lovely long weekends

I love long weekends - the June Queens birthday holiday is the last before the drag through the cold & gloom of winter. Also we have to wait months until the next in one in November.

It turned out the holiday on Monday was a beautiful Melbourne day which makes me utterly grateful for the fact I live in Melbourne. The warm sunshine and the wonders of vitamin D in the winter definitely helped stave off the winter blues. 

Here's  a couple of things we got up to:

A wander up to the local shops North Melbourne we are spoiled as we have great food coffee on our door step. One gem is Grigons & Orr  anywhere that has nanna crochet and knit blankets at the ready is ok by me. Besides the coffee andfood there is delish! 

a lady like coffee

Mini wondering where her breakfast is

mmmm Menu!

Uncle Bennies

Coddled eggs with cheesy toast soldiers

Followed by a wander around Collingwood and Fitzroy, nice to see the yarn bombers from Yarn Corner are keeping the trees warm...

 

Wandering works up an appetite to off to Naked for Satan for a nibble! MMMM pintxos... 285 Brunswick Street  Melbourne VIC 3000
Can't wait for their roof bar to open - Naked in the sky

After all that eating best to take ourselves & Madame had not had a big adventure  to the dog beach - Burns Reserve (Altona Dog Beach) Altona Rd Altona VIC 3018.

If you do go - go at low tide http://tides.willyweather.com.au/vic/melbourne/altona.html &  the road there is pretty potholed if you are coming via ...best to do a  bit of a detour & save your axels!

 

After all that it is back to the studio to start on some artwork. I am taking part in a few  group exhibitions.  One of them is the "Feather your Nest"exhibition at the Stairway to Nowhere Gallery- which is part of Gleaners inc. It opens at the on Friday, August the 3rd and runs through to August the 31st, will be part of the calender of events for the Craft Victoria Craft Cubed Festival.

& just a quick shout out to cherryandme.com for the write up on the blog! check it! 

Thanks to the lovelies at http://www.cherryandme.com for the photo from Markit @FedSquare

Love Miss Foo XXX

Cup of tea and a big lie down

I survived my first market! It was a really fun day and thanks to everyone that dropped by and also to my helpers - a sister and a boyfriend do make excellent slave labour.

From this experience  I have realised a few things:

• I am not & will never be a morning person especially on a Sunday
• when it's cold I have a bladder the size of a walnut
• I really should have though a little harder about wearing a jumpsuit considering the above point
• drinking the entire contents of the thermos is not going to help with the two aforementioned issues
• drinking 2 coffees and eating lollipops is going to make me just a little hyper: again the consumption of coffee not helping point 2
• the manic hyperactivity was not made any better by friends bringing by hot jam donuts covered powdered sugar... you know who you are & you are evil! With teh giggling & sugar high there is the inevitable crash
• I am terrible at judging the amount my car can fit in it: I admit I have no spacial perception
• I am becoming increasingly loopy  - this is actually not a newsflash more of a friendly reminder

It was a huge day and I was utterly knackered by the end of it only thing I wanted to do was have a cup of tea & watch Eurovision. I did however  had some lovely Markit neighbours shout out to: from left to right  When you escape  dreamy gorgeousness from Jess Stewart, the gals from LoveHate & Hot Toffee

Great to see some other friends too Douglas & Hope - Cath has an awesome blog http://todayimwearing.blogspot.com.au/ that you should check out too!

bRainbow who made me squeak with delight! Orrr (As in OMG) Dhiravarangkura and Akiko Ikeda creations are SOOOOO FRIKKIN cute it makes my head hurt.

I had lots of visitors & even a few furry ones look at these pic of the puppy love I got on the day. A very beautiful doxie named Molly who I got  a little cuddle from!!

Don't forget if you missed Markit or if you when but got a little overwhelmed  when your were there you can also go to my lovely stockists (Curious Grace, Quirk & Co or Gleaners Inc) Or if you want to order a custom item/commission a piece  you can contact me on pleatybunny@gmail.com or via my facebook page too!  www.facebook.com/pleatybunny 

If you did make a purchase feel free to pop the pics up on the Facebook page I love to know where the critters end up!

 & just some happy snaps of Markit!

 

Also had some lovely news last week but got a bit caught up in the pre-Markit frenzy. I have been accepted in the "Bloom" section of Magnolia Square Market in September! They have a new spanky venue in Williamstown - so stay tuned! 

love Miss Foo XXX