kiwiana .......

Kiwiana ..... all the kitsch and classic icons of our past ,....
it's amazing how comforting it is to find fish and chips wrapped in newspaper in a 50s tearooms style restaurant ....






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i have excellent memories while flatting, of moving all our furniture outdoors on to the lawn on the weekend having the indoors outdoors ...including massively heavy deco lounges ,lamps, tables and dinosaur garden sculptures...

yesterday after lurking around in the art galleries, i found a new favourite bar reminiscent of that .... scruffy old couches out in the alleyway ...a huge firewall ... good cloudy bay NZ wine







and a guy walking the tightrope between the buildings in the alley above us...



doesn't get much better than this .........in my opinion ..... :D
ahhhhh lovely !!!

secret goings on ....

...in european-street-team-etsy-land ... we have secret easter bunny project ....
today my secret bunny sent me a present that is absolutely sneaky....
the wonderous Mitsy alias Artmind is the co-ordinator ....
she interrogates and matches euro etsy babies together with astonishing persistence and cheekiness....

today my secret easter bunnys gift arrived from
Germany



from ... the amazing Dindi .... whose silver smithing works and word-play, i totally am addicted to .......
just as she is addicted to collecting words ...
i am a collector of her hearts ....

and she remembered my great great meltdown when she first showed her little bandaid heart ....which seemed entirely appropriate to me for the repairs of every kind of contusion or catastrophe of the "Amour" kind ....

so today ... arrived the little bandaid heart full full full of good Dindi vibes

and here .... my little bandaid heart



thank you so much Dindi
for all your beautiful wishes and love


matchstickgirl whispers ......"it has worked..."

matchstickgirl is most happily dindi-fied

:D

tu vuo fa l'Americano Americano..............

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never really thought of America as one of my prime destinations...
but i buzzed by on the way home to visit a big pirate friend lurking in the Nevada desert

.....its really like stepping into a movie ...
like when you go to Sicily and you become part of a mob flick....
anyway .... it really is just like tv....
Bonanza, Dallas, Man from Atlantis, Nerds, David Letterman, Sex in the City ...

it's all still there ...
cowboys, indians, big cars, crazy gun laws, desert, bears, enchanted forest, pop corn and over-eating ... everything is so huge... a croissant the size of a hair dryer.....an apple is an entire dinner ....grapefruit the size of basketballs...and every drink has ice in it....even in mid winter

not quite sure why ....

completely bizarre