he will walk through the wall if he wants to

Sweet colours from a building by my favourite lead architect.

The train passed a wall in Melbourne today that had the words " f@*k your blog" painted over layers of graffiti that I am sure would otherwise end up on one of our blogs. I like it!

ny 3.2 - bold walls

Metropolitan Lumber & Hardware - Soho
Coney Island
Soho
Schoolyard - Upper East Side

udderly fishy

Lady luck was on my side and I won Fliss' giveaway over at Udder. The prize was this very cute plush fish. I really like that he has 2 personalities and enjoys watching the rain from the windowsill. If you aren't familiar with her work, please go and have a sticky beak as she is a very talented lass. Also has great taste and pointed towards these freeform modular fabric tiles, very fun.

in hiding

what is on our walls

Famapa tagged me with this fun what's on your walls tag.

Our walls are a definite work in progress.

I am counting our fridge doors as walls! In the quest to have adult walls all blu-tacked pretties now have to reside on the fridge.

I tag Ashley, Esti and Mieke Willems.

third and 1937

Yesterday afternoon we took a peek at the new property eb's work will be moving to, which has a divine old blue stone building on it. The inside walls were covered with graffiti, some stating it was from 1937, or the 50's. The pioneering Fafis and Banksies huh?

This arrived today. A fitting soundtrack as the storm is threatening to strike outside.

any advice - bathroom art and compacts?

He isn't a knitted balloon, but that gives me an idea...
He is waiting to be sewn to his body and appendages. The suspense is killing him, hence the furrowed brow.

Anyone still reading the blog after the hiatus, thank you.

I wanted to ask for some advice if I may.
We are in the market for a digital compact camera. I have two film SLRs, which I will continue to play with, but having borrowed a little digi for a while we have discovered the joy of a camera that can be carried around, not lugged. I had illusions of getting a compact with a range of manual adjust-ability, but they hardly seem to exist? Would anyone recommend a particular compact, with quality shots and adaptability. (For example it would be used to photograph crafty objects so macro is important, slung in our jackets at the snow, for happy snaps, or capturing anything that takes my passing fancy).

Second question is about framing prints in the bathroom. Any neat tricks so the damp won't get to the paper? The house came with a hideous print in there, I am talking geese with bonnets, but it became a good excuse to search for something new.

Hope I haven't been too demanding.

grown-up walls

It will be nice to evolve out of my walls when we move. Sounds silly but my bedroom here has been such since I was still at uni, a teenager even, and it just got frozen as a 'stick this to the wall' kind of place. Looking forward to adorning in a more adult way. It will be strange to make it our bedroom, as here it seems mine, when living in Sydney it seemed eb's, and in London it was other people's.

The ripped-out-of-a-magazine photograph in the top pic is by Serge Leblon, I admire it greatly.

From Jenolan Caves a couple of years ago.

My packing is not really proceeding full steam ahead. I have issues with packing. I better get into gear.

Have recently been reminded of Maria Vittoria Benatti's unique and girlie work. It graces the cover of the new Curvy publication.
Would love to have some of these big-bottomed cuties crawling around the walls.

coat-hangers

O at Corporate Culture, with their coat-hanger wall, last year during Saturday In Design.
Below little placcy coat-hangers I have had on my wall for years.