heat wave here with no camera - sigh.
I want to be this eli.
will fill you in when the heat dies a little i promise. j u s t t o o h o t. . .
thea.
xx
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by the amazing Luci everett of course :)
Hello lovelies! Got my computer back online today and so was swamped with Spoonful orders, admin jobs and letters pretty much all day *big email sigh* Anyone figured out how to avoid emails altogether yet? I would love you forever if you knew it…
Now, if I owe you one, an email that is, I’m working my way down the list and I promise I will get there!!!
I also didn’t have a phone today which was, to be honest, liberating. I recommend a PHONE-FREE friday for all!!!!! No one calls! You got so much more done! Aaaaaah - the irony of technology helping us to be ‘more productive’.
How was everyone’s week? I’m all confused after the public holiday yesterday. It’s strange to have one week day and then a weekend - hehe. But no complaints here!
thea.
xx
HAPPY Australia Day! Yipppeeeeee!
So another year has gone by, and DESPITE the rainiest crappiest summer in 50 years (INCLUDING the summer i choose to host an outdoor wedding!) Australia… I still love you more than ever. Your golden shores, your endless horizons, your happy relaxed people, (your terrible service, your sticky bizarre weather-changes) and your wondrous perspective on what’s important in life. A home that I can be passionate about & proud of. :)
I know I know it’s all a bit vomitational all this patriotism but I can never hold it in on Australia Day, it brings it out of me! How magical it is to be in a safe and friendly place :)
Confession: I got VERY excited (okay embarrassingly nerdily excited) when for Twinings brought out an ‘Australian Afternoon Tea’ STOP IT! Of course I bought it and enjoyed it thoroughly :) I think it should become part of their permanent collection… we could drink it if homesick or in need of a bit of aussie comfort with our vegemite - lol
To overseas friends, DO come by and pay us a visit :) and to locals, hello neighbors :)
Usually I take a whole batch of photos to share with you guys; but, I’m afraid, as the camera is in hospital, you will have to imagine the vast cruise ship with a 5-story long Australian flag cast along it… the little happy bobbing boats covered in multicoloured bunting, flapping in the breeze, the flags painted on happy cheeks and the insane random bursts of rain throughout the day (the weather has lost it! I swear ;)
happy days though :)
thea.
xx
a little butterfly hut today for you lovely visionaries…
Can you smell the sweet floating air along the ocean breeze down here?
This speaks to me of dreams and poetry lines dreamed up on little strolls along scented lanes… mmm… camera off to hospital, computer almost home, and phone well… don’t get me started…
thea.
xx
Greetings lovely Visionaries !
I’ve been suffering with the challenges of broken technology over here…. *overwhelmingly big sighs* broken cameras… returned cameras… MORE BROKEN cameras… wiped memory cards… lost whole days of shooting… broken phones… and now broken computers - nooooooooooooo!!! Even my computer is off to hospital this week! What did I do???
Quick quick before they take it away from me, here is a sneak peek at what’s been happening. As you may have gathered by these images I have discovered an obsession with Hydrangeas…. yes, in all their breeds, colours, shapes & sizes… I’m enjoying admiring them… aren’t these top ones pretty? All delicate and lacey…
It all started when I went for a little stroll in search of inspiration for making stafanas for a friend’s wedding… My friend *hello friend* asked me to hand-make some for her and so I collected some hydrangea flowers to inspire me and sat very happily for hours with a great mini-series, white clay and my happy hands & voila… the flowers are all clay and the rest is beaded. It was actually really fun, I’d love an excuse to make more - hehe
Anyway, so if there are no images for a while - you know why and no me too boooooo hooohooohoohooo (I’m crying on the outside, never mind the inside :)
A much tried by technology…
thea.
xx
I so often post about beautiful landscapes here at visionary HQ. And I guess it’s not really surprising; me being a land lover at heart. I’m one of those unfortunates who commonly experience motion sickness, and so, the earth, and my feet planted soundly on it, is often a place of relief and physical comfort for me - I feel at home on ground and love to roam, appreciate and admire…
So, when I was pretty blown away by these seascapes/underwater images of Jellyfish taken by Alexander Semenov…. (they’re so lyrical dramatic and beautiful don’t you think?) I was a little surprised at myself.
I commonly associate sea pictures with Sunday afternoons of my childhood. (I never liked Sundays as the next day I had to go back to school and leave behind me the freedom and creative potential of the weekend - *sigh*) Anyhow, in South Africa during the 80’s I remember Sunday afternoons at home were always filled with ocean/fishy documentaries on the television. Programming had run out for the week and if you switched on the box, there they’d be…. the predictable, tedious floating schools of fish… the seemingly endless droaning narrative, the unblinking sharks… can you tell I was a fan? hehe
Anyway, those memories slowly fading and sundays gelling deliciously now with creative Mondays, (now that I no longer have school or a job I loathe) I’m slowly beginning to see fish and their visual world in a new light… these beauties a clear case for the oceans wonders hidden beneath the surface…
yes. I do like them. yes. :)
Do you?
thea.
xx
Another quote for today…
by Jane Fonda hilariously, but interesting nonetheless - she says -
“Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
This is what determines the quality of the life we’ve lived — not whether we’ve been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.”
hmmmmmmm…
thea.
xx
P.S. Image by Katarina 2353
“ You can try to escape the story of your life, but you can’t. It happened… Heart broke. I knew you when you were young. Heart broke too. I will know you when we are old too. And maybe wise. I know you now. Your story. Mine isn’t the one I would have chosen in the beginning. But, I’ll take it. It is my story. It’s only mine. And, it’s not over. There’s time. There is time. There’s so much time.
Something beautiful & heartwarming to end the week? Yes?!
My mom sent me an email containing these whimisical love-stuffed images created by the illustrator Ronald Searle who has just passed away.
He created the drawings (in the 70s) for his wife Monica, while she suffered from a rare and virulent form of cancer. They depict the old house the couple had bought in the South of France pre-cancer and then restored for the next 5 years… Each time she underwent a treatment, she would have a drawing, ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’…
Mrs Searle survived. As do the drawings as a symbol of love and gentle affection.
*happy sighs*
& Happy Friday Visionaries!
thea.
xx
Damn and Blast!!
I am so frustrated over here without my lover (the camera, obviously :)
We had literally the most BEAUTIFUL day here in Sydney yesterday and I wanted to show you guys - oh, only a billion amazing things, but all interrupted with the lack of my trusty lens. Sigh, I miss you camera, come home soon.
While we’re waiting, how about I distract you with some images taken in the literal red centre of Australia pre-Christmas time? We travelled to the famous Uluru to see the much photographed Ayres Rock, and actually I fell for the ‘other’ rock formation (many don’t know it’s there) called Kata Tjuta… they’re amazing no?
I have to say, the rocks are particularly startling because there is NOTHING around them. It is all flat vast land and then suddenly out of nowhere this red intense and colossal rock booms along the horizon, standing bold and full-stopped.
something to see…
thea.
xx
image by: nezza74
Worked busily & happily away with on of Spoonful’s interns today (yes Spoonful has interns!!! and they’re lovely too!)… trying to get a jump start on this year ahead… marketing (eugh, my least fave) writing, spreading the word… you know, the usual :)
No one tells you when you do something creative you’ll spend 10% of your time doing it and 90% marketing it…. blast and bum!
Anyhow, it’s now almost 1am after all this marketing talk and I must head to bed… a healing and happily busy…
thea.
xx
