^ MEET SUSY POW.

Here is a short and sweet promo; It is my friend Susy Pow's birthday tomorrow and coinciding near perfectly, it is also the round-about 1st birthday of her beautiful little Newcastle zine shop; Bird In The Hand. She is a cute lady; a Newcastle roller derby queen, kitten-enthusiast, crafty zinester, she's been featured in Frankie magazine and she's an all round sweet gal (with a bonus excellent surname - yup, Pow is really her surname). To celebrate these two important anniversaries, this week she is offering free domestic shipping around Australia on the wares in her online shop - she has a treasure trove of lovely zines for sale (and some postcards I designed for her shop). Even if you're not from Aus - zines in her shop are still very reasonably priced (starting at a 10 cents!). Checkit. End promo :)

♡ Seaweed Song - Passion Pit
♡ No One's Gonna Love You - Band Of Horses
♡ We're Mostly Made Of Water - Kid Sam
♡ Lone Wolf - Eels
♡ When The Road Runs Out - Blonde Redhead & Devastations
♡ Head - Meat Puppets
♡ Asleep - The Smiths
♡ One Day - Melody Gardot
♡ My Love - Sia
♡ The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid - The Decemberists
♡ Lonely Lonely - Feist
♡ Our Hell - Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
♡ Swingset Chain - Loquat
♡ Do The Panic - Phantom Planet

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^ Self portrait Sunday, wearing one of C's shirts.


^ C secretly ordered some of my postcards from Redbubble last week and they arrived a few days ago. I bought a corner rounder punch on eBay and rounded their edges. Love 'em! I just ordered a bunch to package up for Etsy. If you'd like one right now they're here - $2 for a postcard, $2.50 for a greeting card.


^ My mum picked me up on Friday and we drove to Dungog and on the way she bought me a mini globe of the world from Aldi - I have always wanted one. When I was a kid I asked my dad for a violin and a globe, I got the violin when I was seven, now I've got the globe :D Now every time I send a letter I'm gonna checkit on my globe.

I spent the weekend in Stroud and Dungog sorting out stuff I'd had in storage for years. I kept a very meagre box of old things and it felt sad to go through things from my childhood and throw them away, but there's only so much I can take to Tasmania and store, so decluttering was necessary. This time in one month I will be in Tasmania! I am feeling optimistic but sad about it. I am gonna miss you Newcastle!

I've taken a page out of Missive Maven's book and have started doing a count of my incoming and outgoing letterpile in the sidebar like so;




For the first time in a long time my outgoing exceeded my incoming - it felt good! :D I wrote most of them between the hours of midnight and 6am while watching World Cup matches!


^ Erika has been documenting her Memphis sojourn and sent me this cute little postcard.


^ A fabulous little letter from Alex in Addison. She included such lovely things.


^ This envelope contained the corner rounder I bought from eBay and I just loved all of the different stamps on it.


^ My Benevolent Postcard Society postcard for June. Cute!


^ Molly sent me an ADORABLE Socceroos themed envelope full of green and gold. It made me smile. Shame the Socceroos aren't doing so great!




^ A hand sewn envelope for Garci with love.


^ Some Fafi for lady Shona.


^ An Escher envelope for miss Charlotte Lucy.


^ A hello to Patty.


^ A map envelope for Greta in Lithuania.


^ A mix cd and a letter for Lila.


^ Months ago, one of our favourite Newcastle Jets (our local soccer team) players - the goal keeper Neil Young, was injured during a game and then spent months in hospital for a reaction to medication and I thought it would be fun to send him a Get Well card. Hope he likes it :D haha. Get well Neil Young! (he's the 'E' in get)

What did you get up to on the weekend? :)

This is what I get up to when my sleeping patterns are reversed. C has been watching every match of the World Cup and they're generally at midnight, 2am or 4.30am, so I've been staying up to watch them with him. That being said, there's a big game on right now (5am) and he's fast asleep on the lounge! Anyway, this is the Parfait Lady - made from various free vintage ephemera. I hope you like! Click the image below to go to the full sized envelope and then save it - print quality will vary depending on your printer/paper, but I used my printers default settings to print this design at full-size on thin A4 card stock and it looked neat. Let me know if you have any problems :) I'm hoping to get better at making these and I'll put up a bunch more for you!



This is how it turned out when I printed her out;


^ Fresh from my printer.


^ Edges cut to size.


^ Tabs folded in and double-sided tape applied to edges. I find this tape is much less messy and more secure than using glue.


^ Fold and stick taped side tabs.


^ Address to someone you like, add a stamp, (perhaps an airmail sticker) fill'er up and send off!