Or as a friend would have it, MERRY KISSMASS! :D :D :D
December 26th, 2009
BWAHHAHAA! HAPPY EN MASSE GIFTING EVENT!
December 26th, 2009
Mibo Studio ~ Christmas Creatures
Eeehheheeeee!! I know Christmas is actually supposed to be over down under, but since Greg and I are only half way through our MASSIVE CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA (and it’s still well and truly Christmas in the States xD) I’m feeling totally within my bounds to pimp these festive paper creatures.
PLUS THEY ARE CUUUUUTE! And Polar Bears are an all the time food†. *nods*
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More and more I’ve been seriously getting into papercraft, or the idea of it and how to incorporate it into designs for work. So when I stumbled onto the mibo studio store I think I let out a squee for a full minute complete. LOOK HOW ADORABLES! The little one with his eyes closed!? AUUUUUUGH! Though I’m not sure if the deer looking like he’s trapped in the headlights of an oncoming vehicle is REALLY that festive… Although, SOME famous chefs do advocate the eating of roadkill, and venison is MIGHTY delicious…
*whistles*
PS: CHRISTMAS JOKE TIME!
Two elks were sitting in a tree. A submarine landed in the tree next to them. And one elk said “Maybe he lives there.”
PPS: I know its mighty gross and and just that little macabre, but I kinda found these shots of polar bears roaming about through massive whale carcasses, AWESOME!
Hope you’re all still hungry! ;) xD
† Image sourced from The Polar Bear and New Research. Ahhahaa sooo relaxed!
December 22nd, 2009
Abenohiya aka Cadenza’s Super Dollfies
Oops, I angelic-ed again! The sweetest of little Christmas Cherubs
AUGH! ♥ I hadn’t really been looking at people’s doll sites or flickr photostreams for over a year now because it was SUCH a temptation/exquisite torture which I just could not afford (health or monetarily wise). But today I got a notification of abenohiya/hiyaya friending me on flickr and upon clicking to see if they’d be someone I would friend back I was filled with want for my own doll crew and a massive photoshoot like I haven’t had in a dog’s age.
A whole mess of her shots are just divine, and totally fit in with my theme this week of christmas-y link-spam. *delight*
December 22nd, 2009
Jacabunnies and Jacabobs, A Festive Family Portrait
Jacabunnies and Jacabobs: Family Portrait
AHAHHAAA How freaken festively ADORABLE are these?!!? EEEEEEE!! Found a week or so ago, I’ve been totally squeeing over Kit Lane’s Little Oddjects etsy store pretty much daily from then.
How anyone could resist her non-traditional felted cuties I have no idea, especially compounded by her terminology when titling and describing them. The very idea of bringing them home and having them have little adventures about your house overflows me with nothing short of a whimsical Sylvanian Families meets David the Gnome delight.
AHAHAHAAA!!! I’m all giddy from the thought right now, and I’m just looking at the pictures!
December 19th, 2009
To Saint Nick, we’re just saying no…
Post cricket subjection and pre dinner, Greg’s Mum switched over to Carols By Candlelight and laughingly commented that I was CLEARLY not a fan of the Wiggles and their Christmas exploits. Shuddering, I confirmed that I was clearly not and that I would definitely NOT be subjecting their future grandkids to such a fate.
Amused, she remarked that that was what Grandparents were for, though her mood changed and she sat aghast when I mentioned not teaching these theoretical children about Santa either.
This afternoon, whilst drowning in masses of dried cranberries and fruit cake mixture I idly began wondering about the ‘to Santa or not to Santa’ question. When I was a child, unless I knew the person under the suit, I thought Santa was a massive pedophile and was… Not a fan, shall we say, of climbing into a strange man’s lap.
And then this evening I came across THIS little gem from the bowels of the internet:
Crack head Santa: So Supernatural it hurts. From Albert's EYE @ flickr
Decision made. Operation: Aggressively refrain from teaching conjectured kids that Santa exists? Engaged.
December 19th, 2009
Funky Fabrix – Patterns for drooling upon
AUGH FUNKY FABRIX! Why you gotta tease me so, with your pages upon pages of fabulous patternry? And why do you have to be IN AUSTRALIA so that your shipping is not ludicrous and your prices need not be converted. At least when I hit up Reprodepot, Fabric Tales or Super Buzzy they have the decency to not spell their name in an obnoxious fashion, and put enough detractors in that I can more easily talk myself out of purchases.
Well, slightly more easily. Just. In a sit-on-your-hands kind of fashion…
BUT NO, Funky Fabrix have the audacity to be for all intents and purposes: LOCAL. The cheek! xD
1. Kokka – Dala Horses Red 2. Russian Nesting Dolls & Daisies Brown 3. Large Whimsy Doozie Brown 4. Pet Deer Brown 5. Moorish Blooms Aqua 6. Garden Party – Chocolate Damask
I can’t work out if the Moorish Blooms are a historical iconography nod, or if they’re just called that because YOU WANT MOOOOORE!
December 12th, 2009
Pretties and practicals, possibly under pressure
Under a minimal quantity of arm twisting, largely by my lovely not-quite-but-totally-are-in-laws, I capitulated to putting together a wishlist for Christmas this year. Though my Vintage Nettles blog is largely a wish-list of sorts, this time around (unlike last time I tried to make a wishlist for a gifting event) I actually can pinpoint items I’d really adore!
Though I’ve realised that I’m in MASSIVE UBER OVERCLOCKED nesting mode, as 90% of the items I originally came up with are practical (but PRETTY!) items that I feel we need for our home, and it was actually a struggle to put ‘frippery’ on the list even though there’s surely a lot of items I’d love to have. Priority shift, I must be getting old. Or stealth clucky. Possibly both. ;)
From the little le bouque list above:
1. & 2. Softies & More Softies 3. Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities 4. Wallpaper Projects
December 8th, 2009
Make Believe
Make Believe is a simply stunning short-run site that I just stumbled upon whilst keeping an eye out for bridesmaids accessories while I write my Christmas Wishlist.
Very small amount of stock atm (their MEN section has items from the womens section in them that I’m not ENTIRELY sure pull off unisex) but what they have there are CERTAINLY statement pieces of emblematic gorgeous.
DO WANT! *catches glimpses of pie-shaped clouds*
December 8th, 2009
It’s a nice day to… Staaart AAGAAIIIIN..!
VERY short and sweet this time, as I actually don’t have THAT much to say… You don’t believe me, I know, but that’s okay too. xD
Last Friday evening I decided to indulge in a bath in order to actually be able to sit up in the lounge with my flatmates instead of having to go to bed and being unable to pass Go. I ALWAYS ENJOY RECEIVING $200!
At random I pulled Lush’s White Wedding from the super pretty hand picked box of treats Greg’s Mum had given me for my birthday and toddled off to the bath with a REALLY SERIOUSLY CRAP HOLY GAWDS chick flick in hand. Hey, the film was bath ballistic theme appropriate, okay?
I dropped the ball in, delighted as I always do that it fizzed like the crazy volcanoes I used to make with friends as a kid, and wondered if it really smelled of anything. Okay so my olfactory function like … A non-functioning thing, but I’ve since read that apparently it pretty much doesn’t. Dysfunctional olfactory: 1, Lush bath ballistic: 0.
I clambered into the now-VERY-reminiscent-of-milk steaming water only to discover it felt JUST like water, and nothing else – DISAPPOINTMENT. Consoled that the water didn’t feel dry on my skin, I turned on the movie and around 20 minutes in commenced cringing. But the VERY weird thing is around then I also had to top the hot water up as the bath’s temperature had dropped through the floor at a rate I’d never experienced to date.
I’m not sure what kind of message Lush is trying to convey, maybe someone on staff had been viciously jilted at the altar? But is “Your White Wedding will turn cold on you” really the fairytale every girl wants to buy into?
Fragrance: 5/10 – I couldn’t smell much, but it didn’t smell bad…
WoSE (Water on Skin Experience): 5/10 – just felt like water, which I assume is the control. xD
Visual Aesthetic: 5/10 – the milky white water conjures the luxury of Cleopatra, the weird coloured confetti hearts though conjure a toddler dumping masticated cake in with you. UNFORTUNATE!
Leaves your skin feeling: exactly the same as it did before the bath
Clean up: None – even those masticated hearts go straight down the plug hole, no wating.
In conclusion, Lush advise if you’re getting married? Wear ANY colour but white…
December 4th, 2009
20 (ish) Fetchingly Fine File Folders
Standing by the counter of my local Angus & Robertsons yesterday, attempting to agree on what engagement gift we were getting for friends I spotted some GORGEOUS file folders that actually SCREAMED my friend Es. Being unable to afford them at the time I left them on the shelf but thought I’d find them when I got home on the net.
GUESS WHO WAS COMPLETELY UNABLE TO RELOCATE THEM ONLINE?! Its like they only exist in that one A&Rs, and no where else. O_O;;; xD I thought I’d found them at fredflare & anthropologie, but alas, ~~PREMATURE EXCITEMENT.~~
But in my search I came across a metric buttload of gorgeous file folders, and as storage solutions and attempting to keep track of paper in a much more efficient fashion has been on my mind a lot lately – I lose paper like nobody’s business – I thought I’d do up a little share and squee on some of the nicest ones. :D
From the title:
1. Two Birds File Folders 2. Coral File Folders 3 & 4. Thomas Paul File Folders