Come Fly With Me

Wearable Art feeds my creative soul. It excites me, inspires me and is what gets me at the sewing machine raring to go.

So finding brilliant creations such as this really make my day.
(Thanks mum. Her daily emails with blogs I should check out more often than not pull out some absolute winners.)(http://selfishseamstress.wordpress.com/)

peppermint & cream

Fashion Cents. What the world needs more of. I'm not talking about more cents to spend on fashion. I'm talking about money spent on fashion having sense.

Peppermint magazine, Australia's first eco-conscious fashion mag, will do just that for you. Apart from the 35c from each copy sold going to charity, inside is a plethora of sustainable guru-dom.
It's not just limited to fashion, although its eco-fashion finds are absolutely gorgeous, defying any preconcieved notions of hairy hippies. Music, values, and social issues are also covered.
Oh and remember when magazines used to have a pattern included to make your own something-or-other? Well, peppermint is bringing it back.

It's not only what is inside peppermint's pages that get me excited. It's the other sources referenced. Despite having signed up to various online eco-fashion sources, peppermint manages to find brilliant things I would've otherwise never come across.

And what other magazine prides itself on having a 'covet girl' instead of a cover girl?

(http://www.peppermintmag.com/)

And finally, what you've all been waiting for, ladies and gentlemen a big round of applause for:

Alba Varden, with their debut single Soul Digger, have released a video clip.
Directed by Alex Ryan, Produced by Adam Howden.
Costumes by Anna cahill (Oh hey there that's me!)
Starring Miles Szanto
Annnnnd introducing Baby Blue Bergman.

See you all at the Gaelic Saturday.
(you'll be singing the song until then- it's just a bit catchy)

Screen Queens

A friend pointed out to me that the image in the posting below is a bit sexist. This was a reading I totally did not see until she pointed it out.
I hope I'm not setting feminism way back with this post as well. But it made me laugh...

Forty Licks

If I were a male and came across this I'm not sure whether I would do what I'd come to do or not....

As a girl, however, I think it's brilliant.
(photo by manuel Witzinowski)

Elated

Now that I am over the post-crit blues (Which always leaves me with a feeling of helplessness and a tinge of confusion), this is how I am currently feeling:

Reminiscing

This time last year I was in a tiny Czech town called Cesky Krumlov.

Reading my diary entry covering those few days, I took note of one thing I wrote.
"Right here, right now is right where I want to be."

Outlook from the castle over Cesky

I'd been away from home for only a couple of weeks, but I'd seen and done a lot. I had just met some friends who I would travel with on and off over the next month, and who I will always count as friends.

Art at Cesky castle

The Czech Republic I think signalled, for me, my transformation into an independant and confident minded individual. I fell in love with, and possibly in, Prague.

Sewing machines in pubs in Prague. Genius.

Bit it was just the beginning of my journey. The woman that stepped off the plane into Australia 8 and a half months after a girl who resembled her had left, was one who is carrying me through the roller coaster I am currently on.

The adventures I had in Europe were amazing and unforgetable; without a doubt a huge part of who I am now.

But hell, who says I'm not creating my own adventures at the moment?