{ thoughts on what to wear to a concert }

Between support acts at the Pearl Jam gig on Sunday (Liam Finn was awesome), I got to people watching and it was pretty amazing to see what people were wearing on a 40+ degree afternoon/night. I've never been convinced that there is a ever a place for high heals at a gig and I continue to stand by that.

I'd like to take the thought out of what to wear by making it mandatory that all concert goers must wear what they wore the first time they saw the band. I thought back to my first PJ gig and while I can't remember exactly what I was wearing, the date gives me some clues - 14 March 1995.

Probably a band t-shirt (Alice In Chains? Soundgarden?), possibly Levi 501's, definitely my black Doc Martens. Or perhaps a baby doll dress, black leggings and black Doc Martens. The one constant during that time were my Docs (I still remember thinking that if I ever got married I would wear them to my wedding - still a bit sad I didn't carry through on that one!) so I know for sure I would have worn them that night.


What were your must wear staples in 1995?

{ one of the (many) signs of aging }

Thankfulness upon opening tickets for Pearl Jam gig that we had seats and not general admission standing! Yep, gettin' old.


But even after all these years it's still possible to go to a gig and have it rate in your all time top 5 - good times!

{ time zapper }

I found a brilliant iphone app last night and it's been zapping all my spare time since then. It's called CameraBag and it has a range of special effects to apply to your photos. Here's a couple I've done, many more to come I'm sure!


1 Helga 2 Instant 3 Fisheye 4 1974

{ more papercutting }

My most most ambitious papercut to date.


Gift for our friends wedding yesterday, hope they like it.

{ tag ... you're it }

I've long liked paper cuts but I've only just started playing with doing it myself. I've started on a small scale with gift tags.


It's a fun process staring from the design to cutting to gluing to my favourite part of the gift tags selecting the ribbons from my stash!


I've had some repeat buyers in my store already (the best feedback of all!) and they got great responses at a market I participated in earlier in the month.

{ sunday stash }

Fabric fresh to me as of just yesterday. Spent a lovely morning with this crafty birthday girl: garage sale/pop up shop, breakfast, fabric shop followed by another fabric shop - good times!

More about Sunday Stash here

{ craft cupboard disaster ... averted }

I've never been entirely happy with how I was storing my fabrics and other crafty bits and pieces. I've got a great set-up for my paper obsession, I'll share that sometime soon, but my sewing related stuff - not so much.

Last weekend I was doing something or other and heard an almighty crash. Here's what I faced with when I opened the craft cupboard door:


Hmm, a complete mess. I'd been making do with one of those hanging shelf things but the weight got too much and it snapped off. I spent a large part of the week wondering what I was going to do with it. Should I get another one - cheap, and it did actually last a number of years but I never loved it. So I was checking out Ikea, nothing there that suited, when the Howard's Storage World catalogue landed in our mail box. Talk about perfect timing.

So my afternoon (actually more of my afternoon than I had anticipated) was spent getting everything out, culling (not as much as I possibly should have), building the new shelves (that took a bit longer too since I put the first shelf in upside down and had to start again!) and then finally stacking it.


I'm pretty happy with the end result but the process did pose a question - how should I stack my fabric? By colour, by weight, by design? What do you do? I'd love to hear, photos would be even better so send me a link to your stash if you have one.

Some photos of my helper today ... okay maybe not helper, more of a hindrance but good company none the less!