^ Liesl Pfeffer.

Some sweet as giveaways spotted lately;
♡ One of my favourite drawing ladies, Gemma Correll, is giving away one of her prints, here.
♡ The Dainty Squid & MungoCrafts are giving away an awesome handmade hoodie, here (27/6).
♡ Dawbis, paper queen, is giving away three different excellent paper ephemera packs, here (28/6).
♡ I Art U is giving away a very cute 'La Dolce Vita' banner, here (28/6).
♡ Rhianne is celebrating 400 followers with a Studio MME print of your choice, here (29/6).
♡ Haute Whimsy has a stationery set of your choice by Lily Jane to give away, here (29/6).
♡ Lovely Kim-Anh Nguyen is giving away some of her very pretty paintings, here (30/6).

♡ Belen has lots of reasons to celebrate and 3 lucky winners will take away some goodies, here (30/6).
♡ GirlZoot is giving away some postcards from her stash in exchange for you sharing your favourite movie or book featuring a letter or postcard, here (30/6).

STOP PRESS:
♡ The fabulous women at Good Mail Day are giving away too many great papery things to mention, here (1/7).
♡ Also, the lovely Very Dark Horse has some great postcards and stationery to send your way, here (10/7).

Today I woke up to a new Prime Minister. This morning Australia ushered in its first female, unmarried, childless, (red-headed) and non-relgiously-affiliated prime minister. I feel generally neutral on the whole matter, but our first female prime minister is quite a landmark. It took this long?! What is it 1950? Later today C and I walked up to Maitland Road to peek in at a new vintage clothes store that has opened in our suburb, Lil & Me. I had seen the shopfront earlier in the week with my mum while it was closed and I had already spotted something I knew I had to have in the window. We met the shop's lovely owner and I came home with two totally fabulous red vintage dresses which I will have to show you tomorrow. Not cheap, but very worth it. I hope that there are shops like this one to be discovered in Launceston. We had dinner with C's brother's family and I changed into one of my new dresses for the walk home. It's very Zooey Deschanel. On a totally unrelated matter, I made up a new blog header and I'm trialling it for a week to see how it goes. What do you reckon - a yay or nay? :)

♡ Days until we migrate to Tasmania: 26

♡ Days until all of our possessions are packed into truck bound for Tasmania: 25
♡ Days until Sophie comes to stay: 11
♡ Days until Goodnight Little Spoon's 1st birthday: 15
♡ Days until the final of the World Cup: 18
♡ Days until Dexter Season 5 premieres : 94
♡ Days until I am 21: 269 (heh).

^ 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? :)