February 2009
18 posts
Goodnight
Duffy. The rain is falling so nicely, isn’t it. I’m ridiculously happy to have you back home safe and well. I love you very very much. Sleep deeply and well,
Love ma’amy x
we spoke about sleeping on cloud rugs with starsky blankets, and i love him.
shiimmmy.
Sorry for always neglecting, and then breaking promises to keep updating…truth is at the moment i’m happily busy, and writing pen to page in my books fufills me enough. but i love reading all of your words M and i sent you a package today.
My day today is a swirl of lemon, maple syrup, rainbow plaid and white crinkle linen. My love is in the the music that thumps my chest. Having this...
Gah, she’s a hip shaking mama and I love ya love ya love ya. She makes me feel hip shakin’ sass makin’ lady lovely.
I hope he's not reading this..
A quick update for my lonely, neglected but cherished blog.
Right now I’m dressed Sargent Peppers theme. Kinda Christmas meets military, and my feet are toasty warm in boots I didn’t think I’d be able to stomp around in yet.
I just ate a yummy tummy pleasing date scone, and I realized that if I had to marry a dried stone fruit, date would be the one.
I’m...
173 people now no longer here. Come on, universe! This is heartbreaking, watching this unfold and the number of those lost keeps growing. Everyone, please keep the Australian state of Victoria in your hearts.
Victoria
I’m aching for you Victoria. For every person that has lost a home or a family member, a bestfriend or a neighbour. Intense bush fires are tearing right through the state, leaving devastation and despair. I’m sincere when I say I’m aching, my throat from housing sobs and my muscles from holding tense, listening to this horrifying tradegy and the plees of the people now homeless....
sweet joyous sydney morning
this morning sees me heading into sydney city to meet my beautiful jess britt. my american lovely! She is in my tooooooown!! Im not even sure what this day holds, but that makes it even better! A weekend for whatever we feel. Woah, i can’t believe she is here.
i am having a lot of fun at the moment, rekindling loves, reuniting with friends, eating great, sweet tomatoes. im missing you and...
Knees that buzz and yearn for, with a mind of their own.. I am almost certain I got that image/thought/idea from my lovely M. She’s only the coolest San Francisco-an ever.
I want this dress so badly that my knees hurt. I would feel like a spanish flamenca chicka and I would swirl all day.
I want my hair to grow and be wild and untamed.
But mostly, I want to wish my Lucy the happiest of birthdays. You are my dancing, red headed lovely and I miss you more and more everyday. Keep an eye on your letter box sweetest pea. I wish that I could have been with you on your...
I welcome you, Winter. Please, brush my windows soon. Send my nose that chilly rosy hue. I promise to not complain one little bit. I’ll dance in the your rain and i’ll buy the sweetest umbrella for your skies to oggle. I want a bone chilling winter. A soup all day winter. A socks and stockings and layers of scarves winter. Don’t let me down.
When a good evening flows into a good morning to...
My week and weekend has been busy and full. Busy enough to forget to do some special things I love, like hanging out my linen on the clothes line against the purple flowers and reading the lazy sunday newspaper front to back and inbetween.
When I do get a splice of time to destress and re energise, I choose to sip green rose tea and read Under The Tuscan Sun. Im underlining nearly every second...
i want to make a ruffle floor skimming skirt with these vintage tablecloths
“I also see the earth in your eyes.”
– Jack Kerouac (via dixonlea)
January 2009
39 posts
Hello Jimaroooo.
Roomie, brother, fellow couch dweller.
Santitas, trackpants and blankets. Yes please!
Fontella bass
You sung to meeeee this morning. Rescue me from work! This day the sun is shinier than before and I want to be emersed in all kinds of bodies of water.. Happy Saturday love lovers.
Sippy sip
I’m sipping morning coffee,
In a silky silky slip
Never wanting to stop this morning.
Out on the patio we’d sit,
And the humidity we’d breathe.
We’d watch the lightening crack over cane fields, Laugh and think, this is Australia.
Happiest of Australia Days to all, even my internationals.
who can resist a boy in beads and plaid?
one of mikeys friends tagged this photo of mike and i from new years eve maybe 3 years ago. we look so little, mikeys hair was soo long :) and even though i am making goldfish eyes, and mike looks a bit too interested in the cake, i like this photo. a memory captured that had slipped my mind. my love and i are growing and its a sweet feeling.
I still think that mike would make a drop dead...
i love you
right now
i feel like this raspberry margarita with orange sugar around the rim
MIA = me
here are the reasons while I have been mia of late:
1 the heat right now is melt your face of sweltering so any amount of spare time i get after work is spent sprawled out on wooden floor boards, under fans or submerged in water.
2 i have been working alot, my boss is due to have a baby soon so the extra pressure is on all of the girls to work more. i even have to work tomorrow, which is...
sweet sweet sweet
dixonlea:
The very heart in your chest is whispering amongst the chatter, you are spirit, not a machine.
"What I've Learned"
dixonlea:
abster:
overflowing:
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your family, you’ll miss...
zzz
mike snored all night long.
all night long, and i was restless with dreams that we were getting married, but we’d forgotten to purchase rings. gah, with me being the planning freak that I am, i am sure that i will be checking and re checking everything ‘wedding’.
last night i had jellybeans and licorice for dinner. i can get away with it because im sick and it cheers me up....
one more for you tonight
meet zoe marx, or as i affectionately call her, ‘zo-bang’. she is sweet and adorable and so hilarious rambucious that you’ll be laughing til your cheeks ache. she has the greatest fashion style in Connecticut and her house is a dream boat mansion, complete with a home theatre and wine cellar..! i love her deeply and dearly and she is going to be in my country in 4 days too! i...
and when i feel lonely, i look at this. jess britt. my beautiful baby.
windblown car trips to malls and caralees. everyday was spent hungover, and i loved it.
you are my georgian sister love and you will be in my country in 4 days..! WOOO BABY!
when i need a giggle, i think of darcy meek. the best room mate i could have ever hoped for. i miss her more and more every single day.
darc, 2 words for you:
driftwood & dreads.
<3
here's a secret:
when i cut oranges, i fold the skin and squirt the orange oil on my neck. i think more girls should smell like oranges.
ODE TO RED
oh, ode to sweet sweet red.
obnoxiously loud tights and mustard wool.
tan heels and robin egg leather.
i wanna sprawl out under the window.
please meet
christopher duffy
duffy
my sweet sweet love.
definitely my most sentimental of friends. i write him letters at least once a week. i have a small collection of them in my wallet and each time i see him i forget to pass them on, but when i eventually do, he’ll have a bounty of love on paper.
he will be in my world always, so i think you should get familiar.
this world is definitely too gloriously wonderful to be glum.
im going to go and plant a big smooch on the lips of the man i love. then i am going to go and buy a new rose blusher and a medium brown red hair dye. i cant escape the colour of my life. red red red.
no matter how old this photo is, mikey, its got to be close to my favourite photo of you. i cant resist a cute boy pulling a face in pj pants.
im going to ride the train again soon. to sydney. to paddys markets. to stalls and shop fronts and bustling cafes. i dont mind if i go alone. i jsut want to go and explore and breathe new building tops. im not planning on an overseas adventure this year and my feet are starting to itch with desires to move.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before...”
– Lewis Carroll
im looking at pics of cute puppies and ducklings so that i can wipe this sook off my face. then i remembered this.
me one halloween, maybe 3 years ago. it was a lot of fun, this night. blonde megan…. gah.
my favourite painting at the glasshouse
i named it 48 shades of brown.
to my friends and loves
however short, this is not lacking in sincerity.
may your new year be filled with new foods, exciting sights and heart warming loves. may your endeavours and adventures be successful and so fufilling you could burst and overspill with love and happiness. may your hair float across your eyes while you are busy living and may your cheeks be flushed with cheer. may the wind kiss your nose and push...
welcome to my afternoon
my book
my beverage
and jellybeans to keep me sweet.
if this was a window in my house, id dance in the speckled bursts of light it would cast when the sun rolled on by.
once again
i am coming to you from bed. im in my genie pants, my teal tee shirt and my deep raspberry and cream polka dotted scarf.
i woke up this morning feeling really refreshed and well slept. i got up, dressed and mike and i went to my favourite cafe on the coast. its called the glass house and it is filled with paintings from local artists, photography books and retro jewelry. the walls are scrawled...
my san fran travel/explorer outfit.
this makes me
think of san francisco with all its colourful whack and peaceful love. i wanna go soooo bad.