My friends Lara and Laura are building a life-sized snow globe at Format on Tuesday. I completely intend going along dress like this. One night only folks. (PS the exhibition downstairs at the moment, Adam Synnott's Light Interrupted, is amazing. It's a screen in a dark room that responds to touch by creating light patterns and sounds. Incredible!)

This girl has my dream hair cut. Via here.

Dreaming of oversize and drapes. Via here and here.

My wardrobe is in desperate need of an overhaul. But I can't find anything that takes my fancy, anywhere! Not even Etsy. Do you have a secret webshop go-to, or hidden Etsy store I may have missed?

Eep, our festival begins TOMORROW. I have no idea how we are so calm/prepared (or maybe we aren't?) You can see from the program that there is a LOT on... I'm particularly excited for the four square championships, the 'Hipster Ghetto' exhibition (which somehow I'll have some photographs in... uh oh...) and the Zine Fair. If you are in Adelaide you must come along. I'll be the quiet-ish girl with he short hair flapping around making sure everyone's having a good time. Say hi!

Format Festival
12 - 27 Feb
15 Peel St, Adelaide
format.net.au

PS Have you seen the Festival's Avant Card? The lovely folks there let a whole bunch loose across Australia last week. The image on the front is mine. So surreal to see it in a stand and to know that people are picking it up!

Oh you guys, enough already!

Amazingness at Boy by Band Of Outsiders via The Thinking Tank

I saw Sufjan Stevens at the Festival Theatre last night. I cannot put in to words how amazing it was. What a talent. One of my friends took to writing notes every time something more incredible than the last happened, just so she could remember. I would list them, but they would seem absurd. Individually they do seem absurd, even bordering tacky (think fluro face paint, aluminium foil headdresses, back up dancers, ribbon twirling, balloons and glitter falling from the roof...) But they were just so right in this context. He is amazing, his band is amazing, his influences are amazing, his music, particularly from this latest album, is nothing short of brilliant.

I don't know that the gig will change my life in the way the infamous Interpol 2008 one did, but I can honestly say it was the most wonderful thing I have ever seen. Yes, better than Interpol.

PERTH he is playing for you on THURSDAY 3/2. BUY A TICKET. If you have never heard of Sufjan Stevens before now, BUY A TICKET. You cannot miss this performance. Please don't.

Curiosities from October.

Summer. I love the colours of this strange ol' country so much. Plus the endless sky, the endless water and the endless land.

Things that have taken my fancy this week:

Cosmic Wonder via 01 Blog.

This Bodkin dress, also via 01 Blog.

This picture Johanna took in Tel Aviv. Israel has never featured highly in my 'must see' destinations. Maybe that is changing.

This Jeff Ramsay tote (via Wolf Eyebrows) seems appropriate for me/this blog.

Layers on Hel Looks make me dream of cooler climates.

Ashley wrote about the German word 'waldeinsamkeit': the feeling of being alone in the woods. I'm fascinated by words that are not easily translated into English. They often seem to relate to feelings, which makes me concerned about the limited nature of the language.

PS. I never received an arrow in my driveway, but I've now heard that arrow trails do pop up every now and then around here! I would love to one day meet this dear person. I'm sure they'd have an amazing story to tell.

Yesterday I was minding my own business, pushing my bike through the mall when a woman suddenly made a beeline towards me and threw a Christmas card into my basket. Thanks for riding your bike and making the city great, it read. Then later on in the afternoon after I came out of the markets, there was another exactly the same tied around my lock.

Today I discovered arrows made from flour on the footpath outside my house, and being curious about things like that, I decided to follow them. At first I thought that perhaps they were for a child's party. But they kept going for two or three kilometres. Sometimes there would be four arrows pointing in different directions and I had to ride down each of the different streets a little way to find out where the trail continued. Then they went around the back of the Julia Farr centre, and I thought they might be for some underground gig or whatnot. But they still kept going. Through parks, down side streets, onto main roads. It began to rain and I was worried that I wouldn't find the end in time, until finally I was just down the street from my house again, and I saw a slightly open gate with some spilt flour and buckets inside. I rushed home and wrote a letter. Hello, Were you the creator of the arrow trail? If so, please leave an arrow in the driveway of [the address of my block of flats] at your earliest possible convenience. I very much enjoyed the trek. x

Now I'm waiting for an arrow in my driveway. I'm not sure what I'll do if it comes - perhaps write another letter?

What a strange weekend.

Globes. (See what I did there?)
Etsy and Arik Levy via Design Boom.

Gin and tonics.

As much as I like categorising things by words, this series is a challenge. I'd love to hear your favourite things starting with G, if you'd care to share?

Freunde von Freunden. Let's just all take a moment to reflect on how totally amazing it would be to live in a third floor apartment with large windows that let the sun stream in onto the mismatched pot plants, parquetry floors and white walls that are perfect for casually leaning artwork against. Oh yeah, and all that, but in Berlin.
A notable mention goes to For Me, For You. Man, that girl never gets it wrong.