new drawings from this week, my desk is so messy, i drank too much coffee and i got all hyper and distracted so i would start doing one thing and end up doing another, i am coming down now. 

hmmph @ life, all i want to do is be lazy and eat cake and watch the real housewives of newjersey!??

   

I want to be up to some mischief!

 i really want a dog, maybe that would cure my lazyness and general listlessness these last few weeks, i have been stalking along on so many dog websites, like lost dogs home and rescue a dog and things like that but when i finally found the dog i wanted, it was gone by the time i could get to the lost dogs home, and then it turned out the little doggy had been adopted by my neighbour and is living across the road. it looked like this drawing above, a jack russel cross terrier with a bit of red heeler, so she was all speckled and cute with floppy black ears. 

i bought some red tights, but i feel so lazy

I havn't been to the studio in two weeks. Its been busy times i guess, i worked in an old peoples home last week as an arts therapist assistant, and we had a party at our house on the weekend. See the streamer remnants? Adelle, my house mate took that top photo and this is a drawing i did about her, shes moving out and i will miss her, she always wears good socks.

This week I gave myself a break from the studio, and instead I babysat Harvey,

 I made vegan pies and vegies on 1970's plates

 This is what our house is like at the moment, horrible trucks and cranes and diggers surrounding us, theres a construction site next door and it is shitty and LOUD!

 I visited Brookes studio in North Melbourne, very nice...

 Beautiful Autumnal  North Melbz

 Picked up my shoes from Angelo, he repaired them. 

Nice Break!

Sitting in bed, sipping apple cider vinegar honey and hot water.. is that weird? i think its nice and healthy?? Our lamp just broke, sad, but today was a good day, apart from the massive rain and the broken lamp. I got to have coffee and cake with Charlotte at Beatrix and green tea with Leo at Cibi And draw in the studio a little bit even though i didn't feel like i was doing a very good job at it. I think i need some new inspiration and a heater for in the studio because my hands get too cold to draw!

a quick drawing i did before escaping the studio, jumping on a train and going to town

flourless chocolate cake at Beatrix!

I am getting quite light headed over the goodness of this blog : http://atelierpourenfants.blogspot.com Its french and oh they do the best things... take photos of lots of beautiful french childrens book illustrations. Here are some, all from their blog:

i used to, well, still do have/had a childrens book blog but i havn't updated it in ages.. its called All By My Shelf

more little ones and i was very very cold today

i could see my breath!

I really want a cat, but i cannot have one, my housemate is allergic.

doodling

the girl and the dog next to her look like they need to wee

tiny

all week i wasn't into my drawings, so i just did lots of quick little ones and this is how they went...

i feel so icky today

Had a good time today riding around west footscray... again... got a whole lot of old, mildy rusty but still usefull tools from an old man who was throwing them away!?!? Some old nice weights, strange spanners, clamps, an anvil, casters and nice little old pipe joiners which just appealed to me some how....

I also found an old empty house and had a snoop around... spooky and sad. In the backyard was a half burnt down shed, and this old piano...

      

 

Some of you may know my sister Marita, she plays in this band with Stu who is also the best. Marita also draws and works at the museum which is totally interesting.
She also gives me lots of presents all the time and is very generous. In the last week she has given me the following presents:
-four great 1960's chairs that Brooke and I plan to re-upholster in different coloured velvets- maroon and mustard and navy and bottle 
-apple cider and honey vinegar which i am drinking right now with hot water- its good for digestion, joints and skin
-some old ballerina and religious pictures in frames 
-scraps of fabric shes been saving for... me i guess
-two dresses, one 1950's shirty pinky stripey amazingy AND a 1930's lace dress that mum had bought years ago in an oppy
geeeeeee so much niceness its doing my head in!

*Note also i have two other sisters and a brother who also are equally as awesome... posts on their awesomeness still to come but they do the following: Lucy does  this  and lives in Berlin, Spencer does this and Gabe is not quite 18 yet but will soon be doing something great too. phew!

I'ts been a while between posts, so busy over easter working and having family days I havn't done much to report on. Dawn Tan the total babe lady put the blog on her blog and so there has been lots of blog love! Lovely Stuff! There is construction going on next door to our house, its beginning to do my head in. Right now there is a cement mixer, a crane, a bull dozer, a digger, four containers- two of which are stacked ontop of one another looking directly into our backyard and they are offices for the construction site workers. Gee its intense and noisy and after the rest we had over easter they are back at work today and its SO LOUD. The house is very clean after Brooke and Davis cleaned it for the house inspection that never eventuated so thats a plus to being home right now. 
Other than all that, I had such a fun filled day off... I got my head... i mean hair cut with Sam whose a fantastic drawer too, this is his blog. My hair looks good, so does Sam apart from the very well meaning hairdresser putting a good slap of hair gel in his do to make it extra spikey and 90's. Funny! He came over and used the gocco to do an edition of prints of one of his drawings. It was a success and Sam is a natural... my first gocco was extremely wonky but I am a wonky sort of lady I suppose.

^^^^^ Goco's by Sam Wallmaaaan!