These images are the work of Andrew Bannecker. I really, really like his work. How about you?
Andrew's Website is here and his shop is here. How amazing is that Bat For Lashes piece? Golly.
xx Pip
NB : Our Fitzroy shop closed on January 9th 2012!
12.31.2009
:: Andrew Bannecker...
These images are the work of Andrew Bannecker. I really, really like his work. How about you?
Andrew's Website is here and his shop is here. How amazing is that Bat For Lashes piece? Golly.
xx Pip
12.29.2009
12.28.2009
:: Admin :: Blogroll Update 2010
Hello!
Just a wee post to say :: I'm updating my links/blog list!
If you link to our blog, then THANKS! That is most kind of you! We'd love to return the favour! Add your link below - as you'd like it to appear on our 2010 Blogroll! We'll be pointing to this page as our 'Reader's Blogroll' up on the menu bar late next week - just under the Mike's header there!
Dyawanna be on the list?! Sign up!
Hey, and thanks for reading this year! And thanks for linking to us! We really do appreciate it!
xx Pip
:: Cabin Fever...
Erin McKeown is one of my favourite musicians. Not only is she really cute, but she's released 8 CDs and even has a totally fancy-cool range of merchandise to help fund her recording ventures. Prolific AND proactive! You can subscribe to her Cabin Fever series of gigs - they are filmed at Erin's place by the river, porch and all! I think she's the embodiment of this whole Lo-Fi DIY movement. I do. I'm liking the way she takes ownership of her art and does interesting stuff so she can keep making music. Yep. I am. You can watch a trailer for her Cabin Fever Concerts below...
xx Pip
:: How About You?
Hello!
Look at these lovely photos! My friend Gemma spent Christmas with us and snapped lots of great shots while I was busy being the hostess! We had such a lovely relaxed day. It was our first Christmas without Cam's lovely Dad, but somehow it was okay. Sort of a lovely celebration in his honour, I guess.
We've been picnicking and resting up these last couple of days. There has been cold roast lamb and potato salad sandwiches. There has been a Tiffin Tin loaded with couscous salad, cold roast potatoes and sliced ham on a colourful blanket. There has been Oliver Twist (the BBC version). There has been a trip to the market to get even MORE food! There has been Mix-CD making from playlists found here and here. There have been many bags of Christmassy rubbish :( There have been rides on the Tandem Bike. There has been LOTS OF DIRTY DISHES!
Today we are thinking of a picnic and some swimming in a lake, if the weather fines up. Cam is making coffee and toasted sandwiches for breakfast. The boys are playing XBox and Nintendo DS. We are listening to the radio - ABC Local. (Tomorrow they are replaying an interview I did on Radio National for their Life Matters program.)
There is a jar of no-longer-pretty-but-now-stinky Dahlias on my desk. There is a ball of yarn -the leftovers from a little blanket I crocheted at the Boxing Day picnic for Izzy's bear (above). Izzy is my adorable niece. There is a full cup of tea - a mix of Earl Grey and English Breakfast tea - in a Hornsea NOVEMBER mug. A bit like these ones. I gave Gem the DECEMBER one so that we can be neighbours, in a monthly way, which sounds weird. Sorry. You get what I mean...
We sailed through Christmas with no tiffs at all - except for one last night which seemed to be something about Barbeque Chicken. Go figure. Generally, though, it was very peaceful. The microwave broke on Boxing Day. The seals on both our stovetop espresso-makers gave up too. Sometimes things break at Christmas, don't they? Do you think it's a conspiracy? To make us go to the SALES? Do these things have Boxing-Day-Bust-Timers in them? Hmm.
So, retrospectively, here are some things I want to do NEXT year for Christmas...
Decorate the house in a very gaudy manner - as in OVER-DECORATE
Get a hair cut in December so I don't look like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards
Start a Decoration Tradition - make each of my kids 3 decorations every year - each child will have their own colour theme.
Remember to make those chocolate coated apricots to serve with coffee
Buy some vintage Christmas lights on Etsy when it's NOT yet Christmas
Don't forget to make ginger beer
How about you? What are you up to? How is it going? How have you been? What will you do?!
xx Pip
12.26.2009
12.25.2009
12.24.2009
:: Merry Merry!
Hello!
Mike's was closed today. I know. Crazy are we..! The thing is, that really lovely people like you (and us) have moved on from 'the shopping' and are practicing 'the gathering' or 'the preparing' or 'the enjoying' (or 'the hysterics') on Christmas Eve. And that's what we like to do too!!!
So today, I was SO EXCITED that I woke up at 4am. I know. Silly. But I really LOVE Christmas! So I woke up, went into the lounge room and flipped on the telly. I tried to keep it quiet. I tried to read 'My Sister's Keeper' but my eyes were sure that it was in a very special Doctor Who type text, and I could not QUITE make out the letters. Darnit. Also, a mosquito was jousting with my blanket and was pretty super-keen to bite me. So that took a good 15 minutes of fending off and un-successful focussing, making it about 4.15. Sigh. Silly.
At this time of day, my neighbour was making some sort of noise against the wall. A repetitive hammering noise. Perhaps he was putting up his Christmas decorations? A wee bit late, but still, good on him. It's never too late to switch over to the 'nice' list, I say. Also, there were lots of people being very merry on our street. So I listened to that for a while. And then it was 4.30!
So at 4.30 I flipped the channel and found out that a plane had skidded from a runway. That was not very festive. I thought about that for a while. And how cosy and safe we are. And how lucky and blessed we are. And then it was 4.45.
At 4.45 there was a sound like a gunshot. I'm sure it wasn't. But my windows were open and I kept my head down! I hoped everything was okay, and it was. So I watched a tiny bit of Wifeswap and looked at a Christmas Tree which was flashing in the flats over the road. I hoped that those Christmas lights would not backfire or skid un-festively. And then it was 5.00!
At 5.00, Cam came in and said 'It's time to go to the Market!'.
So that's what we did! Holy cow. It was so busy, even at that early hour!! We drank coffee and filled up our trolley with things for tomorrow's lunch. Then we came home and cooked and went for a walk and saw Shelley and had some visitors and dealt with the HUGE Melbourne down-pour and Tweeted and generally had a LOVELY time!
I'll tell you what we are eating next time... but I really popped in to say a very big thanks. Thanks SO much for checking in on me this year. Thanks for 'getting' the sorts of things that I like. Thanks for every comment, email, giggle, link or chatter about us. Thanks for not caring about my messy hair, my dirty fingernails and my penchant for un-sexy nighties! Thanks for being a really ACE blog-buddy. I am so lucky to have friends like you.
Merry Christmas YOU.
xx Pip
12.23.2009
:: Wrap It Up!
Cute! Free! Wow! Downloadable prints for wrapping paper from Fifi Mandirac. What a lovely blog she has too! All sorts of details about the prints and what to do with them here. Cool, huh?!
xx Pip
12.21.2009
:: Christmas Cards via Catie!
Catie dropped off some treats for me a couple of weeks ago... These lovely vintage Christmas cards were amongst them! Merci Catie! You are most kind! How ACE is the bottom one?! Tres ace!
xx Pip
12.20.2009
12.19.2009
:: I Like Mike...
Mike Sinclair. Really fantastic photographer, don't you think? Wowee. I LOVE his Missouri State Fair Series. Wowee.
xx Pip
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