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30th Sept - Nov 25th: I'm really busy with an upcoming exhibition at the moment, as well as travelling back and forth to help my father while he has chemo & radiotherapy. So please don't be offended if i don't join your swap/group. Also, if i forget to reply to a message, just re-send. Sorry but my brain is full of all kinds of clutter right now. Thanks for your patience :)

• I (nearly) always send out on time & let you know when the item has been sent. I will notify you before deadline if something is up.
• Please keep in mind the time difference, if i marked an item sent on the day i sent it, chances are the date on the postage is the following day due to australia being 10+ hours ahead.
• If you are concerned about anything, please contact me before rating and i will do everything i can to rectify the situation.
• What can't be mailed to australia

I'm a graphic designer/illustrator from Melbourne. I have one lovely boyfriend, one gorgeous 2 year old boy and one fuzzy kitty. I have lived in england and one day hope to open my own diner complete with home made apple pie and damn good coffee. I have been told i'm 'eccentric' 'irreverant' and 'weird' but hey, i'm just me doin' my thang. i used to look like enid from ghost world but now i'm older, wiser and less two-dimensional. I love music - listening to, dancing to, singing to, being silly to, falling over to. I also love friends, strangers, autumn, staying up late, lists, lying on cool grass, one-offs, spontaneity, a bargain, great gigs, reminiscing, walking in the rain, waking up with a song in my head, foreign things & people, charity shops, nice surprises, fancy dress, messing about with paint, wallpaper, useless facts, candy stripes, my design heroes include: beatriz milhazes, david lachapelle, tord boontje, tim biskup, verner panton, airside, rinzen, pierre et gilles, I also love the ukulele, typography, rotoscoping, mid century design, kaleidascopes, the thoughts, feelings and actions of my little family

I try and re-use envelopes/boxes when i can, but please know that i ALWAYS ensure your parcel is packed carefully and will arrive intact.

• i love music. so much so i have no words left to describe my love for it.

• Candy!!! popping candy (pop rocks), Tootsie Rolls, Good & Plenty, Twizlers, Mentos, Turtles, Double Decker bars, Cryst-o-mint lifesavers & other varieties, spearmint Altoids, Dime/Daim, Kinder eggs, Mentos, licorice, Anything cherry flavour. Send me something weird and unusual and i'll probably love it ;)

favourite flavours: Cherry, pink grapefruit, green tea, grape, spearmint, pina colada, cinnamon. Anything but Lime

• Cram Cream is my favorite kawaii but i also dig San-X, Q-Lia, Pool Cool, Swimmer. Generally i like simple characters and designs!
• NOT a fan of The Dog or real animals/babies etc
• Ado Mizumori
• Shinzi Katoh
• i love miffy
• cute earrings, charms, hair clips, bangles
• David Bowie
• my son and i adore Yo Gabba Gabba!
• kitschy snow globes,
• Tin Tin and Snowy
• Marimekko/Scandinavian design/Orla Kiely
• Mod/retro/sixties design and culture,
• folk art and kitsch from india, russia, (like embroidery, scarves, wooden things, boxes, charms, trinkets dolls),
• cute and/or strange stationary, stickers, erasers
• icecreams
• toadstools, deers, bunnies, woodland creatures
• edward gorey
• blind box & vinyl toys
• four leaf clovers, lucky charms
• Robots, rockets, tin toys
• Barbarella, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls & other Grindhouse-type movies
• my Blythe, Mrs Retro Mama - she's a FOX!
• anything with apples or pears on it!
• Mexicana (dias de los muertos, virgin mary, sacred heart, Virgin de Guadalupe),
• Bento stuff
• Tattoo graphics. (anchors, hearts, mermaids, swallows, etc)
• Rococco glitz and ornate decoration
• Bright eyeshadow, eye liner and nail polish
• Coloured stockings or fishnets, also arm warmers
• Glam, baby, GLAM! Glitter and glam.
• Kitsch, kitsch, kitsch and MORE kitsch. I have lawn flamingos and I'm very proud of them.

colours i like: bubblegum pink, bright red, icy blue, aqua, kelly green, anything bright, really!

My Mood Board

the clientele, belle and sebastian, the go-betweens, goldfrapp, david bowie, the decemberists, serge gainsbourg, the field mice, frank zappa, elbow, the arcade fire, jens lekman, hefner, the beatles, XTC, pulp, the smiths, josé gonzález, donovan, the go! team, architecture in helsinki, george brassens, the magnetic fields, badly drawn boy, lemon jelly, scott walker, the postal service, the shins, mike keneally, kate bush, camera obscura, joanna newsom, new order, lou reed, iron & wine, the new pornographers, tindersticks, blur, the B-52's, british sea power, nick drake, babybird, the flaming lips, kings of convenience, gang of four, lloyd cole and the commotions, cat power, television, junior senior, the olivia tremor control, calexico, the stone roses, jonathan richman, life without buildings, the rolling stones, the sundays, aztec camera, the velvet underground, lambchop, teenage fanclub, talk talk, st etienne, os mutantes, machine translations, the cure, orange juice, cibo matto, pixies, le tigre, suede, velvet underground, blonde redhead, T. Rex, pale saints, josef K, stereolab, the beach boys, burt bacharach, ride, the dears, love, patrick wolf, the free design, the high llamas, the zombies, shugo tokumaru, turin brakes,

the colbert report, 30 rock, the mighty boosh, the soup, the daily show with john stewart, in treatment, arrested development, yo gabba gabba, the office, late night with conan o'brian, i am not an animal, dexter, father ted, the league of gentlemen, spaced... oh dear. i like a lot of tv!!

most of woody allen's movies, barbarella, breathless, yellow submarine, buffalo 66, beyond the valley of the dolls, allegro non troppo, zoolander, easy rider, monsters inc, the thomas crown affair, withnail and i, shaun of the dead, velvet goldmine, anchorman, hot fuzz

i don't get much time to read these days :( mostly magazines like juxtapoz, grafik, how. But i do have a frightening amount of art and design books that i flick through for inspiration.

i have, in the past, enjoyed the work of bukowski, burroughs, vonnergut, tom robbins, and 'a confederacy of dunces' is my favourite book. no wait, jitterbug perfume is.. no wait.. etc. hahaha

If anyone wants to send me a 1960s/70 childrens encyclopedia or picture book i'd be very willing to do a swap!

I'm not a picky person, but obviously i do have some dislikes:

• Loony Toons, Disney, Diddl etc

• spiders, bugs and snakes

• teddy bears

• Emily the strange

• The smell of smoke

• Clowns

• patchouli, musk & sandalwood scents

• Nag Champa incense

• Lime flavoured stuff

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