the mad daddy original

After making several journals for friends and family, I have begun piecing together various remnants to create a travel journal/visual diary of my own. trouble is..I think I have too many remnants! It has since consumed my craft table...the floor..the bed.. Mr Az is not a happy camper. Here are a few pics of a journal I constructed for my Lucy.





After spray painting stenciled images on various bits of paper, I attempt to arrange envelopes, ribbon, fabric and images in an artistic way and zip them through the forgiving bernina. this sometimes leads to beautiful acts of creativeness, and sometimes leads to me swearing nonsensically. I find creating a rhythm and totally not thinking about it helps. Oh and listening to the Cramps.



The visual diary is inspired by the wonderful blog of dispatch from LA.

when the sky is starless

Loving Wildfox's winter collection..ice tea...vanilla scented candles...fur jackets in the winter cold...white lace stockings and black boots

top rock n roll movies (in my expert opinion)

Sid and Nancy

The rise and fall of one of the most iconic punk romances ever. Inspiration overload..chains..studs..leather..heels..ripped stockings..the hair!



What's rock and roll about it - A cut and bloodied sid vicious barely performing while stumbling around on stage..the first time nancy sees sid on stage while he doesnt even touch his bass, just fiddles with the knobs and then continues to jump around and holler at the crowd. Rock n roll!

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The story of young lovers caught in the rain and venturing into an incredibly creepy looking mansion, to discover its inhabitants are transexual transvestites from transylvaniaaaaa!



What's rock and roll about it - The completely campy yet catchy sing alongs, time warp, tatatatatatatouch me, I wanna be dirty! extreme over the top sets, Susan Sarandon spending half the movie in her underwear, just being so bad that its good. But Meatloaf's 3 minutes is the highlight for me..hot patootie, bless my soul, i really love that rock and roll!



Hairspray

From one of my all-time favourite directors, John Waters, comes the trashy, campy classic of rebellion...with cameos from Debbie Harry and Sonny Bono.



What's rock and roll about it - Rock n roll rebellion! Love the opening scene with all the kids spray the shit out of their hair and swappin spit. "hair hoppers", doin the bird, the beatnik scene and Tracy ironing her hair, but the best is when Tracy does the roach! Love the shot of Divine in the background dancing.



This is Spinal Tap

Most awesome mockumentary on legendary rockers Spinal Tap following their tour of the states, in all its tragic glory.



What's rock and roll about it - The whole film oozes rock and roll, from the trashy clothes, big hair, ridiculous sets and onstage make up. There are so many favourite spinal tap moments, Derek getting stuck in the pod onstage, the tiny stonehenge, complaining about the tiny backstage food, "theres a fine line between stupid and clever", Nigels glitter eyeshadow, the band explaining how several of its former members died -freak gardening accident, choked on someone else's vomit "you can't really dust for vomit", and spontaneous combustion, which was better left "an unsolved mystery". The most iconic and ridiculous scene is where nigel is giving a tour of his guitars and procedes to show his amp..well the picture says it all really.



Part two to come soon...

winter daze

feeling very inspired... pearls, peach, ribbons and frills.. lazy days, hot chocolate in front of the fire.. loose plaits and plenty of coral blush.

today, I made a fuzzy kitty hat

Yup exactly what it says.
And I'm sure everyone was jealous of my warm head as I wore it down the street to do groceries.
What's even more exciting is the lining has vintage cherry-blossom pink fabric. ooh!



next..matching mittens...

Ruby rose glow, down the rabbit hole

well first post how super incredibly exciting. so to break the awkwardly uncomfortable silence how about I introduce myself?ahh..

my name is Julia..

I currently reside in Wellington..

I like makeup, creating somewhat wearable clothing, making presents for strangers and not so strange folk, blue cheese, not using capitals unless positively necessary, spraypainting, crocheting, collecting odd books that crowd my apartment and finding obscure websites.

so to take a guess (myself) these will form the somewhat interesting posts of this blog. (or so I hope) I shall now excuse myself for bad grammer and mis-spelled words and shall never apologise again.