Werk

Doing a lot of film stuff at the moment, hence the lack of blogging. Pickman's first production meeting is today, I've also been doing art department on other projects. Here is one of them!

I'm too tired and crabby to write anything funny, the Arroz Con Pollo I'm cooking looks like some of the unluckier characters in the Saw movies, and I'm dressed like a K-Mart mannequin so no outfit pics today. All I can give the internet is the two shots above, and my lame apologies. Sorry internet, I'll try harder later. 


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Pickman's Progress

I just finished a treatment for our short HPL puppet film! It was fun and it has a goat-plumber in it! And look at all these colourful puppets finished and ready to be dressed up for the movie! I've had a big filmmaking day today- I'm working art direction on a friends project, and today had lots of ups and downs (mostly ups though). Now it's nice to sit back and work on my own stuff for a while to clear my head. 

Who's gonna win the HPLFF 2012? "WE ARE! WE ARE!"

New Raincoat

It's raining in Brisbane. ALL. THE. TIME. People are freaking out thinking we're heading for another flood like the on we had this time last year. I don't see it happening, but the river has risen quite a lot. 

eep.

However, I did buy a new raincoat so at least that's getting a workout. Here are photos of it in action!

Raincoat: Modcloth

Dress: Modcloth

Shoes: K Mart

Socks: Cotton On

Bag: Tintin store official. 

Ironically, my flowers of the week this week are sunflowers. 

I just don't know what to do with myself.

It's a rainy, boring day at home, so I'm selling clothes on eBay and watching TV. I found this dress I bought off Modcloth that was too short so I chopped it in half (or thirds, I guess- it was very short) and made it into a top.  

OK. I'm bored. Can we have an alien invasion or rain of frogs something already? Blergh. Sorry blog.   

Rainy Day Dress

My sister-in-law Polly (and family) sent me this dress from Spain for Christmas, so I thought I'd share it with the group! It's raining and cold here, despite it being the middle of summer, hardly a time for summer dresses, but the colours are quite wintery. Now I plan to put on pyjamas and a coat and stay that way till the weather clears. 

Shoes: Kathryn Wilson

Dress: Almatrichi

Stockings: Myer

Socks: Myer

The best part is, it goes with my wedding shoes, which I rarely get a chance to wear anymore. Also, you fashion blogging types, let it be known that I still feel like a massive dork posing for photos. Does that ever pass? When do you get to that stage where you're like "yeah, I'm standing around over-dressed in a rainy, muddy park getting my photo taken leaning on muddy things, whatevs"? 
Blogging about food and movies is easier. No one gets muddy. 

An Evening with Ira Glass

Just an evening?

So Homer Simpson was talking about Phillip Glass when he said that, but I'd much rather spend an evening with Ira, which is just what I did Thursday night.

For those of you who have never listened to Ira on This American Life, stop reading this stupid blog and go download the Podcast! You don't have to be an American (or, in my case, have a Life) to be moved by the show. 

Here's a cruddy iPhone photo or Ira at work. It was a funny and enlightening look into storyteling. Speaking of cute guys giving lectures, I also saw my Husband Colin speak at a Dark Knight screening last night. He is now Brisbane's foremost Batman expert! 

And finally, my outfit of the day!

Top: Modcloth

Skirt: Sportsgirl

Belt: H&M

What I Wore: Thai Food With Friends

In the spirit of posting more outfit photos this year, here's my Friday night wear! I feel silly getting my photo taken, I hope this will change over time. I had a nice Thai dinner with some friends, lots of coconut rice. Sometimes I think all I really want is the coconut rice, but have to order a curry so not to seem like such a weirdo.

Top: American Apparel 

Pants: Tokito

Shoes: K Mart. 

My main dude, Kermit.

Getting a jump start on those Resolutions, I just had my first driving lesson! I have to drive 100 hours before I can sit the test, so now I only have 99 hours to go. Woooooh. No alcohol, 8k bike rides, eating well, saving money, who am I anymore?!? 

I also planned to buy flowers more often this year, and so I have.

Purdy. 

Saturday Drivers: Montville

Something unexpected happened- I had a day off on the weekend. Part of me feels guilty about this, after all, I'm missing penalty pay-rates and I always feel guilty if I'm not at work (go figure). The other part of me loves cheese. So Colin and I took of too the Sunshine Coast hinterland in search of cheese pure enough to absolve my guilt. 

There is something terribly middle-aged about a road trip to Montville. Terribly GOOD that is. Where else can you find so many cuckoo clocks in one room? Germany? A factory or workshop where cuckoo clocks are made, and here, at Montville. 

We also had a very nice lunch at a French restaurant and looked around for wedding rings at Antique stores. We didn't have one when we got married, and decided to just let them find us over the course of our marriage. However, I'm getting sick of waiting for the little guy to show up and ward off the creepy dude at work.

I give visiting Montville: 3.5 stars. It was better than visiting the Gold Coast, but worse than watching all the Alien films back-to-back in your winter pyjamas and eating Chorizo. 

Too Much Fun

6 puppet skins down, a whole mess of arms stuffed and three seasons of Gilmore Girls watched back-to-back from behind a sewing machine. It's been a good couple of days. Back to real-work today though, which isn't so bad either. Happy Friday (or thursday for US readers)!

It rained a little, so I got to break out the rainboots yesterday. They're too big for me, but I wear them anyway because sending them back to the US is too expensive. 

Boots: Modcloth

Dress: Modcloth

Bag: Dangerfield

Work from Home Wednesday

Two days at home to get a head start on my puppets for the short film! Which means A Storm of Fleece and Fluff (George MM Martin, you'd better not steal that for a book title).

It's pretty easy to make absolutely no effort to get dressed on a work-from-home day, and that is usually what I'd do, but I'm still riding that New Year wave of inspiration to better myself. Here is what I wore today, before it got covered with loose threads and bits of felt.  

Can anyone guess where they've seen this necklace before? HINT: Tannis, anyone? 

It's a replica of Rosemary's Tannis Root necklace from Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby- which is one of my favourite films. 

Available on Etsy HERE from sirenasirena

Anyway, back to work. These puppets ain't gonna sew themselves.