Op Shoppers of the world UNITE!

So we all know how much I love my blue/green vintage dresses and apparel.  But I bet you didn't know my vintage love extended to finding treasures at various op shops throughout Sydney?  I'm slowly amassing a collection of wares that I will have to find room in my home for, or a new home all together.

I'm thinking Bluebird & Rainbow might be extending in the long run.  But for now, my private collection of treasures grows.

Love,
Gabs x

ARE YOU AN OP SHOPPER?  DO YOU COLLECT ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR? 

To be loved like this

is all I need for the rest of my life.

And yes, I'm a beast of a mother. :)

Happy Mother's Day to all those who "mother" for yesterday and today, wherever you are in the world.  A special shot of love to my mum, Gladys, and my MIL, Rosemary. 

Love,
Gabs x

Passing By: a work in progress

I'm in love with Instagram.  I love the immediacy of working with it.  Of seeing an photograph and then taking it and sharing it with a like-minded community of photographers.  I've been working on a photo-a-day project called ProjectLife365 where you reflect a daily theme in your shot for that day. 

But as much as I love social media and how it allows us to share and communicate on a more creative level, it also makes us more insular in so  many ways.  We walk around with our phones in our hands and don't look up.  Or sideways.  At whoever is sitting next to us or walking in front of us.  We're not connecting with strangers.  We've made them the big scary monster under the bed instead.  So I've started a new project that uses the very tool that is making us isolated, to connect and share.

Passing By is a street and mobile photography project that I'll share both here, and on instagram.

This is the kind of work I love to do.  And if it allows me to make some strangers not so strange, all the better.

Love,
Gabs x

I'm a little Bowerbird and I didn't know it....

I was showing my visiting Mother In Law, Rosemary (hi Rosemary!) the latest addition to my growing collection of vintage beauties, when I realised, I'm a Bower Bird.

Bower Birds are renowned for collecting blue things for their nest, and, without realising it, this is exactly what I have been doing now for quite a while. 

Huh.

Fancy that.

Love,
Gabs x

ARE YOU A COLLECTOR?  WHAT IS YOUR SPECIALTY?

Slide Nights Never Looked Like This

WE MADE IT!  2 weeks of school holidays filled with:

- Museum visits, crafting, Dad's now famous Apple Crumble, Shopping Centre Stage Shows, new glittery outfits for Mama, a bit of loopiness, Little People play, more gallery visits, some dancing with this guy, McDonald's for lunch, bike rides in the park, wonderful sunsets and warm Autumn days, homemade tee shirts, ferry rides and swimming.

That was fun.  Let's do it again, yeah?

Love,
Gabs x

How were your holidays?