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current observations
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The current ramblings of a part time web nerd, rest of the time mum, graphic design student, wordpress designer and self professed coffee snob.
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Flickr three :: #F1D14A :: sunshine

The weather bureau has predicted rain for February so I thought this was a good wishful thinking colour. My Flickr finds are from top: Ti by Luiz Felipe da Silva de Castro, Garage Door by Mitch Jones...

21 h ago

Fabric :: vintage small prints

I stumbled across a collection of vintage feedsack clipart that I’d downloaded from Pugly Pixel (which I wanted to link to but couldn’t find it on her site) and I seem to have been ponder...

1 day ago

Give me the child until seven…

and I will show you the man. If you remember I did a similar post when my jolly monkey turned 7. Well the little one turns 7 today and thanks to this Jesuit motto it’s been looming on the horiz...

3 days ago

Wish I was here again

We’ve just returned from here and it rained but we swam in the sea with giant stingrays passing by, were greeted by lazy kangaroos each morning, fed King Parrots and Crimson Rosellas and even d...

3 days ago

Web tip :: a word on web fonts

I love web fonts, they have revolutionised what web designers can do with typography in designs. Cufón, Typekit and sIFR have all made our task a little easier and our designs a lot more interesting....

30 jan 12

Flickr three :: #D1DA1B :: autumn approaching

When Brandi posed the question what colour are you loving in her Loving :: Emerald Green post this week it was no stretch for me to find an answer. This is the colour I’ve been seeing everywher...

29 jan 12

Akai Premium Theme from Crimson Pear

I’m so excited to share with you what I’ve been toiling away at for the last couple of weeks. This is my Akai (means red in Japanese) self-hosted WordPress blog theme that you can purchas...

28 jan 12

Happy Australia Day!

Yes it’s Australia Day! The F18 have already done their flyover and the cyclist has done his annual 50km coffee ride with some of his cycling buddies. The boys are chilling out with their proje...

26 jan 12

Flickr three :: #920F2F :: veins

My flickr finds may be a stretch on my colour but they all really appealed to me and that’s artistic license right? The photos are from top: LINES… by Dick Jensen, Red Barn Paint by Scott...

21 jan 12

Does ego = success?

In the last few weeks I have found myself saying, out loud I might add, that I wish I had a bigger ego. That’s not really what I mean but I’ve just noticed some people out there seem to g...

20 jan 12

A stuffed chair affair

I have an odd obsession with chairs and given the chance our house would be full of them. The cyclist is probably happy that I have not acted on that impulse. I pretty sure when I first laid my eyes ...

19 jan 12

Flickr three :: #433B53 :: aubergine

My aubergine finds are from top: Thirst Healer by Riza Nugraha, Frozen Statues by Rune Spaans, Accordian by Shawn Allen P.S. – you can also select my colour to see it on my ColourLovers page. A...

17 jan 12

Trellis :: palette and pattern

This adorable picture called Crochet Flowers by Carina Envoldsen-Harris was the source of my palette inspiration today. They just reminded me of spring flowers climbing a trellis. Of course after yes...

13 jan 12

Trellis patterns

I have such an eye for lattice/trellis patterns at the moment. I think in general I like patterns that make me look at the negative space as well. I’m very aware that all my selections today ar...

12 jan 12

Flickr three :: #9D4784 :: rose

This year I’ve decided to return to something I used to do – a flickr post around a single colour. This time however I’ve given it a bit of a twist inspired by and an homage to the ...

08 jan 12

Free WordPress Theme from Crimson Pear

I have been working on this for a while and I’m so happy to show you my first free WordPress theme, called Kiiroi, which means yellow in Japanese. This has been an ambition of mine for a while ...

03 jan 12

Random resolutions :: Happy New Year

People who know me well know that I’m not a fan of New Year’s Day… just as I’m not a fan of the first page of a book. I have no clue what it is but I always feel happier when ...

01 jan 12

Walking to the Big Hole

We had Christmas away this year – just an hour east to my brother and his family and Christmas lunch saw the whole family together. I’m sure we all stopped and paused to remember my Mum a...

29 dec 11

Palette and pattern :: tiny snowflakes

It’s been a while since my last palette and I had forgotton how much I enjoy the process. Inspired by the snowflake image by Kathy I set about to create my palette, I paid a little more attenti...

21 dec 11

Flickr three :: tiny snowflakes

My tiny snowflakes are from top: Snowflakes on glove tip by Mel Green, Snowflake by Lambros Roussodimos, Snowflake by Vlasta Juricek

18 dec 11

Snowflake scribbles

I’ve been playing around with drawing snowflakes on my Wacom tablet using images of real snowflakes from snow crystals.com as my inspiration. I started out with different brushes, which were a ...

18 dec 11

It’s snowing – somewhere in the world

My Mum used to say that she’d often have a colour in her eye – meaning that for a short period of time she was attracted to a single colour. I suffer from the same problem but with me it&...

16 dec 11

Decorating the tree

We got our tree yesterday and decorated it in the afternoon. Here is a selection of photos of our decorations that I took while waiting for cookies to bake. We have a rather eclectic mix since we buy...

11 dec 11

It’s beginning to feel like Christmas fonts

I’m relatively new to the world of picture fonts, but what a world it is. I know I’ve mentioned a couple of them before but I’ve really just started using them in earnest and I̵...

10 dec 11

It’s my birthday

Yes – it’s my birthday, again! I can’t believe this is now my 5th birthday post, which translates as I can’t believe this blog has been going for 4 years. My birthday posts tr...

04 dec 11

Guest post: 8 ways to use graphics in decor

Have you ever had a serendipitous moment, or moments? I came home from Denmark thinking about light fixtures, I buy a great light fixture and blog about it and interwoven into those 3 events is an em...

30 nov 11

How we made an American quilt

Do you remember that movie ‘How to make an American quilt’? It’s from many years ago and starred Winona Ryder. You’re forgiven if you don’t and while the movie was nice ...

27 nov 11

A few nice pears

I love pears – their taste, their shape and the multitude of colours. Have I said that before? I love their big fat bottoms and the way they never really sit upright – they kind of find a...

17 nov 11

Palette and patterns :: lightbulbs

Well my light is on it’s way and now I’m planning lighting for the rest of the house. I seem to be somewhat obsessed with luminescence this week so I thought I’d use that obsession ...

11 nov 11

What would you pay for these?

I subscribe to Chris Spooner’s Blog Spoon Graphics newsletter. His site is a goldmine for people like me and he really piqued my interest with a post titled Top 20 High Quality Free Fonts Every...

06 nov 11

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