At the moment

...With New York's Favorite Beer, originally uploaded by What Makes The Pie Shops Tick?.

I am so glad it's Friday again. I seem to be dragging myself through each week. Hubert suggests that I make some goals to give me some focus and something to work towards, so that's on my list of things to do.

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No bowling this weekend, that was last Saturday night...it's one of my new favourite things to do. I'm not sure why, unlike the photo I don't have a colour coordinated bowling outfit, don't do leaps of joy, and certainly don't drink beer whilst bowling. Perhaps adopting all these practices will improve my game? Maybe the appeal is that I just enjoy smashing things down. Most of the time. When I actually hit the pins, that is.
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Been thinking of another name for the blog...haven't got anything yet. Meh. The only thing I can't thought of, I can't really use, as it's a bit inappropriate. My friend the Knitting Knazi was telling me how her boyfriend has a tattoo (one of many) on his arm that says "Hello fuckers". What a delightful name for the blog, thought I. Maybe it would look lovely as an embroidered blog header.

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Just finished reading this book, as I bought it here for $5. If you ask me, is it good? I'd say with all sincerity "Yes, you should read it", but at the same time, I didn't really enjoy it, and couldn't "connect" with the author. Oprah would probably say "Oh you're not ready for it yet, or you don't want to change blah blah" but I think it's more a case of "One man's meat is another man's poison"...well in this case, not quite poison, but maybe I'd prefer the chicken or fish to the meat. It should be noted that I recently started reading a Deepak Chopra book on death and abandoned it three quarters of the way through because I thought it was both boring and uninspiring. Also I didn't feel that his examples were logically proving his arguments. I don't know if Deepak is chicken, fish or maybe even lentils. My favourite "improve yourself" type book that I've read in the past year is this one.

The other thing I'm reading in bed is this...and golly it's slow. I enjoy a nice Agatha Christie novel on the tram, and was hoping the autobiography would discuss her writing process in more detail, but it's more like "around the same time that we were holidaying in Torquay, I worked on 'The Man in the Brown Suit', and it was eventually ready for the publishers." Hence, it gets me in a very sleepy mood before bed each night.

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In other news, I bought Hubert this as a pressie.

He had a guitar years ago, and had to sell it... he told me that he was told at the time something to the effect of "You should grow up now anyway". This made me both indignant and sad. I found the guitar on ebay, so it was a bit of a bargain. One of my ambitions it to learn the piano, and Hubert has offered to give me a hand with that. Wonder if he realises what he's gotten himself in for?

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In other news, still trying to overcome my fear of "rolling". Let's hope I get there. This girl is encouraging me lots.
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Happy Friday, whatever you're up to this weekend.

Kittens

Rosemary, Peter and Leo with kittens at Mt Eliza, originally uploaded by State Library of Victoria Collections.

Is this a kitten race? Who knows? But proof everyone loves a kitten!

Source : Photographer unknown, possibly Una or Violet Teague.
Gift of Ms Felicity Druce through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, in memory of Una Sybella Teague, Kenric Teague 2009.

The Clarke Sisters

The afternoon world, the bees have stung the softball girls.
The midnight world, the crystal ball down the wooden hall.
The treehouse stands, their early childhood, were treehouse plans.
And right above,

The Clarke Sisters, handed down to love.
Handed down to love. Handed down to love.

Bit o'crochet

Today during a somewhat aimless wander in Lincraft, I bought this pattern book:




There's also a crochet blankie pattern in there, and a granny square one too. I know the rest of blogland seems to be madly in love with granny squares, but no, I don't really want to make a cardi trimmed with them, or a scarf, or slippers.

But each to their own.

What I did start is the long stripey v-neck jumper...which basically looks like a straight multi-coloured blankie worked in treble. The yarn is somewhat yummy. Of course, it remains to be seen if I will actually finish it.

This afternoon

Not well, so am at home pottering about in a lacklustre fashion.

There is tea:



Finally finished (?) a little wall hanging, yes a Sublime Stitching artist series one:



In situ next to roadside chair:


Apologies for the awful photos, the light in here is not so good at the moment, and I'm just using the iThingy.

for Jodie

Following on for yesterday's post, here's a couple of the uncensored ones...



Sorry to anyone easily offended. Hehehee...

And last but not least:

amusing myself

This was one of the ones without the f word in it.
Found this poster generator via Buttontree Lane. Cheers.

dainty

Found via Facebook.

So...

I'm off to post some parcels, and I stop into Typo to get some deco tape to make the boxes extra secure. And I come out with this. Oh dear. I am a bit pleased with the Yellow Submarine though.

[I bought the hoop artwork because when I was fussing over where to live, Hubert would say that to me. I'm going to attempt to embroider over it.]

Acquired

Man and woman on a Malvern Star abreast tandem bicycle, c. 1930s, by Sam Hood, originally uploaded by State Library of New South Wales collection.

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A wee yellow pushie, that is.

now you're really livin'

Rant

Hubert and I just returned from a trip to our local Savers...mostly with books as they're the only thing that one can afford there. Is it just me, or WHAT THE HELL are Savers thinking? Old CDs that I used to have in my collection (for example Mechanical Animals, and Mellon Collie) $7.99 each. What?? I could go to JB Hi Fi and buy them for $10 brand new. So they stayed there. Oh look, vintage 30s Grindley dinner plates, a design I would have loved to own called "Acacia Bloom"...$9.99 each. So for the 3 dinner plates and 5 breakfast plates, ah, 80 bucks?! A cute pair of shoes, hmm my size, fit too...$14.99. Nah. I bought a couple of old Agathas for 99cents each, and two old Kylie concert programs for my sis. Savers, you can FRO, because you're beyond ridiculous now.

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rides1, originally uploaded by drewzel.

Today I am peeved as I went to get the showbag guide out of the work paper, and someone has pinched it! Before it even got to our office...and even wrapped the papers back up to look like they'd been untouched. Colour me disgusted. Now my plans to peruse the showbags and plan imaginary purchases are thwarted. Grr.

However, all is not lost as I messaged Hubert who has a copy of today's Herald Sun for me to plunder. He sent me a message back "we can go if you like". Hmm, a quandry, to show or not to show? There are animals and showbags. (Like like) There is craft to um, err, wonder at. (Like) There is fairy floss. (Like) There are rides and lots of people. (Do not like.)

PS. yes, I can hear you thinking "Wow, tackling the big issues of our time there Drewzel." To which I say, yes, I know, but I'm really not capable of anything much at the moment. I don't want to think any more. Maybe I can rename the blog "Vacuous and Mundane"?

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Ninja wants to know, so it's mini interview time. In the chair today is Chris, who was in the right place at the right time.

Q1. why do you live where you do

Q2. favourite song ever

Q3. purpose of life

Q4. julia gillard?

Q5. strawberry or chocolate.

the end.

1.because I live where I love and I love where I live

2. Am I ever gonna see your face again (no way get fucked fuck off)

3. The annual ute muster and B&S ball

4. would be a top root

5. VB

I trust you are suitably enlightened now. Thank you.

Om nom nom

Sunday brekky, this was joined by hashbrowns 3 minutes later. Ta Hubert.

Father's day

We've still got him around, I'm fortunate.

Oh Daiso!

As we were in Templestowe for a family lunch today, I suggested to Hubert that we go to Shoppingtown for a look. My master plan was to go to Daiso, as I'd been promising myself I'd go and check it out for ages now. So after feeling a bit lost in a panoply of shops (as I hadn't been there for years) we found it, and it was as 2 dollar-ariffic as I had hoped. Of course, our green friends should turn away now, because basically it's full of plastic crap. But it's fun crap, with kawaii characters, untranslatable packaging, and random stuff for kitchen and bathroom stuff that I'd never think to do in the first place (eyelid glue?!) Hubert obligingly carried the basket for me and said at the checkout "I think you've got about XX bucks worth of crap", and he was only 9 dollars under my final total. Oh dear. But my kawaii urge/Japanese goods fetish has been satisfied for a while, and now the kitchen has four new chair cushions made out of cute Japanese fabric (bunnies, turtles and dragonflies) as well as a bunny table runner. (Apparently it was a hand towel, but I'm sticking with table runner.)

Picture o' tons o' crap:





Ninja approves of this black cat notebook that I bought for my sis:

Here we've got some peony bath salts (in the box with the girl), bear shaped pump bottle, wooden based pincushion, pink bento box, and various notebooks. You can see the green bunny seat cushion underneath.



The beauty section is good fun too, with lots of little travel bottles and baggies, and all the false eyelashes you'd ever want (in my case, none). Plus I bought myself some concealer and eyebrow "glue". And for fans of Kawaii stationery, there's lots of supercutesy bits and bobs. I think we'll take Miss C for a visit when she's in town next. They also had crockery, mugs, plastic containers, cleaning products and and all your other useful two dollar type stuff. Hubert was pleased to find some filter bags for making his herbal tea. And I grabbed some innersoles and foot patches. So I'd definitely recommend a visit if you are inclined towards some Japanese frippery.

More tatt-ery

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No, I'm not rushing out to get my Spikey dog tattooed onto me, I just thought that this was pretty cool.