One more week in darling Melbs (AKA YAYSIE/NAYSIE)

Yep, it's been busy city once again, all working, socialising and generally getting fatter and fatter from all the delish wine and foodz!

YUM!

But darling young Anna Laura has got something going on, it's a bit Hot or Not, Hit or Shit, Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down and as I've really got NO crafty stuff to blog about (only more of this lovely red knitting thing I'm slowly doing down here) I'm JOINING IN!

So! As Anna says 'YAY or NAY' (or should it be Yaysie or Naysie, hmmm?)

YAY

I love food and wine and friends, especially in Melbs! Some of my fave stopovers for socialising at the moment are Mr Wilkinson, Rrose Bar, The Vegie Bar, The Turtle Cafe, Jerry's, Misuzu's Albert Park, Script Bar & Bistro, Riverland, Diggiddy Doggy Daycare (for my Dog of course!) and The Clarendon. All GREAT!

NAY

Getting DRUNK too much and feeling shithouse the next day because of my fun times of socialising, drinking and eating! EEP!

YAY

I went to the Rose Street Market on Sunday after a massive lunch with my darling friend at the Vegie Bar! What a great market! I didn't buy anything, just walked around dreaming up my fashion line! Ha ha!

NAY

At the Rose Street Market I looked for Anna Laura, but didn't see her and got too shy to introduce myself to her boyf who was manning their card stall. NAY for ME

YAY

We went and saw the film UP in 3D and it was freaking hilarious and awesome for a animation/kids flick/3D thing! It was really funny and sweet and the 3D wasn't in your face like seeing Harry Potter in IMAX (luckily only in the first 15 mins) and you should totally go see it! Now I could be wrong, but we stayed for the whole credits, and I think they listed all the names of babies who were born during the making of the film... cause you know those Pixar films often take AT LEAST 3 years to make... CUTE but I need a shorter deadline in my line of work!

NAY

HAYFEVER! For being so annoying in the face for my Husbie! Ick!

See you later! (Only one more week here, so crafting from next week! YAY)

Finders Keepers - an Excursion by Veronica Darling

Hello Sunday! It's bright and autumney sunny for us here in my neighbourhood, so we're up early (well Husbie is the up and at 'em type as he's already at the gym - I'm sitting here with Doggie Darling and drinking tea after a hard 10 minutes of play time with the dog toy!) and thought I'd report in on the Finders Keepers markets!

It was GREAT! But I actually felt that whilst Carriage Works is THE best place in Sydney for markets (I'm a huge fan of the farmer's market on early Saturdays - yuppie, but not too yuppie is what I say) the layout and the grouping of stalls made it difficult to browse comfortably. All the jewelry was grouped together, the clothing and then art stuff, so I felt (especially for the jewelry) that I couldn't appreciate the products... I felt like "more bangles, more earrings, more rings, more earrings" instead of "nice clothes, nice bangles, nice handbags, nice photos, nice earrings".

There's my BUT bit out of the way, so when I could actually concentrate on the gorgeous things, this is what I liked:

By far, the stand out (not just cause I know her) was Ginny & Jude, for holding fort on the vintage and beautifully handcrafted (and LONG hours of handcrafting) headpieces, brooches, and darling little delicate collars belts, and other accessories. Luckily (I thought) Ginny & Jude was at a T-intersection at the market, so easy to spot in my books. (I am also VERY short, so sometimes market shopping doesn't suit me) Anyways, you have to check out Ginny & Jude's blog and here's a photo I took from their etsy store:



Yay! My other gorgeous friend bought a black and white feather headpiece, yay! Ginny & Jude asked me where my stall was at Finders Keepers (so did a lot of people) but I have about 5 things in stock. Yesterday really did make me thing about how to get a "collection" together. One other thing that got me yesterday was that the clothing was all new, uber cool or zexy and mostly available in stores around King Street (so you can get it anytime)... only a couple of vintage skirts, or unique things.

But from the clothes bits I LOVED:

Donna Sgro's watery collection!



inSync Design's bangles!



I loved how light these were, I'll have to put them on the wish list!

And Sunday Morning Designs:


My friend bought these pillow cases in red, just GORGEOUS and organic and sustainable where possible, so big thumbs up in my book.

Anyways, if you went hope you had fun!

Note to Amy from Badskirt, I saw you, but there were 10 people lining up to buy and talk with you, so well done! Hope you had an awesome day!