I’m in the mood to celebrate the long weekend so I’m having 25% off until Monday night on all Modern Antiquity products.
Why Modern Antiquity? It’s one of my favourites. I love love love the warm musky scent and lashings of clay which make it so good to use.
Get it only on the Empire of Delight website.
Who’s with me girls? Come on, lets all be irresponsible together.
Or I’m just trying to make all you crafty people out there look bad…snort.
Either way, I’m on a role.
Because doing two markets this weekend isn’t enough I’ve signed up on short notice to do another one on the Sunday.
This one will be under a massive tent along with some of my favourite people and looks to be a nice, chatty, casual day. I’m looking forward to it, although I am dreading my stock levels after this weekend and what I’m going to have to do to get ready for Unwrapped the following weekend.
…but I’d be even more grateful if you’d make this one with puffed sleeves”
Anne of Green Gables
Today was such a momentous occasion I felt the urge to document it.
Go shopping and buy things. Boredom? What boredom? Trust me, it works every time.
Granted (and this is purely to put Big B at ease) a $17 haircut and earrings and hair clip from Big W are hardly major shopping blowouts. But it was still a lot of fun.
Little J got a new haircut and earrings today. She’d been wanting shorter hair for a while now and we decided to just go for it.
She loves it, I love it. I’m sure she’s already planning her world domination now that she looks da bomb.
I love her little non existent eyebrows. She’ll probably hate them when she’s grown up but I think they’re fab. They give her an otherworldly appearance.
Other activities in the house include dragging the kids into the bedroom to braid and plait their hair. Recently discovered is the website Adopt a ‘Do which is a series of YouTube videos showing how to do lots of different types of hairstyles for girls.
If braids are too boring for you then why not try the almost sculptural styles from Shaunells Hair. My girls don’t have the right hair for these styles but I plan on forcing Little C to grow her hair so I can play.
Halloween preparation is going great guns in the house, although I noticed on Nienie’s blog that she’s already decorated for Halloween so we’d better get a move on.
Sometimes in life there are way too many choices. There are just so many cool careers out there that I feel like I want to pursue them all, as if I could have a second career on the sideline and it wouldn’t be too much work.
So what would I do if I magically had the time to have a second, third, even fourth career?
Like Bakerella, who seems to spend her day making cookies and taking cool photos of them.
Like Twigs & Honey.
Especially art like Rebecca Rebouche, who creates the most divine paintings.
Like Australian designer Mel Bomba.
Just like Kiss the Grooms Elizabeth Messina.
It ‘sounds’ like a great idea, gutting old ugly houses and redecorating them into something beautiful.
Like the very talented Elise Hurst who wrote and illustrated one of our favourite books, The Night Garden.
I could just read all day long. Bliss.
Like The Shoe Girl who spends her day dressing up and designing fab shoes for top fashion labels.
You design pretty things like Rifle Paper Co, people love them and use them a wedding invitations. Perfect.
I couldn’t think of a better way to spend the day.
With my own reality show of course.
Where the only thing I do is what I want, when I want…and then I blog about it of course.
No explanation necessary.
We do a lot of cake and chocolate eating in this house.
Well, why not? It’s perhaps one of the great loves in our household.
And in honour of that delicious substance, just yesterday I saw these online:
Oh how divine, how delicious, how scrumptious. Details here.
And while we’re still on the subject of chocolate I also came across this beautifully designed chocolate milk collection:
How amazing. Designed by Mark Johnson a recent graduate from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah. I would buy chocolate milk everyday if it looked like this.
To add to my blissful morning I’m listening (and forcing the kids…one’s home sick) to the 2005 Pride and Prejudice soundtrack. It’s really lovely and I’m definitely getting old :)
I’m in a blogging slump. Is anyone really interested in the day to day details of my life? Who wants to know what I did today? Is baking ginger snap cookies worth blogging about and should I be happy or distraught that it was the high-light of my day?
Lets blog about shopping instead. This I can get excited about.
I would like to receive as a gift:
This limited edition print of a cup.
This picture of peacocks in a tree.
This utterly perfect print of a bird.
These super cute sock garters.
These yummy looking cookies.
I’ve been included in a few Treasuries this week.
Perhaps they knew it was my birthday yesterday.
