Lou Doillon

Ty Williams

cool t here

cool art here

ty williams here

Sculpture by the Sea

Early morning cycle to Cottesloe beach....

3 - 22nd March, Cottesloe Beach WA

Bill and Fanny

For Christmas I got many beautiful presents among them being, a pair of Happy Socks and a copy of The Selby Is In Your Place book! 

What do these two things have in common.....? Well it's Bill and Fanny!

I think I have a couple crush on these two - they seem to pop up in all areas of like for me so I thought I would mention them here :)
I first came across William Gentle and Fanny Bostrom when Todd Selby featured them in their home on his website The Selby - I fell in love! Then I realised I was already familiar with Fanny's face through fashion magazines as a model... Anyhoo that covers The Selby connection. Her now husband William Gentle (Backyard Bill) is a photographer and shot the latest and previous Happy Socks campaign! Voila! Fanny is an artist/illustrator/accessories maker extrordinaire and has her Folki accessories range in Anthropologie (one of my favourite shops that thankfully now ships to Australia)! So folks buy your Happy Socks and something Folki to feel just a little bit associated (including a few degrees of separation) with this creative NY couple! (Also check out their blogs and websites linked to their names in this post to see William's photography and Fanny's artwork) x

Bali - Ubud Part 1

The beady eye.....

I was having one of those days yesterday but these bracelets came out of it...
Nothing like a bit of beading and fluorescent cord to lift the spirits
The turquoise one was inspired by my friend Becky Blair's paintings (more about her later)
so that one is now hers to keep
maybe I should make more and sell them?



Have a golden day! k

Birds Of Passage

Here are some screen grabs of a website I designed for 

Birds of Passage

I also do some of the product photography for them! If you have some cash and a space you need to fill in your home check out their 'beautiful old things'...

Shadowy Friends

off to moonlight at another studio today so I will have some company! I wouldn't mind a shadow monster friend from France like these ones ! I may have to imagine one into existence for the lonley days when Joe is stuck in sky prison.... He gave me my Herman Dune CD a couple of years ago and it always makes me smile.. I like this song with the photo of the little girl being carried by the shadow monster... x

Photos: www.cequejevoeu.com via pirouette

Fremantle Arts Centre Bazaar 2010 & George Frizzle..and HOME OPEN!

Firstly a little theme music:


She & Him - Thieves from Merge Records on Vimeo.

So it was very hectic for Betty and I to get George Frizzle to the Bazaar and now I am still catching up on the past three months of no sleep! The Fremantle Arts Centre staff were absolutely amazing in their attitude and support for the stall holders -thankyou! All the stall holders them selves were also very friendly and supportive of one another.  

Apart from Betty and I making all our products I have to say a big thankyou to Kathleen from Strumalum Screen Printing for guiding us through the screen printing process and doing a beautiful job printing what we ran out of time to do! Anyone out there wanting to learn screen printing or needing a small printing run done for you check out Strumalum! Also a big thankyou to Tom Freeman for bringing our dream cart to life!

I met lots of new people, made some new friends and dreamed about owning some of the beautiful outfits that came floating by on shoppers passing by the George Frizzle cart. The above photos are mostly of the Friday night which had a special buzz.. if you look carefully I am theatrically describing to a lovely customer how to tie his bowtie easily!

Next are a couple of photos relating to my favourite other stalls:

I bought something very nice from Christobel's stall. Really I could have bought all of her work. 

This photo comes from Christobel's blog.

Look how cute and slightly strange this little rabbit man is! This was made by ceramicist Fleur Schell from Soda Studios in North Fremantle - I bought some other little things too but they are presents so can't show yet! I seem to be having issues trying to find exact links to Soda and Fleur Schell so here are the contact details: Soda Studios 1/98 Stirling Highway North Fremantle WA Phone: 08 9433 4833 Email: soda.admin@bigpond.com and here is a link to view some more about Fleur.

Jade from Paper Threads makes her own paper and paper products, books and beautiful textile bags with delicate embellishments. I didn't get back to her stall to buy anything but I did get her business card with her details so I will try and get some photos and maybe buy something.... for me!

PS. Don't miss out on the HOME OPEN Exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre! My friend Tanya Schultz is part of it - she is also one half of Pip and Pop with Nicole Andrijevic! The image below is from their site Pip and Pop! I am in mad crazy love with their work....mad and crazy...!

The Frizz!

So it's over...for now! This was George Frizzle at night, and on Sunday we won Best Dressed Stall!

Really tired after 3 months of very little sleep so will post more images and talk about the Bazaar later x

Happy Friday

Pushing up hill.....

Turn on loud upbeat music. 

Adjust height of ergonomic chair (calves not touching thighs).
Go for walk.
Buy some more (more) magazines.
Cup of aromatic herbal tea.
Toast.
Cold shower.
Hot shower.
Glass of very aromatic wine.
Ask unemployed friend/relative to come over and oh yes, 

“bring some cake”..

All this while you are waiting for the geni in genius 

to alight on your shoulder and grant you a wish 

for a genius solution to the brief 

only, another e is  needed to spell genie so, 

waiting for the genius solution to “alight” is  currently blowing out the deadline…

(P.S - Tahnee - Thankyou for my tiny cake fork x)

While you were sleeping

A little theme music..

A trip down South... and while you were sleeping I was up and out in the soft rain and winter sunshine....

Gray Sky Morning

“ I look at people as ideas. I don’t look at them as people. I’m talking about general observation. Whoever I see, I look at them as an idea — what this person represents. That’s the way I see life 
Bob Dylan (via dailydoseofdylan)

“ Open your eyes. Open your heart. Open your mind. Let the world pour into you. And pour yourself into the world.