Unconscious Mutterings week 366

1.   Furniture ::   necessity

2.   Beauty ::   life  

3.   Sip ::  suck

4.   Block ::   head

5.   Forehead ::  blockhead

6.   Championship ::  winners

7.   Hurl ::   toss

8.   Whip ::  it

9.   Destruction ::  destroy

10.  Leather ::  whip

 

           Read more mutterings HERE ...

Woe is me ... diabetes looming ... NOT!

The other day we were talking about who's reading what ... 

... how times change ...

This week has been a shocker ... as sick as ...

sugar count was 8.2 ... pre-diabetes looming ...

I'm on the job!

Feeling better each day, reading about diabates, another subscription  ...

I can turn it round with diet ...

it's been my own stupidity that started this ...

... less Lindt, no sugar, no salt .... yukkkk!

AND ...

... walking 30 minutes every day.

If you know me you'll know how torturous that is for me!

The image of my girls standing by my hospital bed is frightening ...

that alone scares me to action ... 

I've no patience for people who get a warning - yet take no heed ... 

especially with my burning desire to live for 125 years ...

A metamorphosis has begun ...

World filthiest hotels ... courtesy of TripAdvisor

Sorry guys but I just had to post the following ...

... they're all listed HERE ...

... you'd be so angry if you knew I saw this hadn't told you !!!

Scroll down ... the best are listed there too.

Cuppa Tea Time ...

Tea tastes better in Old Country Roses fine china  ...

a gorgeous gift ...

1962 Vintage ...

I used to buy these for my Dad ... bought one for me too ...

made to last forever ...

... holds a huge cuppa.  

Now I feel so girlie ;)

Yep I'm blessed again!

Happy Australia Day from ME to YOU ...

Happy Australia Day Oi,Oi, Oi !!!

Unconscious Mutterings week 365 ...

1.  Food ::   need

2.  Death ::   cafeteria

3.  Cafeteria ::   food

4.  Need ::   oxygen

5.  Born ::   life

6.  Stitch ::   create

7.  Badly ::   nothing

8.  Blocks ::   past

9.  Chuck ::   chunder

10.  Spiral ::   staircase

 

 

more Mutterings HERE 

 

My Place and Yours ... is back courtesy of Punky & Me ...

WooHoo My Place and Yours is back with the theme ...

What I'm reading ...

Mitch Albom wrote 'Tuesdays with Morrie' 

I'm struggling through his latest book ...

have a little faith

Not struggling due to the book ... 

grey matter absorption isn't as good since the car bizo ...

I'm dawdling over Crooks Like Us previously mentioned HERE ...

problem is the 1920s & 30s images get me every time.

Mostly I'm a magazine maniac ...

Belle Armoire + Cloth, Paper, Scissors + Fibre Arts + InsideOut + Frankie +

Here's the pile beside my bed  ...

Ooops notice some other treasures I neglected to mention?

Motivation and inspiration ooozes from these pages...

the budget is blown by subscriptions ... and loving it.

 

Hey too ... don't forget the copious hours spent ...

late night blog reading!!!

So ... what are YOU reading ??

WooHoo ... Thanks to Punky's Mamma . xo

Paper Art - Paper Work ... amazing

Paper art / Art with Paper ... extraordinaire ...

by Brian Dettmer ... a set of world book encyclopedias!

by Jolis Paons  from a phone book

Paper sculpture by Bert Simons ...

Don't these take your breath away ?

Sydney = 40 degrees today - January 22, 2010 ...

Spare a thought for the elderly and little babies to-day ...

... as Sydney's temperature has hit a stinking 40 degrees C.

Reverse Garbage ... another peek, another poke round ...

Love this place ... you never know what you'll find ...

... Mickey Mouse incognito ...

... cardboard rolls and cylinders all shapes and sizes ...

... miles and miles of silver streamers ...

... polystyrene by the truckload ... 

... red or white laser cut perspex shapes ...

... white hangers ... calling out to get rid of wire ones ...

and the gorgeous native flaura still blooming ...

and blooming beautifully.

You can learn more about Reverse Garbage HERE

Someone else's trash is someone else's treasure!

Spectacle Chandelier by Stuart Haygarth ...

You know how I love a chandelier ...

... with 1000 pairs of old specs ...

... you have beautiful light ...

Do want ...by the clever Stuart Haygarth ...

DO WANT ...

... on the topic of hangers in my previous post ...

... isn't this Hangelier fabulous ... more HERE

Unconscious Mutterings week 364 ...

1.   Weak ::   listless

2.   Flashy ::   snazzy

3.   Sack ::   potato

4.   Business ::  monkey

5.   Purple ::   colour

6.   Fan ::  breeze

7.   Airline ::   fly

8.   Guide ::   tour

9.   Lunch ::   long

10.  Exercise ::  what?
 
 
... more mutterings HERE

Saturday in the burbs = Reverse Garbage bargains ...

Off with the Diva for a creative scrounge at Reverse Garbage ...

... oodles of ribbon ...

...stuff to taunt our creativity ...

...masses of fabric ...

... models lurking ...

... toys for the kids ...

...hangers - not wire ...

...music and movies ...

... specs if needed ... 

... seating ...

...a garage sale in a street nearby ...

mmmmm ...gorgeous nature ...

... the aroma of eucalytps ... 

... more rare, glorious native fauna in the burbs ...

... local's playing cricket ...

...we could be anywhere in the cricketing world ...

... the shade of the tree was tempting ...

... tired and broke we took our bargains home ...

... bargains will be revealed soon ...

... our Saturday was glorious how was your day?

A new/old blog header courtesy Olde Dame Penniwig ...

If you've visited here lately you'd know how frustrated getting a blog header has been!  

no more fretting ...

in keeping with the title change  ..

The beautiful, generous Olde Dame Penniwig saved my sanity ...

by recycling my original header ... Do Want!

The Dame's generosity is endless ... with free daily graphics ...

... like these in readiness for Valentines Day ...

Visit the Dear Dame HERE for free graphic treats and treasures.

Bless you Dear Dame from the bottom of my blogging heart. xo

Dudecraft ... Carved baseball bats & pencils ... woodcraft art

Carved pencils and baseball bats ... aren't these sensational?

See more here by Peter Schuyff at The Jailbreak.com

Found via Dudecraft

A saying to inspire or motivate ... a Tim Holtz gem ...

 Remember life isn’t about finding yourself - life is about creating yourself…”

Don't you just love these wise words?

... read more HERE

Do you have a saying that inspires or motivates YOU ???

My day was stupendous ... what happened in your day today?

Today was the day for my one, six weekly extravagance ... 

... plus two 'Rowies' gluten free delicacies ... 

... all this gorgeousness in the mail gifted from the Goddess in Las Vegas ...

... my day was stupendous  ... 

... tell me what happened in your day today?

CROOKS LIKE US by Peter Doyle - 1920s Sydney Police Mugshots.

This book was on my Christmas Wish List.

MJ gifted me this fabulous book. I've been entranced by the images, the stories, the squalor, the everything ...

Peter Doyle has written an exciting book that pulls the bark off Sydney's family trees. Crooks Like Us uses glass negatives of photographs taken just after arrest and before going before court. Normally the practice is that mug shots, front and side, are taken either at the station after processing, charging or trial or sometimes at prison. In Doyle's book the crooks are still in their street clothes, uncharged, startlingly surprised at arrest, still high from flight, the drugs, the theft or the load up.

Character is written all over their faces. They are our father's father's father or our mother's mother's mother, perhaps once removed, probably by force, but they are who we are.

The black-and-white photographs in Doyle's selection stare out at us like ghosts with stories to share but you have to use some of your own imagination to fill in the gaps ... read more HERE

Peter Doyles 'City of Shadows' intrigued and fascinated. 

He's done it again. Not with only the images of the blank faces, the poverty, the razor gangs, the crime, the stories of the cocaine that was readily available in Sydney ...

NO it's the fashions, the hair styles, the shoes, the elements, the cars, the backgrounds ... this book is a total visual feast of how it once was.