Fancy Fumbling, Food and Photography

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Life...

So just when work is picking up and I dont have to stress, my car cracks it and it costs me $920.00 to fix, all of a sudden I have no definate work... and no money.

I have worked my ass off in my current job for the past 3 years, giving over 200% to everything I do and then all of a sudden I am looking at the very real prospect of being jobless... For no flippin' reason at all! I feel like I have just wasted 3 years of blood, sweat and tears for absolutely nothing.
Working casual in retail sucks.
I feel so under appreciated and humiliated... I feel sick.

So I spent Monday being super mad and yesterday feeling depressed and hopeless... BUT today I see a light... Today I dusted off my resume and made some much needed changes, called my Mum for resume grammar advice and started a folio of all my work...

If anybody knows of any jobs going for a fantastic Visual Merchandiser or Customer Service Assistant, let me know!

x

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

So its been a while...

Just when I was enjoying having lots of time to be creative and have some 'ME' time, I was needed at work to cover some extra shifts and I've ended up working full time.... So It's been a while since I have had the chance to get all fancy with my fumblings!

Over the past month I had a chance to go home to my parents place and raid the old material stash and also pick the last of the tomatoes..

I got older and was spoilt with good food, great company and lovely gifts...

We have also had alot of issues in the apartment we have been renting. The building is only 18 months old and already the shower had developed a leak due to the sealant that was used, breaking down after 12 months instead of 12 years! It took them 6 weeks to fix it.

We then had faulty wiring through the smoke detectors which happened at the time of the shower leak. It took them 8 weeks to fix.....

Then the heating failed to work during the coldest weeks we have had in melbourne so far this year! It took 2 weeks to fix...

We endured this weather whilst having no heating... not much fun!

14 emails, 8 phone conversations, 6 tradesmen... and we still have a hole in the roof that needs re-plastering. I HATE RENTING!

On a happier note... One of my handmade bags has made its way to Sydney!

Thankyou Rubina!

I still have an endless list of fancy fumblings that have been put on hold till things at work settle down....

How has your past month been... Any Renting tips??

x

Thursday, 28 April 2011

Festivities Filled with Family and Friends...

I had the chance over Easter, to spend a lovely 4 days with my family up in Mansfield, Vic...

And I tell you what, It's getting harder and harder to come back to grey, smog filled Melbourne!
It is ever so beautiful there...

Filled with beautiful homemade food...

While this looks like your traditional Egg & Bacon Brekky... It is actually an Ostrich Egg with Home Smoked Bacon on Homemade Bread! Delish......!

Milk out of a jug... Bless...

Homemade "free form" Gluten free Apple Pie, made from home grown Apples.

Old memories...

My favourite Spider... Her web is HUGE!!!

Kiwi fruit vine...

New life...

One hour after being born!

And a sereneness Melbourne could never compete with...

I hope you all had a safe and chocolate filled Easter x

Friday, 22 April 2011

Happy Easter...

So I set myself a task today, though I started off with some procrastination mid morning, I did everything I set out to do! How about that!

Freshly Baked 'Raspberry Spiked Chocolate Brownies'...

This is the second batch... as i forgot the cocoa powder in the first lot... i was trying to multi-task!

Finishing the small details on a bag for myself... finally...

I have been carrying the same handbag around for the past 3 years & it has been on its final legs (or handles...)... So i finally got around to making one for ME!

Its amazing what I found at the bottom of my old handbag... and it didn't surprise me in the least why i find it so hard to ever find anything in it!!

It was great to minimise all the clutter of old recipts, bobby pins, hair-ties (in various stages of elastic loss!) random bits a pieces and loose change! $3.25 to be exact!

So now to try to keep the new handmade bag clutter free! Wish me luck!

Happy Easter everyone, drive safe & cherish the time spent with loved ones

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

A whole lot of stuff...

I have been feeling very stuffy recently, stuffy with living in a tiny apartment, stuffy with dealing with my job, stuffy with too many ideas swirling around in my mind & dreaming about creative fancy fumblings all night long... Most of all, stuffy with living in melbourne... I do not belong here.

Have you ever had the feeling that you don't belong, that you merely go on with your daily routine because its easier then finding who you are really meant to be.

I'm right there... stuck... fast...

Though Melbourne can be beautiful as Sunday revealed