Thursday, July 30, 2009

silver sally




Saturday just gone, I got carried away... with 'Silver Sally', this sweet helium balloon delicately tied to my bangle.

Skipping, jumping and twirling around the Valley streets, while attending a pretty little party. Life can be so much sweeter, when you have silly, artistic fun!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

hesitant...

to share, but feel like I have to put it out there somewhere, aswell as my paper journal. It's a little sad how resentment can make you bitter one moment, and cry inside the next. But the power of poetry and the written word can be so therapeutic.
It's a little rough around the edges, but free verse is the idea - literally free-thoughts falling onto my page.

I'm not sure it's meant to be read aloud... Read on if you wish.




[semi-untitled] aka 'The Witching Hour'

Welcome to the witching hour
Here I wish to transform
From mere mortal
To the enchante of all

Can you hear the clock
It says tick, tock, talk.
Talk to me, and tell me
why you have this incessant
need to lie to me.

Lie to my face, to the others
Lie present in my dream.
Wishing nothing more than
for you to hear my conscious scream.
Welcome. To my bewitching hour.

Do you remember me?
My kind, tolerant heart?
Your magic and mystery,
Presence and power
Succumbed me from the start.

There was time, and plenty of it.
In the wind and rain
I withered, waiting.
Still I hear the silence,
you choose to ignore it.

I have gone from mad to sad,
Out of breath, distraught
Moment upon moment
Pushing away these life lessons
I'm being taught.

Stay away, come close
My heart has been torn
Tick, tock, talk, it calls for you
But it is I who has transformed.

Now we are through.

The witching hour.

Chloe Jane
21 July 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009

swank


I love Sarah's style here.

Androgynous, funky, with attitude and class.

Had to share.

as day follows night

Yesterday I bought Sarah Blasko's new album.
Quirky and beautiful, and a cover that inspires my creative senses. Illustration and digital media, the raw, natural and carefully constructed together.
What more could an untitled artiste want?

Take the time to listen.

x

Thursday, July 16, 2009

snap


I want a polaroid camera! Please may I?

Then I can be snap-happy like taza and Joanne Olivier... sigh.

Be inspired.

http://www.taza-and-husband.blogspot.com
http://joanneolivier.wordpress.com

for emma, forever ago


The soothing sounds that caressed my ears today whilst working away at MG, were from the album 'For Emma, Forever Ago' by Bon Iver. I love this album.
It is perfect to work to and somehow kept me happily chortling along on my numerous maps. Smile, sooth, smile.

Listen. Even check out his blog at http://www.creaturefear.tumblr.com

the big apple


At around ten-thirty this morning, I got a call from my beautiful cousin in...
New York City!

Sitting at my desk at work, and all of a sudden my ringtone blares through my iPhone earphones - 'Yo DJ! Are you done mixin' yet?!', only to be greeted with 'I thought you spoke french Miss Newby?' And the answer is 'Oui - un peu!' Haha.

It was so great to catch up, even if it were briefly, and to talk design!! So many exciting things are happening at the moment. Life feels fuller every single day.

I love it.


Please check out Casey's websites - http://www.caseystaar.com (for her make-up artistry) and http://www.downtherabbithole.com.au (for her online shoe boutique), bring on the Aussies in NYC!

And her finance's band DMT is rocking their way to stardom - check there tunes at http://www.dmtinthecity.com


Today is for smiling :)


Wednesday, July 15, 2009

one millilitre left

It is true. I have one millilitre of my precious Coco Mademoiselle left.
I am in desparate need of some more - I simply adore this fragrance.
It's sexy, feminine and alluring... I become incredibly jealous if I smell it on another woman. However, resolve that she must have impeccably good taste.
My kind of solitary love.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

moments away...

from the Land of Nod.

viva la france!

The city of light and love celebrates it's unity and culture today with Bastille Day celebrations. I thought it worthy to blog.
It was brought to my attention when the little bakery across from the restaurant in which I work, had staff in late last night decorating with red, white and blue balloons.
Made me smile - festivities are so much fun.
Perhaps I'll buy a french loaf and some champagne to see to the occassion this evening...

Pop in to buy something truly indulgent. Find your nearest Le Bon Choix at http://www.lebonchoixbakery.com.au

Bon appetit!

et Viva la France!


Friday, July 10, 2009

tell me

... on what beautiful bed linen do you snooze?

I adore this collection from sheridan. I can almost feel the soft, yet crisp cool sheets beneath my skin...

line your silver cloud with the very same - find it at
http://www.sheridan.com.au

Why am I up so late? I must be off to that Land Of Nod...
the sweetest dreams to you.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

musique pour huit juillet

Whilst I work away here, I thought it'd be nice to share with you what artists' are playing in my ear phones and on my heart... inspiring me to work away with a smile, and every so often perform some serious lip-syncing and a shimmy-shake.

Thankfully, the rest of the office face away from me... no - they don't know what they're missing.

Norah Jones
Sarah Blasko
Katie Noonan
Carla Bruni
Camille
Eva Cassidy
Bon Iver
Frank Sinatra
Peggy Lee
KT Tunstall and
Jewel
...
therapeutic.

Peggy Lee photo sourced via http://www.images.google.com.au/

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

to be quite frank


at this present moment, I am on my lunch break at work... (back at good old MAPGraphics as of Monday just gone), and whilst I have been perusing blogs and some of my favourite sites, I came across the cutest wallpaper for my NEW computer here. Found on http://www.frankie.com.au/wallpapers - the site of one of my long-time loves, frankie magazine.
Perhaps you should adorn your screen with something just like this.
It may just make your day.
P.S. I move into my new place tomorrow - ONE MORE SLEEP!!
:D
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