Thank you!

Yesterday, right after my yummy breakfast, I headed to school and started feeling crampy not long after. I was feeling all unwell and sick in class and had to leave earlier. It rained and I got caught in the rain, and almost puked while walking home. What a horrible horrible experience. I came home and sent myself straight to a warm shower, came out, made myself a warm cup of honey drink and crawled into bed hoping my silly cramps would go away.

I think I kind of drifted in and out of sleep for a while, until Darren came home and guess what? I had two little parcels arrive in the mail! Receiving and opening my mail in bed totally cheered me up and made me feel much better. Talented Miss Amy sent me a cute original drawing and a photograph print of hers! I'm so lucky! You can buy more of her stuff in her cute shop!

And my $12 blouse from Etsy came too! It's so cute and so quirky, I'm wearing it tonight for my tiny group show opening. ( Yup, I have another one this week. Really busy! ) I'll show you more pictures of the top soon! Will probably wear it this weekend and get some photos taken!

For now, I'm still in pain : ( Silly silly cramps! I've decided to give myself a break, stay at home these two days, only go for classes and maybe an hour max of painting in my studio. I'm running quite dry on ideas for now. Too many ideas, I need to focus. But being so hard on myself makes me even less focused. So I should really try and not think about painting. So when I return to my studio on Thursday, I'll be able to start fresh and make new work.

In the meantime, I'm going to watch this film and cheer myself up, crossing my fingers and hoping this silly pain goes away.

PS: If you've got good remedies for curing period cramps, please let me know! I'm sure other readers would love to find out for themselves too! : )

Good Morning!

Woke up bright and early today and treated myself to a warm cup of Japanese green tea and a slice of some tart pastry like-biscotti filled with raisins. There was a name for it but I forgot what it was called. It's yummy! And I love it. I got it from Browns Bakery at Albert Park on Saturday and it was so yummy, so I went back again yesterday to buy myself another slice.

This is me painting at Browns. I was with Lydia, who shot this photo, and Darren. We were waiting for the rain to stop, and for dinner time to arrive. What a nice way to spend a lazy, wet and cold Saturday.

Nicholas Building Open Studios

Not sure if you were there. I was! On both days : ) I thought it was quite fun poking my head into all the little creative spaces. Some were filled with fairy lights and jazz. Some smelled sweet with the lingering incense in the air. Others smelled of metals and machinery, some paints, some of wine, crackers and cheese!

It was quite a nice experience. I saw this lovely lovely lovely thin silver ring. I wanted it so badly. But I had to psycho myself to leave the studio without buying it. I came home and tried looking for it online. But I forgot the Jeweller's name and even the address. So that's just too bad. Oh well, I'll be able to find nicer rings. The fact that I'm in one of the world's best craft/handmade state, I'm sure Ill find a nice thin silver ring sometime in the near future! : )

It's Saturday today and I think I'm just going to take it slow and just go out and do some grocery shopping and have late brunch with friends in North Melbourne. Maybe we'll bump into Chris ( like I did, twice the last time I was there ). We never know ;-)

I hope you all have something fun lined up this weekend!

Drawing with Sarah

I met up with the very talented Sarah Mcneil yesterday for tea and some drawing at Journal. It was super fun! And we did a little collaboration. Here it is! I love it so much, I came home and framed it up right away! 

I hope you like it! I also painted my cup of hot chocolate and sandwich. But I gave my sandwich painting to Sarah so she could add her own bits in it : ) She ended up painting this sweet girl who wore a dress inspired by the colours of the ham on my sandwich. I forgot to get a picture. Oops!

We didn't have much of a look around at the Nicholas Building open studios. Spent too much time drawing and chatting. Haha. But it's alright, I'll be heading over there tonight! 

For now, it's time to get my bags packed and off to the post office to drop off some zines you guys have ordered, and then to my studio to paint, paint and paint!

See you super soon!

Southbank to Northcote Part 2

Can you see the city buildings in the picture above? Southbank's behind the city  so that gives you a gauge how far I walked. Haha. One day I'd like to try walking from Southbank to Camberwell.

But for today, I'll just be walking from Southbank to Fitzroy and back to the city. I'll be meeting Sarah Mcneil for tea and some drawing at this lovely cafe! And we'll head down to Nicholas Building's Open Studio Day! I can't wait! It's going to be so exciting looking at all the wonderful studios and works! 

I'll be bringing my camera along and will try to take some photos!

It's my first time meeting Sarah. I am crossing my fingers and hoping I don't get too shy. I'm a fan of her works and mentioned her in my Design Files interview last week! You see, I'm really quite shy when it comes to meeting fellow bloggers. Hah. Oops!

Alright, I'm heading to school first before embarking on my walking trip again!

See you!

Opening Night was a blast!

As you can see from the pictures, many many came despite severe weather warnings. Melbourne's weather is just so silly! And even though I stepped onto a nail just before the opening, which really hurt my foot by the way, I was really glad and excited the whole show turned out just right. Yay! 

PS: My foot's alright now. It bled a bit but it's alright : )

Tonight!

We're opening the little painting group show which I've curated. It was so much hard work but all worth it! Do come along if you can!


See you!
xxx