Back and cleaning up the bird poop!

Having been out of the studio of the last little while – nearly a month! I came in to find my little studio buddy has left their calling card on my desk. The cheeky culprit was getting brave with no-one about, but is elusive now I’m back.

little studio buddy

Overused phrase I’m sure, but it is interesting times. How we go back to what we did and how we did it will be as fascinating as living through how it all turned upside down.

An opportunity to do things better but I fear is that the loudest and greediest will have their way and the rest will be cleaning up after them. Again.

What is interesting is the most effective way of protecting the community from the infection is caring work. Providing space for people, cooking, cleaning, teaching, reassuring, nursing. Caring. Caring about each other.

A vaccine is really the only way this will enable anything like how we used to travel, live, share. We will just have to keep caring.

But since it’s Mother’s Day in Australia in a few weeks (10th May). I’ve put some new cards up (see below) which are suitable for just this occasion, along with the tea towels and prints that may bring a smile.

So pop by the shop and see what’s available and to help you out I’ve set up a code for free shipping anywhere in Australia. Put in WINNING2020 at the checkout until 6th May.

The postal service is a bit slammed at the moment but with all that’s going on sending things by post is a fab way to connect with people you can’t see in person (who doesn’t like a surprise in the mail that’s not a bill?!?) so order early, order often!

Cheers,

Better late than…

Welcome to the new year! Late, I know, but it is still January!

This year is certainly looking busier than last.

We spent New Years at Eden. It’s a beautiful place and everyone should stay away! With it having perfect weather and crystal clear waters I don't like my chances of having a private bit of paradise for very long. In fact the small town was completely booked out while we were there.

 

There is a little creek running through the block where we stayed and I think I scared a platypus! A very loud plop and splash in the water which can only have been made by a large animal in a stream with no fish, so I’m calling it (even if I have no photographic evidence).

I also saw number of different birds, Blue Fairy Wrens and European Goldfinch being the highlights for me. I tried so very hard to take photos and iPhones are good but not up to the task of capturing small birds darting in and out of dense shrubs. Or it might have been operator error.

Cheers,

Vote YES!

It's been amazing over the last couple of years to see the parade of unfairness and unkindness on all sides of politics in Australia. Less stealth like, which has been used in the past and more upfront meanness is really the hallmark of the last, I would say, four parliaments. 

The downright misogyny directed at Julia Gillard. Her parliaments lack of action on same-sex marriage. Kevin Rudd and his off-shore detention hell holes. Tony Abbott dismantling of the carbon tax and eating onions, raw, with the skin on. And then we come to Malcolm Turnbull, beholden to the right wing conservative to keep his bum on the big chair. These are just a few of the craptacular highlights of the last seven years (yes, seven years - four Prime Ministers in seven - count 'em - seven years. You can see my eyes rolling from space.)

Malcolm has bowed to the pressure of his party room and they've dreamed up a non-binding, non-mandatory, non-plebicite postal survey about same sex marriage. Rather than do their jobs. It is going to cost over $120 million dollars. 

As I write this the High Court of Australia are hearing a case against running the postal survey. So it may on may not even happen. But in the event that it does I'm nailing my colours to the mast.

YES : Love is love, let people marry.

So my birds for the weeks leading up to the non-binding, non-mandatory, non-plebicite postal survey (if it even happens) are all showing their support for changing the marriage act to be inclusive of all the people.

...and imagine, what the kindergartens of Australia would do with $120 million dollars instead.

Birdies everywhere!

I've been a bit slack with the blogging, but busy is as busy does and because not everyone has Instagram here's what I've been doing...

As you can see Birdies have exploded from my pencil and have taken a life of their own. Up to all sorts of adventures. Hopefully a wonderful and generous publisher can see the potential and gives me a call. I have so many ideas for what these little darlings can achieve, you just never know what they'll do next!

Cheers and chin-chin!

La, la, la, la, LAAAAA!

La, la, la, la, LAAAAA! Hilary Cresp, 2016