Of clouds and bikes

What a busy week, but well there was enough time to go out for walks and look up and

#1 see a great sky

#2 and to go the great Arcade Project in the Gaffa Gallery

#3 and having a really good coffee there, too.

##4-7 browsing through Surry Hills

Living in Hamburg for a long while, seeing bikes everywhere and riding a bike every day is something I really miss here in Sydney. It seems cars are not used to look for bikes which makes it quiet dangerous to bike around here. Well, but one cycleway got just built so I keep my hopes up that one day I will get out of the house, unlock my bike and just ride it ....

I am happy that you also quiet liked Sarah Illenbergs work. I just saw that her apartment

is shown together with an interview with her on this beautiful blog.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend....

Maria

Sarah's work

'Ahhh and oooh', I think is what I say when I see a new illustration or any form of work of Sarah Illenberger.

I remember that after I saw the knitted organs she made for the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (which is German and was published a while ago) that I looked up her website to actually realize that so many other clever things I have seen in magazines before were made by her.

I am always quiet fascinated by the way how she interprets a theme or an article in her way..

Have a look at this series in the Neon magazine about envy. Just great.

I also love her chilli con carne and her breakfast.

She is a wiz with the scissor.

...

A belated post with the pictures I took on Saturday.

How good it felt...sleeping in, reading the paper in bed, having a late breakfast together, being out for a nice Spring walk, sharing one of those great cinnamon buns and getting back to the paper while sitting in the grass....what a nice Saturday it was....and in the end even without light but candles as the electricity went down in the whole street for a couple of hours...

Saturday was the first day I was wearing sandals. It felt so good....and a bit weird to see the temperatures dropping in Europe...If I could I would send some sun over....

I passed again such beautiful tiles on my walk...and I thought it would be so great to sew a quilt with those colours and a similar pattern...I am thinking about it....

I hope you all had a great start into the week...

Maria

Showing around

We had friends over from Germany who visited us for a couple of days. It was great to show places I like but also to be a bit of a tourist myself in the city I live in.

Here are a few snapshots of the more touristic things we did....

#1-3 Around and in the Opera House

#4 Pantomime at Circular Quay

#5 Giraffes at Taronga Zoo. I was amazed how beautiful this zoo was and you get an amazing few over Sydney too.

#6 lilac

#7 We had dinner at Din Tei Fung and the hour wait was so worth it. They make the best dumplings, if you have the chance to go and eat there...you should really do it!

#8 The lonely swimmer. It was quiet windy on Saturday and we walked along the cliffs from Bondi to Bronte. The waves were really high and we watched the surfers having fun with them.

#9 On our way back from Manly we came closer to the opera and it felt like standing in front of a famous painting in a museum with so many people standing there and taking pictures :)

#10 Sydney, you are a beauty

Maria

Coincidence

Thank you so much for all your great comments on my last post. I was thinking of starting a little Aussie vocabulary book to write down all those words which are shortened here ; )

Well, but look at this coincidence I found on the weekend.

We had German friends visiting us over the weekend and they brought a few German magazines and newspapers with them (which I am "soaking" in right now).

While I flicked through the Neon magazine I thought at one of the articles, 'oh I know this picture from somewhere" and found it a little later again in the latest issue of the Frankie magazine. It is a great image taken by the Western Australian photographer Jackson Eaton, so I can totally understand why those two great magazines used it...

I hope you had a good start into the week.

I will show you soon a few images I took during the weekend, while being on some touristic exploring trips here in Sydney ;)

Maria

Vivid

Vivid is the word I learned this week.

I think there is not one day at which I am not picking up new words or expressions -- and here in Australia especially shortenings of words.

'Brekky' for breakfast, 'barbie' for BBQ or 'telly' for TV I think is something you could guess but 'ambo' for ambulance, 'salvo' for Salvation Army or 'ta' for thanks create sometimes a bit of a confused glance on my face ... :)

It was a really nice Spring day today. I was out for a walk...felt the sun on my face, saw many shadows, stumbled over the amazing shelf/life store in Surry Hills and saw a hairdresser I could imagine going to when I need to ...

#1 Trees on the street

#2 House in the sky

#3 Tokyo Bike

#4 Again I know ;)

#5 A great facade of a house in Surry Hills

#6 '52 Frack'

#7 I passed this really great arts book store...they have such a great assortment of books. I saw a Japanese book about Nordic design with the most beautiful images. I am thinking of getting it...such a pity that I can't read it.

#8 Some sun and turquoise

#9 '55'

How was your week so far...?

Out

#1 We got a blender the other day and made a breakfast smoothie this morning. It was sooo good.

If have been out for a walk this afternoon.... Here are the few of the snapshots I took...

#2 pink

#3 APT

#4 It just grabbed my attention. The stripes, the signs...sort of everything - click

#5 299 with wholes

#6 mirror and me

#7 pattern and steel

#8 half

#9 I just love all the great tiles they

#10 Flat white

Thank you so much for all your nice comments on the pillow case I made. I will show you more of the things I sew soon..

I wish you all a great weekend

Maria