Well folks, a little over a week (and a lot of work) and I'm done uni (for a while). If you're waiting on a letter from me, never fear! It will be signed, sealed and delivered shortly.

I've been trying to get out and take photos around the city lately for an assignment. Trying to take the 'perfect' photo, for a purpose, with a deadline, in wet weather, has not been as fruitful as I'd like. Here are a few I thought I'd share;

Blogosphere, meet (some of) Newcastle...

 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

^ Before We Begin by Christopher Jonassen.

As I'm strapped for time for any proper posts, I thought I'd fill out a 'Six Senses Saturday Sunday' meme (started by this lady, and found via this lady);



Right Now I'm...

Tasting: Schrogetten yoghurt-strawberry flavoured chocolate from Aldi, mmyum. 

Smelling: Incense and C's cooking. 

Seeing: One of our cats snuggled up all in a ball on the couch. 

Hearing: C unpacking groceries (he's such a good wife :P) and 'Sydney from a 727' by Paul Kelly (it contains the line, "have you ever fallen for a girl with different coloured eyes and sent her letters full of lies?", heh). 

Touching: Freshly cleaned keyboard keys; never again will I purchase a white computer. 

Feeling: Inexplicably exhausted and definitely not inclined to start my poster project. I wish I could buy some motivation. I need a personal uni trainer, someone to stand over my shoulder and egg me on to finish assignments. Any takers? I'll pay you $20 for every assignment I get done? I've got four due in two weeks.

You might not be able to tell that there have been some little changes around here; a quick layout tidy-up and I decided on a whim to purchase a url. Blogger offers them for $10/year (Dashboard > Settings > Publishing) and I thought why not, so, hello from www.goodnightlittlespoon.com! :)

Here's one of my all-time favourite Youtube videos;



Happy weekend!

^ Billy Shire.

Hello blog,
I've missed writing to you.
I am sorry and I will make it up to you in three weeks when I have finished failing my first year of university!
Love, Bianca.



These three lovelies came this morning, total mood lifter.


^ Rondy sent me this impeccably decorated little package with some gorgeous vintage postcards that once belonged to her grandparents collection. I'm particularly fond of the Continental Airlines postcard in the centre. She also included a little package of red! Love it!


^ Holy cow, it was like Christmas when I opened this package this morning. One of my absolute favourite bloggers, Katrina of Pugly Pixel, sent me so many goodies from her store Mr Rabbit Sir. I had so many of her items in my wishlist, how did she know?! I hung up the pretty garland she sent me straight away (don't mind my dirty windows). Uhh-mazing! I can't wait to use the bits and pieces she sent me, though a part of me wants to save and hoard them.


^ I thought it was about time I bought myself a Letter Writers Alliance membership. You get access to some sweet donwloads and a cute badge. I loved their envelope decor too.


^ Soph sent me gorgeous things! Blackbird paperclips! That tea smelled so good I had to track some more down.



Screw you uni work, hello letters!


^ A very bloated envelope for Jane. The envelope is made from ridiculously expensive textured Japanese paper.


^ Bits and pieces for the lovely Angelia. The envelope is made from a page of Frankie magazine.


^ To little Bella.


^ One of my last Cavallini & Co envelopes and a handful of postcards for Jenny.


^ A bundle of bits for Milly - she requested a zine, so I popped in my copy of a great local zine full of wonderfully detailed pictures of places and things around Newcastle (most of which i know). Look see;




^ A long overdue package for Sylvia, my first elephant dung envelope sent out!


^ Another overdue letter, for lovely Nely in Oregon. Envelope made from a page of a Sportsgirl catalogue.


^ A colourful package for miss Zoe.


^ For Amy, overdue!


^ I've always been terrible at origami, but I finally mastered the art of the paper crane and made a small army (C said it was only a squadron). I attached these ones, made from paper my mum brought back from Japan, to a frame with fishing line and made a mobile for our room, it's real pretty. And I made another for C's niece for her birthday.


^ The sad demise of the new letter opener. A particularly hefty letter was no match for this little guy this morning and he snapped in two, not before he cut me up real good. Blood, everywhere! Well, not everywhere, but there was some and it hurt. I need to find something really heavy duty to open my mail!

Also, my little sister is staying with me tonight and I asked her to pick a winner for the Flickr account giveaway and she drew out Van. Congratulations lady, I'll be in touch!

Okay, now back to the uni grind stone. Waaaaaaaah.

^ So gorgeous. By The Ever Dazzling/blog.

Here are a cute bunch of giveaways that I've spotted lately and I thought I'd share;

- Genuine Incongruity's macaroon jewellery giveaway, (ends 8th May) here.
- Cerebral Exrement's blog birthday giveaway, (ends 9th May) here.
- Westervin's Summer Lapicitos necklace giveaway, (ends 9th May) here.
- Claudia Pearson's spring tote giveaway, (ends 10th May) here.
- Kirsten Hubbard's 'Hold Still' book and Moleskine giveaway, (ends May 10th) here.
- Lovely By M's For The Easily Distracted print giveaway, (ends 10th May) here.
- Rachie's Place's tiny giveaway, (ends 11th May) here.
- Much Love Anna's Beta Boutique giveaway, (ends 11th May), here.
- In The Next Room's graduation giveaway (ends 11th May), here.
- Uguisu's border masking tape giveaway, (ends 12th May) here.
- PaperJot's Petite Threla lip balm/glace giveaway, (ends 12th May) here.
- Ashley Reynolds' paper ephermera giveaway, (ends next week) here.
- Thompson Family Life's Emily Ann Designs giveaway, (ends 12th May) here.
- A Girl And Her Blog's Sex and the City NYC Tour, (ends 13th May) here.
- For The Easily Distracted's Polaroid themed giveaway, (ends 14th May) here.
- Dolce Vita Micaela's necklace and purse giveaway, (ends 14th May) here.
- That [Unreliable] Girl's Leeloo handbag giveaway, (ends 16th May) here.
- Low Flying Squid's Scrabble tile pendant giveaway, (ends 17th May) here.
- Bluebird Luxe's Built By Wendy dresses giveaway, (ends 19th May) here.
- I Fly Like A Bird's Secret Mystery giveaway, (ends 20th May) here.
- Art Is The Result Of Transformations' Alice In Wonderland giveaway, (ends 21st May) here.
- Leigh Shepherd's brooch giveaway, (ends 22nd May) here.

Phew! So many!