Recycled Theatre Banners

+ Sewing Machine

= Super Strong, Upright Shopping Bags sewn with heavy duty coated thread

Have just purchased this new Siruba Sewing Machine.  It’s a hardy beast, looks and feels and weighs like it going to last forever.  Have purchased it because I want to make the bags we usually outsource albeit to brother in law who has ditched sailmaking to study architecture and hasn’t the time and because I want to be able to expand upon this idea and others and visit Sew Tessuti to start making my own clothes. 

I’ve got no idea really and felt sick after I purchased it, all those dead end thoughts like “have I wasted my money …, will I use it …,  do I know how to use it …? but now that it has arrived and it’s taking up nearly a whole room in my house well I can’t really avoid it.  Have got plenty of disused Athenaeum banners that I can put to good use, I reckon at least 100 recycled banner bags, and Lauren’s been working with a Qld mum on children’s shopping bag artwork for an upcoming fete.  We are going to print one bag, keeping costs down on the initial bag, but hopefully the orders will compensate for the effort that has gone in to creating the artwork.  The last time we did this parents and grandparents purchased 120 bags.  It’s personalised, functional and a memory keepsake of your child’s time at creche, kinder or school.  While I hone my sewing skills Loz is going to hone the ordering process and then we’ll set out by foot to gauge interest … first stop Williamstown because we think we’ve got a bit of collective sway in our own locale … “order or else!”.

My favourite photos capture a moment. To be transported into the history of a moment, there has to be something real going on particularly when it comes to capturing the emotion of a human being.  I can see the sadness in her expression even though I can’t really see her face, I can feel her emotion even though she might not be really feeling anything at all.  As a mother I find it a little bit unsettling. Whatever the emotion I like to feel something when I look at a photo, listen to music, watch a movie.

2 broken arms in 3 months, been here, done this before, another operation, another night in hospital and it’s my birthday tomorrow.

Football, friendship and the rare occasion of a Richmond win!