the future is just a concept.

today i am bored and uninspired at work.
i am thinking about six feet under and how much i love it, think i might watch the whole series through for the third time...

so one of the characters says this line in the show that i think about all the time, i decided it needed to be montaged, asap.




another favourite quote from the show;

Nate: You hang on to your pain like it means something, like it's worth something. Well let me tell you, it's not worth shit. Let it go. Infinite possibilities and all he can do is whine.
David: Well, what am I supposed to do?
Nate: What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard, you're alive. What's a little pain compared to that?
David: It can't be so simple.
Nate: What if it is?

ella flyer.

i'm working on a flyer for the cafe at the moment.
it will be for general distribution to places like info desks and tourist centres etc.
it's going to print soon but still not sure i'm happy with it.
what do you think?

front.



back.

sign.

slowly but surely i'm getting on top of cafe ella work.
logo, business cards, a few ads and some signage down, only the website, flyers, menus and an a-frame to go (although i feel the work will never end... thanks mum).

here's the freshly finished front sign, along with a pic of the old sign (that the previous owners designed) and how the new sign will look.
i'm pretty happy with the end result.
the new sign will stand out a lot more and hopefully give a more earthy and welcoming feel.






what do you think? (p.s this one's for you kylie, more of my own work :)

the week that disappeared.

hello.
it's been four days since i last blogged, but it feels like a life time.
i'm having a sick day today, moping around the house feeling sorry for myself.
i'm not sick so much as severely sleep deprived.
mum is still on the look out for weekend wait staff at the cafe so in the meanwhile i have been working five day weeks at work then straight up to the cafe friday afternoons and working there til sunday nights.
i am tired.
so, now that you know why i've been slack lately i can get on with it :)

i have been extremely lazy when it comes to getting mum's website up, but it's such a big job!
well, i'm going to go hard from now on so i spent the weekend photographing the cafe/meals/beautiful gardens for the soon-to-be gallery page on the site.
turns out it's pretty stressful taking pics without proper lighting in a busy cafe with customers wanting their meals!
so, please forgive me, i am no professional photographer!

i found a tiny tiny green tree frog asleep amongst some flower petals.



i love crunching leaves!



so what do you think?
would you visit cafe ella?

yesterday.

the last 72 hours.

wow, i had a crazy weekend.
mum called on friday morning saying she needed my help at the cafe - half a day off work, 3 buses, a train and a car ride later i arrived on tamborine.
friday night = mum, her apprentice chef, me and the dishy prepping food for a massive function into the cold hours.
saturday my wonderful karly came to help me survive the weekend.
neither of us had ever waitered before so that was terrifying.
saturday night = blisters, aching knees, general pain all over and more blisters (needless to say that night included wine, chocolate and couches)
sunday = waking at freezing dawn + 50 sandwiches, another full day of running around the cafe (still like a fish out of water) and a long drive home.
my whole body is crying and i have a severe hobble, how bad is that!?
two days in a different job and i am much appreciative of my soft office chair again... i always knew wait staff were troopers but i have a serious new found respect for them.

in other news, i'm almost finished miss buttons!
last night i found the strength to keep my head up in bed and powered through the last few stages of sewing her (all that's left is stuffing and a few stitches) woo!
she's a bit special as it's my first ever attempt at sewing/pattern following/soft toy making but i love her dearly.



another recent craft adventure - tiny bear cross stitch :)



looking through my camera last night, i felt this was blog worthy.
the trees near the west end markets are ridiculously massive!
look at the tiny human underneath!
these trees are wise.



tonight i am going to the new hifi bar in the valley to see felinedown, it's going to be a treat.
here's brodie at last week's gig, sexy.



monday night's need vodka - the hifi bar enables this :)



oh you made it this far through my post? awesome.
the next two weeks are down time at work so expect more pretty things and less mindless ramble.
:D

keep calm nicole.

a special request from my sister.
we are perfect opposites, and we love it.

keep calm and customise.

i love old propaganda posters.
here are a few of my favorites;





keep calm and carry on has a really interesting history;

during the early spring of 1939 and the war with germany almost inevitable the british government's ministry of information commissioned a number of propaganda posters to be displayed throughout the country upon the outbreak of the war. the plan for the posters was to relay a message from king george VI to his people that all capable measures to defend the country were being taken. using the crown of king george VI as the only graphic element it simply read 'keep calm and carry on'.




the last few months i have had so many birthdays come up.
with minimal money and maximum spare time, i thought i'd make a personally customised keep calm poster for each of my friends.

for tess, a star wars fan



for jeff, a metal devotee



for miranda, a prize winning cup cake maker



and for luke, a flow chart junkie

spare time results in birds and dandelions.

all these beautiful blogs and talented artists that fill my days often inspire me to sit down and make something.
usually random things.
my goal this year was to start doing more things i love but am scared of, like craft and drawing (an old art teacher told me if she ever saw me with a paint brush or pencil in my hand, she'd fail me. harsh, but understandable).

i love nothing more then a good sharpened pencil and some fresh paper, but i am so very intimidated by them.
this is something i am working on.
luckily at my work, two weeks of the month are production and the other two are down time.
this gives me two whole weeks to do my own thing, resulting in the following;









you don't even want to see my attempts at crochet!
:)

grid obsession.

a gift i made for the lovely lela.

hi my name is amy.

first things first, i hate capital letters.
i'm glad we had this discussion.

i love blogs.
i love finding them, i love bookmarking them, i love stalking them.
i love saving a million cool images i find in a folder called 'love' on my desktop that i will probably never look at again.
just in case i do, they are there waiting.
this is me finally getting my act together and starting my own blog.
go me.

my posts will more than likely revolve around the following things;

• design
• craft
• cooking
• places i've been
• things i've seen
• things i want you to know

i love lists.

i love a lot of things and i hate a lot of things.
such strong words, but so fitting.
it really is one way or the other.

i don't like writing in big paragraphs, but lot's of little sentences instead.
this reflects the way i think, i think.

so, until i have something interesting to share, here's an owl on grid paper i drew.

p.s i promise the next post will blog worthy.