+ Bianca Green

Some new-to-me blogs I've started following lately:
+ House of Humble
+ That Lumpy Blue Sweater
+ The Twigs
+ The Velvettes
+ Bec Winnel
+ Hei Marlou
+ Livy Love

I work part time at a supermarket. I work in service, but most of the time I man the self-service area and help people when they have problems with the machines. This job requires a lot of standing around and very little talking or activity, which to some might sound like an easy way to earn money, but to me, I am usually bored out of my mind. I like to be busy and I like having conversations with customers. One way I pass the time is to try to find shopping lists. I started collecting them to illustrate them. One of the door men at work collects them for me when I'm not there. Lists are often left in baskets or amongst groceries on the shelves. This is my small collection. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with them in the end, but I can't stop picking them up.








I love the variety of handwriting styles and papers, and the aggressive crossing out marks.
If you have some old shopping lists you feel like sending to me I'll send you back an appreciative handmade postcard :)

Ps. I hope I didn't sound like I was whinging about my job - I don't hate it and I know I'm lucky to have one!

I am bad at being a Tasmanian. I thought having one Tasmanian Winter under my belt, I would be prepared for the next, but I am freeeeeeezing all the time. C and I went to Kmart after work a few nights ago to get some totally-unfashionable-but-warm-Wintery-around-the-house kind of clothes. I bought this Italian wool blazer at an opshop this week. I actually picked it out for C to try on, but I am ridiculously bad at telling the size of an item by looking at it, it was probably five sizes too small for him, but lucky me! Ten bucks! It has a really nice taper around the waist when it is closed. The lovely detachable collar pictured was a sweet gift from C last year that I wear all the time but seem to have never shown it here.

Ps. Does anyone else loathe shoulder pads? It's probably because my shoulders are broad enough without padding. I don't want to damage the lining of the blazer to get these ones out, but I just hate them so much!

I thought I'd share some images of work from my Photomedia class from the past semester. Our subject for the class was Art and Site, and we were asked to essentially pick one theme or idea to carry out for the entire semester and build upon then refine the idea. I wanted to work around the idea of bicycle as site and the simple joy, curiosity and ritual of the bicycle ride. There were 4 different stages to the work and I thought I'd share the 3 so far. Part 1 is probably my favourite.

Pt. 1: Exploring Launceston by bicycle. Going off the beaten track.










Pt. 2: The items within my basket might relate to where I'm going, where I've been or what I might need on my journey.







Pt. 3: Collecting debris and taking Polaroids while on a bicycle ride.






The third and final part of the project is currently still under construction and almost entirely different from the stuff above. I will likely share it when it all comes together. It's been fun just playing around in this subject - I've really loved seeing what my classmates are doing each week.