I just felt the need to blog about this purse, I want one so bad. You choose the map on the purse from Australian cities and towns. This one is $55 which I think is fairly reasonable. I'm in the market for a new purse, but I need something with places for cards, etc, but this would be a perfect coin purse. From Map29;







So lovely.

I wish I had more Dexter to watch! Now I'm all caught up I have to wait for each episode of season 4 to air in the US. Hmpf! The cupboards here are almost bare and I have no idea what to make myself for dinner. I feel like going out to my favourite pizza place, but I can't warrant spending $20 on dinner just for myself. I wish C was home a day earlier and could cook for me! I've missed his cooking him so much! :P I'm thinking of taking him to see 500 Days of Summer next week but don't tell him.

1. 10 Awesome Images That Are Actually Paintings;


2. Lego Cello;


3. If I Would Make A Documentary It Would Be About...



4. Could I please have this in my mailbox? (via A Girl and her Blog)


5. Dads in Short Shorts reminded me of my dad, so here's a picture of my dad in short shorts, haha. I'm the one on his shoulders, my brother is on the canon. I don't think my dad had many other items of leg wear besides short shorts;


I was hoping to go to the Bird In The Hand zine workshop today, but the weather is telling me otherwise. Apparently another dust storm may be on it's way. At the moment it's just ridiculously windy, but I'm taking no chances. Instead I'll get to do much more fun things, like mopping all the floors in the house to get off the sticky red dust, doing washing that I can't hang out, etc.

Yesterday I got up in Dungog and my sister walked me to the train station (wagger), and I had to catch a rail bus to Maitland before transferring to a train. I had two ridiculously heavy bags and when I got off the train in Hamilton I had to wait for about 10 minutes to cross the road due to traffic. This man in a car stopped just before me and made this huge gesture for me to cross in front of his car and yelled at me and I was like 'Woah...' and crossed really quickly. For some reason being yelled at by a stranger just set me off to having a bad day. I got home to find a new mobile bill and I'd just finished paying off the old one this week, I looked up prices for getting a new birth certificate and felt poor, I watched a bit of an old video my dad took when we were kids, thinking it would make me feel nostalgic and happy, but it just made me feel sad for my dad. Eventually Doug showed up at my house to take me opshopping with his huge gambling win and handed me a bunch of redskins which he knows I love and the day got a bit happier. After opshopping we went to Office Works (Doug calls it Orifice Works) and Doug bought me a small gift which I picked out, a letter/postcard stand :D It's the best thing ever invented. Then I came home and had a nap and made postcards and envelopes out of record covers. Anyway, this has been my really long winded way of saying that I had a bad day yesterday, but it got better. Ha.

Here's a Swap-bot Mail Art swap envelope I sent out this week. I packed it full of so many things, I hope she likes it. The guy I gave it to at the post office didn't blink an eyelid at it, which was a good feeling;







Ps. DID I MENTION THAT C GETS HOME TOMORROW? EEEEEEEEE!

I was in a Swapbot swap wherein you had to send out a mix CD to two partners containing songs that had names in their titles. This was mine;

01. THE GO! TEAM : Patricia's Moving Picture
02. BAT FOR LASHES : Sarah
03. NEKO CASE : Margaret vs Pauline
04. MORRISSEY : I Have Forgiven Jesus
05. BEN FOLDS : Fred Jones, Pt. 2
06. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE : Cath...
07. EELS : Mr E's Beautiful Blues
08. IRON & WINE : Jesus The Mexican Boy
09. FIONN REGAN : Noah (Ghost In A Sheet)
10. BON IVER : For Emma
11. REGINA SPEKTOR : Samson
12. WHY? : Simeon's Dilemma
13. CITY & COLOUR : Casey's Song
14. ANGUS AND JULIA STONE : Bella
15. BELLE & SEBASTIAN : Judy And The Dream Of Horses
16. ELLIOTT SMITH : Son Of Sam
17. GOD HELP THE GIRL : I'll Have To Dance With Cassie
18. ELVIS COSTELLO : Alison
19. JENS LEKMAN : A Postcard To Nina
20. THE AVETT BROTHERS : The Ballad Of Love And Hate
21. KATE MILLER-HEIDKE : Little Adam

Download tracks here (I didn't have time to upload a .zip sorry)

*Ps. I totally stretched it with that Avett Brothers song, but it's such a lovely song and 'Love' and 'Hate' are actually names of characters in the song.

A mix of Smiths/Morrissey covers. If you can think of any other good ones let me know.

Tracklisting:

01. SHE & HIM : Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
02. JEFF BUCKLEY : The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
03. STARS : This Charming Man
04. DEFTONES : Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
05. THE PUPPINI SISTERS : Panic
06. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE : This Charming Man
07. PLACEBO : Bigmouth Strikes Again
08. THE LUCKSMITHS : There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
09. BELLE & SEBASTIAN : The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
10. TATU : How Soon Is Now?
11. MUSE : Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
12. PETE YORN : Panic
13. PSYCHEDELIC FURS : How Soon Is Now?
14. COLDPLAY : Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
15. BOSTONIANS : This Charming Man
16. THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH : Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
17. ACACIA : The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get
18. MOM'S FAVOURITE VASE : London
19. RADON : Interesting Drug
20. A TRIBUTE TO THE SMITHS : Back To The Old House
21. RECLINERS : Girlfriend In A Coma

Download zip or individual files here.

Ps. I just had to include that timeless Tatu cover.