+ walking to tamar island on a field trip

+ hanging pompoms from our picnic around our house
+ cleaning as therapy
+ scrubbing ink off my hands after a fun printing class
+ colour coordination
+ appreciating the little things that make living in tasmania so lovely
+ making new friends at uni
+ pastel nail polishes
+ eating trail mix on a long walk
+ disconnecting from facebook for a few days
+ waking up to my cat sandwiched between us and him really not wanting to wake up
+ milkbar's pesto, mushroom & mozzarella sandwiches
+ market fossicking
+ actually enjoying uni readings
+ brainstorming travel ideas
+ sharing chocolate around at work

+ Obvious State.

+ I'd like to wear my hair in this cute hair bow every day forever.
+ These photographs of New York's lovely abandoned subway station are so beautiful.
+ Book Depository is running a competition to win a camera - you have to take a photo of yourself reading a book in your favourite place to read.
+ Hello Sandwich made a really fun string letter.
+ In a dream world I'd have one of each of these May28th watches.
+ My first foray into macaron baking went horribly wrong, but I think I might try again with these.
+ If you happen to have taken any lovely lomo pictures in my birth-state of Victoria, you should definitely submit a photo to this great Victorian lomo exhibition (sadly, despite being born there I've never taken any photos there!). Submissions end 3 Aug.

Today I thought I'd join Rachele in her weekly I'm Proud Of My Size link up. I am a size AU16 which is really the furthest extent that most common retail clothes stores stretch to. I guess that's why I leaned towards vintage early on - I could usually find stuff I liked better and that fit better, in vintage racks. Vintage really helped me feel better about my size and shape because a lot of the dresses I was picking up were beautiful, in my size and fit in all the right places. I think I would've had fun with the clothes on offer in retail stores in the fifties and sixties. Lately I've been finding a lot more new clothes I like and that fit in retail clothes stores. I like having a body with curves and I like dressing my shape. I am my biggest critic about my body and I sometimes say horrible things about it (when it doesn't fit into things I want it to) but when it comes down to it, it's healthy, it works and it's fun to dress. I'm proud of my size.

I had a really good day yesterday. We decided to go for a drive to the Evandale Markets with C's parents. I wanted to find some new paper supplies. Sadly it didn't really deliver in that regard but I did come home with a couple of goodies.


Miscellaneous playing cards, glasses shaped hair clips and a ceramic dog/cat.




I love vintage playing cards - they're fun to use in collages.


I found this sad little guy in a one dollar broken crockery bin. I'm not sure if he's a dog or a cat but I like him.


I was also taken by this mustard coloured leather foot stool.


Three new records; The Cars debut album, Tim Finn's Escapade & David Bowie's Young Americans (without a cover).

After going to the markets we returned to C's parents for afternoon tea. I swear, I've never tasted better tea than at their house. We have tried to replicate it at home but it just doesn't compare. C's mum is the master tea maker.





Later in the afternoon we took a walk along the North Esk river and visited the National Cat Show.



It was like one hour long "squeeee!" on my part, meeting all of those gorgeous kitties. Somebody pointed out on Instagram that all the cats in the pictures I took looked kind of miserable. I'd never been to a cat show before and was really worried I was going to see lots of tortured looking, frightened kitties, but lots of them were playful and snuggly and purring - my photos probably don't convey that! Most of them seemed like this was just another day on the job. Regardless, I still think animal shows are kind of weird/scary. C entered a raffle when we arrived and we won a big expensive bag of cat food for our kitties. 


Then we took a leisurely walk back to C's parents house for dinner. A lovely relaxed day.





I hope you had a lovely weekend!