Little Hands + Pretty Rice

made some green rice

and some pink

some was mixed together

and given to the 3 year old to play with

i love seeing kids playing with such simpleness

her hands are so cute and soft and little

so yummy to kiss

and with the rest, i made a pretty little display

♥

In The Light Of A Lamp

last night i wasn't very happy

i knew i had to make myself happy before i attempted sleeping

so i let myself have some camera therapy

here are some things in my room...

fairy wings + fabric mache hot air balloon

my friend who's name i share

memories from cambodia

canvas and candles

rabbit that my almost blind grandfather made for me
and a picture from my great grandparent's house

canvas from my sister

my life savers

a corn cob on string

a vintage frock show that i forgot to go to

                                                                                              find the tutorial here

a rag doll who still remains bald

poor skirt waiting to be mended

from my sister when i won my camera

camera bag, bin and favourite drink

poor, rejected ring-holder cat

rug

friendship

A Wonderful Giveaway

Emily at emilysacra.com is having a giveaway, a beautiful, camera strap from madebymeegz:

Mmmmm, it's so lovely. I think it's even nicer the one I posted about before. Ooooohhh I dunno, I love the leather bits on the other one.

But to enter this giveaway, head over to Emily's blog and follow her directions  <3

One of a Kind

I realised that I never showed the 'after' photos from this post. So here they are:

The technique I used on the shirt on the right is the most common one, the 'spiral'. Instructions can be found over here. (Except I didn't do the black bits like the guy in the video did.)

The shirt on the left has a little bit of a different pattern, it's called 'spider'. I think mine looks better than the video guy's ones!!

This pattern I just made up and I love the result!!

Since then (January) I've been to a hippy market and bought some much better colours, ones that I am way more likely to wear, as apposed to those screaming bright colours above. (The photo's are cropped like that because they are part of a project I'm doing and they're still secret!!)

I love love love this shirt, it's my favourite one that I've dyed. Just experimented with my own pattern on it too.

And this one is a spiral, but I did it in such a way that there were great gaps of the white showing through. I didn't like it so I just painted the gaps softly with more dye  :)

(These dyes I have at the moment- you paint them on; they're called 'Magic Dye'.)

Have YOU done any tie dying???

Multi Cultural Arts Event in Fitzroy

So on the weekend I went to this sort-of festival with my friend Laura. In between dancing our hearts out in the mosh pit to awesome, Senegalese rhythms, attending an Ethiopian dance workshop, and making cute henna tattoos on each other, I got my camera out. It was my first official time going out with my fancy camera in it's big bag, and walking there I was just in this cloud of confidence/up-myself-ness. It was a bit of a drag carrying around 2 'handbags', and I was so worried each time I put it down to dance, that it would get stolen or something bad like that. Any suggestions for anything??

But I thought I would share these happy snaps with you... 

I tried so hard not to take images with people's faces in them, part of the whole don't-take-pictures-of-people-without-their-permission thing, but I still really loved this photo, so I blacked out their eyes  :p

My main 'theme was snippets of colour'...

A handy little snack :p

I WANT THIS DRESS.

A big smooch  ;)

Pretty helmet.

I loved all the flags so much... I want to make some for myself.

Cute-as-a-button hat.

I am planning to go to more of these festival places in the next six months, let me know if you know of any.

:D