Okt-Ober Dee

I hate looking through frankie and finding all these wonderful artists and designers, 'cause then I want to buy all their stuff when I really should be saving all my pennies for university next year. Latest love is Okt-Ober Dee. Their creations are so folky and colourful and gorgeous, I want it all.

But I'm especially in love with this beautiful cross-stitch patterned bird brooch, may in fact buy it when I have some spare cash; it's only $20 ♥

Okt-Ober Dee

♥

Cairns Flashmob Freeze

I can't believe I haven't posted this already! Anyway, back in March my friend Arruna organized an event for the Cairns Flash Mob. We all froze in our local shopping center for 3 minutes, while the public had no idea what was going on. A few police officers and security guards turned up as well, but here's the video:

Keep an eye out for us.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees.

Why do I always forget to post stuff on here? Life has been so great lately ♥ We made this wonderful (poor) film for a local film competition about adrenaline sports. We had all these great ideas, and people to be in it, and knew exactly how we wanted it to go down, but at the last minute it all went to shit. My friend Ordie still turned up, and we went to the skate park, and when we got there.. we met this mental kid. Just, ahh.. just watch it:

So I'm fairly certain they won't even show it in the competition, but it's just hilarious entering, and imagining the judges faces while they're watching that. I wish I could film that.

Anyway, we filmed that last Thursday, and on Thursday night we all went out to this field next to the uni to shoot a video clip for local band Sevenskie's song. I really don't know when we're able to watch it, but I hope it's soon 'cause it was so much fun to shoot. Basically all we did was run into a fight pit and start jumping around and hitting people. We got really sweaty and messy, so we had a swim at my place when we got home, to cool down, then we sat up late and edited that video. Finished at around 4 in the morning, slept 2 hours, then I had to wake up for work. I felt so haggard, and almost fell asleep a few times. I apologize to my lovely friends, who I woke up in the morning and told to leave. I get crazy mental without enough sleep. Sorry, I do love you all.

The weekend was a waste. Jake stayed over and we hired out 5 dvds, and stayed up far too late and ate large amounts of chocolate and gummy babies and drank a lot of OJ.

I want to make more films, it's so much fun. Jahl keeps saying he wants to be in one, but he lives so far away. Lochlan, you need to move to Cairns, I have a spare bed.

My whole street is having a garage sale very soon, how great will that be!? Oh man, I'm going to score so much sweet stuff, and finally have the chance to get rid of all my junk. If you want to buy some of my trash, I'll find out the date of the garage sale and post it on here.

I'm going to the movies tomorrow with this lad, and he seems nice. We're seeing Hot Tub Time Machine, so excited! I told him to postpone the date till Tuesday, 'cause it's Cheap Tuesday. He may think less of me already.

I'm in a really lovely mood. I bought Nowhere Boy today, and watched it as soon as I got home. It's beautiful, and amazing, and I love Aaron Johnson. He's a wonderful actor. I truly love that movie, and I'm so glad I don't regret buying it without seeing it first. I love The Beatles so incredibly much ♥

Mofo is having the Ska.B.Q this Sunday, so excited to see Jobstopper play! Their songs on their Myspace sound hella good. I'm going to buy a huge Hawaiian shirt and turn it into a dress, and wear that. It seems like it'd be good to dance in. This week seems like it's going to be real nice.

Oh yeah, and party at Sam's house tomorrow.

More damn wonderful Etsy goodness.

Today, Etsy got even better. They created this thing called 'Suggested Shops', which basically means they go through your favourites and bring up about 200 shops that they think you'd like. It's the best thing ever!

Anyway, I found this little shop via it, and I can't make up my mind of what to buy! I have to choose between these two gorgeous creations:

I think I prefer the deer ones ♥

Em and Sprout

Etsy is the reason why I won't be able to afford university next year.

I feel like going camping.

I don't know, I'm in an odd sort of mood. I feel like getting every movie I love and all the movies I want to see, and just sitting down in one of those awesome round cushion chairs-

 -And just chilling out for however long it takes to get through all those movies.

But I also feel like camping, but I don't know anyone close by who has a car and who would want to go camping. I really just feel like sleeping in my swag, with the smell of the fire and the coldness that has suddenly appeared in the Cairns night.

I seem to only work on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays now, so every week I have this huge gap of 4 days empty, with nothing really to do except clean my house and waste my life.

It's Mother's Day today, and I bought her a book by her favourite author that I found in a second hand store, seeing as all the book stores in Cairns don't seem to stock Robert G Barrett. I also cooked her a mean breakfast, and my brother stole some roses from the neighbors' garden down the road, as is his weekly routine. To make this occasion special, he stole more than usual. Mum was impressed.

Anyway, weird moods aren't too good, seeing as they can change from a nice weird to an uncomfortable unwanted weird in a matter of minutes, and I think that just happened. I'm missing about three different people very badly right now, and all of them live over an hour away from me. 

I feel like eating a croissant.

 

 

My next project

I just discovered the amazing cuteness of moss terrariums! I have an old fish tank sitting out in my backyard, so I've decided I'm going to clean it up, fill it with soil and moss, and decorate it with cute little mushrooms and gnome figurines ♥

Here's some of my inspiration:

Tattoo progress: rough sketchlings.

My baby is being born. Well, it's currently forming in the womb, "but I'm guessing it looks probably like a sea monkey right now and we should let it get a little cuter." Still, isn't it just gorgeous?

Watermarked like crazy, to fend off thieves! This idea is copyright of me, and all artwork is created by the ever wonderful shishah ♥

I would like a pet fox

That I can take for walks and wear as a scarf:

Newest Facebook alteration

'Become a Fan' has been changed to 'Like', and well.. I like it. It allowed me to do this:

Groovin' the Moo 2010

I am officially going to Groovin' the Moo in Townsville! My friend Kahl called and asked if I wanted his free ticket, 'cause all bands that are playing get a free ticket each. So yeah, obviously The Medics are playing, along with Vampire Weekend, British India, Kisschasy, Silverchair, Empire of the Sun, Tegan and Sara, Miami Horror, and a few other bands I don't really care about..

I'M SO EXCITED!

Parcels in the post

"MINCE PIE!!
CHECK YOUR MAIL!
CLOSE YOUR BLINDS!
BUY HOT CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE OUR FRANKIE SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE HERE!!"

 This is the message I received from my friend Kayla that forced me to go and check my letter box. Inside, I found two parcels and one letter addressed to me. 

 The letter was from the government ("Congratulations on your completion of grade 12, have you considered your options for university?") and the two parcels contained..

 A) The first of my frankie subscriptions, that I'll be receiving upon my doorstep for the rest of the year, free of charge:

  B) My copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:

Later tonight, after I've showered and made myself a cup of chai tea, I'll settle down and get stuck into reading a bit of both ♥

 Oh, and I just wanted to share this photo! On Sunday I went up to Kuranda to visit my aunt, uncle and cousin, and we popped in to mother bear's friend's place to hang out, and she has this enormous dog (quite appropriately) named Bear. He's the sweetest thing in the world and loves a good head scratch, but smells like wet dog. Anyway, yeah. He's gigantic and fluffy, and makes their other dog Barney looks quite small and pathetic in comparison, but Barney makes up for Bear's lack of spasticity by being a mental little mutt. I love them both.

 

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Last night was hectic, and I'll write it up when it's not 2:14 in the morning.

*edit.


Last Friday was insane, to say the least. 

8 - The number of buses we caught that day.
4 - The number of bands we saw live that night.
21 - The number of hours I went without sleep.
3 - The number of lollipops I consumed that night.
83 - The number of dollars I spent that day.

Went op shopping in the afternoon with Kylie and Sailor, and we checked out Kaotika and Crackerbox Palace. 

 At Crackerbox I saw the most amazing portrait of The Beatles in their Sargent Pepper uniforms, and I would have bought it right then and there, if it wasn't priced at $120. What a rip off. Then we made our way out to The Tanks to see if we could buy our tickets to Yves Klein Blue now, and come back later. We weren't allowed, so we went to The Medics gig and stayed just long enough to see Beware Wolf play, then it was time to leave for Yves Klein! They played such an amazing show, I can't believe how excellent they are live. We stuck around to meet them and get some stuff signed, but I was far too nervous to really say anything to Michael Tomlinson. I'm so disappointed with myself! Anyway, Kylie sticker slapped Michael with a Skeg sticker, and we got a photo of him holding up a card. I'll have to upload the video I took of it soon.

I'm crazy in love with that man, which I'm sure isn't normal.

Anyway, after that we ran to the bus stop and caught a bus back to The Medics gig, and caught the end of their show. Waited for everyone to pack up, hung around, organized a lift and went back to Will's place for some drinks. It was fun while it lasted, till he ordered us all to leave, probably 'cause we were so loud. Anyway, the rest of the night was crazy, but here it is in photo form:

The End.