shining through the golden hour

Mirka Mora's words in today's Age  " I love Melbourne. I couldn't leave Melbourne. I could leave Paris but i couldn't leave Melbourne" 
below some photos i took earlier this year of Melbourne's Spring St precinct.
thank you Soula  http://www.soula.com.au/  for inspiring this blog today.

wunderkammer

one of my absolute favourite spaces is Wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities shop in Melbourne. here, my love for curious oddities is nurtured. its like visiting a museum and being able to buy anything on display. looking for a monkey skull? cat shark eggs? what about some caterpillar pills?.... you got it. each visit for me is not only an opportunity to buy something peculiar, but see something i could never have imagined even existed! truly, I'm often blown away  by what these guys gather here. Our world is beautifully strange indeed.


 http://wunderkammer.com.au/index.html
a big thank you to the staff at Wunderkammer who kindly let me take some pictures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities

 

                                                 

i need some space

i have been housebound since saturday recovering from a nasty spider bite to my foot!..well it is Halloween after all. anyway, this morning i was able to walk around for the first time without pain so i took some snaps around my home just for some fun and to get me off the couch! a big thank you to Nurse Quilla who did a marvelous job administering the antibiotics! :)

she also features in the last pic wearing my new top hat that i had intended to wear to a Halloween party but the white tail had other plans for me that evening :) Shes also wearing my $260 dress that i shrunk in the wash! fits her well i think