blinking flights

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

No longer at this address!!

Please head over to my new typepad blog, I won't be posting from this one anymore!

The new address is:
www.blinkingflights.typepad.com

It took a while., but I finally got it done!
B.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Ok. I'm sure you've noticed that things have changed a lot around here! I've had to muck things about in order to import all my posts over to typepad... I'm back to my good old calm self after some serious moments of tension, and a little agony this evening... I just need to tidy everything up and figure out how to get my sidebars interesting and tidy, and my banner of course...

You can check it out at: www.blinkingflights.typepad.com, but it's so not figured out yet-- so not judgement ok?!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Bare with me!

I'm mucking around with my blog tonight... going to try and move it over to typepad, and apparently it might mess things up over here at blogger... so we'll see what happens!
B.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Flickr Faves: Kinetic

1. Kinetic 173_Brane Theory 3, 2. b6282 Kinetic Cityscape, 3. Kinetic Frost Tower, 4. Kinetic, 5. Kinetic, 6. Kinetic Art at the Turnpike, 7. Kinetic Photography - Physiogram #3, 8. Kinetic 160 - The Culprit, 9. Kinetic

I don't know why exactly, but I chose the word kinetic this week for my flickr faves, and I think all the pictures look so rad together! So colourful and well, kinetic!

More Flickr Faves as always at Art Mind-- you can see all the craftiness that was Craftparking too! Looks like fun!

B.

Pattern Love!

This weekend I finally finished off a little purple pup for my niece, using a pattern from the Softies book I loaned to her and her sister a while ago, and it made me remember how truly easy it is to make something when someone else has gone to the trouble of making up a pattern for you to follow! I only had the pattern pieces, but having made a couple in the past I was able to figure out my own instructions-- but yikes, it was nice! So nice in fact that I popped over to the Wee Wonderfuls website and bought this great PDF pattern. I have a whole bunch of birthdays coming up, so I'm thinking they'd be excellent gifts-- I'm pretty excited to make dolls with woolen hair as I've never done that before.

Gosh... This is from Hillary's photostream- names are Kit, Chloe and Louise! :)
B.

Monday, August 17, 2009

5 things!

Jess at A Life So Peachy tagged me, so the game goes:
List 5 things that make you feel fabulous/sexy/beautiful, and then tag 5 others to play along...

So here we are:

1. Lame as it may seem, I love the feel, smell and everything associated with clean sheets, and I go to bed early on sunny laundry days just to soak up the smell of sunshine as we call it around here! Feels awesome.

Photo credit: Andrew Rehage

2. Using my hands/brains to make! This makes me feel incredibly happy, proud, clever and useful. It makes me feel alive.

3. Having my hair cut! This is one of my favourite things in life for so many reasons! Ever since I was little I loved getting my hair cut, I love people playing my with my hair, I love head massages, and I love the way that my hair feels when all the dead bits are chopped off... but mostly I love the change, I love that you can change the way the look so easily, it's refreshing-- like rearranging furniture, and I walk around feeling fabulous and smiley for days. Ahhhh... just the thought of it!

Photo credit: Goreckidawn

4. My routines and the people/critters that I share them with! Society makes out like routines are incredibly drab and to be pitied, but as a Capricorn, I'm a firm believer in their awesomeness... I love the rituals that develop when you find something lovely to do, such as making sure you stop at Victor's Patisserie in Enmore to stock up on a ricotta cake and a Portuguese tart before heading back to the Gong... we have about a million lovely things like this going on daily around here, and I love that they and the people involved in them are a part of my life!

5. And lastly, I'm totally with Jess on her #3... 'growing up and being comfortable in myself'. I think I'm only just arriving in this place, but I look at younger girls now, and I don't care that I'm almost 30 (well, I do care a little), but I don't want that all that youngness back, all the insecurity, the uncertainty, all the pain, the uneasiness, the walking around and trying to figure out what on earth you are supposed to be doing with yourself each day... I'm not saying I didn't have heaps of fun back then, because I did, but I'm happy at where I've arrived, and I know where I'm headed, and who with, and I couldn't care less if my ears stick out a little, if my hips are crazy big and I have very odd looking toes... it's not important.
NO FEAR!

Photo credit: Ucumarl

Wow! That was a hard post, but thanks for the reflection Jess!

Now I'm tagging:

Ning at babalisme
Sarah at Threaded Basil
Kimberly at Sunshine and Lollypops
Jess at Jess Gets Crafty
Amy at Amy Perrotti

Have a fantastic Monday!
B, x.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Another week of p.i.f.-ing!

Wow. My house is feeling a little leaner, a little less cluttered, and Henry is enjoying more cat friendly zones, such as in boxes and up high in cupboards-- spaces previously occupied by bugs and the like.

I'm also loving that I have next to no 'old stock' (keep in mind, old=about 3 months old!), because I feel like creatively, it lets me move on to new things... which is awesome. So stay tuned for another 16 days of p.i.f items in my Etsy Shop... which again, is looking rather bleak... I'm hoping to rectify that today by taking some photos, but keep in mind that if you see something on the blog that you want, and that I haven't managed to get it up into the shop, just send me an email or a convo in Etsy, and I'll hold it for you-- You can either purchase it through Etsy or simply pick it up at the markets on a Saturday if you're in Sydney.

Ok, well Happy Sunday!
My joyous task for the day is cleaning the house... so I guess I should probably start that some time soon!
B, x.