Bad Hair Day

In late 1995 I came to school and decided a haircut was in order. I told my friend to cut it off at the ponytail during homeroom and I think about 6 inches came off leaving me with shoulder length hair.

A few things I remember about this event:

Later in the day a boy in my maths class told me how crazy and spontaneous the whole thing was. I asked if he had ever done anything as spontaneous before and he said he had, he put tomato sauce on his 2 minute noodles once to try it out.

My Mum squealing when picked me up from the bus stop. My Deb Ball was 6 months away and she was worried my hair wouldn't grow long enough to wear up to the event. I was a total rebel.

Cards we will never make

If you're in Australia* enjoying you're Queen's Birthday holiday I hope you're having a lovely day. Public holidays and long weekends are fun because when it gets to Sunday night you think, wait I get a whole extra day to bum round and have total fun times. I can even have a glass of wine on Sunday night and not feel bad. 2 bottles later and the bad feeling is waking up on Monday morning feeling like rotten grapes, but just blame Liz for that as it's pretty much her fault.






* Not Western Australia, they got last Monday off I think.

Hey What You Doing This Weekend?

Notecards

We have been selling note cards at our market stalls for well over a year and have finally got them up on Etsy. We have three different styles including these thank you birds. The note cards are perfect for a little message to someone special and these bird ones come with bright yellow envelopes which should cheer up even the most miserable being.  We plan on doing some more designs and if you want to let us know what you would like to see on note cards it will help us when designing the next batch.

How to cope with winter

Get some yummy food into your tummy

Some exciting things are happening at Rose Street this weekend. Firstly the kitchen will have a resident chef, Dan Vaughan who was in the Masterchef top 50 and has a regular stall at Rose Street. He will be cooking up some Mexican and Latin American fare which is super exciting. Also on Sunday they will have some fresh fruit and veg stalls, so you can fill your bag with pretty things and carrots and celery for a winter soup.

Why yes I have been working out

A few years ago I decided to take up running. Working from home meant I could go during the day and it was free so you got none of that gym-guilt you feel when not only are you not working out, but you're paying for it as well. Having just shifted to a new location I missed my old perfectly mapped out route but I've found myself a running buddy and got back into it tonight. I'm super slow and end up with the reddest face in the world but I can run for about 5km and I don't have to have any money direct debited from my bank account to do so. Totally win win!

One running memory that has always stuck in my mind was from back in the late '80s when I wasn't too bad at running. Primary school with its kiss chasy, regular chasy and dacking season was a non stop training session for both the short and middle distance runner. I used to do Little Aths and I was running a race against a boy I thought was kinda hot stuff. I remember coming around the bend just ahead of him and his brother yelling out from the sidelines something about a woman beating him. At that point I was trying to beat him to impress him, but after that I just wanted to annoy his older brother. I was also confused as to why he was calling me woman when I was only ten. Turns out a woman didn't beat him, but I certainly did try!