It's raining, it's pouring...

This morning my week started with a downpour that was almost torrential. It rained so hard that a small stream was flowing across a dip in the footbridge I take to get to work, and I had to pull my pants up above my ankles and accept the fact that my shoes and feet would be drenched. They were, and I sat at my desk for the first hour of work with no shoes on, drying out my feet.

But the rain and my sopping wet socks, somewhat strangely, made me smile. I don't know whether it was bright yellow umbrella I bought recently, or the fact that the cement under my feet was so wet I could see my reflection in it. Or maybe it's just because water falling from the sky has been a rare thing of late in Australia. But I suspect it has something to do with the fact that I lived in Melbourne, the rainy city, for four years, and now waterlogged shoes and pants that are wet from the thighs down remind me of how much I love that place. Nostalgia is a powerful and endlessly interesting (at least to me) thing.

Here's a link to a short piece of fiction I wrote on a similar theme.

Only a week until the first deadline!

Thinking about Monday

Mondays are usually the day I set in motion something I've decided to do on the weekend. Sometimes it's something practical and boring getting up five minutes earlier so I don't have to run for the bus, but often it's some sort of resolution to be in a different - hopefully more creative - frame of mind.

Every morning I walk across Darling Harbour in Sydney and then through a park to get to work. I've realised recently that all things naturey get me feeling all gooey-inspirational. I love to be outside to write, and have recently enjoyed sitting cross-legged on my aunty and uncle's deck under the vines in their pseudo-Asian backyard with their large, floppy, lovey-dovey-eyed dogs. So I thought I'd share some pictures of my work-space.

feeling a little unproductive...

In the middle of finding a new house to live in and packing up the one I'm in at the moment, not leaving very much time for creative projects.... I have a few ideas but still unsure whether it'll be in jewellery or photography.... has anyone decided what they are doing?

I HAVE to stop wasting lots of time reading the dailies over at design for mankind. I get so excited whenever a new one is up I just love seeing how other people spend their days, but then I end up sitting here for hours just reading through all the new interesting things. Don't go there if you plan do to anything productive with the rest of your day....

A coincidence?

Is it a coincidence that the day I decide to direct you to one of my favourite blogs, said blogger calls her post Monday Afternoons?

This is one for your Regular Check pile. I find her inspiring - I hope you do too.

Ideas

Kate and I decided we should post some little things to get everyone (including us) started on this month's project so I've found a few 'Monday' images that I like:

Monday Blues
Monday 3am
Mondays

I've also found another blog on the Monday theme:

Monday Artday

I'll post some more as I find them, and maybe a few ideas of my own.

monday morning photo....

Stumbled upon a great flickr group today with some beautiful monday morning photos..... I'm going to try take some to add to this! THIS one is my favorite. The light and clouds look amazing.

Thinking maybe for this project i will be using photography for theme monday, rather than making some monday related jewellery as nothing has really sprung to mind yet. Either is going to be a challenge...

project one

So the first project has been decided. It is going to be:

MONDAY.

Seems fitting as its the monday project, and of course, today is monday!

So lets all get started creating! The idea is to create whatever you like, which is someway is related the word monday. It doesnt have to be obviously directly related, but when you post up some pictures of your work a short explanation would be great.

This project will go for six weeks, so all finished drawings, paintings, photos, whatever need to be uploaded by the 28th of April for everyone to have a look at.

So get creating!