SATAN AND OUR INVOLUNTARY PET

We moved house over the weekend. Saturday was fairly stressful I thought it would be more fun, just shifting everything and the old house looked so depressing half empty, but the new one wasn’t quite set up yet.
I hate that part of the transition, when you’re kind of in the air.
Sunday was far more relaxed, setting up all the furniture, putting it into it’s place. Great. Love the new house, wooden floors, no carpet. But beige walls, i don’t know what’s up with that, but i have to adapt i suppose.

On my first day here i heard my neighbour call his dog, he sounds like Satan, has the most angriest, raspy, creepy voice i think i’ve ever heard. I assume he owns a German Shepard. He also has a very strong like for 70’s/80’s radio stations he listens too very loudly while playing with his power tools. Mmhh, ...fucking white trash.

The last tenants of our house must have been Chinese, this stuff hangs on three doors. I kinda like it, i wudn’t put it up myself, so it’s different. Also Chinese people seem to be quite superstitious in general. You know all this red and gold and number eights and cats and whatnot. I'll leave it up, maybe it brings good luck or something. I think i’m a bit superstitious myself.
If anyone can read it, let me know what it means.

Here is the breakfast we had on the first day, to keep us going.

Me with my favourite tool of the day.

Ah, and some other favourites of mine. How could you move in somewhere without those.

Clayton, where i live now, seems to be full of wildlife, it’s only one suburb up from where i used to live, but there is/was fucking Redback paradise in our garage, snails are like all over the place on the patio and slugs. And fucking spiders, mosquitoes, bug things wandering through the house like it's a fucking bug pilgrimage.

That’s also how we got our involuntary pet. I dubbed her Frieda(after one of my best friends baby daughter, it was the first name that came to mind, Christian this is for you:)
And Yes, Frieda crawled her way inside the house with a slug friends of hers.

What did you on the weekend? Do you have any little or big projects going?

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH MY LIFE

This weekend we are moving into a new house. We were actually planning on moving (back) to Berlin in spring next year, in April, but then we postponed it for another year.
We have been doing this for probably the last 3 years and i'm feeling truly sorry for my 3 friends back home who i'm always telling i will be back soon.
I have been living in Australia for almost 5 years now and i'm not sure if it's life in the suburbs, Australian culture or my dead end jobs, but my brain feels like it has been soaked in fabric softener for too long and it's not a nice feeling.

But we decided to be sensible and stay another year, need to save up quite a bit of money to move there and not stress about it. But i REALLY wanted to move into a new house. The house we got now.. where do i start..?! We actually found a new one quite quickly this time, i loved it straight away, it's got floorboards, a nice kitchen and bathroom, it's fairly big and bright, it's got a patio and even partial solar power. Now, that is pretty cool.
So now it's all comparing fridges, carpet cleaners and electricity providers for me. Not too exciting, but i'm looking forward to getting it all organized and settling in.

My label has been on the back burner for a little while now, actually a year, since i started working full-time again. I'm getting a new studio, it's smaller, only one room, now i got 2, but i'm sure it's gonna be nice. So once i set it all up i might be able to focus on some new stuff.

I also booked a new craft class, just for me. It's an upholstery class and i'm pretty excited about it.

It's gonna be great to do up some old chairs i got around the house, i also wanna get myself some cool sanders for Christmas. Awesome. Stay tuned, because i am planning on putting up before/after pictures.

I also told all my twitter friends about my new upholstery obsession and my lovely friend Kerri decided to book the class with me. I'm so excited. Now we can drool over fabrics and power tools together.

 

So that's basically it, i'm staying here for now, got a new house, a new studio and hopefully some pretty upcycled furniture soon. And i also wanna do a dressmaking class, once i find one that fits my schedule. 

  

You got any exciting new plans?  Let me know, i'd love to hear about them.

I took the photos in New York. I Love NY. And i miss it. I call the pictures 'Studies in Steel', i love steel too.