I have returned from the land of warmth and sunshine and am back in my chilly little Tassie home. I am currently very ill (I think it might be Glandular Fever) but wanted to start off the first day of the August Break.



The rules are pretty loose, but generally it means that I will be posting a picture every day for the month of August. C walked to Officeworks tonight in the wet and bought me some film for my new Polaroid camera.

Just a little list today.

I have watched almost every stage of Le Tour De France this year (three weeks ago I had no idea what a peloton was) and it was obviously a good first tour to watch considering it has been won by an Australian (Cadel Evans). I have been feeling very jealous of fellow lady cyclist Christina who is currently in France and watching the last stage as we speak.

I had some pretty sad news yesterday and I might be slightly absent from my blog for a week while I fly home to stay with my parents. The man who I grew up with as my step father passed away yesterday after a pretty unforgiving battle with cancer. My mum and her partner had been taking care of him at their house, tending to him, watching lots of All Things Great and Small (which he loved), wheeling him into their recording studio and playing music and generally just being his company while he slowly passed away. I spoke to him on the phone a couple of weeks ago and he said that being in my parents' big, noisy, colourful house was a really happy place to be and that they were taking the best care of him. Last week I made a big bowl of oily, garlic-y, parmesan-y, parsely smothered spaghetti, which he used to make every Sunday night when I was a kid. He taught me to play guitar, gave me an appreciation for music and influenced me in probably more ways than I'm aware. We're having a colourful wake for him at the house that I grew up in and I'm going to play some songs he taught me on guitar.
I will miss him a lot.


+ Dave, me and my little sister on his 51st birthday.

Please do tell me something you like that is red :)

Now that I've finally sent them out, I thought I'd put up the mixes I made for The Mix Share Swap. I ended up making 5 instead of 2 because I had an uneven amount of participants and because I had two people no longer able to participate. No complaints on my end though - I love making mixes!


+ I sent this mix to Miki.


+ I sent this mix to Ashley.


+ I sent this mix to Carly.


+ I sent this mix to Erika.


+ I sent this mix to Evey.

I first saw Ghost World when I was about thirteen years old and I hated it. I think I just didn't get it and I thought it had the worst ending. I think I rewatched it the following year, then I related to it more and it made more sense to me. I really fell in love with Enid's style and wardrobe - the costuming in the film (by Mary Zophres, who also did the costumes for The Big Lebowski) makes Enid's clothes look like a wonderful eclectic thrifted mix, but she doesn't come across as pretentious. I wouldn't be able to recall how many times I've seen this movie. It really cemented my love for Steve Buscemi and I still have a pretty big Thora Birch crush. I also have the Ghost World comic (which the film was based on) which is full of even more angst. Watching this movie didn't change my life, but it did change the way I dressed and I still wish I could raid Enid's closet, don't you? Prepare to be bombarded with low-fi print screens!

In Enid's wardrobe;

+ big black boots

+ leather jackets

+ various coloured stockings

+ alice headbands

+ thick rimmed glasses

+ black jeans

+ retro dresses

+ odd t-shirts

+ bright coloured nail polish
+ creepers

+ red lipstick

+ cat eye glasses

+ green lipgloss

+ funky hairclips

+ a latex cat woman mask

+ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

+ I'd really dig a pair of these.

What movie character's style do you covet?