My Neighbour Totoro

Re-watched this gem over the break ^_^ so beautiful :)

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No-Face street art

Favourite Spirited Away character brought to life by yours truly. I thought Canberra needed some cheering up 

Stencil try outs

I put him with the little guys in the tunnel that always bring me a smile

Hope he brings a smile to some people's days

paper lantern tag is rather poncy

Communal art tunnel, i think No-Face is happy there in amongst the other bits and pieces

Enjoy!

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10 for today

1) This beautiful necklace 

2) What a pretty dress!

3) Jewellery box and contents of 10.17 another one of my favourite blogs

4) Matina Amanita for Sretsis unicorn rings

5) Amelie's bedroom! I love those goose and dog pictures so much :)

6) Bubbles and Bella! See here

7) Home of artist Egon Schiele

8) I would hang this on my ceiling so it would be the first and last thing i saw everyday

9) Hayao Miyazaki's studio

10) Arrested Development captions!!

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(pics courtesy of Tumblr)

Today

Favourite Pink Floyd album, and my favourite song from it. The many wonderful words of Mr Tom Hodgkinson ( go to that link if you hold a certificate in idleness like i do!) (go to it anyway, because it is awesome)

sort out this black hole 

I am ending the war against naked animals! Observe Brooklyn and his stylish cat-hat

Read about one of the best parody hoaxes ever, here. Society for indecency to naked animals!

Remember, a nude horse is a rude horse

(all pics my own, last scan from Tumblr)

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Bittersweet

Co founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki has announced his plans to retire. Though it it sad news for fans who'd love an unending mountain of his work to trek through, it is a well deserved retirement. Read more here. Tumblr is in meltdown over the news! All the emos are in artsy despair!

Favourite moments in Spirited Away were the ones on the train. 

There are kabillions of Studio Ghibli entries in the blogosphere, so i shall show restraint with pictures. (All from Tumblr)

Happy Retirement Mr Miyazaki!

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Ten for today

1) Teddy has an Operation video. Not for squeamish people! I love all the body part names, because of this video i always check my Bon-Bon layer is intact, that my crotch unicorn is happy and that my coorage sack is working properly. The videos mixture of cute- the teddy and the music, and disturbing- the operation itself and the things pulled out of teddy, is exactly the kind of perfect blend of messed up happiness. A well spent three minutes! 

2) Calcifer figurine. He would be bigger than the mini Castle figurine though! 

(he seems to be ok with this arrangement) 

3) Loser gift basket by the one and only John Waters. If you haven't seen Serial Mom go and rectify this immediately, probably my favourite John Waters film.

4) Sophia Webster Unicorn bag! perfection!

I plan on being able to pull off being constantly ridiculous so i can embarrass my future children if they try to 'sass' me

5) The Underwater filming scenes from Hugo

(plan on writing more about this perfect film! in love!)

6) Lots of watching Malcolm thanks to my sister

7) This is the Voynich manuscript it's language, purpose and creator remain largely unknown. HISTORY MYSTERY! (new categorisation label, huzzah!) 

8) Awesome movie poster alert!

9) Some flowers for you! Aren't the colours beautiful!

10) Hanging out with my best pal on a beautiful Canberra day! 

(Pics courtesy of Tumblr, Wikipedia, here , here and here please let me know if you have remained uncredited and or wish me to remove something) 

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For today:

Carnations from the other half for not having a good day

If you haven't seen Howl's Moving Castle climb out of the rock you live under (apologies to rock dwellers) and watch it, all bloggers carry on about Studio Ghibli, and for good reason. My little Castle figurine cheers me up so much. 

and of course: 

My little Brooklyn. He is like my very own Moomin! My sister is responsible for the Moomin love and that's her pillow my Brookie is asleep upon. What a lucky pillow!!!

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