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new aussie treasury!

Posted by shan | Filed under etsy

i scored myself a new treasury west tonight, something i haven’t done in a long time.

it features purple and yellow items from the wonderfully talented Aussie DUSTers team. Please click and comment, if you can! http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=59752

Tags: dust team, etsy, treasury

Read more | Comments (0) | July 3rd, 2009

friday nights by the radio.

Posted by shan | Filed under music

it’s pretty obvious, but… i like spoon. a lot. as is evidenced by my last.fm page:

music plays a pretty big role in my life. it always has, and i suspect it always will be. you know how sometimes you’ll hear a song, something you’ve listened to numerous times previously, and all of a sudden it just hits you. that has been happening to me all week, but with spoon. with songs i’ve listened to and loved a million times over. with these two in particular:

when asked, i always reply that chicago at night is my favourite song ever. and it is. but i don’t think i’ve really listened to it in a long, long time. and now i’m smitten all over again.

Tags: music, spoon

Read more | Comments (0) | July 3rd, 2009

rain, rain, go away.

Posted by shan | Filed under etsy, me, stuff

how depressing is this?

this is what it looks like from my kitchen window right now:

it has looked like this for most of the last fortnight, and will continue to look like this for most of the next month and beyond.

so, this is where i am:

in front of the heater with my gold sequined peter alexander slippers. ahhhh, bliss.

the only redeeming things is that at least it’s not that cold. it’s cold, but it’s not obscene-cold. we spent the recent long weekend in canberra and it was just absurdly cold.

so, now i shall spend the rest of my weekend cooking. tim has just moved in with me, so we’re getting a weekly food plan sorted. i’m going to make a chicken pasta bake that we can both take for lunch on the days that we don’t have leftovers. and then i’m going to make some toblerone cookies. yum!

Tags: complaints, food, rain

Read more | Comments (0) | June 20th, 2009

smiles on a rainy sunday afternoon

Posted by shan | Filed under pretty things

ffffound

Tags: colours, ffffound, hearts, pictures, umbrellas

Read more | Comments (1) | May 31st, 2009

new cards!

Posted by shan | Filed under etsy, me

here’s a quick sneak peek at some new cards going into my etsy store very soon. i’d hoped to put them up today, but i ran out of time.

i’ve been so busy lately, and for me, busy tends to by closely aligned with uninspired. but i’ve finally got my inspiration back, so there’ll be new stock filling up my etsy store in no time!

Tags: cards

Read more | Comments (0) | May 27th, 2009

yulia brodskaya

Posted by shan | Filed under pretty things

if you haven’t checked out the work of yulia brodskaya, i highly, highly recommend you do so. i can’t believe she’s made all of this with paper.

Read more | Comments (1) | May 25th, 2009

500 days of summer

Posted by shan | Filed under stuff

apologies for my absence of late, i’ve been so busy and had an emergency trip out of town and blah blah blah. but i’m back.

i just bought us tickets to see 500 days of summer at the sydney film festival. i am so excited to see this movie.

zooey deschanel is insanely adorable.

Tags: blah blah blah, movies, sff, zooey

Read more | Comments (0) | May 20th, 2009

sigh.

Posted by shan | Filed under pretty things

this is what life should be like.

from mangored

Tags: pretty pretty pretty pretty

Read more | Comments (1) | May 6th, 2009

wednesday want

Posted by shan | Filed under music, pretty things, want

my last wednesday want was a fortnight ago; a brief list of things i wanted/needed. i missed last week’s blog post, but as luck would have it, all but one of my wants were realised on the same day. my ruddbucks arrived, tim’s birthday present arrived, and my teeth got better. no decemberists tour, but i’m not holding my breath for that one.

it’s absolutely freezing here. autumn came and went in about two weeks and now it’s just bitterly cold, ALL THE TIME. have i mentioned how much i hate winter yet? cause i really, really do.

anyway. this week’s wants: