Posts Tagged ‘ A Creative Career ’

Do you love where you live?

15 September, 2009
By Natalie
Do you love where you live?

I’ve been incredibly busy working AND playing in the last few weeks, and I’ve come to the conclusion (like I always do) that Brisbane is a fantastic city with so much going on. Growing up here, I’ve heard all the snide “big country town” references and watched friends and family move interstate and overseas...
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My Talented Friends – part 3

13 May, 2009
By Natalie
My Talented Friends – part 3

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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Talent isn’t mystical, it’s hard work.

12 May, 2009
By Natalie

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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My Talented Friends – part 2

29 April, 2009
By Natalie
My Talented Friends – part 2

I present to you four more of the most awesome people around, including a musician, burlesque star, jewellery designer, writer and photographer! They all have my seal of approval ;) Sharon Walker – jewellery designer for Kittycat Black Sharon’s polymer clay sculptures caught my eye years ago, and I got to know her through...
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My Talented Friends – part 1

19 April, 2009
By Natalie
My Talented Friends – part 1

I have a lot of talented friends, and I only realised it when I sat down and thought about writing profiles on all of them to share with you here! I have friends who are photographers, artists, designers, models, performers, publishers, writers, musicians and activists. For most of these guys, I’m lucky to have...
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Bruises are Semi-Permanent too: the Brisbane conference

9 April, 2009
By Natalie
Bruises are Semi-Permanent too: the Brisbane conference

Yesterday I attended Semi-Permanent 2009 in Brisbane at the Convention Centre. I left feeling overwhelmed, inspired, intimidated and SORE… my head was so full of ideas that I was a little scared, truth be told. I guess if you are scared of ideas, you shouldn’t go to these things :P The highlights of the...
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I am important enough to have a facebook page…

18 February, 2009
By Natalie
I am important enough to have a facebook page…

I wasn’t going to set one of those facebook pages up because I was worried about what people would think of me but I asked people if they’d be my fan this morning and at least 10 people said they would so I thought that was a respectable amount of people to warrant being...
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Illustration Friday: Similar

9 December, 2008
By Natalie
Illustration Friday: Similar

I was just recommending Illustration Friday to Tea when I thought I’d check out this week’s word. SIMILAR! It’s pretty awesome that I’ve done something that ties in so well quite by accident twice now! I am the IF psychic. If you click on the picture it’ll take you to the Red Bubble page...
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I’m still alive!

19 August, 2008
By Natalie
I’m still alive!

I’ve just been working on stuff, you see. One of those bits of stuff is evident in the picture above… see the bunch of squiggly lines down the bottom? That’s mah paisleyz on the cover of the launch issue of Peppermint magazine! The magazine is launching this Friday in Paddington, so I might scoot...
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