flying on the dandelion breeze

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Don't forget your shield!

Narnia
till 26 August 2012
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/narnia/

Yesterday I helped out at the Powerhouse Museum on the Narnia Shields which is a part of their school holiday program which is related to the Narnia exhibiton.

For $5 you are provided with a silver shield as well as some lovely decorations such as coloured stripes and symbols. Each of the colours and symbols have means e.g. the lion means warrior (I'll try to get a copy of the info later as I forgot to yesterday).

You can also visit play.powerhouse.com to download a template for the sword and helmet as displayed by this lovely umm... mannequin thing.

I made a sword myself which is being displayed by my friend!

And here's my own shield!

I also went as a visitor on the weekend to check out some of the other exhibitions... :)

Faith Fashion Fusion - an exhibition on the style of Muslim Women in Australia
till February 2013
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/faithfashion/

If you are able to catch the Boulton and Watt on a steam day, it's such a fun experience seeing it in action and one of the earliest and largest examples in the world which still runs!
Permanent feature

Lego Brickworks - ten amazing instalments by various artists including Adriano Zumbo (pâtissier and macaron extraordinaire) and Benja Harney (self taught paper engineer - I love seeing his works!)
till 30 July 2012
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/lego_brickworks.php

Zumbo

Craig

Harney

Wiggles Exhibition - here's a sample of the paper rose making station; I would have a shown a photo but my rose failed dismally... :/
The Wiggles exhibit will be in for at least another year, maybe longer?
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/wiggles/

Here's a view from the Member's Lounge - it's actually the first time I've been to it (I've been to the one that used to be on level 4)

An afternoon city view on the way back to the station

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Quick purple manicure...

I just bought China Glaze 'Snow Globe' and did a quick manicure with the purples I had. (Oh, it's also my first China Glaze, I know, I'm a bit slow on the naill polish train!); dark purple accents on the ring finer and index finger!

This is a more accurate (i.e. less phone app dreamy) representation of the colours XD

The lovely bottle...

Nail polishes used:

China Glaze Snow Globe 842
Mecca Virtual Violet
Face Shop code:PP401 (this is the light purple colour)
Cutex 3-in-1; the bottle I'm using is getting empty so the application isn't as smoooth now :(

I also went to the new Daiso at Town Hall :3

It's located in the grocery store under the HSBC tower, the entrance is opposite the cinemas, near Maccas, at the Easy Way entrance... best way I can describe it lol... obviously less stock than Chatswood due to the size of the place but if you need a quick Daiso fix!!!

I bought some strawberry slippers to keep my feeties warm since I keep losing the ones I have and I need more than one anyway in case they're in the wash! They pill quite easily :/

New headband... :)

Friday, June 15, 2012

Vivid Sydney and Street Photography

First up, a card for my friend's birthday, she's a Beauty and the Beast fan! I've made a similar card before in a Disney Princess set which I still have on me somewhere.

I'm no great shakes at photography or anything but I have this strange obsession with taking photos (and photos and photos)! It was a fading afternoon with a patter of rain when my friend wanted to stop to take a photo of the street... we were there for another 15 minutes while I took about ten times the photos she did XD (we both used our camera phone apps but it may have been a different story if she had her SLR :P)