In summation, these early spring days.

{Happy Father's Day, Dad! XO (Photo from August 1976. Written below, the first time I said "Ta-ta".)}


{From Soaring Eagles to Contented Flâneurs, Saturday gets the big tick. Thank-you for all your good Birthday cheer. XO}


{Down the hatch! One Nutcracker Sweet Sugar Plum Fairy ("Sugar plum blueberries, bathed in lemon, dance on a light vanilla crème patissière") macaron from La Belle Miette.}


{There on the wall, our three collage works framed. (100 Cats opening, @offthekerb)}


{After last night's Melbourne Cinémathèque screening at ACMI of Jan Švankmajer's culinary experiments lunch today is going feel quite different. (Militant Surrealism: Jan Švankmajer Shorts Part II, 1969-1992, featuring A Quiet Week in the House (1969), Leonardo’s Diary (1972), Virile Games (1988), Darkness Light Darkness (1990) and Food (1992); and Little Otik (2000))}


{Wrapping orders received overnight for the morning's dash to the Post Office, with the added difficulty of a playful Lenni. (We are offering FREE SHIPPING all September long when you enter the code 'Zarafa' upon checkout. Thank-you.)}


{Sending David Suchet c/o The Comedy Theatre a little Poirot fanzine (A Catalogue of Bodies). Fingers crossed.}


{One closing, one pizza, one beer. The makings of one evening. (George Paton Gallery: Artist's Books (reprised), closing event, featuring five of our recent zines)}


{Stepping out of the shadows, something new. (And Zarafa Kept Walking, new greeting cards, September 2014)}


{Augustus Leopold Egg's mirror image painting, The Travelling Companions (1862), accompanies the sounds of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel ("Mirror in the mirror"). This is Tuesday, how it looks and sounds.}


{Peekaboo! The October issue of The World of Interiors features a collaborative collage of ours.}


{The October issue of The World of Interiors features a collaborative collage of ours with reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, TS Eliot's The Waste Land, and Henry II's pilgrimage of penitence in 1174.}

Early spring in glorious blur, summed up in twelve instagram frames. From my 39th Birthday celebrated in a blissfully relaxed fashion (thank-you for the good cheer, the treats, and the jewels) to an airfreighted copy of the October issue of World of Interiors featuring Louise and my collaborative collage on the last page, it has been a sweet confection in every sense. Best of all, we’ve new work in mind, and new projects to undertake, and little can feel better than that.

And lest you are not on our mailing list or you missed our instagram trumpeting, stepping out of the shadows into glorious September a new greeting card featuring the handsome and obliging giraffe, Zarafa. To mark the occasion, we are offering FREE POSTAGE ALL SEPTEMBER on all orders through our online store.

Simply enter the code 'Zarafa' upon checkout. And thank-you for all your orders thus far.

+ Skates on! 100 Cats (supporting Ingrid's Haven, and featuring three of our collage works) is on until this Friday the 19th of September (Off the Kerb, 66B Johnston Street, Collingwood, 3066, Victoria).
+ "A domesticated animal which has never been reduced to servitude, a cat, the emblem of Independence, is sitting at Liberty's feet"
+ La Belle Miette's The Nutcracker Sweet collection of petit gateau macarons to mark the 2014 season of Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker are available every Thursday and Friday for the duration of the season, from 11:30am onwards, from their city stores only.
+ What is Beauty? in 15 seconds
+ "An obsession with food and eating — and with corresponding ideas of appetite, taste, consumption and ingestion/digestion — pervades so persistently and with such acute attention to detail in Jan Švankmajer’s filmmaking oeuvre that it comes to resemble a kind of absurdist, surreal, highly tactile (but not always appetising or palatable) cinematic cookbook." (Zoe Gross, Little Otik, Senses of Cinema)
+ A Catalogue of Bodies, second edition
+ Lucy Folk's different kind of edible
+ How spring feels. Oh yeah. (Hannah Höch, detail of Am Nil II (On the Nile II), 1940s, collage)
+ See: Arthur Conan Doyle's drawing from a whaling diary (1880)
+ Hear: Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel