Getting My Sugar On!

What's more exciting than a dessert museum?
A dessert museum with a giant ball pit!
The Sugar Republic created this super fantastic interactive installation in Fitzroy, Melbourne, for all the sugar lovers to enjoy. Featuring a huge candy dispenser you can climb into, free sundays, an amazing cake you can pop out of, and an adult size ball pit that you can disappear in!
The Twin and I drove up to Melbourne on a frosty Tuesday morning and spent some time here, and boy, did we have fun.

One of the highlights was getting to see these gorgeously huge artworks by Dawn Tan, one of my favourite Australian artists.

As was getting to jump out of the cake, and then feeling like a kid again having the entire ball pit to ourselves to giggles and prance about like idiots! 

Who:

Sugar Republic

What:

Interactive Installation filled with fun activities and sweets, fun for the whole family!

When:

22nd June till 24th of July

Where:

379 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne

How:

By tickets online on their website

Enjoy xx

Pako Fest 2015

This is the first year that The Twin and I have been to Pako Fest. Which may seem stranger since its a huge event in Geelong and everybody knows about it, but, Zo and I are never people for crowds.
 Courthouse Arts invited Zo to be a stallholder, witch two other artists we are chummy with and greatly admire, Chelsea and Stacey.
 Zo spent weeks crocheting and knitting her Magic Cacti in preparation and I sort of sat back and gave my opinions and ideas, but mostly wanted Zo to take the lead and figure out what she wanted to do.
 With the weather going on and off, we had an okay morning and a great afternoon. It was fun and a great experience to add to our list!

Em x

Festival of The Photocopier 2015

 Zoe and I decided that we would go and sell our Zines at Sticky Institutes Festival of The Photocopier this year! It was a our first, usually only selling them on Etsy or Zine Scene.

 I was....very unsure, I'm always extremely nervous going to a new event where I know there will be a huge amount of people. The Twin was fine, she spent weeks cultivating her zines and has an impressive amount to sell. 

The Twin made us matching badges and we both wore demin and the same shoes. 

We got a lot of 'Are you guys twins? Coz you look the same!'

 I bought a badge from Maddy Young, one that I'd been eyeing online for a while and have been thinking of getting a tattoo of. I love Maddy's attention to detail and the delicate look of the flowers.

 The Twin kind of fangirled over her idols, and I ended up taking many photos as I giggled helplessly!

We shared a table with this cutey! Emily decorated her half of the table with vintage my little ponies and we got to watch her sketching :)

Overall the day was good, I almost had a panic attack from claustrophobia but I sold out of my Anxiety Zine, which kind of surprised me as I didn't think anyone would look at any of mine when faced with The Twin's amazing work.

Em x

2015

Hello all, Welcome to 2015!
Hopefully this year will be kinder, as I don't really know anyone that had a great 2014.
So far this year I've been.....doing stuff?
I've done a little art and been for some walks when the weather is actually acting like its supposed to.
I hope you all are having a great start to the year :)

I also decided to stop shaving my legs again. For the month of December I let my little hairies grow and it was wondrous. And then mum asked me to shave and I did and i was stuck with these hairless white tree trunks :)

ZIne Workshop with Ashley Ronning and Sarah McNeil

Last week The Twin and I went up to Melbourne for a Zine workshop with artists Ashley Ronning and Sarah McNeil!
It was awesome to meet two artists that I've been admiring for years, and they were lovely! I don't think I've ever met two such nice ladies.
The Twin and I got there a little early so I managed to snap a picture with both of them, and then were started making badges and looking through old books and magazines. A lot of people showed up, which was cool. In Geelong you would probably only have around five people, at best, but Melbourne just shows you how diverse the people are you're going to meet, and that art culture is strong.
 

Morning Blues

I've been really stressed lately, what with trying to find a job and getting little to no response. I did get to the second round of interviews with Kaiser Kraft as a layout designer, and got down to the last two applicants before hearing that I didn't get the job.
 I've been to the physio about four times in two weeks, which uses up what little money I have for the fortnight, and so these past two Saturdays my dad has taken me out for breakfast at my favorite cafe The Pakington Pantry in Pako street.
 Lurv it. Dad sure knows how to cheer me up! I always have the Shakshouka eggs :)

Mini Ginsberg Market

 On Friday Night my twin and I went to the mini Ginsberg market to sell our thingsssss.
 It was very cold, as the market went from 5:30 - 10:30, but our dad came and kept us company and gave me is jumper to wrap about me like a blanket.
Zoe's gloves sold very well, people who bought them put them on straight away, and in the end she let me choose some to wear because my fingers were going numb trying to play candy crush on my phone.
 Good time!