My Creative Space

I have been creating my butt off over the last few weeks as I will be at the Sugar & Spice Market in Woodend on Sunday and have been busily preparing for it.

If you are going please drop by and say hello.

For more creative spaces take a peek over at Kootoyoo

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future

On my little Queensland adventure my dear friend Sophie and I attended the Valentino Retrospective . It truly was a visual feast, one in which my heart skipped many a beat. From the first frock I was completely awestruck. They were beautiful, strange, delicate, "out there" but mostly they were insane. When i say insane what I mean is that each outfit was so incredibly well made and would have taken a crazy amount of time to complete and oh so much hand sewing!!!!

Being a country girl and one obsessed with windmills I couldn't resist a photo of the windmill outside the Qld Art Gallery.

This dress was so pretty and just perfect.

Although you can't see it in this pic this dress was amazing. It had lace, feathers, sequins and so much more and still looked stunning. What I really loved was that from a distance it looked as though the mannequin was tattooed.

Has anyone else been to this exhibition? If you haven't and live in Brissie, do yourself a favour and go!

At my house...

At my house today it is my hubbies birthday. The celebrations began last night with dinner for a few family and friends and tonight it will be a relaxed dinner consisting of leftovers for our little family of 5. There has been many an artwork created over the weekend for Daddy to go with tickets to see John Butler Trio and a roasting pot or something like that that he actually bought for himself a few months ago and insisted it would be his gift. Who am I to argue? Men are so difficult to buy for so it was problem solved for me!

For check out what others have been up to pop on over to Buttons by Lou Lou.

Flea Market Finds

There has not been much finding of the flea market kind around here lately. I have been trying to stay out of the shops (Oppies included) to both save money but also to stay home and concentrate on the many things I need to do. I have the Sugar and Spice Market very soon and I put my hand up to help out with my girl's school concert. Papier Mache heads........ why oh why I am now asking myself!!!! I do work best under pressure so I'm sure it will all work out.

I'm thinking both fabrics would make gorgeous girls summer dresses.

For more Flea Market Finds take a peek over here.

Where else but .................... Queensland! 1.

View from our Hotel

How could I resist a photo of this, my Poppy's new nickname.

I am so in love with the popcorn swimmers. Apparently the result of 6 hours of hard work.

Today 2 weeks ago I was getting ready to board a flight from Melbourne to Brisbane. A few hours previously I had thrown the kids out of the car at my sister's and screeched away from the curb at lightening speed on my way to the airport. I didn't really, I actually got quite teary whilst they didn't seem to care that I would be away for 4 nights. Driving to Tullamarine Airport in the pouring rain and howling wind I started to feel the excitement of being family free and flying off into the distant sunshine.
I arrived in Brisbane and as I was collecting my bag and buying a rail pass to head south to the Gold Coast I was grinning like a maniac. I'm sure I got a few odd looks as the taste of freedom was upon me. I actually had to stop myself from singing aloud to all and sundry "I am free to do what I want any old time".
After a lovely train ride I was picked up at the station by an old school friend and we went to the pub. Yes that's right, the Pub...........in the afternoon! A night of laughter and way too much drinking followed and of course the mother of all hangover's the following day.
The next day I met my beautiful friend Sophie. She moved up north 18 months ago and although she visits us all down here I miss her heaps. We were lucky enough to be able to shop, drink, laugh and get lost together (navigating with a hangover is not my strong point!). Once again, not a child of ours in sight!!!!
Fortitude Valley is apparently the place to shop and among many amazing stores where I couldn't even afford a button I fell in love with Sole devotion.
The shoes in this store are heavenly. A little pricey but oh so gorgeous.

We also went to see the Valentino Retrospective.
More about that soon............

My Place & Yours

Today, after completely slacking on the blogging front for a while I thought it time to get my butt into gear. I thought I'd take part in My Place & Yours along with Danielle over at Helloowl. Today it is Whats in your handbag.


This is a very organised handbag for me. Usually it would contain all manner of child paraphenalia and today just one thing, the little blue car. Now, the reasons for this is that I made myself a new handbag therefore had to cull all the crap that would usually reside in it. This is the bag I took to Qld so because I went childless I was free to have only what I needed!
Phone, glasses case by 2, handcream, sandilwood oil, pawpaw ointment, nasal spray (addicted to it), hair elastic, wallet, tissue, swimschool newsletter and neurofen...........

For more handbag contents pop on over to Helloowl.