roadtrip

image by hellepoe

i'm going on a roadtrip with two of my besties to visit another of our besties in Penola, S.A this weekend and lets just say i am pretty much bursting with excitement.

The so called Country Experience:Penola trip or road trip to pennytown as i like to call is going to involve a whole lotta wine, chatting and general fun! and maybe even a bon fire ( i love bonfires!)

but if anyone has any tips for great roadtrip music please let me know because i am responsible for making the playlist for the trip!

so i am packing my ipod and cameras and i'll give you all a recap when i return from the open road xx

this is ...how i like to spend my weekend

well honestly, i'm not too fussy with my weekends. i just like to relax and not be at work! but the last few months i have developed a little bit of an obsession with making the time off count by seeing as much of my friends and family as i can. and this weekend was pretty perfect for me as far as that goes. so here is my weekend in a nutshell:

super fun new zealand wine tasting at work, seeing my uni friends friday night for our mates album launch, dancing around and maybe drinking a little too much on friday night, catching up with these super lovely people , dancing in the rain + not dropping my maccas chippies at the same time!, sleeping in (maybe thanks to the wine + dancing), reading the papers, taking lots of polaroids. seeing the art deco exhibition, trying on some AWFUL red lipsticks, buying our first ever red lipsticks with yols, making a few cards + well sleeping.

all in all it was a perfect weekend. and for those of you who are in Melbourne and haven't been to see the Art Deco exhibition at NGV yet, I would say what are you waiting for? . My favourite things were the amazing dresses by lanvin & chanel, the cartier jewellery, radios + the honestly beauiful illustrations and travel posters. the only down side really is that it is so so busy that you can't stand around and admire for as long as i would like (but that could be years!)

i hope you all had just as much fun this weekend too!

thanks to the bird bath for this weeks theme

i would like to thank the academy...

who doesn't loved being loved? well i am not going to lie, i do. and i have recieved a couple of awards from the lovely hollie & honor in the last week so here i go spreading the love. i'm combining the two (hope thats ok!)

here are my 6 things that I am happy about right now :

1. the weekend : i'm going to see this with one of my fave people on the planet
2. that spring is only weeks away - bring on the sunshine so my tiny frost bitten hands can defrost:)
3. my new illustrations & cards that i'm dropping into thread den tomorrow. i love the way they turned out
4. my new shoes - red mary jane heels that pretty much rock my world
5. that i go to sydney in less than a month
6. friday night i'm going to my friend nathan's album launch at the espy & its going to be a whole lotta fun so if you are around come & see him or check him out here too

i've seen these around a bit so rather than tag others here are some of the blogs i love to read because well i think they are both brilliant and make me happy when i read them:

: galahouse : art4friends : the paper apartment :daydream lily : boobooksausagedogs

: sarah longworth: the monday project

tag your it

image by brettm8

The super sweet Jane of Strawberry Season has tagged me

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person you tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know that they've been tagged, by leaving a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know your entry is up.

six random things about little old me:

1. I like old musicals like oklahoma & high society
2. I am named Jessica after the character in Man from Snowy River
3. I love drinking tea + may be a little addicted to my turkish apple from here
4. I collect coloured glass (i'm running out of spots for them)
5. My first cd was east 17. yep, i actually own up to that
6. My favourite place I have ever visited is the Big Pineapple

i'm a lovegeek

i did an interview for the online zine lovegeek a little while ago and now its all up and ready for sharing with all of you lovelies. i was really excited that mads asked me to be a part of the art school dropouts issue and well lets just say i am in amazing company such as Rebecca Newman, Lia Tsamoglou, Eugenia Lim, Amelia Gregory (of amelias magazine!!!), Shakthi Sivanathan, Pandora Nguyen and Tabitha Emma.
and my sweet arabella is the cover girl so to speak!

arabella

juliet

intro from lovegeek zine 3 art school dropouts ?

Those were our salad days. Days wasted away drinking red wine, making art, talking politics over lattes, talking debt over centrelink counters. The years before graduation, before the man got us down, before the 'real world' intervened and ruined our collective intention to change the world. But what hope can we offer the fresh faced kids still working their way through The Frankfurt School, Foucault and Truffaut? What advice can we give in order to save them from the horrible fate of self doubt that washes over most young grads?

to read the interview take a looksie over her at lovegeek

and thanks again to mads!

this is ..my work in process

so i showed you in my last post a couple of new drawings i have been working on so i thought how fitting to show you how one of them finished up. i am really happy with lillie, its a little different from what i have been doing and i really miss combining the collage element as much as i was. so, lillie started life as a pencil sketch and i added some clothes using photoshop. i'm so happy with her i have framed her up and put her on my own wall :)

thanks to kept in a jar for this weeks theme! check out more works in progress over here

travelling sketches

here are a few new sketches from my tram rides this week. they aren't really finished at all but i thought i would give you sneky peek