Australia, thanks to winds picking up most of the drought-stricken inland and dumping it all over us. Yay Australia! I went out on a few little walks to take photos, but had to stay inside in the afternoon because the dust was making it...
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This quote from Drawn! makes me sad: The decline of cursive is happening as students are doing more and more work on computers, including writing. In 2011, the writing test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress will require 8th and 11th graders to compose on computers, with 4th graders following in 2019. Handwriting...
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