Kit has had a health scare and has been out of action, please send your thoughts and/or prayers her way!
Thank you!
Kit's Friend
Jess
Thoughts and Prayers
Kit has had a health scare and has been out of action, please send your thoughts and/or prayers her way!
Thank you!
Kit's Friend
Jess
Inspired By...
Mark Rothko. There's a special kind of beauty we can salvage from our mistakes. Even when we accidentally open up our first Lomo roll and expose a frame or four.
Once again, many thanks to Liss of Daydream Lily for the very kind loan of her Lomo LC-A. Many, many more photos to come! The last few months have been crazy busy (and SO amazing!) so please be prepared for the barrage of photos that are on their way!
How is 2012 treating you so far?
xx Kit
Happy Holidays!
I have no idea where this photo was taken, or even which year, although it's not too difficult to figure out that it was probably around the holiday season (unless someone got really, really lazy - it was a tall tree!)
I have many more photos to share with you, including some I took at the StyleMilk event last Tuesday night (here's one of myself and Liss of Daydream Lily, yay!) but unfortunately the silly season is absolutely insane in my corner and I'm stretched to my limits. Working towards a tight deadline at this time of year is always fun enough, but when you're getting on a plane in just over 24 hours, there's a new kind of pressure at play!
This year I'm incredibly lucky to be spending Christmas and New Years' with my family...in Singapore! It's been so long since I've travelled abroad that I had to restart the passport process from scratch!
While I'm over there I plan to photograph my adventures (with my prehistoric iPhone) and create my own little Instagram Guide to Singapore, so please feel free to follow me on the Instagram app (@msunreliable), or on Instagrid or Followgram in your browser! I'll also be shooting with my shiny new DSLR and the Lomo LC-A that Liss has kindly leant me for my travels, so prepare for an influx of photographs in the new year!
Wishing you all a fantastic holiday season, stay safe and well, and I hope to see you back here in 2012!
xx Kit
Wednesday Wisdom - Friendship
Walking with a friend
in the dark
is better than walking alone
in the light.
- Helen Keller
[Photography by astronautsoup]
Wednesday Wisdom - Without the Rain
And when it rains on your parade,
look up rather than down.
Without the rain,
there would be no rainbow.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dear Rain,
You are very nice, and I do also like rainbows, but I would like it very much if you went away this weekend. Otherwise, my garden party is going to be a very soggy affair, and this is not desirable.
Love,
Kit
P.S. If anyone has a marquee they'd like to loan me for the weekend, I shall pay you in macarons and cupcakes!
[Photography by sayra]
[Photography by sayra]
First Shots - Old and New
Nothing mind-blowing or particularly inspiring about today's post, but I'm still excited about my new camera so I'm going to inflict some snapshots upon you! Essentially, it's a mini-tour of my bedroom as the rest of my place is still hidden under tea cups and paper lanterns!
[ Old by New ]
This is my tiny old dinosaur of a digital camera. The size of a credit card (with the quality to match) he has nevertheless been a trusty friend on the many roads I've travelled over the last decade. He's a little worse for wear and not the prettiest Pentax in town, but I'm sentimental. This was the first photo I took on the new camera.
[ Storage ]
Wanting to get rid of clutter is all well and good until you realise you have next to no storage. So, I improvised.
[ The Vintage Treasures of Bonnie Doon ]
I'm looking forward to finally using my vintage babies for more than just display purposes! I'm currently cutting and pinning bunting for the high tea party (this weekend - eek! Please don't rain!) and the Six-20 Folding Brownie will hopefully be getting some love not too long afterwards!
[ Crochet Corner ]
This time of year is Brisbane is way too hot and humid for leather chairs, as I have discovered. So whilst my beloved 1940's leather office chair sits in the corner collecting even more tea party goods, I've prettied up an otherwise hideous late-90's fabric chair for my own geeky blogging purposes. Doilies everywhere!
[ A Little Light Reading]
My bedside table, complete with Diptyque candle (mandarin and grapefruit, yum!) my grandmother's pillbox (used for small earrings) and a stack of books...all sitting on yet another doily.
I've been one of those annoying people who reads everything on my phone, but since my eBook app of choice has mysteriously ceased to work after allegedly being acquired by Amazon, I've decided that it's time to return to books. Actual books. The ones with real paper!
I headed to my local second-hand book store, loaded myself up with Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and had a fantastic chat to the store owner about everything from the classics to science fiction and back again. I suspect he'll be seeing a lot of me in the near future!
What are you reading at the moment? Do you have a stack of books set aside for the holiday break like I do? I'm currently making my way through all the classics I was never made to read in high school - tell me about your favourite classics (and your least favourite too!)
xx Kit
Blue Skies and Rain
It seems only fitting that I share one of my old photographs before I share any new ones. This was taken at my first apartment in Sydney; a happy home for over two years, yet a photograph that nonetheless captures a lot of the melancholy that occured there and since.
I miss that wall. I miss those shadows and the peeling paint and the irregular nooks and notches. I miss that blue sky.
I really miss that blue sky.
Early Birthday Cheer
As much as I love all things analogue, I am so excited to officially own my very first dSLR camera. The last digital camera I bought was roughly 10 years ago when 4 megapixels was considered cutting edge, and although I may love my Pentax's complete inability to take night shots now (Accidental Bokeh is my favourite photo from Paris!) - it drove me CRAZY at the time. I wasn't a fan of imperfection in my photography. Le gasp, I'd never even heard of bokeh!
[Accidental Bokeh, Paris 2003]
The last 12 months, as difficult as they have been, have sparked a renewed passion for photography within me that I intend to grasp with both hands.
Whilst packing up and leaving Sydney, I came across a beautiful photograph taken by my high school design teacher. On the back, she had simply written "Please keep taking photos." To be reminded of that support from somone I admired so much was bittersweet, particularly when I barely had the energy to get out of bed, let alone head out the door with a camera.
[Beacon, Paris 2003]
As the months went by and I slowly started to explore my new surrounds, I took snapshots with my beaten up old iPhone and sent them to a good friend who also happens to be an insanely talented photographer. His support and advice was eerily familiar; "Get a proper camera. Now. Keep taking photos."
So at last, a pre-loved Nikon D3100 is on his way to me; an amazing birthday present thanks to my wonderful best friend and my equally wonderful parents...the very same trio who have made sure that somehow, against all odds, I've made it through the most difficult year of my life in one piece.
With the help of friends and mentors, both old and new, I'm looking forward to taking photos once more.
xx Kit
THAT GIRL Needs a New Computer! eGarage Sale - Pt4
[ MORE MAGAZINES! ]
- I will consider all offers on all of the below items, unless:
- The item description directly underneath the image is preceeded by SOLD, OR
- The item description has a strikethrough, in which case that item has an eBay bid and cannot be unlisted. Click the link and go outbid!
If you'd like to make an offer on one of the items below, please shoot me an email to kit [at] thatunreliablegirl [dot] com with the item description/s in the subject.
Magazines are a little tricky to quote postage prices on because they vary so much in weight, and the estimated prices on eBay are a little scary! So if you're interested in any items, please let me know and I'll find out an accurate price for shipping!
Easy peasy!
I really would like to return to blogging full time and permanently, so any support you can send my way would be very, very gratefully received.
THAT GIRL Needs a New Computer! eGarage Sale - Pt3
[ MAGAZINES! ]
As mentioned in both previous posts, I'm listing these items both here and on eBay, so I'll do the following:
- I will consider all offers on all of the below items, unless:
- The item description directly underneath the image is preceeded by SOLD, OR
- The item description has a strikethrough, in which case that item has an eBay bid and cannot be unlisted. Click the link and go outbid!
If you'd like to make an offer on one of the items below, please shoot me an email to kit [at] thatunreliablegirl [dot] com with the item description/s in the subject.
Magazines are a little tricky to quote postage prices on because they vary so much in weight, and the estimated prices on eBay are a little scary! So if you're interested in any items, please let me know and I'll find out an accurate price for shipping!
Easy peasy!
I really would like to return to blogging full time and permanently, so any support you can send my way would be very, very gratefully received.
(Yes, I bought two copies of the same issue. Useless!)
THAT GIRL Needs a New Computer! eGarage Sale - Pt2
[ ACCESSORIES! ]
- I will consider all offers on all of the below items, unless:
- The item description directly underneath the image is preceeded by SOLD, OR
- The item description has a strikethrough, in which case that item has an eBay bid and cannot be unlisted. Click the link and go outbid!
If you'd like to make an offer on one of the items below, please shoot me an email to kit [at] thatunreliablegirl [dot] com with the item description/s in the subject.
Easy peasy!
I really would like to return to blogging full time and permanently, so any support you can send my way would be very, very gratefully received.
THAT GIRL Needs a New Computer! eGarage Sale - Pt1
[ CLOTHES! ]
And so continues my desperate bid to raise funds for a decent computer before this old beast suffers his last bluescreen!
- I will consider all offers on all of the below items, unless:
- The item description directly underneath the image is preceeded by SOLD, OR
- The item description has a strikethrough, in which case that item has an eBay bid and cannot be unlisted. Click the link and go outbid!
If you'd like to make an offer on one of the items below, please shoot me an email to kit [at] thatunreliablegirl [dot] com with the item description/s in the subject.
Pretty straightforward, yes?
I really would like to return to blogging full time and permanently, so any support you can send my way would be very, very gratefully received. <3
(Ridiculous poses not included)
(I'll iron them, I promise!)
Wednesday Wisdom - The Wind Longs
Forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet
and the winds long
to play with your hair.
- Khalil Gibran
[Photography by Jakub Kusmierz]
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