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After going to TEDxBrisbane and seeing Dallas Clayton’s video on publishing “An Awesome Book” I have been feeling inspired to self publish a book. I’ve also been reading a few old zines, the FaT GiRL zines from the 90s in particular, and I thought I’d start out by publishing a zine on body image – your body image.

So, I put up a question on a Google Form: Tell me about your body in 10 words or less.

Lots of people have contributed their statements already! Some of them are sad, some are funny, but all of them speak to me of honesty and struggle.

So, how do you feel about your body? You can contribute too. You don’t have to put your real name, but a name is nice because I can illustrate your words and then attribute those words to you. The end product will be an A5 sized zine – I am yet to figure out the details, but I hope to have enough interest in the book to have it colour printed. I will also make the zine available online for free.

If you’re interested in a printed zine, please let me know so I can start figuring out numbers!

I came across The Colour thanks to Mishy, and spent a good 45 minutes browsing through the collection of fantastic Australian creative talent. I thought I’d do an art/ illustration/ design curation of fance based on talent I found through The Colour.

Laura La Rayna, a performer particularly noted for her aerial ring prowess. Laura worked with Brisbane institution the Vulcana Women’s Circus and now lives in Melbourne.

I have known Lilly Piri as an online friend for a few years now, which is funny considering she used to live just a little bit away from me! She’s now in Heidelberg with her husband and fellow awesome illustrator Heiko.

Sarah Hickey’s work is new to me, but I was instantly drawn to the bright colours and the clashing textures in her work. This piece in particular is very Mucha-esque but a lot of her work is inspired by Catholic iconography.

Matt Huynh is a Sydney-based illustrator who self publishes comics. I really liked this piece in particular because it evokes a sense of panic and loss of control within me. Not a particularly fancy theme, I know, but it’s illustrated beautifully.

Ahh Kat Macleod, I will forever envy your loose yet elegant style! Kat is one of the luminaries of the Australian illustration scene in recent years, and has done an incredible amount of really fabulous and consistent work.

Go check out The Colour – you can collect your favourite images and even contribute Australian creative talent yourself. I think it could be an amazing local ffffound-like resource!

Enjoy the day and do something fun

Curvy publishes a book of over 100 female artists, graphic designers and illustrators every year, and each year I am completely intimidated by it. Earlier this year I submitted work for the first time and was pretty dejected when it wasn’t accepted… I guess I am pretty bad at dealing with rejection

So I drew this, haha.

Once again, I will throw myself to the lions, errr selection panel, but I’m having a tiny crisis about what I should submit for consideration for next year’s book. I know that lots of people really like my typographic pieces but there are some other more illustrative pieces that I am fond of too. So, if you could choose three, which would you choose?

La Donna Mascherata

A line is all I need

Neatly Daily

Have a fancy day

Red Ribbons

The Sky is Falling

Everything’s okay, I drew this for you

Please, please help me out!

ALSO! I have updated my portfolio site, if you want to see more work! I am stupidly proud of it, and will continue to be until I think of a better way to display it

⇒ Charlotte Gainsbourg in Vogue Paris – so lovely!

⇒ Rebecca Wetzler’s illustrations for Bloom combine ink and watercolour, two of my favourite things!

⇒ Bugs and Fishes makes some really adorable felt objects, and she often writes up tutorials on how to make things like these lavendar teabags. Cute!

⇒ I would love to have a cut paper installation like this in my home, amazing. It’s by Swoon, a NYC street artist.

⇒ I don’t have much information on this, other than that it was the slide shown before the “Late Friday Movie” on West Australian television in the 1960s. Fabulous.

Today is my husband’s 30th birthday – he storms into his third decade on earth with panache!

My sister celebrated her birthday on November 3, or Melbourne Cup day. She was rather sozzled

⇒ I wonder what makes cats so fancy? I’m not a cat person myself, but I can’t deny Caitlin Shearer’s Leaning Tower of Cats has far too much whimsy for it’s own good! Caitlin will also be participating in Once Upon – her fairy tale is Cinderella.

⇒ There is nothing better than mango. NOTHING! I make the most delicious mango smoothies in the mornings out of some chopped up mango, ice, milk, Jalna yoghurt and honey. Nom!!

⇒ I would like to demonstrate the beauty and the curse of tumblr with this photo – billions of gorgeous photos like this are posted to tumblr and many of them are uncredited. This means I can’t track down the original creator in order to stalk them, and more importantly, credit them. If you use tumblr, or any other image collecting site, CREDIT YOUR FANCE.

⇒ I adore fringed lamps like this one from Elodie’s tiny parisian apartment (featured on decor8). My Nana used to have a lot of furnishings with fringes and tassels, I remember brushing my fingers past them softly and wishing I could drape myself with them.

⇒ Lobster and Swan has the most lovely photographs, and she sells a bunch of wonderful handmade stuff, including these garlands, on etsy.

I wasn’t sure I’d get the Fance up today because I had a bunch of stuff to do, coupled with some stuff I forgot I had to do. I’m not one of those organised bloggers who has posts queued up for weeks… noooooo. This is genuine off-the-cuff blogging magic, right here. I took my carrot cupcakes out of the oven, flopped into my seat and thought about all the fancy things I’d seen this week and thus… cobbled together this barely passable collection of whimsies!

⇒ I have always loved these collars! Love Maegan has put up a tutorial on how to create this ruffly collar, which can be wrapped and pinned different ways. If I can find any lightweight cotton fabrics I’m totally making this for summer.

⇒ Henrik Simonsen’s Midnight Garden is so gorgeous. It reminds me of a cyanotype, or sunprint. I’ve been googling them madly for the last week… I desperately want to buy a bunch of the special paper and have a sunprint party in a park with my friends.

⇒ The First Man of Fance, Matt Preston, has such a way with words! *swoon*

⇒ I am so in love with this tattoo! How could I not be?

⇒ When I am rich and fancier I’m going to have a chandelier, a painted fresco (one? why not 10?!) and moulded ceilings. Go check out the photos from the Chateau de Versailles on NOTCOT… dreamy!

⇒ Laurie Lipton’s pencil pieces are bad ass fance.

⇒ If you move in the typographic circles online, no doubt you’ll have gotten wind of this already but I wanted to show you Jessica Hische’s project called Daily Drop Cap. She’s an incredible letterer(erererer)! F stands for “Fancy”, indubitably.

⇒ If you like photobooths and fetishising French quaintness, you will probably lose your shizz over La PhotoCabine.

⇒ I would like to do my hair like this (even though I’ve been thinking of cutting it!) Julianna Swaney’s little drawings are just so beautiful.

⇒ I found this illustrated cover by Willy Pogany on tumblr, and traced it back to where it was posted on The Pictorial Life, a blog that has tonnes of gorgeous illustration!

⇒ Jeremy Clarkson is hot, there I said it. I posted this unaltered picture to tumblr because it looked suss and dear Shaun came along and managed to make it G rated AND fancy in one fell swoop. Well done, chap!

⇒ What a stunning idea for a piece of jewellery! I wonder if all those books were hand bound… it must have taken forever. This was found via Chainsaws and Jelly.

⇒ I am obsessed with the illustrations of Ernst Haeckel!

⇒ Early Vogue cover illustrations are so fancy, so wonderful! Check out a whole heap here.

⇒ The hair styling for this I-D shoot, by Paolo Roversi, is gorgeous. See more here at foto_decadent.

⇒ This ornamental typeface called Cadence is inspiring. It makes me want to try designing one too!

⇒ Monif C’s new collection, modeled by Fluvia Lucerda, is making strides towards supreme fancitude. This is the “Lola Colorblock Swoop Dress“.

⇒ A stunning dessert table styled by Lewis Miller for brides.com.

⇒ Isn’t the light just gorgeous in this shot? Harold Lloyd has a few lovely flower shots in his flickr stream.

⇒ I found this via Polka Dot Rabbit… I wish I knew where those tights were from!