Sometimes – like today
I just feel like curling up with a big fluffy doona and a cup of tea.
Comfort.
Thats what i want.
The question is though, where to get it.
When so far away from home.
a chuckle helps …..
the chasers had me laughing still the next morning

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notice

Its bugging me that my links have dissapeared and i cant find how to fix it and wordpress just doesnt seem to be behaving – i’m thinking about shifting (having just printed out a whole lot of cards – doh.

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dance … if the spirit moves you

This month i chose the brolga card as my dreaming. A card of dance. Of opening yourself to the rhythm of the earth. Of reconnecting. Of being. Of celebration.
In that spirit…. I’ve been loving revisiting Moulin Rouge, and Paris in the late 1800’s. And have a head full of colour and movement with some painting [...]

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happy snaps

Piha. One of my favourite places in the entire universe. Grand statement but true.
This is the beach where THE PIANO was shot.
And looking at these images makes me want to return;…. its a wonderful
thing is it not, to feel a strong connection to a place. I’m feeling that bittersweet
longing now. Not for a lost love, [...]

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away….

off to NZ for a couple of weeks
(although to be honest I’m so bad at leaving i’m not sure i should ever step out the front door again)
but still
adventure calls
chat when we get back
xmandy

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Stranger things

This (foo fighters) song has been on my mind for a while. I guess because its surprising, and i so like a surprise. Anyway…. this is what i made while listening.
… i was going for the mood of the song; Moody but hopeful.
the only surprsing thing here is that he somehow became a she (and [...]

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deeper

its really too darn hot to post  or do art or anything except sit in the water. and not likely to change much for the next few days.
and yet here i am….
last night i went to see  baz lurhmans ‘Australia’. i am so in it at the moment – that parched dry landscape and thirst [...]

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honest !

Lulu has tagged me and i agree with her – honest but fabulous works for me…..particularly because
1. That ratbag inner critic has had a louder voice than my own this last little while. Enough i say…. enough.
Therefore… in true SARK style. I’ve decided to celebrate me in all my lusciousness. he he.
2. I am 40.
3. [...]

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Nara

Now THIS was fun. I love Yoshitomo Nara. There I’ve said it.
The biggest difficulty with this challenge was to decide on an Artist….
was it going to be maximalist Tord Boontje, film maker David McKean, or…. oh too many !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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white

Oh dear. If anyone has any advice on how to post white on white images – let me know. I had to photoshop the …(life ?) out of thishere’s a detail that i think may be a little closer to what it actually looks like in my journal.Although I’m not happy with how it looks [...]

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