Voice Microfestival - This Sunday!

I'll be running a littlemiso stall tomorrow at the Voice Microfestival, in support of the Autism Association of WA. It's the first festival for the Voice Promotions team, and is shaping up to be a pretty spectacular day- bringing together Perth's best bands, artists and photographers for one day to celebrate ability and raise awareness for Autism.

There will be over 25 bands playing on 3 stages from 12pm - 10pm at The Rosemount Hotel, as well as collaborations throughout the day to create pieces for silent auction (all proceeds going to the Autsim Association).

Come along, enjoy the day and support a worthy cause.

When: 12pm, Sunday 27 November

Where: The Rosemount Hotel

Tickets: $15 Heatseeker, $20 at the door

Facebook event 

Voice Promotions

Autism Association

Mr Frenchy.. MASKED!

So I finally got around to taking photos of new products on the weekend! It's a bit delayed... but say hi to Mr Frenchy Heart MASKED.

Mr Frenchy has gone on disguise, stripping back his familiar and well loved mo. Now donning a jet black zorro mask over his bright red face, he's a little more mysterious (but really just as easy to see).

Made especially for the MASKED exhibition as part of Made of Awesome, these little guys are very limited edition. Available as a brooch or necklace. Please visit my etsy shop for more info!

Empire Furniture

I love Empire on Beaufort St, every time I go in there I spend more time lingering than I really should, and thinking just how much I want to live upstairs in the 'loft bit'. There's nothing more I have to say except that I love everything in there (and oh, I already said that at the beginning >.<) ... but go visit it! These photos were taken last weekend on an iphone, so it will look 1000 times better instore. And they've probably changed the layout already!!

Haven't been to the other Empire stores (Fremantle, Myaree, Dunsborough?) but I've just looked at the website and since when was there an Empire Retreat?! It looks amazing.. has anyone been and how was it??

Erratic nature

Sibella Court is one of those people that can chuck a few things together, in a sporadic fashion, and suddenly make those items look like a piece of art.

I love the way she's styled her current exhibition 'Etcetera etc' (previously blogged about) at the Barometer Gallery - memorabilia dangle from twine and bulldog clips, photographs are tacked on with masking tape crosses, kraft paper hangs from the ceiling and breaks up the background, vintage frames sit on stools…

Her book feels like opening up a trove of treasure - there are so many things to discover, so many little details, not at all laid out in the neatest fashion, but instead brimming with charisma, individuality and life.

I'm writing this looking at the exhibition photos on her website - wishing I could go see it and take photos for myself. (So If you're in Sydney go check it out, details here.)

On another note, I've just finished up an Interior Styling short course, and although I enjoyed playing with textures, shapes, forms and design principles in a three-dimensional space, I found that the teacher and other students were often preoccupied with being neat and making sure everything matched to the T, in essence recreating a display home. I don't quite agree with this - I think it's great to be 'perfect' sometimes, but it can also be very stifling to creativity. This is what Sibella's work shows me - that sometimes you just have to let loose.

Poetic Sensibility

There is something I find so alluring about Matt Wisniewski's collages. 

The harmony between humans and landscape, proportion of shape and space, balance of emotions and silence, juxtaposition of soft and hard, mixture of movement and stillness, contrast of shallowness and depth... creating a lyrical and poetic sensibility to each work.

I could get lost in my imagination staring at one of these.