A4 Festival

Tonight's the opening night for The Paper Conventions 'A4 Festival'! If you're a Sydneysider, things are kicking off this evening at The Paper Mill from 6pm. There are loads of talented folk exhibiting their paper magic - including our own Matt with some pretty rad looking paper planes. It's a week long celebration of all things paper, you can head along here for some more information. I spent last week crafting some big paper flowers for the exhibition at Object gallery, and there's bound to be lots of fun things to see there! Exciting!

Tune Tuesday

Seeker Lover Keeper have had my heart skipping beats all week long. Holly Throsby, Sarah Blasko and Sally Seltman all make beautiful music independently, so it's only natural that a combination of all three of them will result in magic. Their debut album was available for listening all last week on Triple J, and boy oh boy did I make the most of it. Go and have a listen for yourself, you won't be sorry. They're also running a little competition to see them play in Victoria. Nice one!

Birthday Brunch

Gosh, ever feel like you need to spend a week catching up after a busy weekend? It's Friday, and I've been meaning to blog this all week. Continuing the birthday celebrations, I hosted a wee brunch at mum's house last Sunday. It was pink and lovely and the weather could not have been any better. The family are crossing their collective fingers for a weather hat trick - we had sunny days for our engagement party, my 21st, and now we're just holding out for the wedding. My sweet Gran (with whom I actually share a birthday, but this year she let me hog the spotlight a little) built me an adorable pink cake, complete with 21 teeny roses. Joshua committed a few hours to building the little pink stools and inflating some balloons and Julie Baby did a stellar job of keeping the tea and toast well stocked for all our guests. I sure am one lucky lady. Judging by my face in that last photo, it seems as though that expression is becoming a birthday habit.
We also did some catching up with friends, celebrated my dear friend Priscila's own 21st, had a little engagement shoot, I did some freelance work, we all did some uni work and I opened lovely gifts and ate way too many birthday biscuits! Phew. I'm tired just typing that all out! Happy Friday!

Birthday Breakfasts

Turning 21 wasn't something I was entirely keen on - but I was keen on cheesecake and day dates. Joshua took me out for breakfast and gave me a sweet pop-up bunny card he'd made, it was a gloriously sunny day, I skipped uni and did some shopping instead. 21 isn't so bad I guess.
Oh, and the mother of all birthday presents meant I was able to whip up some pretty tasty treats for a little celebration. Look at it, isn't it just the perfect shade of baby blue? I think there's meant to be some sort of rule about not cooking on your birthday, but I was pretty keen to give the KitchenAid a whirl. It goes like a dream. If I needed to add any more reasons to why I'm planning on marrying that lad, surely his present selection skills are a plus.

Tune Tuesday

I thought this might be a nice little change for Tune Tuesday... There's an interesting interview with Gregory Euclide over on My Love For You that is well worth a little look. Gregory did the artwork for Bon Iver's new album and I'm completely enthralled. So beautiful! I'm loving the album and am so excited for new music, I think Euclide did a flipping good job capturing the mood of it all. You can see more of Gregory's work at his site, even his process work at his flickr, and you should certainly go and read up on him and Bon Iver and the whole process on My Love For You.

21

you are my fave

Happy Birthday to me! Yes, yes, today I am 21! I'll be off doing fun things, like breakfast with my love, a class at uni which involves book binding and some painting, and rounding out the day with cheesecake and friends. Hooray for midweek birthdays! x

Tune Tuesday

I unashamedly love The Beastie Boys. I unashamedly love this song and often find myself rapping around the house. I wish I was on The Hot Sauce Committee. I wish I was in this film clip. Oh man, so awesome.

Rosie Rabbit

Joshua's sister Erin was taking care of a rabbit this past weekend, so I promptly made it my business to be hanging out where the bunny was. I'm so smitten. Oh, her little ears and wiggly tail! I've been reading up on how to care for rabbits, and gathering information from my sources - such as bunny-owning-lady-in-the-know, Kelly, who has a Rex rabbit named Juno who loves to be in front of the heater. I'm a heartbeat away from getting a new pet, and living a Beatrix Potter inspired life.

A Present A Day

I'm having a little birthday next week and my cute as pie mumma bear has been a whole lot more prepared for it than I have. When I went home to visit over Easter she presented me with an old typewriter case full of teeny-tiny individually wrapped presents, and I was instructed that there were 21 presents to be opened, one a day, in the days leading up to my birthday. Adorable! I've been so swamped in different types of work (uni/freelance/other) that there was a week or so there where I didn't even have time to open any of my presents. What a cruel world! These are some of my spoils, all thoughtfully planned by Julie Baby. House socks to warm my toes, mud masks, nail files, an ice cream scoop, some star stickers, heart shaped breath mints, vintage-themed stationery. Gosh, she sure is good.

Easter and Excuses

I'm still here! I'm sorry it's been such a long time between posts. I took a brief break from blogging (that happily coincided with a little break from uni) and now it's May already? What the what?
2 weeks of 'holidays' disappears in the blink of an eye, when you work for some of those days, intern for some of those days and spend quite a few days travelling. We divided up the Easter break so we could spend time with both families. A night in Orange with Joshua's folks (where I cuddled a baby, met more family, and ate Grandma's homemade apple pie) and a night in Maitland with my family (where we hunted for over 200 Easter eggs, caught up with my besties, went to church and played Billionaire). Unfortunately I forgot my camera for both visits, so I have no photographic documentation of my easter egg haul melting in my dress pockets. Sad.
My lovely Aunty surprised me with a cute as can be vintage melamine cup and saucer that she'd picked up from the Kurri Kurri Nostalgia Festival last month. It was a nice little gift exchange, since I was surprising her with an Owl Cookie Jar as a belated gift. My little cup is currently housing leftover Easter eggs and looking adorable on my desk.
What's been happening with you?