B&W film photos

Today's blast from the past is a bunch of film photos I had developed and which I scanned myself (see here for that tutorial!). They are mostly from my trip to Melbourne last year, where it was my goal to use film each day.  Kind of half failed, only managing to get through one roll but I did love that one roll, so maybe less is more?!? For those playing along at home, the film I used was lomography's lady grey 400 and I shot on canon 1000f :)

I'm off to Japan in March and I'm hoping to try and take up the film challenge again and hopefully this time more than one roll!

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Emaya's Home

When I arrived in Fitzroy and dropped my bags off at Emaya's house I was blown away by how pretty my temporary home was. For those living in countries with much longer histories than Australia, you'll probably scoff at me for being in awe at its "old-ness" but seriously it was pretty incredible and I kept thinking I'd probably pay for such a house tour :p

First up my favourite feature - the prettiest sink you ever did see!

Seeing bikes inside was novel for me. Ben has a mountain bike but currently lives (sadly and unloved) outside.

One thing you should know about Emaya is that she has impeccable taste, ornaments included :)

I loved the huge windows in the rooms and all the super high ceilings.

That staircase on the left leads up to the attic, I got a sneak peak at the room (minus my camera) and it was so beautiful! Maybe I shouldn't say that because I don't have photo evidence - I know I know, I'm a bad blogger!

Cute black fireplace

Oh hang on they did have some unloved bikes as well :p

The kitchen which when the oven got going, turned out to be the warmest part of the house  :)

Bikes in the hallway

I tried to channel my inner interior magazine photographer

Emaya's cute kombucha vessel - have I talked about kombucha on here yet? I've been drinking it pretty much solo for about a year now.  I probably should write a blog post on it and how awesome it is - maybe, I'm lazy!

The bathroom killed me with cuteness!

How good is the pink shower curtain with the green tub and basin!

Maybe I've found my calling as an interior photographer :) I realise now I kind of forgot to take more wider shots and yup, got a bit lost in the details but I think details are always my favourite.

Tomorrow I'm blogging about my first few days in Melbourne-land and it's going to be chock full of food related adventures :)

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World's Greatest Shave

I have to give mad props to my friend Emaya who is doing the World's greatest shave which collects money for the Leukaemia Foundation here in Australia :) Close to home, Leukaemia took my Grandmas life, so I know just how scary the disease is and how quick it can spread and how devastating it can be :( It's over a year since Grandma passed away but I often find myself thinking about her, it can be little things that set me off. I started watching the TV series, Once Upon a Time and I found myself thinking how much she would have liked it which made me have little fantasies about us talking on the phone together - I really miss our chats :(

I honestly knew next to nothing about the Leaukamia prior to Grandma diagnosis I still remember Mum telling me the news over the phone and thinking, how strange it was, because, in my head, only children got Leaukamia. I also remember feeling super hopeful, thinking that Leaukamia was one of the good cancers that people recovered from and that everything was going to be okay. I quickly learned there was much more to the disease and much more that still needs to be done.

So on that long winded note, I thank all these brave soul out there shaving their head in March for a cure. I'm posting Emaya's sponsor link here if you can spare any change for her and ultimately funding towards a cure :) Her sponsor pages is also very funny - even more reason to click on it to have a smile!

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Birthday Fun-ness Begins Here!

So my birthday was last Saturday but the Birthday Fun-ness started Friday when Emaya came bearing delicious tasting goods...home-made sour dough and a banana/lime/coconut cake..yummo! Unfortunately neither lasted very long but a true testament to their deliciousness :)

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Presents

I have to share some amazing presents I've been given recently, well actually not so recently, but I can finally hold my camera and take proper pictures of them. You may see in the pink bag shot, two feet, I'm finally crutches free! I went to the physio on Tuesday and straight away she told me just to walk. Apparently my crutches and not putting 100% weight on my foot has been a bit of a mental thing.

I have to say, "walking" is still crazy slow, my foot is crazy stiff and every step I take I have to repeat to myself "walk normal" (my walking mantra) heck, it just doesn't feel like a pleasurable thing to walk. The physio actually told me my expectations of driving a week after my cast came off weren't completely unrealistic and apparently I'm just a slow healer. She said its also a little unusual to still have all the swelling I do have. Oh well, I'm on my way to recovery, these poor muscles and nerves have been working over drive! Enough rambling...present time!

Okay for those folks playing along at home, the bottom two artworks are from the lovely Phil, go check him out on Facebook. By the way did you notice the ladybug has her own cast!!! Next is that amazing pink bag from Emaya. She must be a mind reader because she bought the bag for me before I broke my ankle and it's been my broken ankle saviour. The one thing you really miss with a leg in a cast is the ability to carry things and since 99% of my other bags are across the shoulder style, a style that doesn't go to well with crutches, this backpack was perfect...perfectly cute :p. Finally, the very top photo is an amazing shell Lowie bought me back from cairns and next to it an amazing bamboo water bail he made. I love that he wrote "two gay dads" a hilarious sit-com we came up with one day in the car...'had to be there' style.

I'm lucky!

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