Holidays pt1

I am on holidays for two weeks currently and instead of working my way through the pile of homework and assignments I have, this is what I have been doing..

On Monday I met up for coffee and gossip with the bff in the morning and had some little friends over for drinks and had a lovely little evening, so much so I didn't take photographic evidence of the plate of shots, fairy bread and coffee table treats.

Tuesday Luke and I had planned to sleep in, however in an attempt to make my holidays fun I called my mum and sister and we organized a little lunch at this hidden gem cafe in Budgewoi, The Glass Dome Cafe. My aunty also came and lunched too!

All things babushka

In the spirit of all things babushka lately I spent my Saturday gluing, blanket stitching, cutting (not myself, pieces of felt), watching season three of Veronica Mars and sipping chai green tea. Yes, chai green tea! I had never even heard of it or seen it but now I have a big dirty crush on it. Its one of those small joys people leave behind when they move on I guess. Thanks Elisha! But babushka! Yes! After I drove Luke to work I saw the Olive Tree Markets were on and contemplated going but as I was drying my hurr I had a burst of brooch making motivation. And I have come to realise if I don't use that motivation when it first bursts it is almost impossible to recreate it later. So I made babushka brooches! I am quiet pleased with how they turned out. My camera is out of action so apologies for the bad hiptophotography.

Pinch & a punch!

I had quiet the eventful day yesterday, I had a 10am booking to get a tattoo at diabolik to get a babushka doll on the inside of my arm. I was super nervous because I only settled on the babushka design two days prior to the booking and was convinced it was going to hurt so much that I would only get the outline. After three hours of awkward positioning and that awful tattoo gun sound in my ear it looks fracking fantastic! I am so freaking pleased with the way it turned out and highly recommend diabolik. The outline took almost an hour which I thought was ages as the tattoo on my other arm is a lot bigger and it took an hour and a bit in total altogether. I didn't mind though after I saw just how neat and precise it is.

After my tattoo Luke and I bought Easter eggs and while we were in the Easter egg aisle we saw Chris Joannou which excited me to no end because as a 15 year old I had the biggest wet patch for him and the crush feels a little resolved now that I have stalked him in the super market! We went to 3 monkeys for smoothies afterwards, I got a snickers smoothie and Luke got some sort of berry smoothie. They have the best smoothies in cooks hill. And to finish our day off we went for dinner at Muchos, which was amazing and sad all at once because our housemate Elisha was leaving and that was her farewell/Stu's late birthday dinner. She dropped us home and as she drove off we did punch thrusts. Bye Elisha!

9.30am (lukes good hiptophotography skills just shine through in this!)

3pm

Elisha packing up her tricks and treats!

Mushroom Brooches

For about a decade I have been meaning to get around to making some little cute treats to sell at Flash Heart on Darby St. I attempted a material cuckoo clock brooch earlier this year, but I kind of sucked super hard at them. After not crossing it off my to-do-list in a couple of weeks, I finally got around to making some felt mushroom brooches! They are still drying at the moment, I just have to stick the brooch back on them and boom! Ready to pin on some pretty girls vest!

Hop, skip & a week

I haven't posted anything all week, or all last week either. So ...

On Monday I had a shift at work and it wasn't that terrible either. Angelo, former Little Swallows owner and Beaumont St's resident dreamboat, drove past as I was cleaning the front windows and waved. Dreamy. Word has it he left his wife for an 18-yr-old. Sigh. And the day just got better with a free latte from Little Swallows (guerrilla advertising much?). The only thing better than a latte is a free latte! The Beaumont St part of my day finished with a bad pot of chai tea with a friend after my shift. This should have been a slight indicator for what was to come..

I went to Mayfield woolworths to get some broccoli and peanut sauce and while I was avoiding an awkward encounter with a past friend, I was subjected to an unavoidable encounter with somebody who is not a friend. 'Miss Mayfield' is a friend of one of Luke's ex-gfs who goes out of her way to embarrass herself, cause a scene and make insulting remarks to us when she sees us out and about. Which is always fun. As she walked past me she lent in close and called me a 'faggot'. This is funny for a couple of reasons, mostly because I am married to a male and secondly because Miss Mayfield has not actually spoken to me - aside from her recurring insults. It is hard to take her so seriously though as she trolls about Newcastle with her faux punk attitude and dirty, bitter scowls. IT IS NOT MY FAULT GWEN DIDN'T WANT YOU AS ONE OF HER HARAJUKU GIRLS. 

One of my housemates was offered an amazing opportunity and will be leaving 79 next week so most of this week will be spent getting tipsy, watching movies, imitating each other and Lisa Mitchell and shots! Which has been most of my week so far anyway. Bye Elisha!

Also during the week, Luke and I dusted off the Blythes and took them to the cement lounge along the walk way next to the river/creek and took some photos. Ha! I haven't paid any attention to my little Blythes in foreverrr!