New Stuffs!

Here's a couple of new-ish items for your perusal:

These little heart earrings are only around 1.5 cm high...

This set was my Dad's idea, after he saw the pencil earrings.

Russian Doll Necklace. Speaks for itself.

Head in the sand

Okay, so I haven't posted in a really really long time.  Here are my excuses - working hard at uni, working hard at work, and moving into a new home with my lovely.  Excuses are always boring - sorry about that.  Anyway I am here again and hoping that I'll be able to really get into craft stuff again in a big way soon.  I've decided just to do one paper at uni next semester, work 3 days a week and have a little bit more ME time. Which, incidentally includes more crafty time (Woot!).

All this will happen after exams are over, and after my quick trip to Europe in July! Yussss! I'm very excited about that. In the short space of 2 weeks I will be holidaying in Croatia, Rome, London, and Barcelona.  In Croatia I will be visiting Split and also hanging out off the Dalmatian coast on the island of Hvar where my great grandfather came from (and ran away from).  Soooo exciting.  By the way - does anyone know of any AWESOME shops to go to in London? I'm thinking that might be the best place to find Charles a little present.

Yes, that's all for now. I am actually supposed to be studying Company Law right now. How did I pull myself away??

XO

This makes me hungry.

This is awesome:

Oh, and this hamburger cake:

Hello 2009

Happy Belated New Years!

I hope everyone has had some holiday relaxing time!  Our trip to Melbourne was super fun and Charlie and I had a bit of a downer on coming home to boring old normal life and Auckland.  Oh well... I have Europe in July to look forward to - 3 weeks spent in Croatia, Rome, Barcelona and maybe a couple of days in London.  Yay!

I'm in the thick of summer school now and I'm not enjoying it like I did last year, thanks to no longer living in a holiday destination (Waiheke) and a horrible chest infection that has still left me exhausted a week and a half after getting it.  I am, of course still getting awesome marks.

You know what's getting me down today though? Chains.  Yes, chains.  Necklace chains.  It's so hard to find a good necklace chain for my jewellery.  I was excited before Christmas because I thought I'd found an awesome gold plated chain that was exactly what I wanted. Unfortunately I've now found that said gold plated chains quickly lose their gold plate and end up steel coloured.  It's a silly thing to get down about but I am so sick of doing chain research instead of thinking about fun new ideas.  Blah.... more internet trawling to do.

I need to seriously start making stuff for the Cross St Carnival now which is looking to be an awesome day!

Over the rainbow.

Hey!

So, did I tell you that way back in September I won a competition and the prize was a $1000 Flight Centre voucher? No? Well, I did.

So now it's come time to use it! My dad, my beloved Charlie and I are going to Melbourne on Sunday for 9 days. Woot! My bro lives there so we are going to spend Christmas with him.  All my favourite guys in one place!! And we found cheap as accommodation in the city.

I'm pretty excited about it, especially as I made some spending money at Craftwerk.

And I am really really over work and making stuff right now so just doing what I want is going to be sweet.

So that's probably me for 2008.  Hope ya'll have a fab Christmas and a fun New Years!

Kraftbombtastic

Weeeeee! Kraftbomb was fun yesterday!  Seemed a bit busier than last time, but that could have been because I went sans-Charlie again.

I had to have a cup of Fred's delicious lemonade, and 2(!) of City's cupcakes. SO. GOOD.

I also picked up this cute necklace which I have been thinking about for awhile from lilysmakebelieve. I'm gonna send it to my lil sis in London for Christmas.  I know she'll love it!

Bicycles to Drool Over.

I've been thinking lately that I need to get into bike riding again - it saves me spending money on the bus or spending time walking and it's exercise.  Then I start to think about my bike - a charming old Raleigh 20. It's purple and once had two white tyres (but now has one white, one black).  I really love it but it's always breaking down.  At the moment the seat is doing something weird and I need to get a spanner to it and the pedals slip when you are trying to ride uphill (kinda scary and dangerous).

So... I started investigating buying a new bike with the classic old fashioned look that I love.  I found a lot on overseas websites! These are my favourites. Unfortunately they are all hugely expensive and possibly not able to be shipped to NZ.  Anyway... makes for good drooling:

Fietsfabriek "Retro" 

Gucci release this little red beauty as a special item during the Beijing Olympics for a cool US$3,420!

Jorg & Olif have this cutey "Oma" at a fairly reasonable price ... for those in the States only!

These two are from the British Pashley Cycles "Sonnet Bliss" and "Princess Classic"

Kronan! These are probably the most viable for me to purchase - they have an Australian distributer.

I'm digging the cream quite a lot.

Velorbis "Victoria Classic", "Dannebrog", and "Scrap Deluxe".  Another great example of Northern European design. I love the cane baskets too!  And the Scrap Deluxe have an interesting kinda modernist look.

And finally the Skeppshult "Nova", "Promenade" and "Nature" (x2 colours).  The Promenade is the mens model but I love the colours.