GO KIWIS GO! take 2

Well, I did it... what do you think of this one?

I think I like it better... Ill probably upload them later on though.. better get off the computer!

GO KIWIS GO!

Designed another wall sticker. Just looking at it after I did it, I realised, if I'd been a bit more with it I could have had him with a jet pack on his back (I think it was even a kiwi who has just invented the first jet packs recently too). But now as I write this I realise there's nothing from stopping me going ahead and designing that too. I mean, I'm trying to go full time with my stickers, so I'm putting in the effort now.
I'm still in the process of ditching my business. There are a couple of ladies who won't pay for their business cards because they recon I did the colour wrong and want me to reprint them... but I've already paid the printer... I'll have to pay him again and make a loss.

Soooo sick of it, I feel like writing them an email saying "Sorry, I'm ditching this because people like you won't pay me for my work. Here's the file, go find your own printer and leave me alone. Good riddance."
I actually did write back to them without consulting my uncle and asked them to pay before hand and let them know I will be closing down soon and I will give them their files. I tried to be polite. I hope I was. I'm a very compliant person and usually just do what people tell me to do... but since I wont have to deal with them soon, it's given me a bit more courage.

PS. The Kiwi is our national bird. It can't fly... :)

Barbie clothes

Well, can't remember if I mentioned it, but I bought myself a barbie. (Oh, yes, I remember now... I did). Well, Luarna made some clothes for it :) Here is her post asking me to see if the dress she made it fit.

Do they ever!!

WOW. She didn't even have a barbie infront of her when she made these... how'd you do that Luarna??

Sooo... what IS a bach?

Well... here's ours! Bach is short for bachelor... because when land was cheap as dirt, guys could have a little hut or a shack where they could go in the weekends to fish and drink beer (I suppose). Ours in true tradition is still a little shack. Now adays people have bach's that are more like mansions.

Our bach may be small but it's a true kiwi bach. Dad pretty much did the whole thing. Painted signs on the doors, a compass on the floor and the walls are covered with maps of New Zealand and posters, mainly from the 70's, which is cool-as! (excuse the colloquiolisms... that's native talk for "wonderful").

Here's a close up of one of our posters. An old Lord of the rings calender... Dad said hippies loved Lord of the rings because they thought the Ring represented the atom bomb (but the JR Tolkien was Catholic, so he was coming from a whole different angle). And the poster that scared the begeebers out of Luarna the night she stayed here. (He wants YOU).
And the little picture beside it is a magazine ad for donating blood. It starts off "Martin is a vampire..." hillarious! You always look back idillically at the past I think, and I love the 70's posters all around our bach. How did they make the posters before computers? beats me. Alot of skill and forethought probably.

Here's our little pot belly stove. I came up the other day when our South African friends were staying, making South African bread on the stove in a cast iron pot. Yummy too.

And our shed outside. I took these photos today, and the cicaders were deafening. Not complaining in any way... I 'd rather be deafened by chirping animals than listen to the traffic, planes, trains and sirens we hear around South Auckland.

Anywho.... that's us. I love our bach. We are so lucky to have it.

Woo hoo!

...just look at these babies! Not quite the years-supply that my Dad used to grow, but pretty decent all the same :) Making gardening more of a prioriety this year, as my new years resolution was to enjoy life ie. don't just focus on the work that brings in the moolah (or was SUPPOSED to bring in the moolah)