Our Night at Craftwerk

Last Thursday Rich and I were selling our wares at Craftwerk - here's some photo's from our evening out!

This is a photo of our Craftwerk stall - complete with balloons!


Just a couple of photo's of the wares on our table - it was a VERY colourful stall!

80's style electric pink guitar - I can't even tell you how stoked the girl who bought this one was.
mmmmm...ice cream!
Here's a love robot(the theme of Craftwork was Robot's can't love)
Paint the whole world with a RAINBOW! (Thanks to Mella for buying one of these designs)

A supercool Mofire Cross-stitch we had on our table - created by Rich
It's a fishtank that you can take anywhere with you!

A couple of examples of Mofire Cross-stitch patches
A Mofire Xylphone - this wee creation was purchased by Donna:)

Craftwerk Success!

We had a really great night at Craftwerk last night - I've taken some photos of the stall but I am yet to upload them - will do so this weekened to show the world.

We made some good pingers last night - more than I have ever made at markets before which was fantastic - it will help our savings account and we still have plenty of Fimo's left over to take back to Triangle to sell.

During the course of the night we were also asked to apply for another craft market that one of the art galleries in town is having in a couple of weeks and we also got some free tickets to the Craftwerk after party tonight - wicked:)

Also like to say a big thanks to Ross, Mella and Donna and Lee for coming to pay us a visit and also buying a few things from our stall - thanks guys - you all ROCK!

Today's the big day!

That's the reason why I am up at such an ungodly hour (ok I am quite often up at this hour to go to the gym but being up at this hour to go to work just seems wrong!). Anyways the big day is of course our first ever stall at Craftwerk - I'm really looking forward to it but unfortunatly due to the fact I have zero leave so I can't take a half day I have to be at work at 7am so I can leave at 4pm to do Craftwerk type stuff. The Craftwerk people have advised we need to be there at least an hour early to set up (because people usually start arriving at 4:30 and not 5:00 when the thing actually starts!). Rich is leaving work to do the set up - but I have to get some more money for the float and also pick up the fimo's Kat has left at Triangle on my way down to Southern Cross. But it should be a fun night out (lots of bands on at the gig!) and hopefully we should make a few pingers for all our hard work.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Also on the wedding theme - I just couldn't help myself in regard to this website!

So whilst having a look on the interweb I came across a website called -

http://www.uglydress.com/index.html

Which is an "archive on the worlds ugliest bridesmaid dresses" - here's a few of my fav's from the website!!

Apparently this sexy wee number is actually a wedding frock - not a bridesmaid dress - Hello Kitty anyone?

Wow - pretty in pink - just like a princess! NOT!! There is nothing GOOD about this dress - shape, colour, style all bad and WTF is with those bows?



Just to prove - guys make horrible fashion mistakes when it comes to weddings as well...




This one reminds me of a dolly varden cake I had once when I was a kid!

Bridesmaids...

I'm home sick today with my summer bug:( So I have been on the internet and readin Bust magazine a bit. Anyways - whilst reading Bust I came over an article dealing with the history of bridesmaids and weddings in general.

Seen as I've been a bridesmaid twice, and I am going to be bridesmaid twice more in the next couple of years so I thought I'd share these interesting bridesmaid/wedding facts with the world

"In early Roman times, a woman who was about to be married would first have to make a pilgrimage from her village to that of her bethrothed. The journey was often long and dangerous: it was not uncommon for the procession to be attacked by dowry stealing thugs or jilted suitors hoping to kidnap the bride. Bu th this single woman had little to fear for she had her bridesmaids: a group of armed, unmarried women who protected her from her attackers"

"After the ancient Greeks and Romans, something odd happened:bridesmaids almost completely disappeared from Western history for the next 1,500 years."

"There are a few mentions of bridesmaids in other cultures during this time, scattered in the backs of early anthropology journals. Bridesmaids in 17th Century China would stay the wedding night in the bride's new home, and then visit her bedroom the next morning to make syre she had been treated well during the consummation. The Kanuri tribe in Africa had a simmilar practice. In 18th-century Russia, the groom would come and visit his future with and her friends at the brides family home. The bride's parents would welcome him with tea and drinks, but the bridesmaids, ever-protective of their friend, would taut and yell at him until he left."

"And then came the Victorians, who decided to market the whole damn thing. Up until the 19th Century in America, weddings were casual affairs, planned less than a week in advance. Then, beginning in the 1930's and progessing through the civil war, they underwent a transformation. Merchants, whose production abilities grew during the industrial revolution, recognised an untapped market. They began promoting the "traditional" wedding"

"19th Century shopkeers decided that white dresses and dinner receptions were necessary aspects of respectable weddings"

"To flaunt their social position, parents started purchasing cakes and flower bouquets rather than making them at home. Wedding salons, in which a bride could buy her gown rather than wear an old dress or sew a newone herself, became increasing popular"

" Along with the progression towards elaborate pageantry came another notion: The bride needed help. Lots of it. She needed someone to help her pick her dress, choose the cake, pen the invitations. And so the modern bridesmaid was born"

A summer bug

Well it appears that I have been unfortunate enough to catch a summer bug - not feeling too good - in fact I sleep on and off till about 1pm today and then went back for an afternoon nap.

Typical this happening on a week when I have bookclub, craftclub and Craftwerk as well as a million and one things to do at work:( Perhaps an early night tonight will clear it up - fingers crossed it's perhaps a 24 hour thing?

Celia's Hens night

Well last night was Celia's hens night and it was a doozy....I think pretty much everyone had a great time and the bright pink Stephen Fleming Pinata I made for her went down a treat!

The trip to town was also pretty fun - with Celia completing a whole bevvy of tasks from singing Karoke at K Bar to completing the Courtney Street Bungy.

Here's a couple of photos - although Katrina was the official photograper on the night so I am hoping to get some more photos from her to post here.

Celia with her hot date for the night - OMG it REALLY is Stephen Fleming!


Me, Celia and Stephen

Craftwerk gets a plug on Campbell Live!!

Just finished watching John Campbell -were they had a segment on the "nana arts" - interviewed a whole bunch of crafty people from Wellington on "nana Sunday" and gave Craftwerk a HUGE plug....hummm....maybe we should make a few more fimo's? May be a big crowd!!

WORLD officially SUCKS!!

Thin models a fuss over nothing - designer By ROBYN McLEAN and Reuters - The Dominion Post Friday, 2 February 2007

Top New Zealand fashion designer Denise L'Estrange-Corbet is fed up with mounting international concern at thin fashion models - telling critics to get over it.

An online ACNielsen survey of 25,000 people in 45 countries, issued yesterday before the start of the international fashion season, reveals the rising backlash against thin models is a worldwide issue.

New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and Australia were the most critical of the fashion industry, with as many as 94 per cent of those polled believing models were too thin.

But L'Estrange-Corbet, owner of top Kiwi label World, said the debate was old hat. She had no plans to use bigger models just to be politically correct.

"The whole point of being a fashion model is to be thin," she said.
"The job of a model is to make clothes look amazing. The thinner you are the more fabulous you look - that's not going to change.

"When I'm paying them to model my clothes, that's what I'm paying for.

"I'm paying for them to keep themselves thin, but not stupidly thin."

L'Estrange-Corbet said designers should not be expected to apologise for wanting to sell clothes.

"I'm not going to come out and say 'It's got to change' because it's not going to change. The thin girls sell the clothes."

The survey also found a link between perceptions of thinness among women and a country's quality of life.

Concern at thin models has prompted the Italian Government to combine with the fashion industry to fight anorexia.

A code of conduct requires models to show medical proof they do not suffer from eating disorders and calls for bigger sizes to be added to fashion collections.

What a stunner of a DAY!!

In fact we've been having some real stunning days - enough in fact for Rich to get quite burnt over the weekend - I managed to get my nose burnt too...

Today is Waitangi Day and although it's nice to day off - it's a wee bit weird as well....because I went to work yesterday and I am going into work tommorrow and for the rest of the week as well - just feels a bit odd but who am I to complain about a 4 day week!!

I spent most of today hanging with Rich and also finishing off my wee craft project for Celia's Hen's night - but can't spill full details of the project here yet in case Celia's decides to check out my blog in the interim!! But full details of the project will follow sometime in the near future;)

I'm off to spend the rest of the afternoon with Kat shortly though - but I'm waiting for an auction on trade me to finish before I leave....yes...I am LAME...

Anyhose - I'm off to kill time in other ways whilst waiting for my auction to finish....perhaps next time I shall have something more exciting to write!

Looking for a new home...

Rich and I have finally decided it is time to look for a new flat - as our wee flat here is getting a bit more than we can take...no room for crafts and very hard to keep tidy!

So the time has come to look for a new place - which is kinda fun in some ways but a total drag in others!!

So far we have seen three properties - one in Kelburn and two in Newtown. So far the Kelburn property with it's beautiful deck is the winner...but it was a bit of a mess when we went to see it so waiting to hear back from the property manager so we can see it in tidier condition. But there was another couple viewing it that were far pushier than us so maybe they have already snatched it from under our noses.

So our current project is to find a new place, with two bedrooms and so space...hopefully it shouldn't take too long?

Subversive Cross-Stitch!!

I've made a fair bit of subversive cross-stitch now - although I haven't actually made any that I have kept for myself!! I really should make some for ME - but it's a fun gift to give and most of my friends seem stoked with their subversive cross-stitch(hopefully they weren't just being nice to spare my feelings!).

I figured if I was going to give away all my creations - at least I should keep some photographic evidence of the things I have made.

So here's some photo's of some recent cross-stitch - one has already been given away and the other too shall be in the mail in the next few weeks as well....maybe it's coming to your house? You'll just have to wait and see:)

Thank you Jade!!

I arrived home today after some Saturday type adventures (visiting Kat at Triangle, visiting Te Papa and having lunch on the waterfront) to find a lovely parcel from my friend Jade in Sydney which contained a DVD and a necklace with little stars and little skulls (she knows me so well!!) on it!!

The best thing is that the necklace perfectly matches the skull earrings that I bought off trade me that arrived today!

Thanks so much grrl:)

Congrats Jo & Chris

I recieved an e-mail from my long time friend Jo yesterday to let me know that she got engaged to her boyfriend Chris on Sunday.

CONGRATS YOU TWO:D

Rad Red Ross Feather & Tie Partay

Over the weekend we went to the "Rad Red Ross Feather & Tie" party - here's some of the photos:)

Happy Birthday Carolyn!!

It's my friend Carolyn's birthday today! But she's over in Perth so I can't celebrate with her - But I did think she would appreciate this...

Also - we both share an unhealthy Hoff obssession....so I thought she would appreciate this as well...

Hello World!!

Hello all just a general catch up on what has been happening over the last week...humm...not much actually!!

I went to Celia's birthday lunch at Chow on Monday but my gums were still sore then and I wasn't feeling well then so I was only able to eat ice cream for my lunch and then I had to bail early and have a nap because I wasn't feeling good:( I'm mostly better now though - although the spots where my wisdom teeth once was is still quite sensitive. So better late than never but I'd just like to say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CELIA!!"

It's been my first truely "busy" week workwise just getting more and more things on my tray...but that's ok...better busy than nothing to do!

I was suppose to be at my first Sublime Stitching class tonight - but it's been postponed till 22 Feb due to a lack of interest - which SUCKS as I have been looking forward to going for such a long time...I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer *sigh*

Yesterday Rich and I did a walk over to Thorndon to drop off our lava lamp and disco ball for the "Rad Red Ross" Party which is on Saturday night - so looking forward to that - I have a cute red dress, red shoes and also bought some red fingernail polish today so I'm all set to go. They also have 24 Hour Party People on at the San Fransico Bath House the same night.

Rich and I are going to help Ross set up party central on Saturday - in exchange for lunch:) Seems like a good deal (Plus I quite like setting up for parties - it's the cleaning up afterwards I can't stand!!).

Tommorrow I'm meeting Nankz at the Ministry of Food for lunch which is great because I haven't seen him or Paul since new years...but I get to hang with them both at the Rad Red Ross party anyways:)

Also having some drinks out with Celia and other tommorrow to celebrate her birthday for the second time (because lots of people were away on Monday due to it being a public holiday and all).

Enough ranting for now...

New Years!!

Yes - I know - new years was a day or two ago now - but I just hadn't had the chance to put the photo's up till now!

That said - I had a really AWESOME new years this year - we had a "posh frocks" cocktails party at our place (I'm still not sure how we managed to fit 17 people into our living room - but hey we did it!!).

We had a lot of friends from up north come along to our party too - which was fantastic!

Anyways - here's the photo's from my best new years in about 5 years:)

Further Naki Photos!

Seen as we were in the Naki we felt like we should do a bit more walking at Mt Egmont National Park - so here's a few more photo's - these ones we taken when we were walking along the Curtis Falls Track.

Christmas Adventures - Episode 5 - In the Naki

Our holiday in Mokau didn't go completely as planned - in a turn of events Rich referred to as "The Nightmare Before Christmas" we both ended up sick with a not too nice stomach bug at about 3 in the morning on Christmas Eve. But luckily, my mum is lovely, and drove all the way from Stratford to Mokau and back to pick us up as neither of us could have faced the perils of Mt Messenger in our ill state of health!!

Luckily - we were "ok" on Christmas day - still a slight bit on the dodgy side though - which I guess isn't necessarily a bad thing to happen on Christmas day as it stopped us from completely pigging out!

But it was a good Christmas and we recieved lots more lovely presents whilst visiting my family.

Also whilst we were home it was a chance to get out and about and check out some of the day walks at Egmont National Park.

The first walk we did was just up the road from where my family lives - and it was called the York Road Loop track - back in the day there was an old quarry up there so it was a really interesting historical work as there are still the remains of a lot of the old machinery up there. My little bro Jacob came along for the walk too. Here's some of the photo's we took -

I'm offically wisdom-toothless - and feeling more than slightly dodgy...

Yes - my wisdom teeth are finally all gone!!

Yesterday at the dentist was ok - I think it was a case of nothing can be as bad as you imagine it to be....

I had to arrive an hour before the "extraction" and take some pills to sedate me - the pills left me a wee bit dizzy put generally ok. After the sedation it was time for the injections - I swear I must have had at least 10 injections (one side of my mouth just refused to go numb!!).

Having the teeth actually taken out wasn't too bad - just a lot of pressure (but two of the teeth did break when he was taking them out which wasn't so fab).

However, after the operation the dentist gave me a script for some hard out painkillers...so I'm doing "ok" today - not fantastic though - pretty sleepy and the 2 minute walk to the dairy left me feeling a bit iffy so I think the next few days will be inside days for me - no San Fran Bath House tonight...

Oh well - Ross said he would come over and visit at about 2pm and Rich should be home from work soon so at least I'll have someone to talk too soon!

The Veils Gig

Last Saturday Rich, Ross and I went to see The Veils.I never got around to blogging about the gig due to problems with blogger (surprise surprise!!).

I know that it's very early days in the year but I have to say that The Veils gig was the best gig I have been to this year - in fact it's the best gig I've been too in months and months - their performance was awesome and everyone really got into it and they played an encore as well (with some encouragement from the crowd).

So anyways - if you ever get a chance to see The Veils - you TOTALLY should - here's a (slightly dark) photo that Rich took at the gig (his height gives him an advantage over me when it comes to gig related photography!!).

And whilst Jacob is having his best night out in 17 years.....

I may well be having the worst day of my life...today is the day I have avoided for some time and I have been trying to forget it's going to happen for sometime - but I guess there's no denying it's going to happen now - what the hell am I talking about you may be asking? Well today is the day I say farewell to all of my wisdom teeth:(

I have become a bit attached to them in the past 9 or so years (yes I'm an early bloomer - I had all four wisdom teeth by the age of 18) but now they must go...

I'm so NOT looking forward to having them pulled - in particular not looking forward to the pulling of the teeth, the injections, the recovery period (ok I'm just not looking forward to any part of it).

I can't help but as myself - why did my body even grow these apparently useless and extremely painful teeth?

My Baby Brother is 17 today!!

Yes it's true - my "wee" baby bro Jacob is 17 years old today and having his first every "real" party in one of the sheds on the farm with his brand new video camera (combined pressie from the whole family) in hand.

I hope he has the best night out he has had in 17 years!


Photo of me and my "wee" brother Jacob taken December 2006

Rich & I are going to Craftwerk..

As stall holders this time:)

We found out yesterday that our label "mofire" has been accepted to have a stall at Craftwerk - now all we have to do is get making more fimo's - we figure we'll need about 40 or so fimo's so I guess we'll be pretty busy over the next few weekends and in the evenings making fimo's.
If anyone is interested in visiting us and giving us much love on the night of the market it's going to be held at Southern Cross Bar (Able Smith Street) on 15 Feb from 5pm - 9pm.