a little free-verse

Keep walking (Endlessly) Chloé Newby

Walking alone,

through a half-lit

fairground.

Tents and sparkling light,

thoughts of you

fill my mind.

This creative wonder

I stroll through.

The fog lifting, maybe.

I can still see into

the near future.

But what this is --

is a wonder.

And I am wondering.

Calm enough

in my own skin.

Yet restless to

reside where I am.

My heart itches

and my spine tingles.

Shivers, that sprinkle

like glitter

across my back.

I pull my coat tighter.

Hood over my hair,

the gravel and grass

line my path.

My mind circles my head,

while my heart

flits, dipping like a Swallow.

Only to rest on the

branch, that is young

and yet to shoot...

To the stars, who knows.

If only to sit

amongst the celestial

beauty of clouds.

They say they'll be proud.

I keep on walking.

It's dusk - more twilight.

The glow grows stronger --

the twinkle, my guiding light.

My soul, heart,

life burns brighter.

Into the night.

There's never a conclusion.

Only a feeling, of

a moment in time.

Keep walking, burning

creative desire.

Endlessly.

{i heart that}

afternoon giggle

{found with the girls at frankie}

and another thing

... to keep in mind.

I'll definitley be printing this one out!

{found here}

those things

I'm sitting at my desk here at work this Australia Day Eve and have the urge to share with you something simple... plainly, the things that I love. Things that have recently made me smile, lit that creative fire, soothed my soul and ultimately made my world go 'round that little bit easier.

Things like...

>  my Beatrix Potter mug nestled amongst days work. The warmth of the sweet tea and those illustrations that evoke childhood memories add a pleasant nostalgia to my Tuesday morning.

{image via google images}

> listening to Adele's second album, 21. With music that captures your heart within the first few bars, leaving an impression that lingers long after. At the moment I've been taken away by her cover of Brandi Carlile's 'Hiding My Heart' - a song that takes me back to one of the hardest, yet most important times in my life in 2009. I was at my parent's in Inverell.

Home is such a good place to be. I can't wait for Easter. Inverell is such a beautiful place as the season turns, the liquid amber leaves start to illuminate and autumn colours your immediate world.

> I'm getting a few more hip shots in {the ol' point & shoot}, in my recent adventures. This one I love. My sister thinks I'm strange, but I love this shopping centre billboard. There's something whimsical, hippy, yet chic, contradicting and ever so artistic about it.

> I attended a festival with my little sister {our first together}, Amy over the weekend - the 2010 Gold Coast Big Day Out. This was taken as the afternoon sun gave us a little reprieve and the always amazing, show-stopping John Butler Trio took to the Orange Stage.

> My gorgeous cousin and mama-to-be, Casey, sends me pictures of the delicious sponge cakes she's baking on her days off while I'm at work. All amongst a myriad of tweets and emails of course! I told you - it's all about what makes your day that little bit brighter, and yummier!

> speaking of the said festival, I got to witness a band I have been hanging out to see for quite some time.

{image found on my heart}
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros.
I had to leave the JBT set to catch their gig, by myself, but I was surely not disappointed. A little self-conscious to begin with... then the inhibitions were let loose and I grooved, bumped, jumped and skipped around to the ecclectic sounds and entertaining antics of Mr Sharpe and his entourage.

> and before I blog about the next thing that pulls on my heart strings, in my lunch break I read two of Emma Magenta's gorgeous little books, and on the final page of A Gorgeous Sense Of Hope I came across the sweetest moment...

Perhaps this is where I'm at right now.

Let's see if you're mapped in.

one of those days

It's one of those days. Nothing in particular is special - but you're here, where ever you are, and it only takes something as simple as a sweet cup of tea so make you sigh a little softer. Smile a little easier.

It's been raining on and off, and unlike any other day - it doesn't really bother you (even though you have a spray tan appointment this evening).

You come across whimsical typographic artworks like the one below here, and are thankful for all the creative souls you've encountered, personally or virtually.

That's what today is like.

As I sit here at my work desk, listening to a myriad of my favourite artists (inparticular k.d. lang's rendition of 'Halleljuah' as I blog this), working on a map for the Oxford University Press' Atlas of Malawi, I am sailing along. A complaint would be out of sorts on an afternoon such as this.

What's so good about it? Nothing in particular. But then nothing is bad either.

I finished my fourth book for the year, Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, over lunch and am silently planning an evening that satisfies my mind just so. The company of my sister, delicious dinner, a glass of wine or two and a movie I dare say are on the cards. Saving one's pennies as the Big Day Out festival we are to attend on Sunday has surely been seen on the not so distant horizon.

It's funny - feelings like this I mean. They're wonderful, for no particular pin-point reason and you wouldn't change it for a thing.

Happy Friday.

waiting, patiently anticipating

No Doubt are back in the studio.

A self-confessed Gwenabee from wayback, are you as excited as I am??

{photograph of Gwen via the No Doubt official twitter account}



expand your mind

You've probably noticed, or maybe you haven't, but I have another creative outlet slash hobby... and that is, in 2009 my best friend Janelle and our lovely brosef, Jake, founded The Book Club.

Apart from being great friends, we all believed that reading is so important and so The Book Club was born. For the young, old, for study, for pleasure - there is so much to discover.

Along the way we've roped in a few friends, family members and had followers from social networks join. We're blossoming.

And so, two years with our noses in between the pages and we're ready for a new year. Fancy coming along for the ride?

Find us here.

And tweet with us here.

{image via the rockstar diaries}