Lauren alerted me to this great giveaway that Chronicle Books is holding for bloggers which finishes up tomorrow - you post a list of your favourite Chronicle Books items to the value of $500 or less on your blog and you can win all the items you chose and if you win, one of the commenters on your post receives the haul too. Of course, Chronicle Books is full of amazing stationery and it didn't take me long to make a nice long list, though I still didn't make it even to half of $500! I'll have to keep adding to my wishlist when I get home from work!;

1. Lisa Congdon's Le Forêt Eco-Keepsake Notecards
2. Romance Pulp Postcard Box
3. Hollywood Kisses Notecards
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: 30 Postcards
5. Hello Blythe!: 30 Postcards
6. Wanderlust: 30 Postcards for Insatiable Travelers
7. Unicorn Wishes Mix & Match Stationery
8. Make Your Own Damn Dinner Notepad
9. Stuff On My Cat Journal


10. Romance Pulp Address Book
11. Sublime Stitching Craft Pad
12. Wonder Woman Fold and Mail Stationery
13. The Small Object Labels and Stickers
14. I Love Macarons
15. The Art Of Vintage Marvel 100 Postcard Set
16. Vintage Alphabet Stamps: Sign Language
17. Cath Kidston Masking Tape: Red Stars
18. Polaroid Notes Notecards

Join in too :) The competition closes tomorrow!

I've been surprisingly and exhaustingly busy lately and letter writing and blogging seem to have taken a bit of a back seat to constant working, but I am hoping to remedy this and start to schedule some posts. I hope you've had a good week so far :)

This week;
+ choosing great christmas gifts and being able to afford to buy some this year.
+ working with lovely folk.
+ peanut butter and chocolate soy milkshakes.
+ the mailart365 project that i just signed up to - maybe you should too? :)
+ having a fun interview yesterday for study next year.
+ going to see harry potter by myself yesterday with a free ticket, so sad there's only one film left!
+ hot milos and reading the paper at work before/after a shift.
+ dry shampoo.
+ the new series' of misfits and dexter.
+ my big red new comfy computer chair.
+ watching back to back downloaded episodes of daria.
+ edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros.
+ winning pip's lovely giveaway.
+ daniel radcliffe on the graham norton show.

- having little time for blogging/writing and feeling exhausted when i'm not at work.
- waking up tired.
- a bottle of bbq sauce falling off the conveyor belt at work when i was serving a customer and it splattering all over the floor (it was slightly comedic).
- awful loud drunk men taking up residence in my favourite park and making me feel scared when i ride my bike through it.
- my disobedient fringe.
- my doctor telling me i have 'extremely high' cholesterol and me having no idea why (i don't drink milk or eat dairy or fried foods).
- worrying about being able to juggle classes 5 days a week next year and work.
- finding my dream shoes online but not being able to find anywhere to purchase them.



^ I made this bangle recently from a plain wooden bangle from Spotlight and a bunch of used red postage stamps and glue (with some inspiration from the beautiful stamp jewellery at Talitha Astrelita). I'm definitely planning on making more in different colours.


^ I'd never embroidered anything before, but I had fun making this yesterday.


^ One of the mantelpieces in our house covered in knick-knacks.


^ A little view of part of my (slightly messy) lounge room.


^ Some of my Frankie posters on one of our lounge room walls.

^ A digitally assembled collage poster for the annual Newcastle This Is Not Art Festival Sunday Fair for 2010, commissioned by fair organiser Susy Pow. Poster was included in the printed festival program booklet.

^ This postcard design was selected by free postcard printing company Avant Card as part of their artists program in mid 2010. 20,000 postcards were printed from this design and placed in free postcard stands around Australia. The image was created using free vintage ephemera and assembled digitally.

^ A handmade collage postcard design commissioned by Susy Pow of Bird In The Hand Zine Shop in Newcastle. 1000 postcards were printed from the design to advertise her store. Postcards can be purchased here (2010)

^ Design of my personal website/blog (circa July 2009) - www.goodnightlittlespoon.com

^ Digitally collaged stationery designs offered for free download on website (2010).

 

 

^ Notecard stationery designs (2010).


 ^ Hand drawn address label design (2010).

^ Digitally collaged postcard designs (2010)



^ Mock-up pamphlet design (VPA105 CSU Semester 2 2010)





^ Collaged faces assignment (VPA105 CSU Semester 2 2010)


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^ Typographic faces assignment  (VPA105 CSU Semester 2 2010)







^ Photography assignment (covering space, line, colour, shape, texture, form and value) for Photographic Imaging For Design class (Newcastle University Semester 1 2010)









^ 'Novocastria' photography assignment for Photographic Imaging For Design class (Newcastle University Semester 1 2010).

 

^ Preliminary designs for poster assignment (Newcastle University Semester 1 2010)






^ Nursery rhyme book layout assignment (Newcastle University Semester 1 2010)










^ A selection of year 12 HSC Visual Arts body of work items; handmade collage cards (2008)



^ Hand collaged pages in collaborative journal (2009)












^ Selection of mixed media mail art images - personal hobby (2009 & 2010)

 

^ Photocopied handmade publication - Push The Envelope Zine (2010)

These are some of my favourite postcard sets I've seen on Etsy, of course this is a drastically culled collection and I'm certain I could share another thirty with you sometime (click on each postcard set to view Etsy listing).