STUFF YOU FIND...

In New York you find all kinds of things.

It's not the clubs and rooftop bars and the shopping that i love about New York. I just love to walk around and take pictures of all the crazy people and the crazy shit you see in the streets.(ah yeah and the food, i love the food)

Go to some flea markets(this one is at the Brooklyn Flea market). I thought it was funny, "Bush Family Values" next to a skull+crossbones. Nice!!

"Hail Piggy!" or sumthing! I just found it funny what some people put in front of their restaurants. People seem to be obsessed with animals in uniform or clothes or whatever. Lucky this one isn't holding a bunch of sausages as they sometimes do..

And my favourite flea market find this year.. What are these?! Little fuck dolls or what? My opinion is still swaying between hilariously cute and kinda creepy! Btw, their pants were already pulled down. Great selling point, i get it!

I ♥ QUEENS

Last year when i went to Queens i totally didn't like it. Just got off at a random stop and it obviously wasn't the right one.

So, this year we tried again..

And we ended up at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

It was fucking awesome!! I totally loved it!

You get to see all these remnants and ruins from the 1939-40 and 1964-65 New York World's Fairs. It's just totally amazing and space age.

Some space age observation towers.

This is pretty awesome! Time capsules!

"Buried alongside the 1938 capsule, this container holds an additional 50,000 microfilm pages, tranquilizers, one checkered bikini, credit cards, a fifty-star American flag, tektite, Beatles record "A Hard Day's Night" birth control pills, plastic wrap material from Echo II satellite, Kent filter cigarettes, detergent, freeze dried foods, irradiated seeds, a plastic heart valve, an electric toothbrush, and desalted Pacific Ocean water."

 The New York Hall of Science.

Yeah, so overall i would really recommend this as a destination if you want to see something a bit different on your next trip to New York. I'll be back!

I Miss The Freaks

Sometimes i miss NYC. I wish i could just pack up my bags and go there now.
I like the freaks. And i miss them.

Sometimes i see people running around the streets there, shouting or wearing the craziest things or just doing really random shit. I love it. It's so entertaining. 

Even the window displays in the shops are so fun! Old shops, weird shops, random shit. Whatever. I like to just walk around and check out the people and the buildings and all the shops.

Some of the shops look like they're stuck with a window display from like decades ago. Some look like the person doing the window is slightly disturbed.

Ah yeah, and one of the best times we had in NYC was at the Upper East Side at this deli and there were all these cookie old people and i just had such a great time(no photos though, i try to be polite). Man, if i was living there, this would be my local hangout.

Now i have to just scratch all the money together i can so i can go back there soon enough.

What are your favourite places? And why?

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.

NYC

Went to NYC for 3 weeks, just came back a bit over a week ago, already seems like ages ago that i went, every day that passes it becomes more of a memory and less of a reality.

It's a shame, i really really like NYC. Living in the sticks(Melbourne suburbs) isn't exactly a natural habitat for me. Nevertheless..

I love NY coz it's got so many freaks and noise and cars and awesome buildings and all the cultural stuff and of course shopping. It's awesome.

Here are some pictures.
First one is LA, Santa Monica Beach, we flew over Auckland and LA.

Next one is the view of the park from our hotel room. Lovely isn't it?!

The common sight of some sort of steel bridge/building concoction. We did a cruise circling Manhattan, it took 3 hours, by the end of it i was really cranky and tired. But i took lots of pictures of bridges.

Love the park of course, what would Manhattan be without it?! Pretty ugly i reckon.

And another view from the water, nice buildings..

I will post some more soon, got a new computer now, so should be on here more often.

Bye then.