^ a dreamy (though sadly unknown) kitchen. i'll take one in red plz!

this week;
+ baked successful experimental choc-orange cupcakes
+ re-dyed my hair and nervously cut myself a fringe which I am really enjoying (with help from this excellent agent lover post)
+ picking freesias, they make the whole house smell delicious
+ ten-to-midnight weiss ice cream trip
+ good phone calls from min, paige and ma
+ 5 letters written in the early hours of tuesday morning while watching entourage
+ a great, long google-phone chat with lauren
+ c's parents started a vegetable garden in our backyard - we should begin to see edible things in 4 - 12 weeks
+ received 48 zine orders - got zines photocopied, decorated envelopes, bought $99 worth of stamps (see receipt below), wrote 48 little notes and sealed up 48 packages ready to be sent on monday
+ reading terry pratchett to c before bed
+ waking up in the morning in a dark room with the blinds closed and heavy rain
+ i bought hairspray that makes my fringe smell delicious, ha
+ miike snow by miike snow

- i ripped a huge hole in the back of one of my favourite vintage dresses while riding my bike and didn't notice until i got home, several hours later (as some consolation i was wearing stockings)
- i ate into my tiny savings account so i could afford to eat. i may need to write myself up a better budget
- relentless back pain - how will this damaged 20-year old spine last another 60(?) years?


^ sadly, $99 worth of stamps only got me 52 stamps (mostly international)


^ i don't have a good stapler and i ran out of twine to bind the zines with so i sewed them up instead.


^ almost all of the orders almost ready to go. thank you so much for the zine love! i hope you enjoy it as much as i did making it.


^ some address labels i drew up and printed onto sticker paper. for sale here if you like 'em!


^ a freshly cut fringe

I recently caught wind of this project via Molly and had to share - I loved the Human Clock and Human Calendar (to your left) projects and now the guy behind them is doing a similar project called PO BOX Clock wherein he asks folks to choose a time from a drop box on his site (I chose 20:03 because that's my birthday), draw that time on a piece of paper or a postcard and then send it in to him. Eventually, once enough have been collected (a lot!) he'll photograph each of them and turn them into a clock on his website wherein a new postcard will pop up every minute displaying the time.




This is my submission;


To participate click here.

I cannot get enough red in my life: 1. Modcloth 'Just Thinkin' about Tomorrow' Dress 2. Beth Ditto for Evans Red and Black Printed Dress 3. Modcloth Houndstooth of the Baskervilles Coat 4. Modcloth KIT Gloves in Red 5. Modcloth Candy Dipped Flat 6. Collectif Sailor Suzie Dress 7. Modcloth Little Bow Sweet Sweater 8. Vivienne Westwood Anglomania for Melissa Wax Seal Flat Shoe 9. Irregular Choice Poetic Licence Peachy Keen Shoes

After many months of um-ing and ah-ing about where to begin I finally put together a little zine - a kind of ode to letter writing called 'Push The Envelope'. I picked up twenty freshly photocopied copies at Officeworks this evening, folded and tied them with baker's twine. The zine is only twelve pages long, but it's full of lettery facts and history, quotes, pictures and miscellanea. It was great fun to put together and I have a few more ziney ideas in mind already.

I've listed the zine on my Etsy - it will set you back $3US and I'll decorate the vessel it arrives to you in extra special :)

ALSO: Anyone who has tried to purchase one already, but the listing was no longer there, I have relisted them and will get a bunch more printed today :) Thank you for the zine love folks!

Ps. I must give credit for that beautiful doily on my coffee table to Micaela's mum! :D