The wonderful land of Tasmania

Tassie times

These past few weeks have been wonderful, yet scary, heres some photos from the last few adventures i was on including a wonderful adventure to liffy falls with my mum!

New and old illustrations

Ride a bike and get away 

(Watercolour and ink on paper 2013)

escape with sleep

(watercolour and ink on paper 2013)

Oh hello

Hello there,


i must begin with yet another apolagee! lets just say that it has been a crazy start the new year, and one that i was not prepared for. Fingers crossed thought that things will settle down soon...
I am currently once again in my home town Launceston in Tasmania. I've been here for around two weeks so far, it's good and bad, i think i've made up for last year in the drinking department. But also maybe lost a few too many brain cells at the same time. I've never wanted to go out so much before, i'm usually such a nanna, but the idea of leaving and going out every night gets more and more appealing everyday i'm here. I've managed to do a couple of drawings, but i really should be doing more. I'm begining to miss Sydney, mostly my bed more than anything and the endless possibilities. I'm begining to notice the huge amounts of people missing from Launceston in my age group, this makes me remember why i left, and the releif that i have somewhere else to go. I love this town but i don't think i can handle another week of binge eating, sleeping and drinking.

silly Alice

I've always had it in my mind that oneday soon something wonderful will happen and everything will be okay. I shall be on talk shows when i'm old talking about my terrible high school life and that time tripped up the stairs and skidded alongside the lockers. My friend Austin once told me, he was going to make a comic strip of this even for the pretend newspapers that we were making in grade seven. I still cannot remember if he did or not. But i feel like it was an important thing to discuss with the host of the show. I really hoped it would be Micheal Parkinson, but i feel he would not be around. Even Stephan fry would be amazing! we could discuss our confusion over everyday things and how we both love to spend alot of money on useless things, but at the end of the day we both just want to hide out and be comfortable. I am getting the stage where the thing has not happened yet, and it must hurry as i constantly feel like i am running out of patience and energy waiting for it to happen. Perhaps i shall event something! or become a hero of somesort. I've had so many ideas of great career changes this year that i don't want to start one just incase i change my mind again. Heres a few, nurse, comedian, vegan chef, kindergarten teacher, nanny, stripper ( we've all thought of it), so there a small list of the main ones, but i still would like to illustrate childrens books, its just a matter of actually writing and drawing them, instead of staring at my ceiling thinking about sleep.

New drawings

Hello there, it's been quite a lovely month it has! i had quite a journy in Tasmania and managed to produce a few drawings!

Thers a few more, have a look in my Drawings page!

Shoes

I've recently been coming more and more frustrated with the fact that i cannot find any shoes that i like aswel as feel comfortable enough to wear. I don't like to wear leather as i am vegan so that cuts out a huge range of shoes, i also want black ones, and i also like them without heels. So this already makes it very difficult. This often ends in me buying the same shoes again, i've done this many a time including primary school with a pair of runners i got in great one. I remember my mum baught me a new pair before these ones, that i thought i liked, but i wasn't completely sure about. I figured i'd just get used to them anyway. But the next school weel i had a doctors appointment so i was late for school and it was sport that day so i wore the shoes for the first time. As soon as i arrived and walked towards the class room in these shoes i began to feel very self conciouse and anxiouse, i felt like a giant and my shoes like platform boots. I then proceeded to cry and i made my mum take me home and get changed.

This makes me think i'm a little mad and i never thought i was this fussy . But over the last few weeks i've desperately wanted some new lace up boots. I was jsut going to buy the same ones again but they are no longer made. So i figured this was a great chance for a change, and maybe this would be good for me. But i have ended up spending lots of money on shoes that i buy that i think i like but i never wear, or i do wear but chance throughout the day.
I decided i should try another depserate atempt today as on my way to work today the entire sole of my shoe came out. This was it i was going to make a real effort. But i ended up coming home early and atmepting to sew up the heel of my shoes and planning to buy new lace's instead.


Oh i also forgot to mention my many atempts to cut off heels from shoes both succesfull and disastrusly. Mostly disastrously though.