My friend Sophie and her boyfriend Adam have been staying with us for a few days from Queensland and they have been the loveliest company. Sophie bought a pretty Diana mini from Blackbird Corner while we were out this week and we did an experimental roll to test it out - here are just a couple of the pictures she took - I think they're wonderful (and she's trying to convince me to make the splurge and get a mini of my own);



She goes home tomorrow and I'm going to really miss her :( In a strange twist of fate, we met on Myspace about 5 years ago and our in-person meetings are few and far between. I hope to find some affordable plane tickets and make a trip to see her sometime near the end of the year. She's a sweetie.

^ A brilliant little package from Canadian Carrie.


^ A cute quick note from Rebeccca in the UK. I love the used stamp decorations.


^ Wonderfully decorated first letter from lovely Stella in New Zealand.


^ My first, very pretty letter from Femke.


^ A lovely letter from Rhiannon on the opposite side of Australia.


One single outgoing this week! I haven't been able to find a spare moment! I think for each box I pack for moving I should reward myself by writing one letter.


^ A little package for Siobhan.

^ A gorgeous desktop background for July by Tabitha Emma.

C's parents are up at the moment from Tasmania. We're staying in their house in Launceston for two months while they're on holiday until we find a house down there. There seem to be an endless supply of lovely houses to rent there so I don't think we'll be there too long (hope I don't jinx it). C's parents came to visit and took us out for lunch this week and they brought me up a little present from Tassie;


^ Full of delicious liquorice (not so full any more).

A new month, a new calendar (from Frankie) and a new pin-board arrangement;


This month will involve a lot of packing and fretting (mostly on C's part).

Today I'm feeling bad because I hung up on a telemarketer. I just couldn't muster the effort to bring the fruitless conversation to a proper close so I faked not being able to hear and hung up. Bad. Sad. I'm going to the post office to send a letter. I hope karma doesn't catch me.

Some more sweet giveaways spotted this week:
- The Scribble Project colouring in book giveaway, here (til 5th July).
- Good Mail Day's 'I-cleaned-my-office!' giveaway, here (til 1st July).
- Very Dark Horse's excellent stationery giveaway, here (til 11th July).

+ the designer cookie (via pretty foods)

pluses:
+ organic aldi nutella sandwiches
+ clicking through old posts by jane
+ impromptu couch naps
+ good guests
+ anything green (clothes, vegetables, pens)
+ greek yoghurt, organic muesli & honey breakfasts
+ cat snuggles (even if i was suddenly bitten afterward)
+ singing smiths songs while browsing ebay for smiths shirts
+ pugly pixel's lovely posts about yours truly (1|2)
+ palmer's dark chocolate & mint lip butter (i have bought so many packets of mint slice since i bought it)
+ new and old penpals
+ my 9-month old niece's cute face
+ sending off designs for avantcard to print my collage into 20, 000 postcards :O
+ 4°C/39°F bike rides with c home from dinner
+ this red tv, in honor of our new prime minister's hair
+ art by long live analog
+ no caps

minuses:
- no longer backlit macbook screen
- contemplating the $ to replace macbook
- cold extremities
- unhappy bellies
- the price of stamps going up this week (aus mail - 60c, int mail $2.20)
- packing anxiety
- bad hair
- the htda shirt i ordered for c's birthday not fitting
- shaped internet for the last hour of the month, haha.

got any pluses or minuses today?


^ my new desktop wallpaper.