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So this is Festivus, and what have I done?

On 23 December, 2010 · 16 Comments · In A Beautiful Life

Today is the 23rd of December, the day that people like me celebrate Festivus! I haven’t put up a tree for the last few years because I’m kind of grinchy and I hate tinsel. If you read my last post you’ll know I’m not a huge fan of consumerism, and you’ll be correct [...]

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Ahh, giftmas grief.

On 17 December, 2009 · 9 Comments · In A Beautiful Life


So last night, I decided to put up a festivus pole.

I always get very grumpy around this time of year. It’s unbearably humid, I get flashbacks of my glandular fever symptoms which make me feel as if I were moving through mud, [...]

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Gifts that can not be kept

On 15 July, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Art

I came across this video portrait of Milton Glaser by Hillman Curtis on the Drawn! blog and I was struck by something he quoted from Lewis Hyde about gift exchanges in primitive cultures that serve to stop people from [...]

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The giftmas that won’t end

On 13 January, 2009 · 8 Comments · In Design

Tonight I’m giving the gifts we bought in Melbourne to my family, as well as Mum’s birthday present because she was born on this fabulous day. I am pretty sure none of them will check my blog today, so I’m going to post photos!

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Presents!

On 23 December, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Art

My birthday was on Saturday and Nick bought me Prismacolors! I’d been wanting some for a long time but was always put off by the cost. They are very lovely to use, but I have to be so delicate with them in case the leads break. I’m so paranoid, I’m almost handling them with white [...]

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