My day off.

Today was my day off and not wanting to waste a whole day, I went op shopping with my lovely friends Laura and Angus. After we picked Angus up we went to the op shop down the road from his house. I bought a pink vase and a cute pair of shoes, and Laura bought Angus a children's Batman mask and cape combo for $2, and I'll get a photo of it soon and stick it on here. Purely because it's the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while. Before we properly set off though we had to go into town so I could withdraw money, and we bumped into Arruna and Karl from The Medics. Karl tried our bubble tea and seemed intrigued and possibly afraid of the beverage, and Arruna said "bye Karl" and joined us on our op shop crawl. Angus directed us to a place I'd never heard of, called..

and is was the most magical and amazing and lovely and brilliant op shop I've ever been to in my entire existence. I found this awesome retro tv from the 50's or 60's and apparently it still works and I had to have it.. it was only $20, c'mon! I also bought two doilies and a cat teapot. It's possibly the most kitsch thing I own.

Angus found a tin man costume

We went to Kaotica, then to Night Owl to get slushies coz MAN it was so freakin' hot today, like you wouldn't believe. At the Earlville Lifeline Laura and I tried on these fantastic Asian wedding dresses.

Mine didn't zip up though coz it was tiny, so I was walking around the shop like a proper Asian hooker with my bra strap hanging out. We were hot.

After we picked up Laura's sister Olivia from school and dropping her home we went to Crackerbox Palace. Laura found this hideous but strangely amazing cowboy-like floral shirt that she vowed to go back and buy when she got paid, and I really hope she does coz she's a big babe when she wears it.

Eventually it came past 4 o'clock and Angus realised he had to go home, so after dropping Arruna off at a red light on Lake Street, and running over Angus's foot when we dropped him off at his house, I finally got home.. Only to realise that I'd left my tv in Laura's boot :(

She's stopping by later to drop it off to me, so I'll set how that baby runs. Oh yeah, it was a pretty excellent day.

since Friday.

Friday afternoon, my weekend was off to a pretty fantastic start! Along with my family and my lovely boyfriend Josh, I went to the opening of the Energy Art Exhibition at the Tanks Arts Center, where I had two of my photos on display.



I went there hoping to get into Creative Generations for Visual Art, but I ended up getting 3 awards; the Ergon Energy Encouragement Award, the Peninsula Arts Encouragement Award and.. The Curators Award! Only ONE person wins the Curators Award and that means that next year I get to hold my own exhibition at The Tanks, about whatever I want, and I get $300 to spend on materials and such. I prefer that award so so much more! My mother cried when they announced my name, and my dad was off eating the free food so he missed the whole thing. Typical of my family, right? Anyway, this photographer lad wanted a tonne of photos of me and my artwork, and then some photos with our political member for our area Steve Wettenhall, who was wearing a tux! Spiffy! Oh yeah, and Kayla re-dressed-up as the dinosaur from the photos :D





Afterwards we bought Chinese food to celebrate, and went home to watch Scrubs, so the night was just unbelievably amazing. I could not have been any better than it was, and I'm so thankful for every single person who has supported and encouraged me. I personally don't think my work is too good, but thankyou for all my friends who see potential in me, I love you more than anything.

On Saturday morning I took a Trip to Taterine! Trip to Taterine is this brilliant installation piece created by Liz Dunn and Kylie Burke, inspired by the mind of one of their mentally handicapped students Mitchell Cole, who dreamed up this entire alternate world called Taterine.





They decked out a whole room in the Cairns Regional Gallery with this massive cardboard cave and crazy hallucinogenic lights.



You could write on the walls with chalk, so I draw a sweetfaced unicorn.



Inside the cave they projected this continuous film of Mitchell dressed as characters out of Taterine, dancing and doing some groovy little moves.



After the artist's talks ended, I met up with my lovely friend Arruna, who wanted to film me wearing a Rubix Cube he had made, on my head, and stand around places in town. It was so hot to wear! but also very cool, I really can't wait to see the film when it's done!



Laura wanted to go out that night, so we went to The Medics gig at the Smithfield YMCA. After various thumb wars, crayon fights and group singings of the Power Rangers, Transformers and Pokemon theme songs, we left. Here's some photos that I can't be bothered explaining:



My weekend was g-reat.