world beard day

so for those of you who didnt know. it was world beard day on saturday . what an awesome day. and for all of you who have beards, good on you. Men are supposed to be hairy and those of you who cant grow facial hair suck.
Ninemsn told me that men with facial hair get more chicks and i believe them.
I thought i would celebrate world beard day also so i made myself a ginger (all the men in my family have gingerbeards) felt beard.


soooo whats new? huh.? been a while, what a lazy bitch!
ive been working my arse off, getting up at 5:30 am every morning, leaving the house at 6:30 walking to the station, getting off at central , walking to the gallery, then working all day, reading sookie stackhouse novels and walking in my breaks and train time and getting home at 6:30, dinner, tv, make something, sleep, ive been making our house a home, kind of with little art works here and there, ive been making moustaches and iphone covers and people have been buying them and ive been posting them off to places like tasmania and melbourne and california. ive been making planet and space brooches for my friend whos going away soon, ive beentrying to make a neil diamond picture for tonys mum but i never get time to finish anything, ive been listening to boy and bear, and cloud control and i dont want to listen to anything else, except maybe duck sauce and professor green (only 1 or 2 of his ones though)
I've been waiting patiently for my hair to grow but it hasnt been growing fast enough, ive been waiting for my hairdresser to call me back so she can thin out my mushroom head, ive been trying to get those nice dents in my thighs when you tense them up and my teeth and i are having a better relationship than we ever have. i've been booking in new tattoos and getting seriously addicted to coffee, we've been in brisbane for big weddings and catching up with old friends, we've been in melbourne for family fun. and for most of all ive been waiting for spring and here it is. time to come out again yaaaaaaay!
goodbye winter. goodbye scarves and freezing toes, and snot and people sick on the train and that freezing windy rainy corner on oxford and liverpool street where you cant use your umbrella because its so windy it will turn inside out! so long sucker! 6 months until i see you again

pic time and then toning exercise time, and then tv time and snuggle with tony time then lovely lovely sleep time

New York 2

I'm back. 6 out of the 7 planes we caught were bumpy as hell but luckily the last one back to Australia was smooth and I haven't come back a nervous wreck. I have however come back 2 kilos heavier and this week before I go back to work will fix that. detox!

New York was a wonderful experience, we spent a lot of money and ate a lot of food. took a lot of photos, walked so much.

We were also stopped by a man who blogs tattoos he spots around New York, we were lucky enough to be spotted and he took a couple of photos and put them up on his blog

http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2010/06/bigfoot-and-bowl-of-fruit.html


Tennesee was an even better experience. it was beautiful and clean and we went out on a lake and ate southern food and went to our friends wedding. shot some guns, made friends, we had so much fun.

now were back and sleeping and getting things organised, dishing out presents and I heart NY stuff
i cant wait to get back into a routine

New York

I have been extremely busy and lazy at the same time.

These past weeks I have quit my job, moved house, stopped going to the gym, started eating lots of food, not feeling good about that, created a few things, sold things I've made, sold things I didn't need.
I've spent a fair amount of money on things that I think I will need in America. Like Aesop travel toiletries. New jeans, travel shoes, (they were a gift from Tony) books for the plane ride, ear plugs for hostel snorers, eye mask for sleeping in a bright city, a hat because I cant decide whether or not to cut my own hair. Its too billowy at this moment in time so the hat will flatter and hide it, but I know if i cut it wrong I will need the hat to hide it as well. I am torn between my instincts to just chop it off and the fact that I know that everytime I have cut it myself I hate it and keep cutting until I don't ever want to go out in public again. I even have a hairdressers appointment for Saturday I just don't know if I can wait that long.

So.... New York, what do you have in store for me?

I feel like I am only telling people that I am excited because that's what they expect I should be. In fact I'm so nervous about being out of my comfort zone that I really don't want to get on that plane, be stuck on that plane for 14 hours, have no space of my own for 14 hours. Have to poo on that plane. Have to eat plane food, be stuck on that plane where I will have no control over anything.
I don't like it one bit.
Then I will get to enjoy New York for 2 weeks until the next plane ride, then I will enjoy North Carolina for 9 days, until the next plane ride back to New York and then try to enjoy New York for 3 more days until I have to get on another big long plane ride home.
I wish i knew it was going to be such a big deal for me and I would have spent some time trying to learn ways to deal with it, but now I have 2 days to go and I have to get on a plane and hopefully not make a scene and embarrass myself.

New York I hope that I can get past these fears and actually enjoy your company. And I will try my hardest not to let them get the better of me. Because I would really like to have fun. I would really like to be inspired and see lots of fun things and eat some good food and drink some good coffee.
I'm going to take my camera and my notebook and I'm going to keep track.

Please be kind to me

BISMUTH

The other night I took a glimpse at the huge periodic table blutacked to my bedroom wall quickly before heading to trivia. My eyes landed on the element Bi. Bismuth. I took a shining (haha shining, get it it's a metal) to it because I had never actually heard of that one before and i liked how it sounded when i pronounced it later that night, when i was tapped on the shoulder because i was talking while they were asking the science question. what is the element Bi? i couldnt believe i. it was meant to be. it was my element. now what to do with it? i still didnt know what it was used for or anything about it.

Here it is straight from wikipedia, my new favourite element, and so pretty it is.


This trivalent poor metal chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. Bismuth is heavy and brittle; it has a silvery white color with a pink tinge owing to the surface oxide. Bismuth is the most naturally diamagnetic of all metals, and only mercury has a lower thermal conductivity. It is generally considered to be the last naturally occurring stable, non-radioactive element on the periodic table, although it is actually slightly radioactive, with an extremely long half-life. Bismuth compounds are used in cosmetics, medicines, and in medical procedures.

we didnt win trivia. we never do, but i was proud i knew at least one answer.

burbs fest

lips!

This is the latest creation from FELT SO GOOD. I spent all day working on them today and I hope my hard work pays off on saturday.

Cards!

I have been working on some greeting cards. they are blank. they are drawn with ink and have felt decorations on them. they are for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, engagements or just telling someone how much you love and appreciate them. i will be selling them for $5each or three for $12 on

www.madeit.com.au/ermymine

and also at the burbs festival coming up this saturday at blacktown showground. be there or be square ! although square is in at the moment, it is still a threat.