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I'm house sitting at the moment - beautiful garden and a cupboard full of biscuits!

Perth Upmarket - November

Yay! Its off to market I go this Sunday coming, for the October edition of Perth Upmarket. I'll be showing off some new stuffs, plus I'll try and have some of my classic designs that have had a rest for a year or two now, like my snowy owl design....

So to get you all excited, I thought I'd share some photos of Upmarkets in the past...

I'll be in a different spot than usual, so anyone who is a regular - come and find me in the FOYER. (usually I'm upstairs in Winthrop Hall)

xx Lauren

The Spring Roll

Puns, bruises and rollergirls await you for just $11 at the last bout of the 2011 between the two teams of my roller derby league. If all goes well and I pass the tests that await me in the next few months, I could very well be playing sometime next year, which is a pretty darn scary thought when you see the girls in action.

Roller Derby has a fairly wide audience, families with young kids love coming along and watching women kick ass at a sport thats far from "ladylike". You get the groups of teens, and considering watching sports isnt exactly "cool" for most teens these days, we've got to be doing something pretty amasing for them to want to watch. And then we get the old couples who remember Roller Derby in its earlier incarnations of the 20s-50s, and are proud to see girls on skates again, bashing each other up :)

Get your tickets here.

Press for Montage Collective :)

lucky me got the cover image :) - and didnt have to talk to the camera either,

thanks to the GORGEOUS Jacquie from Empire of Delight

x L

Montage Collective 3

Hi All,

On Thursday this week me and 14 other buddies from the Perth indie-designer-biz scene opened up our third pop-up shop under the moniker of Montage Collective. Our first attempt in Fremantle earlier this year for three weeks in February was a slap dash of whatever we could get together into the HUGE, cobalt blue carpeted space. The second go was in a beautiful old shop in one of the underground/trendy spots in Northbridge which is just coming to be known to regular people, after about 5 years of independent bars, retail, and a super-interesting east-asian community making a dynamic and awesome street.

Our little shop was due for a reno, having been a barbers shop for more than a couple of decades at least - which meant horrible walls and man-hair in every single crack and crevice of the space. The original high pressed-tin ceiling was a real show stopper though! We were there for the month of July, with a vintage/retro furniture theme - which I loved to bits!

This time around we're slicking it up though - CBD location, immediately across from the train station, in one of the partially restored heritage retail spaces in the 140 William precinct. The beautiful main building by HASSELL was the host to the last Made on the Left market, which until a couple of weeks ago I was Vice-Chair of (my masters course uni commitments mean I have to take a break for a year and a half), and they also host many of the "cooler" Perth Fashion Festival events in their awesome industrial/office spaces. Plus a couple of my uni mates work at the Perth branch of HASSELL :)

Anyway, back from architecture to Montage! In the space this time around we have had the wonderful fortune of being sponsored by Shop4Shops for our shmick, more professional retail fittings, which really help pull in the city-type people. I hope you can go have a look at the space, it really is something awesome. Otherwise, check out the photos on our facebook page.

Oh, and we have a man-land themed space, so you can start thinking about fathers day!

xx Lauren

Montage 3

Part of the preparation for the new Montage Collective shop coming soon to Perth! xx L

Christmas Presents from Crafty Friends

Check out how awesome my crafty buddies are!

Soaps, bathbombs and body butters from Jacquie's own Empire of Delight
Super-sweet O-Check stamp set from Niina
Black Apple paper-doll book from Ali, plus an art print from la la land - a really awesome art-print experiment.

Thank you my dearests!

Anyone else?

Anyone else going to Event 101 at Propel/Amplifier tomorrow?

Need a buddy :(

I think there might still be last minute tickets available on the website;

http://www.propel.org.au/projects/amplifier

I'm doing it so I can contribute more to the event side of things at MOTL, cause at the moment I'm a n00b.

Anyway if you'd like to go, buy a ticket on the website and let me know here in the comments so we can hang out :) xx

Pigeonhole Vintage Opening

These are from way back when Pigeonhole Vintage opened, we visited 4 of the 5 stores that day, and I got major blisters from wearing my t-bar heels - which are sexy as hell but quite high.

Niina wore a super cute vintage sailor dress, which spawned a conversation about Sailor Moon with the very friendly shop assistant in Shop 9 Shafto Lane (next to Capitol and Amplifier) who's name was Patrick.

So yes, don't have photos of the vintage store, but have photos of Shop 9 - the mural is by local artist Sean Morris. I love the restricted colour palette, really classy.

x Lauren

A Letter From Acorn

We are going to be there!

Put it in your diaries folks, its gonna be huge!!!


xx Acorn

Pitter Patter

No that isn't the sound of tiny feet (i.e. an "I'm pregnant!" blog post - shudder/yuk/I'm way to young.

Its the sound of what all the farmers and gardeners want - rain!

I admit I would find it a lot more enjoyable if I could find my yellow polka-dot umbrella, or if I had some bright red gumboots...

But instead I decided to look at Australian made items that went with the theme!

Epheriell $28	pocketcarnival $18
Incalesco $189	MelsHandmadeTh... $23
RedLetterStudi... $12	benconservato $10
miniEnvy $30	alyoisiusspyke... $55

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On the plus side, I saw so many rainbows today that my gloomy weather mood got cancelled out with joy - I even saw a double one - you know, the ones where theres the normal rainbow and then another on the outside of that, but fainter? It was so happy inducing I actually slowed down enough to notice the cars coming the other way were flashing at me so I slowed down and didn't get pinged by the good folks in blue. Brill!

xx Lauren

Happy 5th Birthday Etsy!

Saturday was Etsy's 5th Birthday, and I helped organise the Perth part of the global birthday party.

Have a look at more pics here.

It was great to meet a whole new bunch of Perth crafty folks. :)

no Lock, lots of Stock, and very little if any smoking barrels

New stuffs at Moose, let loose! Head on over THERE to take a look.

p.s. I am in love with Tame Imapala's Solitude Is Bliss (listen and ignore the horrible background image HERE)

There's a party in my head
and no one is invited.

p.p.s. Pigeonhole's new season pretties rock my socks.