If you live in Melbourne, you would probably agree with me. Wasn't the weather today totally beautiful? It was practically perfect in it's own way! Bright day with lots of sunlight, clear blue skies, nice breezes. Darren and I spent our day outside, trying to catch as much sun as we can, in hope of getting my silly headaches and tonsillitis out of my way. We drove to Yarraville and spent a good part of our morning walking around the area. We got ourselves nice breakfasts, explored the little village shopping strip, somehow ended up at a house auction viewing, poked around in an antique shop, of which I found some awesome BabySitters Club books! Those books brought back such great memories. I used to love them to bits when I was twelve! I collected lots of them and even ran my own little 'Dawn's library' and allowed my friends to borrow 3 babysitters club books at a time. I was a bit 'hardcore' at running my own library, I even made library membership cards. Of which I drew love hearts all over. Haha. Oh well, I was twelve/eleven!
Anyway, we popped by this cute little shop/one of my Melbourne stockist too, and I saw my Sea Otter print hanging out with some other cool stuff, in the shop front's window! It made me smile like a big kid!
After our little walkabout in Yarraville, we drove to Williamstown and had a late fish and chips lunch on the grass. Smart thinking for storing our picnic mat in our car. It was really lovely to sit and lie under a tree, laughing at silly jokes, making animal shadows while enjoying cheap fish and potato cakes. Totally worth the $6!
I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Going to a little picnic party at the Yarra Bend Park. We might even go boating! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping today's perfect weather repeats itself again tomorrow!
By the way, I know I kind of overloaded on all the talking and pictures today. But I'm just in a really jolly-good mood. I feel like a kid who's really excited about some stuff, and goes on and on about it. Haha. I tend to talk a lot more when I'm in a really good mood. Haha. Oh and just to let you know, I just restocked my Etsy shop with a few previously sold-out prints and zines. So do check it out! It includes the popular Stag and Owl prints too!
Alright, time for a shower. Hope you had a great Saturday too! I would love to hear what you did : )
Love your photos Dawn! Totally agree with you, today was perfect! I was inside drawing this morning, but had to go and enjoy the sun this afternoon. Too nice to sit inside all day :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your photos of your Almost Perfect day! Perfect! Thank you!
ReplyDeletethe weather was lovely in sydney too, and spent at my kid's school fete with sausage sandwich, fairy floss, cupcake decorating, sand art, winning the preschool-year 2 category of the finger puppet craft competition. and then winding down with a lemonade paddle pop (how *do* they get that wonderful frosty texture?) and homemade carrot soup with ham tartines on buttered walnut bread.
ReplyDeleteyour breakfast looks fab! a day could only go on to be great after that. with that in mind, we will be starting tomorrow with raspberry pancakes and blueberry sauce (realised i have run out of maple syrup and need to improvise).
happy sunday to you!
There is so much beauty and art in just the everyday things that surround us!! Thanks for sharing them. Looks like you had just a fabulous day!
ReplyDeleteI loved The Babysitters Club when I was young too!
ReplyDeleteI even started my own club along with my cousin! We didn't really get to babysit a lot, but it was fun! :)
Looks like you've had a great day!
Great photos Dawn. :) I visited Yarraville and Williamstown on my last trip down to Melbourne and fell in love. Such great little places.
ReplyDeleteLove the photos, there all so pretty, definitely don't apologise for picture overload.
ReplyDeleteHey Dawn, never seen your blog! It's really sweet!....a really simple but beautiful premise to write from! Xxx
ReplyDeleteso beautiful. makes me wish i was in melbs.
ReplyDeletethat cat is so cute!
ReplyDeleteI live in Melbourne too and I'm loving this weather! Beautiful temperature and great for pictures.
ReplyDeleteLove those deck chairs and the Babysitters Club books. They were my fave too! (Along with Sweet Valley)
wow your day sounded perfect... i wish i could do that tooo~ ♥
ReplyDeleteHello everyone! Thanks for telling me about your weekends and leaving such sweet and funny comments. You guys are ace! Loved reading all your comments. Heh!
ReplyDeleteI used to have a library too! I made library cards and even made an Excel sheet to keep track of what people borrowed.
ReplyDeleteThose chairs are nice too. I want his and hers chairs just like in the movie Up!
AH! PEPPER MINT MAGAZINE! I WANT!!! >_<
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