New Bows and Brooches

These come in any colour combination you may desire and feature all sorts of textiles and shapes.  I also crochet jewelry, cuffs, beanies, scarfs and vests.  If you are after any of these pop me an email xx.

Multilense Competition

Dear loyal readers, today after much time passing I finally got my lomography pictures from my trip to brisbane in Feburary printed.  Much to my delight there are some real gems amongst them including live pics of New Buffalo, colourful captures from the Flickerfest Short Film Festival, random things in shops and most excitingly (naughty) captures from the Andy Warhol exhibition.  I was even more delighted to find out that the people at lomography are creating a new book of photos from multilens cameras and I am so totally entering my photos.  With lomo its all about spontaneity, a creative and candid eye and often sheer dumb luck, hopefully mine is enough to get me in their pages. Cross your fingers and toes for me xx.

Live and Local

How exciting is it to see find out about live music in your local area if your not from a Capital City eh? I suppose even if your in a metropolis area you'd still be excited to see your fave acts but anyway I'm going to see Kate Miller-Heidke and Clare Bowditch with the loverly Ashy in the near future.  They are both exceptional talents in their own ways and whats more is that they are playing in the loveliest of venues- The Tanks, which are literally old big tanks... best atmosphere ever and we shall dance like no one is watching (as pictured above) in our 50's dress up or 60's mod dresses, whichever we decide.  Living for the moment and listening to the sweet sweet music xx.

Advertising and Marketing

I am currently working at a gift shop in Cairns and my boss gave me the opportunity to do some promotional poster designs.  I was very happy to do this of as I love design and in general making things look pretty.  This is something I hope to progress further with and get some freelance graphic design jobs where I can as I have done for Essential Gifts.  I love working with a business and discussing their desires for the promotion and success of the business and coming up with a design to meet their needs.  I guess that is what one would call creativity xx. 

Coming Home

Today my baby brother came home from the hospital, and I had to do a lot of household domestics. Overall I have a content feeling of being a part of the whole, a part of a colourful home, that is not perfect but is growing and meeting challenges as they arise. There has been unending conflict since I moved into this house in Freshwater but I do believe that If I step up to the plate and contribute as much as possible it will not be wasted energy, my personality and life skills will be improved in the long haul. Also lovely Frankie magazine came out today with a story about creative types and their habitats and my were they prettyful and dynamic. The above picture is of my inspiration wall, which is changed regularly and provides a great deal of creative thought and overall eye pleasure. I think it is important to have some sort of creative outlet like this in the home. It helps you keep in touch with your intrinsic identity and reminds you of the things that you consider important xx.

I'll see you at the lights

So I have decided that despite the emotionally draining stuff I have too much to joyfully anticipate such as lovely concerts dressed as 50's and 60's movie stars, getting to know my new sibling, tacky nights at the drive in and having my university semester break among other things! After watching Factory Girl again I have confirmed my desire to somehow make a career out of bringing back the sunshine of the era of flowers in one's hair, cute mini dresses, sweet sweet music, amazing clever chairs, tassels, crochet and go-go boots and genuine desire for global peace.  However this time around it will be an unbeatable combination 60's nostalgia and lack of life altering drugs! Oh what I would do to go back to 1967! I would miss some things though, mostly my ipod, laptop and google! So anyway I have come to the conclusion the more I submerge myself in music and art culture particularly indie and 60's the happier I feel.  I cannot fail to mention the importance of quality friendships in my life too.  You people keep me motivated better than caffeine after 5 hours sleep a night for a month in a row. I think thats enough ramble for one day xx.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

It is apparent that before I show you where I am going with my creative pursuits I must show you where I have been and what I have done in the past.  This will include showing you the artworks that I have done in the past both that I am proud of and am highly critical of and the mindset I was in when I created them.  I will also show you my current inspirations and creations and what I plan on doing in the future. I have a great range of things that I create from paintings to plushy toys to lomography photos and even to handcrafted jewelry and hope to develop my ideas further and hopefully into a label and one day be able to live off of my creative products.  At the present time there is a lot going on in my life but hopefully before too long I will be able to indulge in creative thought and production and begin selling items more seriously.  This isn't going to be an easy road upward but though my innate passion I will succeed in making my dreams a reality xx. 

A New Start

In this current week I have come face to face with all my fears of myself and realized that I have a lot to change and a lot of growing to do if I am to achieve my goal of a happy and creative life for myself. I think one of the major reasons for my all the pieces of the puzzle that is my life not fitting together correctly is that my inner core, that is my passion for art and all that is creative had been suppressed. I had given up on the dream of 'making it', at least for the meantime, despite all arrows pointing in that direction, including winning the national young artist of the year in the painting category and getting my art published in Frankie just last year. It started young too, when I won the best art student of year one at 5! I apologize for tooting my own horn but there is a purpose here. So my desires to build a career out of my creative pursuits has been regained and this blog will track my progress and setbacks, and one day if I am successful (and have admirers- gosh it makes me gasp just to consider the concept) you can read this and know it is possible for you too. It wont be an easy road ahead; I will mould and lay down the golden bricks myself if I have to so I can hike (and skip with my Dorithy shoes along the flat ground) to somewhere nice and hopefully make some new friends along the way xx.