I forgot to post this here on account of experiencing “health issues”, but I had some work in an exhibition called “Don’t Shop”, which is a little knitted bakery, called “Le Petite Bakery”. Pronounce it in your broadest australian accent for optimum effect.
It was in the window of “Don’t Look” Gallery, which is at 141 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill. It was a really awesome exhibition with works by other people, who are largely zine related. I have a series of 1 page zines available which are like 20c each and are of the personal genre.

Edit: This just in. The cakes installation lives on! They’re starring in a new exhibition at Don’t Look which is a tribute to corner shops!

Just letting people know that I’m going to try and put a little effort into cataloguing zines that I read and how people can get in touch with the makers and get their own copies over on the flick here. I’ve only done 5 so far, but I’ve got several stacks hanging around and plenty of holiday time to do it!
Brought to you by wealthy patron of the arts, Birdie Roo the blythe doll.

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After spending the day at the MCA zine fair(which was incredibly fun), I’m feeling a lot of love towards the world, so I thought I’d use that love to update this thingie and spread some love.

Here are just a couple:

Iron Deficient Chef: Sydney Vegan DIY cooking show(don’t know if they’d consider themselves DIY, but they do, and they’ve got skills!) of amazingness. Suzy has been such an hero to me, with her friendly and positive manner. It’s so genuine and inspiring and every time I watch an episode, I want to go out and make the world a bit better and hopefully in turn inspire others like this show does me(and I’m not even vegan!).

Emily Hasselhoof. I had the privelidge of eating dumplings with this babe, but I just wanted to say, her art is inspiring and her work ethic is also. And she is a babe, which is irrelevant but I cannot not mention this.

Flaps These are 2 really awesome ladies who make zines. Their dry, dry sense of humour is like the most amazing thing in the world. I was really happy when I found out that Flaps was actually a reference to female genitalia!

Vanessa Berry. For so many reasons, her writing, her existance, everythiiiing. Her cooking! The fact that for my birthday she included in my gift a handmade booklet of meal tickets, for special meals prepared by her!

World is good, even when times are bad. Or times are good even when world is bad? I have no idea, but hopefully you get the smell of my cooking. xoxo

Sometimes my life feels like I’m in that episode of the Mighty Boosh “Power of the Crimp” when the Flighty Zeus keep popping up. Sorry for the teenaged cryptic blah blah howevs, I am greatly looking forward to next week, a week of respite and lovliness and making sense again. But as long as I can occasionally grab a few minutes of rolling on the grass like a dog with an itchy back(!!), I’ll make it through.

Plus with the assistance of plenty of Max Brenner visits, life will be peachy in the face of ominous metaphoric clouds. Life is full of canaries and black rabbits and angry little dogs. Of incredibly sweet new friends and loyal and beautiful old ones.

On Friday we launched the exhibition “Words Nerds and other cataastrophes” which was curated by the lovely Chris Tamm and today I facilitated some workshops at the zine masterclass at the MCA. It was weird. Now I have big last week of school including 500000 assignments, 3 of which are relevant to design.

On Tuesday, my teacher asked if I had heard of the MCA and I was all “Heard of it? I’m giving a talk there in May!”.
Zine masterclass
And look at the list of hot babes I will be speaking with.
On Wednesday, my voice teacher made me cry, and I wish I had gotten the chance to namedrop this engagement before the waterworks burst forth from my ducts.

Big head, little head
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teeheehee. My dog is tiny! Giant rabbit is giant!

1. Tomorrow Vanessa ships off to Germany to be a writer in residence and I painted this for her to take with!
2. This chicken kept escaping from the yard, which set me off on a meat eating crisis( documented here in comic form).
3. Tutored a knitting class with some really awesome kids at the Penrith Regional Gallery and we made these little knitted aliens after being inspired by the current exhibition(which is awesome: check it out, it’s well worth the time to get out of Sydney, and the god awful heat of the hellish western suburbs, it’s such an amazing exhibition, and the gardens are soooo amazing).
4. Realised that I am on the verge of having a bear collection. Great.
5. Finished comic rehab. Realised that I’m better than I give myself credit for.
6. Grew these flowers from seed! It was so satisfying!

I can has new tag and share cookie
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I love my bitch. She is so adorable.
Warning: wee talk. This warning is for the fragile and non dog/cat/baby owners and those who like to pretend that bodily functions do not exist(I sometimes belong to this former category when feeling fragile).
Lately she has, since she’s a senior citizen and entitled to such eccentricities, stopped weeing in the morning when I get up, and just goes to find a quiet and dark place to resume her lay in. And then when I try to make her wee she refuses and holds it in for her afternoon walk.
We’ve taken to the strategy of almost re-toilet training her, giving intense praise upon deposit of wee in the backyard as though she has solved some really complicated stuff or something.
She was also rewarded with a new tag, in honour of her 11+ years service to the world. I love this hound.

I’ve enrolled in Comic Rehab! Hopefully it will be a fine kick in the arse and get me drawing more than weeds. It’s a pretty nice excuse to stay in and drink Vanilla Roobios and eat the pavlova I made to take out, invalid style, since I was feeling ill anyway. I’ll also possibly watch Anthony Bourdain(I could watch the episode in the Uzibekistan spa over and over and over, and I might just do that).

Waiting

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Christmas is difficult when you’re waiting.
I’m ever so much looking forward to baking day tomorrow with Vanessa and Tim! And lunch. Delicious Christmas Lunch. Mmmmmm…

My little internet friend, Bryan M. is being shipped off to the Navy today!! We all know my stance on military affairs, but I’ll miss that lil tacker, because he’s a good friend, and a little bit of a creepy stalker, but more a good friend. I’m really proud of him for doing so much to get ready for the navy and hope it’s good to him, because they’re really freaking lucky to have him. And if they(anyone) DO ANYTHING TO HURT HIM, I’ll get them.
GOOD LUCK LIL BRY!!!!

Girls of Valour

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Such a busy weekend!! Friday was Critical Mass(we rode across the harbour bridge), then Always show at Sydney. Saturday was Mixtape Event at the Workshop Showroom(we stayed out ALLLLL night) and Sunday was a blythe afternoon at the Camellia Gardens! Now I’m preparing for a very special interview.
Keep yr fingies crossed on Wednesday(please).

Oh, if you’re in Sydney this weekend, I’m going to be showing my untitled 50s girls in a milkbar illustration at the Workshop Showroom’s Mixtape Event, (in St Peters up the newty end here’s how to get there, on Saturday night from 7-9 or something. Also, Sam Twyford Moore’s lil bro is playing a show there and STM is also showing some drawings, and Leigh and Cecelia are doing things so are other people whom I am too unhip to know. It’s all music themed, and I’m going to be putting in heaps of b-52s mix tapes. I really hope my pink and red polka dot dress arrives in time. ie. tomorrow. Eeep!

25% more Snuff

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I’m so obsessed with this photo!!!!! Thanks Vanessa!!!
Snuffy is feeling better. She’s been on antibiotics and cream. Her eyes are wide open now!