Berlin (Part II)

A few pictures of art on various walls around Berlin...

The entire city had a very grungy feel to it & there was graff on almost everything. A lot of it was tagging but every now & then there were some really amazing pieces. Thanks to Steve for taking us to all the good places & endangering his pancreas by eating all the donuts in Berlin with us! 

Xx 

It's always a long weekend when you are unemployed. Fairy Bread.

Over the weekend we went to the Southampton Arms in Kentish Town/Gospel Oak to drink cider and enjoy the lovely London weather*. We definitely drank a fair bit of cider and to my surprise they had a vego version** of a scotch egg which I had to try (I had thought the whole 'scotch egg' thing was out of my reach). I am very glad that I did, It was delicious, if a little bit weird at the same time. 

Sunday started at Caravan for some good coffee and to wander through the markets which we thought would be on, turns out they aren't there on Sunday...at least the cafe was open! After our non-trip to the exmouth markets we made our way over to Shoreditch to check out an exhibition at the Idea Generation gallery. It was an interesting exhibition of photographs taken of actors in theatres across London over the past 25 years or so. I wouldn't say that all of the photographs were amazing, but the subject matter was interesting and the gallery was lovely, all in all definitely worth the trip. We finished the day by heading over to the brewery for a birthday party, fairy bread in hand. 

Fairy Bread is weird.

Don't get me wrong, I love a piece of bread covered in sugar every now and then - apparently it's not a recognised food over here though and so tracking down the sprinkles was a tad difficult. 

The 100's & 1000's were different colours (pastel, and quite nice actually) but in the end it tasted the same. Despite everyone glancing sideways at the strange australian party food for the first half of the night, within the space of a few drinks the plate was empty (although I suspect that Ben may have had more than his fair share...)  

Cider, cider, cider.

Weird and yet delicious

Soy latte & a macchiato, yes please.

The Half

Some Chocolate Rain just across from the gallery

Pastel (we mixed the uglier packet in with the nice one...)

Mmmmm. Totally appropriate for a 30th Birthday.

* By lovely what I mean is 'Typical London Weather'

** I am not talking about soy meat here people, I'm talking chickpeas and spices. The whole fake meat thing freaks me out a bit. Expect for Not Bacon. I quite enjoy that, go figure.

A Crouch End kind of Friday

On Friday evening we wandered down to Crouch End so that we could check out Barboot at The Haberdashery, a lovely little cafe not too far from where we are living at the moment. I'm so glad that we did, it was really nice to see so many people enjoying themselves and checking out the wares on offer...if we weren't moving (and/or slightly broke) I am sure we would have left with a lot more than what we did! I've been missing the cafes back home but this one is on my list of favourites here so far!

We will definitely be heading back, not only for Barboot but just to hang out at the cafe, I foresee some brunching in Crouch End rather soon... 

Enjoy the rest of the long weekend, and please excuse my slightly tipsy photography!

Xx 

Artillery

Friday night was the Artillery Festival Art Exhibition (for Amnesty International) which I made a piece for. It was a fun night - despite my work being a very last minute thing which I wasn't at all happy with! Oh well, that's what happens when you leave things to the last minute!

I didn't put it in this frame. Gah. Embroidery & Painting. 

 

We had a party...

I made sushi! So fiddly. There was an eclipse which we managed to see most of - until some lovely clouds got right in the way!

Explanations of the process.

Light painting with my friend the moon.

5 days to go! 

Xx

The Show

My wonderful housemates invited me to the Waroona Show last weekend. It was a lovely day and really felt like summer was just around the corner. I have come to the conclusion that wood chopping is crazy, and yet strangely compelling. There was also a creepy baby doll display (no pictures of that one, far too creepy), lots of jams and veggies too. Giant turnips included. 

My time in Perth is coming to an end, lots to do before I leave! 

Outskirts and impromptu picnic-ing

My new housemates are absolutely lovely and on Friday we went for an impromptu mini picnic in the park (living right next to the park is so nice!) 

 Outskirts happened on Sunday and so we wandered down to check it all out (we got there a tad late and so didn't quite get the full experience!). It was a great event and the amount of things to do and see was amazing...

This piece is amazing when it's lit up.

Hidden works all over the place

The Perth Zine Collective residency at PICA was awesome, I am so glad to have finally been (It's only next door to work and yet I tend to miss a lot of exhibitions etc, must go more often!).  

Who knew that one small city could have so many vintage clothes? There were a tonne of vintage pop up shops during Outskirts, none of which I actually had a good look at, so little time and money, so much to do!

 

Finger Knitting! We headed to Frisk (amazing coffee) and learnt how to do us some good ol' fashioned finger knitting...It was much easier to learn than crochet and quite similar, nice to know I could do this on a plane since you don't need anything except some yarn.   

Just as a final note - Ben is in Scotland now and I am super jealous and missing him a heap, but at least he's having fun...

SANDWICH!

Xx