Vote.

Obama or Canada?
If only our election was as exciting/frightening.

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Krafting.

Another fantabulous Kraftbomb happened this weekend- in the bigger hall at the Grey Lynn community centre. We could breath and move about and so could the punters, the buzz was great. Jess and I had a fun time on a the stall as always and here is a whole lot of Kraftbomb love pictures below for you to enjoy (I hope!).

Our full stall this time. We collaborated with more friends and filled it out nicely I thought!

Swonderful's new (and awesome) Diamond Sea knitted hair accessories. Ginny sent a bunch up to pop on our stall, we love them!

Our stall, again. (above)

Sharon and Nicola from Cardboard Box zine were out in force once again, with some great heart earrings on their table too and a pic of some of the greatest bow necklaces from Anna McCool's stall.

Anemone's bunnies & wild kitties + their beaut toddler sunhats.

Some amazing toys from two new Kraftbomb stalls. Velcome.

What would we do without Fred's lemonade!

And after an awesome morning I returned to this.

But looking at my purchases when I got home cheered me back up again. A 'Trollop' plate from Trixie Delicious and a Bag of Boogies (complete with hankerchief!) from Geek Freaks.

Poster purses.

Some purses that might rear their heads at Kraftbomb this Sunday (at the new time of 11-2!) Made from old posters. Whoops, I was hoping for a colourful picture- best to check the settings before snapping away.

Flying the coup.

Recycled Map Envelopes from Ari & Maya

Our flights are paid in full, so now it is official. Rosemary and I are finally heading off (in a few months) on a trip of a life time.

Auckland - Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires - Rio De Janeiro - Salvador and Sao Paulo
Rio De Janeiro - Los Angeles - San Fransico - San Diego and as many other places as we can fit in on the coast (I'm hoping to trek to Portland!)
Los Angeles - New York
New York - Reykjavik
Reykjavik - London
and on to as much of Europe as humanly possible!

Excited? Just a little!

Owls for dispatch.

Some very excited owls- flying off to Texan Art Schools (Ponsonby and New Market stores) tonight!

'Aren't we lucky', they said.

Boo.

Photograph by Kathryn Yu

Halloween is looming. Which means it's time to start thinking about a great costume (see above) and that the next Kraftbomb is right around the corner! And with a halloween theme! Look out for bats, sweets, skulls, pumpkins and other halloween treats on our stall. Hoping to post a few pictures of what we are working on soon, but in the mean time mark those diaries cause it's going to be a cracker! In a the new big hall at the Grey Lynn Community Centre and at a new time: 11-2. If you haven't had the chance to make it to a Kraftbomb yet this is the time to do it, as in the bigger hall there will be loads more stalls and things to see as well as a lot more space to browse and breath!

Hope to see you there.

See Kraftbomb's blog here.

Recruiting all Selfish people.

One of my good (and very talented!) friends, Fran, is working on a project for exhibition called Selfish.

She's is asking anyone and everyone from all walks of life to participate by creating a black and white self portrait of themself, to then be photographed with. No matter what your artistic level! As you can see from my pic above, drawing is not high on my list of talents, if on the list at all. No sniggering please.

It was fun and challenging to work on my own and I felt a wee bit proud of my retarded creation in the end, even if my BF laughed for 10 minutes solid after I showed him. He claimed he could do a better picture of himself so at least it got him involved too!

If anyone in the Auckland area is keen to have a go and participate- the project is planned to be exhibited in November- please get in touch with Fran as I know in cases like these it's much better to have more than less to work with!

Below are some of the other people who have got involved in the project so far.