Chair love again

We all know the interwebz is full of crafty people and arty people doing good stuff. Sometimes I stumble across something that inspires me. This blog ~ Flourish and Blume ~ does, which I found this morning via Ink and Spindle.
Bummer that they're in Lismore, so far away. 'Cause they could really enable my found-roadside-chair fetish. (Note that I walked past one last week and left it on the nature strip. A 60s vinyl studded boxy type armchair no less. Sigh.)
Anyway, I really love this piece :
Yes that's hand drawn and then embroidered. Yum.
Image from this post here.
It makes me want to stitch all over my generic Ikea sofa. But never fear, I won't take that project on, as I know I'll never finish it.
I'll just keep drooling over their blog. (Flourish and Blume that is.)

Want

I found these letterpress posters via Ms Cate's blog.
I want this one.

I can relate, in fact it might be the new blog name for a while.

More love

Went to see this fella last night. Most of Australia have no idea who he is, but I seriously adore him.
Apart from being a great songwriter, singer and musician, he engages with the audience in a way I've never encountered before. I went to get an autograph after the show (Hubert had to push me to, I was too shy) and I'm sure I babbled something non-sensical to him, although I do remember shaking his hand and telling him he should move himself and his elderly parents to Australia.
Seriously who could not love a guy that:
- tells you stories about how his Hawthorn beanie started a fight at a Geelong gig, resulting in someone's tit flying out of their top
- sings you a song called "Hand Job on the Church Bus" and gets you to join in with singing and gestures during the chorus
- nipple rubs an audience member
- plays poems and songs from his iphone that his 81 year dad has sent him
and
- makes us all hug our neighbour during the final song.
Love the Poltz.

Like

so swollen, originally uploaded by theloneknitta.

Now there's someone who is committed to their knitting!

Does anyone know?

If anyone around Melbourne runs any sort of evening crafty get togethers any more a la Brown Owls? No, I'm not putting my hand up to organise anything, because we all know I'm CRAP at that (but always happy to help someone that has their shit together, unlike me). But I wouldn't mind going to a regular one to get out and about and do crafty stuff... plus I can't have them at my house as Hubert needs to get rid of me sometimes so that he can study in peace.

Any suggestions?

I agree

"home is where my dog is", originally uploaded by monkeyandsquirrel.

I love this. Big time.

Although perhaps it should be "Home is where my dog is..."

~ chewing up things in the backyard

~ snorfing under the backdoor to get in

~ skidding on the polished floorboards

~ dropping the odd stinky fart

~ chasing the cats up and down the hallway

~ living in hope that any food in the house ends up in his mouth

~ looking for hugs from his humans

~ snoring on the rug on his back with his legs in the air.

Resolve

It's the time of year for everyone to list what they want to resolve, plan to do or achieve for the coming year. I thought I should list some... but, um... err...I was a bit stumped.

So as a result of a bit of FB discussion and some flailing around, I've come up with:

- achieve some level of competence in my uke playing (may have to join these guys)
- learn to skate
- attend more live gigs (at least one a month)
- get a new tattoo (the only thing ever stopping me for this one is money...so it's "save some money and")
- replace some of my worn out clothes (yes I'm the person who wears things until they're threadbare "just around the house" and then "nips off to the shops", not caring that they look like a bag lady)
- start applying for new jobs...and hopefully get one
- be able to reach the bath plug (this one is deliberately obscure...don't ask just yet)
- go to a Yoga class
- organise somewhere to sell all those darn pillowcases I keep embroidering (I really don't want to run a crafty business anymore, but it would be still nice to get some stuff out there)

Okay, that's it for now. Any suggestions?

[wee guitar in pic from here. You know you want one.]

New digs

For the curious, here is a piccy (from the estate agents' site) of the new villa. Yes, it is actually this cute and tidy (due to the fact that the owner comes and does the garden for us.) I'm not sure when it was built, guessing late 1940s? So now we're out of Frankytown, which leaves me with mixed feelings, but I knew I had to get out of there, as I'd been there too long and it had too many memories that were doing my head in.
So I guess my new hobby will be complaining about freaks on the 86 tram.

PS. Back to work today, not thrilled about that fact.

Edit - added the house piccy...it was there when I scheduled this post yesterday but obviously went walkabout. Sorry folks.

Why, hello

Yes, it's been a long time between posts. A few things have kept me from blogging or doing anything exciting in general:
~ the CBFs
~ goddamn work relocating me to the city - was meaning 3+ hours travel time every day
~ consequently, searching for a new rental
~ moving house
~ the CBFs
and
~ nothing much to say really.

Anyway, time to wish you a Happy New Year, and as the last couple of years (for me) have been a bit crappy, I'm hoping this one will be a good'un.