all our tomorrowshello lovelies. bit of a change of scenery tonight -- gone is the gritty hustle and bustle of kings cross, replaced by the gentle hum of late-evening adelaide, basking in the aftermath of a hot summer day. I'm sitting in my dear papa's l'apartmento, overlooking the bright glow of city lights and the…
summer playlistsundresses // salty lips // wet hair on bare shoulders // blackened toes peeking gamely through sandals // minty mojitos // cherry lipgloss // picnics in the park // sandy sheets // blurry polaroids // summer tunes...that beep -- architecture in helsinkiturbo love -- bag raidersyou don't know me -- …
it's just a hop-skip-jump'tis very early saturday morning here in ol sydney-town. rain has been blanketing the city since midday yesterday and seems it will never stop. What a funny state the world becomes when the weather gets out of kilter! A dark sky, the gently pitter-patter of salty rain and suddenly.... traffic turns …
nightmindsi am... listening to the rain, falling in love all over again with ani difranco, drinking mango nectar, cleaning my apartment, wishing it wasn't already monday morning, trying on new shoes, reading new confessions on PostSecret... …
a little yellow mellowI woke this morning to a cacophony of sounds. A girl in the next-door backpackers hostel was sobbing, the muffled cries creeping through her open third-floor windows and floating on the beat of the carrying wind. She was taking gasping hiccupy breathes and i so wish i could've asked what was wrong. …
tell me what can i dothe next three weeks leading up till the 19th (when we break from work) are going to be absolutely crazy busy so when i discovered that i no longer had to babysit tonight, i decided to skip yoga (bad ness) and instead do the following-- paint my toenails-- wash my dishes-- listen to Sia really loud …
soon we'll be foundcan't sleep and am so in love with Sia's new single Soon We'll Be Found from her new album Some People Have Real Problems. ness x…
...the old man is snoringone of my favourite things to do on a friday night when i am without plans (or sufficient funds) is catch a 6.45 yoga class, pull a rainy day dvd off the shelf and eat a steamy bowl of udon noodle soup. As i walked home from yoga tonight, trying to balance my mat, purse, keys and japanese takeaway w…
the capital of everything possibleone day i will go to new york and eat bagels and drink horrible coffee and ride the subway and step in gum and go to the ballet and visit gloomy secondhand bookstores and listen to jazz in underground bars and learn to finally like martinis and work in a publishing house or maybe at the new yorker a…
a time for changedear americans,tomorrow you will go to the polls and the world waits with bated breath. I'm a little worried, to be honest. It's a fact that the past often dictates the present, and if voting for Bush not once but twice is anything to go by, then quite frankly, we're screwed. The polls are up, the n…
tales of the cityMy music-love of the moment is FisherKing, a four piece Indie outfit from Sydney. When I'm at work late, I crank up triplej on my blue Tivoli radio; it keeps me company. I discovered this jewel of a band Thursday night while suffering from writers block and in desperate need of inspiration. Their de…
just a quickieSo. I'm sitting cross-legged on my couch in my apartment, watching Will&Grace while i smother rice crackers in hummus. I had one of those infuriatingly irritating I-Just-Want-Tear-My-Hair-Out-And-Yell-At-Everyone-On-The-Phone day. Seriously, people (read: magazine readers) are annoying. And the tra…
the castle in the forestMost of the time, i love living in Kings Cross. the noise, the stereotypes, the contradictions, the grit and the grime and the bright lights; it all feels a part of me, knitted deep in my being. Like i was always meant to end up here, living a faux sort of bohemian life. That being said, sometimes t…
it's raining, its pouring... pancakes?happy wednesday dear readers. i have to 'fess that tonight i did this: (minus the cute boy, the New York background and the gyrating hip movements)...and then i ate this: I blame it entirely on the sudden shift in weather; the early evening darkness and the splotchy pitter-patter of sporadical rain…
hello mondayladies, listen up! if you love shoes and bags and sparkly brooches, but want to read about them in a magazine that encourages environmental-love, Peppermint Magazine is calling your name. This brand spankin' new 'green' mag is jammed full of eco-conscious fashion, from organically farmed cotton tees…
is that music i hear?i'm sprawled on my couch watching the Aria's (for the sole reason of catching a glimpse of the divine Josh Pyke) and for perhaps the hundredth time this year, I'm scratching my head and trying to work out the appeal of Gabriella Cilmi. I'm sure she's a fabulous girl (and i hope to god that she has a…
birds on stringsone of my best friends and I have a secret talent; we are both amazingly brilliant at discovering new and unknown music acts (oh and we're terribly modest too. right prue?). When we were working together at the adelaide fringe festival, we'd spend a good deal of the day chit-chatting on MSN (i shoul…
summer in the cityWhen daylight savings kicks in -- finally -- it always seems to me that the whole city just lets out this huge breath. The tight winter air exhales from our lungs; the dusty particles float weightlessly into the warm air and we feel lighter, and just that little bit more giddy. Stockings are pulled …
a healthy dose of lustconfession #7 i am obsessed - no, addicted - to peeking inside other people's homes. It isn't the architecture that i'm interested in, or the design of the bathroom or the slant of the stairs; no, I'm much more nosey than that. It's the personal aspects that i lust over -- where the quirky artworks …
"i would, like, totally give my left arm for this job"oh NO. no, no, no. come on people, do we really need ANOTHER show/movie depicting how dumb and shallow the magazine industry is? apparently, yes -- going by the newly released trailer for Stylista, a TopModel-esque reality show depicting the trials and tribulations of 12 fashion wanabees as they eac…
they like me! they really like me!the fabulously stylish Amanda over at swish and swanky has tagged me to do a little meme. the rules? i must share six random facts about myself, then tag six fellow bloggers to do the same. again, apologies for the self-indulgence -- but rules are rules!one i love watching documentaries and reading …
the hills are alive with the sound of sirensoutside, the wind is on a rampage. Tree branches fall clumsily from trunks, the water from the Kings Cross fountain sprays magnificently over passing pedestrians and filthy plastic bags swirl spectacularly out-of-tune. It's like there is something ominous in the air; people furiously scurry by, blot…
if i hear britney one more time...my next door neighbour, my very super-muscly tank-top-wearing neighbour, is playing Britney Spears and Aretha Franklin on repeat. i figure i have two options: a) be amused. b) be frightened. c) raise the stakes in this music-war and crank up the volume on my own stereo. really, just ANYTHING to drow…
herbs and alcohol don't mixoh i am a lazy lazy girl. one o'clock on a saturday afternoon and just now am i getting up, woken only by the perpetually drunk british backpackers at the hostel next door. Thank god they did though, or else i'd probably still be laying here like a lump under my nice warm covers. 'Tis raining outsid…
apple of my eyemid-week musings...monday + public holiday = apple crumble bake-off. doesn't this look amazingly mouth-wateringly delish? there's nothing i love more than apple crumble but in a slice that you can carry around with you? genius! every Sunday PostSecret is updated with hauntingly sad, frightfull…
plastic is spasticalong with moronic parents who smoke around their children and ppl who thnk its gr8 to rite n typ n txt lnge, plastic bags rate extremely high on my burn in hell list. plastic bags don't just urk me... no, the very sight of them leaves me twitchy and sweaty, hot blood rushes to my ears and i feel st…
banana-ramatonight I had my friend CM over for an evening of Good Bad TV (you know, those shows/movies that are so horrifically bad that they're actually good), which obviously called for some delicious baked goods. Inspired by a recipe posted recently on one of my fave blogs, Pia Jane Biljkerk, I decided to p…
chaos theoryMy apartment building is in the most densely populated suburb in Australia, or so they say. Summer comes, the windows go up and it's amazing what you overhear. We are all sandwiched together in our squat art deco buildings, separated only by alleyways where homeless men come to rest their heads. Tin…
a pometoday a friend asked me where the little quote up there below my blog name came from. when the world is puddle-wonderful just so happens to be one of my favourite lines from a poem written by the great ee cummings:Just Springin Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the littlelame balloonm…
