Winter

The wild back yard of a friend.

It All Ends

My childhood is officially over. It's weird that the end of this series seems more of a milestone than my own 21st birthday. But alas, it's over... until they remake it twenty years from now.

And yes... I went to the premier. But let the record show I did NOT dress up. I only did that for the book release....

Bikes + Babes

I have conquered Auckland City by bike! And it's hard work. We have a lot of hills here and I can feel pretty good about getting some exercise, (a new thing for me). I am still getting used to the cars and buses but I'm obsessed with safety so you can see me out there blinking like a Christmas tree with all my lights. But I can easily say I love it, and here's a bit of inspo from the lovely Calivintage with her tumblr Bikes + Babes! L xo

My Exhibition!

I haven't been blogging for a while because I've been concentrating on uni, this year is a busy one, there aren't enough hours in the day. But here is the latest that I've been up to. For the 3rd and final year of my degree we are expected to curate our own exhibition in randomly selected groups. I happened to get a very lovely group of girls so the experience has been pretty good, though stressful at times when it feels like there is no end in sight. The title of our exhibition was Exposed Happenings, with a common theme of time running through all of our works. Here's what the final show looked like.

Works by Sonia Aurelio

Kayla Humphreys

Alicia Pang

Franziska Poeschl

Fay Carey

And Me!

The space I was allocated was perfect to display in, but terrible to photograph. But overall I was happy with how it looked and proud of how it all came together. Now... mid-year assessment to go...

L xo

New Works

Here's some newer works I've done. Uni is mental, my final year is shaping up to be my craziest. My group and I are preparing for our exhibition, it's a lot of work. Plus we have the worst time to have it, right before Mid-year assessment. But, at the same time I'm trying to make the most of it, because when this is all over I have no plan, and I will have no studio.

In other news, tomorrow is James and my 5 year anniversary. Time has flown by, we are going out to dinner to celebrate. It's been a great 5 years and I hope for many more with my best friend. L xo

The land of the Walking

As I mentioned in my last post my poor car is out of action. We got a diagnosis and it wasn't good, so we have decided to let it go and will probably sell it to a wreckers or something. I'm pretty gutted, I've had it since I was 15 and have been everywhere in it, not to mention not having a car feels pretty scary. So now I am amongst the world of public transport and walking, but it's not all bad.... I found a bag of chocolate bars when I was on the bus the other day! Ha!

Thursday

My car broke down nearly 3 weeks ago (eeek!) and I have no idea what to do, whether to take it in and see how quickly the mechanic can make me cry or just let it go. It's a hard decision, and an uninformed one for now. So I wait. But in the meantime I have been walking everywhere. Long, impossible walks. But the upside is the photos I've been able to take, though walking with the camera makes it even harder.

I've also been really sick the last couple of days, typically for me I have something due tomorrow. I always manage to time these things perfectly. Sigh.

I am ridiculous.

So now that I am back at uni I feel that I have more time to do things like this... which is pretty bad for my time management. But I want to show off what I have been doing lately - it has taken me 4 weeks to come up with these works, which is far too long. But after working all summer it took me a while to even begin to think about art.

So I have learnt to stretch my own canvas, which is really satisfying but stressful and hard. However, I am taking an easy route and stretching with synthetic fabrics instead. I'm cool like that. I've also been shoving fabric through my printer at home, saving myself a lot of money instead of going to the super expensive (but still awesome) digital fabric printing place. If only my printer would print larger than a4...

Oh, and Happy New Year. Heres to 2011! L xo

Back on Board... Kinda

It's been lovely having a break from the blog, still not sure if I can be bothered. I feel weird about it because I don't know who reads it (apart from family) and don't see the point in it sometimes, except maybe to look back on in a few years.

So anyway... I've been working away like a little bee at my job, which I am enjoying for the most part I guess. Work is work. I am loving my days off and have spent every one of my weekends at the beach, it's fantastic! I've also been spending time with friends, which is even better.

Notice my necklace, made by the lovely Miss Ferrit

And my extra special occasion hair

And while I wrap endless amounts of Christmas gifts for customers, I cannot help but get a little bit festive, I hope to have a tree next year!

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I'm not sure..

I am not sure about you at the moment blog.... I'm on a blogging holiday until I work out whether I want to keep it. L xo

Sleeeepp...

I am sooo tired, this is my first full week of work and I'm only up to day 4 and I feel like I could stay in my bed forever. I'm really not used to standing all day and I'm looking forward to my weekend (which isn't the old sat-sun like most lucky people). Right now I am drinking a Macs Sour Green Apple soda, sooo perfect for summer and listening to the fireworks going off around the place. I am terrified of fireworks, really wish it wasn't so. I can't stand to be near them, but they sure are pretty:

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Hellooooo Summer!

Walking to work this morning I realized just how warm it was, summer is definitely coming and it feels wonderful. Not so much for James however as he just got back from a boys trip to the beach and is bright red and in lots of pain, poor boy. I'm going to try my best to avoid a sunburn this summer I swear. Right now I am enjoying wearing skirts and dresses without being unbearably hot and uncomfortable. I love reading blogs, however most of the ones I read are in the northern hemisphere and are frolicking around their autumn landscapes making me long for scarves and boots.

Apart from working I haven't really got a clue what to do with my time. It's strange not having assignments and artworks to get finished. I'm hoping to a few trips out of the city. L xo

Girls Night

Last night my two dear friends Juliette and Miri came over and we embarked on one of the biggest girls night I have ever had. Pizza was eaten, lollies were scoffed, there were glitter tattoos, cat stickers and feathers in our hair. Face masks were applied, interesting ones at that. Miri pulled off the Choco-mask and I got a freaky one that heated on application...weird but nice. And then we fell asleep watching Grey Gardens. Seriously one of the best nights I've had in a long time, I am looking forward to summer with these girls!

The calm beginning with the GIANT pizza.

Seriously silly. L xo