The Happenings - Spring Edition

Rosehip tea buds.  

 Choc-chip cookie dough ice cream on my dinner break at work after a rough day. 

South Perth from King's Park upon an evening stroll. 

Fresh cut spring tulips to brighten up my work environment.  

(which I expect to be dead, sagging and not as great for visual merchandising when I return on Tuesday after 3 days off. Opps!) 

I got a new bike this weekend, so we went cruising and collecting vitamin D. 

Pickin' weeds on today's bike ride.  

The Happenings

Eyeing off this painting for my living room wall. 

Tim & I drove 40 minutes on a school night for not dogs at Run Amuk. 

Fare welling winter by warming by feet by the fire, in a little log cabin atop a hill in a national park.  

Exploring Fremantle, we came across a great little shared space with chooks, a bike recycling yard, kitchen and veggie patch.  We spend more and more time out that way every weekend, and I'm slowly working on a case for buying/renting and becoming proper Freo-folk.  

Picasso to Warhol exhibition at AGWA. The thing I miss most about living in Sydney is the AGNSW. I used to spend every other weekend exploring its corners. 

 Its nice to have some once in a lifetime exhibitions hitting our humble city gallery in the next few months. 

This weekend, out in Freo again, playing with other peoples dogs on the South Beach. 

Goin' Up Country

My parents are visiting from the east coast at the moment. 

I am on my last few weeks of university holidays so we took the opportunity to travel down south for a few days and spend some rare quality time as a little family. 

Being rural was a large part of my childhood. I was raised in a town wedged between ocean and scrub. 

  My weekends were divided between catching waves with my dad at the local beach (something I quickly grew out of as I got older and realized I wasn't cut from the 'surfie' cloth),  and tagging along to stables with mum. Our family holidays have always revolved around the ocean or the bush.    

The Happenings

 I'm thinking of giving my hair a big chop soon. 

Long red hair takes too much work & too many appointments. 

Shorter darker hair might be where it is at with less time (and desire) in the mornings to primp and prime.  

Lunch at Genesis in the hills. 

A beautiful vegetarian cafe, 30 minutes drive from the city.

 Cake at genesis in the hills. 

Working for a company with a great sense of humor.

This is the cleaning alcohol at my counter.  

Branded with a label that warns employees against drinking it, not matter how desperate the day, in order to preserve ones dignity.  

I've been taking on extra hours at the counter because university is over for the semester. 

I job share with one other lady who has been with the company for 10 years and is the most dignified, respectful and outrightly loving person I've ever met.

 It is a joy to work with her, and it is doing wonders for my attitude and outlook.  I love my job. 

I've also been doing some admin and management work with a small independent theatre group.

The office is run out of an old maternity ward that has been converted into a number of studio spaces that individuals can lease out in order to create, or run their small creative businesses from. 

Found spaces. Its very cool. Check it out.