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Words cannot describe the thrill I felt when I found these beauties at a second hand furniture co-op in Marrickville. For only One.Dollar.Each. Hooray!
The three books pretty much run through the how to's of the most common crafts, crochet, embroidery, knitting, etc, as well as listing the different fabric types and their uses, tonnes of patterns and illustrations, colours and inspiration. Whenever I'm feeling a little creatively stunted I devour one of these babies.
Haylz x
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When I first moved into my current home, I hated my room. Actually, I hated a lot about the way the house looked. It was dark and brown and ugly and yuck. Really yuck. Over the first 6-8 months of living here I toyed with the idea of moving to a new place, then one day I made the decision to quit whining and being miserable and really start putting effort into the space around me. I did some serious thrifting, grabbing great retro blankets, throws, wall hangings and bric a brac to make the space around me really feel like it was mine.
A couple of months later Carly J moved in and all of a sudden this space that I'd built up around me, my space, had to be shared with another. It was tough, for sure, but it was also wonderful to be able to share it with someone that I loved. Still, it never really felt like our space. I felt frustrated by the fact that I had less room to move, that my things would move around the room, that there was a mess in my room that was not mine (if the mess was created by me, somehow I could live with that, but when it wasn't... not good). She felt fristrated that the room was largely dominated by my things, hers barely got a look in for a long while.
On top of this, I'm a bit of a night owl. I tend to get the most work of the highest quality well after dark. It's rare that I'll head to bed before midnight of my own accord. So when I had this other person in my space who had to rise at 6:30am most mornings I resorted to watching TV shows and DVDs on the laptop with the headphones in every single night instead. It was okay though, that's what you do in relationships. You compromise. And if it wasn't for the fact that I still regularly worked nights then maybe I would have made more of an effort to adjust my sleeping patterns. Maybe. Okay, probably not.
Being a night owl and having the freedom to do what I want, when I want is incredibly important to me, it's a huge part of who I am and how I function in this crazy world. Becuase of this, my room, my space, my domain, is incredibly important to me. Having to share this space was perhaps more difficult for me than I realised at the time, and it's only now that I have my space back that I can recognise this.
I do everything in my room. Everything. I eat, sleep, entertain (myself and others), craft, create, blog... Part of this is because I live in a share house with two other girls who's lifestyles and work schedules vary quite significantly form my own, but this is also becuase I just like to be in my own space, making a mess or just plain banging around without having to worry about bothering someone else.
I should mention that Carly J never requested that I change my sleeping patterns, or stop doing what I do late at night, it was a decision that I made on my own, though of course with her and our relationship in mind. I think that it's a really beautiful thing to be able to make the decision to share your space with someone else, but I do think that I've learnt a great deal about myself after my first experience in doing so. Perhaps next time I'll suggest separate rooms...
Haylz x
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Hello lovely readers!
These past few days sure have been crazy. Really freakin' crazy. Work has gone completely bonkers with the roster so I'm working a whole heap, as well as trying to fit in planning the 2nd Birthday of Chicks with Picks and having a social life. Holy Hell!
The other thing I'm working on is sorting out my sponsorships for October, which is pretty fun, actually. I would like to extend a super big chunky thanks to the blogs that I sponsored over this past month, it has most certainly been worth my while. Go have a quick peek if you've got a moment!
Anyways, I'm off to try a whole fresh batch of blogs in October, which I'll share with you at around this time next month. Hooray!
ALSO: I am introducing some sponsor swap buttons in October *yay!* So if you've got a blog that is of similar content, quality and readership to Indie Thrifter please shoot me an email and we'll talk deets.
Thanks peeps!
Haylz x
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I thought to get you through this weekend I would share two of my favourite creative videos ever. The first is based on the words of Ira Glass, spotted via Because It's Awesome. If you consider yourself a creative creature, this video will be humbling, comforting, and inspiring.
This second video is my favourite music video, EVER. Seriously. If you're Aussie you should definitely have seen this before, if you're not, then please share the love. It's a beautiful song with an equally beautiful visual representation (on a side note, I'm positively wetting my pants in excitement at getting to see both these fantastic musicians at Homebake this year!!) Major props to Gotye and Kimbra and whoever the hell created this visual masterpiece.
Haylz x
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