Place: My Office

Poison: Cappucino

Favourite Things: New Headphones

Tonight at exactly 7.15ish, five unsuspecting friends will venture into the land of a new tradition. A night of poker. food. friends. The oscars playing unsuspectingly in the background and kids firmly tucked in bed.

I love boardgames, but not the crazy types that make the more quiet of us feel uncompfortable, but the ones that bring out the competitor, caveman, cavewoman vibes in all of us.

Here’s a toast to a new tradition of poker…

Aly, Bridget, Marcus, Dave and I

Here we go, monday night poker

I’m in

A

Place: Kym’s Office

Poison: Water

Favourite Things: Kym Rolle and her stripey scarf!

I just found a list of Perth Op Shops on a Vouge Website! I am now ready to write my next book…What do you think?

Mandurah City Gate Salvation Army Unit 16 City Gate Business Park, Magneta Terrace (08) 9582 0105
Maylands Petticoat Junction Vintage Clothing 206 Whatley Crs Maylands WA 6051 9271 9044
Maylands Salvation Army 203 Guildford Road (08) 9272 3851
Maylands ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY MAYLANDS, 46 EIGHTH AVENUE
Medina Kwinana/Rockingham Op-Shop Rear of 22b Pace Rd, Medina A. Hills 9419 6216
Medina Uniting Church Thrift Shop Cnr Medina Ave & Atkinson Rd, Medina “F. Hadfield
9439 1750″
Merriwa Salvation Army Shop 3 Merriwa Plaza Shopping Centre, 44 Baltimore Parade (08) 9305 2898
Midland Good Sammy 3/164-168 Great Eastern Hwy Ph: 92742572
Midland Salvation Army 284 Great Eastern Highway (08) 9274 2893
Midland ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY MIDLAND, 285 GREAT EASTERN HIGHWAY
Midland Good Sammy Stores 3/164- 168 Great Eastern Hwy Midland WA 6056 ph: (08) 9274 2572
Midland, Anglicare
Midlands Marmalades Of Midland 11/ 2 The Crescent Midland WA 6056 ph: (08) 9274 2594
Midvale Salvation Army Units 1& 2 / 2 Farrall Road, Swanview (08) 9274 4520
Mirrabooka Lifeline Recycled Fashion MIRRABOOKA, SHOP 9 MIRRABOOKA PLAZA
Mirrabooka RSPCA 20 Cobbler Place (08) 9207 1893
Mirrabooka ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Shop 4 Cobbler Pl Mirrabooka WA 6061 ph: (08) 9344 7001
Mirrabooka, Anglicare
Morley Baptistcare Bargain Centre Unit 2, 8 Dewar Street, Morley, WA, 6059
Morley Funky Fashion Op Shop Shp3/ 13 Paine Rd Morley WA 6062 9375 5508
Morley Lifeline Recycled Fashion SHOP 5 MORLEY MARKETS UNIT 7, BISHOP STREET
Morley Salvation Army 156 Russell Street (08) 9371 9817
Mosman Park 608 RECYCLING BOUTIQUE MOSMAN PARK, 608 STIRLING HIGHWAY
Mosman Park, Save the Children 600 Stirling Highway 9384 5318
Mount Lawley Memory Lane 768 Beaufort St Mt Lawley WA 6050 ph: (08) 9370 2262
Mt Hawthorn 2nd Time Around 165B Scarborough Beach Rd Mt Hawthorn WA 6016 ph: (08) 9443 6470
Mt Lawley, Mums Retro & Recycled Clothing 879 Beaufort St Inglewood WA 6052 ph: (08) 9271 0441
Mt Lawley, Rubbish Recycled 879 Beaufort St Inglewood WA 6052 ph: (08) 9271 0441
Mt Lawley, Save the Children 159 Walcott Street 9328 1946
Mullaloo As New Boutique SHOP 6 MULLALOO PLAZA, KOORANA ROAD
Mundaring Salvation Army Shop 23, Mundaring Village, 7175 Great Eastern Highway (08) 9295 2576
Nedlands Fusion Clothing 168 Hampden Rd Nedlands WA 6009 ph: (08) 9386 3936
Nedlands Dress Circle Shop 35 Broadway Fair Nedlands WA 6009 ph: (08) 9386 7408
Nollamara ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY NOLLAMARA, 161 NOLLAMARA AVENUE
North Perth ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY NORTH PERTH, 215 BULWER STREET
Northam Good Sammy 140 Fitzgerald St Ph: 96223047
Northam Salvation Army Shops 8 - 12 Northam Arcade, 187 Fitzgerald Street (08) 9622 7906
Northbridge ANTIQUE CLOTHING CO PERTH-NORTHBRIDGE, 280 WILLIAM STREE
Northbridge ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Retro 267B William St Northbridge WA 6003 ph: (08) 9228 4877
Ocean Keys Salvation Army 6/35 Ocean Keys Bvd, Clarkson (08) 9407 9847
O’Connor Salvation Army 1/334 South Street (08) 9331 2866
Osborne Park Good Sammy Unit 3 320 Selby St (FURNITURE) Ph: 92442100
Osborne Park Salvation Army 2/320 Selby Street (08) 9244 1979
Osborne Park ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY 59 Edward St Osborne Park WA 6017 ph: (08) 9443 3364
Palmyra RSPCA 59 Carrington St Palmyra WA 6157 ph: (08) 9319 1985
Perth AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS (WA) “61(8) 9225 1978,
+61(8) 9481 7329″
Perth Lifeline Recycled Fashion PERTH, 141 BARRACK STREET
PERTH Good Sammy 116 Murray St (Retro and youth clothing) Ph: 94211960
PERTH Good Sammy 289 Murray St Ph: 93215986
Perth TRESOR RECYCLING BOUTIQUE PERTH, 561 WELLINGTON STREET
Perth (East) AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS (WA) 107 Wellington Street 9225 1970
Perth (Hay Street) Anglicare
Perth City Salvation Army 119 Barrack Street (08) 9225 7912
Port Kennedy RSPCA Unit 3, 1-5 Sunlight Drive (08) 9524 5257
Port Kennedy Salvation Army Unit 3/50 Fielden Way (08) 9524 6987
Rivervale Salvation Army Unit 12 Eastgate Commercial Ctr, 45-55 Great Eastern Hwy
Rivervale ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY RIVERVALE, 110 KOOYONG ROAD
Rockingham All Saints Anglican Op-Shop Rockingham ” K. Wheeler
9419 2065″
ROCKINGHAM Good Sammy 8 Livingstone Rd, Business District Ph: 95925089
Rockingham Jacky’s Recylcing Boutique ROCKINGHAM, 1 KENT STREET 9528 2327
Rockingham Lifeline Recycled Fashion ROCKINGHAM, 10 KENT STREET
Rockingham Salvation Army Unit 1&2/19 Hurrell Way (08) 9527 8399
Rockingham Salvation Army Family Stores Shop 2/Suite 7 Elanora Drive, R/Ham 9527 8565
Rockingham ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ROCKINGHAM, 17 HURRELL WAY
Rockingham Uniting Church Opportunity Shop R/Ham 169 Parkin St, R/Ham 9527 4660
Rockingham Beach Salvation Army 6 Patterson Road (08) 9592 7459
Scarborough AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS (WA) 164A Scarborough Beach Road 9245 1823
Scarborough ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Shop 3 160 Scarborough Beach Rd ph: (08) 9245 4370
Scarborough, Save the Children 166 Scarborough Beach Road 9341 6282
Shenton Park Opportunity Knocks 10 Selby St Shenton Park WA 6008 9381 0111
Shenton Park Secondo Mondo 223 Onslow Rd Shenton Park WA 6008 ph: (08) 9381 5920
South Fremantle, Save the Children 272 South Terrace 9335 2619
South Lake RSPCA Shop 39, Lakes Shopping Centre, North Lake Road (08) 9417 7182
Spearwood Salvation Army Showroom 6, Phoenix Plaza, cnr Phoenix & Rockingham Road (08) 9418 7948
Stratton Re-Vamp Recycling Boutique Shop 7/ Stratton Park Shopping Centre Stratton WA 6056 ph: (08) 9250 5588
Subiaco ETERNITY RECYCLED CLOTHING SUBIACO, 23 ROKEBY ROAD 9388 7823
Subiaco Good Sammy 28 Rokeby Rd Ph: 93816242
Subiaco TASI SUBIACO, 270 NICHOLSON ROAD
Subiaco Boutique Salvation Army 86A Rowland Street (08) 9380 4149
Subiaco, Save the Children 8/165 Hay Street 9341 6282
Success Salvation Army Gateways Showroom 7, Southgate Commercial (08) 9498 7418
Thornlie Salvation Army Shop 1, Thornlie Shopping Centre (08) 9452 1248
Trigg ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY TRIGG, SHOP 1 LYNN ST SHOPNG CNTR
Tuart Hill and Save the Children 77 Wanneroo Road 9440 6411
Two Rocks AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS (WA) Two rocks 9561 6032
Victoria Park Good Sammy 818 Albany Hwy Ph: 93610077
Victoria Park Nulsen Haven OpShop 907 Albany Highway
Victoria Park Salvation Army 642-644 Albany Highway (08) 9355 5459
Victoria Park (EAST) Ngala Bargain ****** 732 Albany Highway 9361 3176
Victoria Park (EAST) ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY EAST VICTORIA PARK, 824 ALBANY HIGHWAY
Victoria Park East Save the Children 911 Albany Highway 9472 7171
Wangara GOSSIP CLOTHES STUDIO WANGARA, SHOP 10, 9 DELLAMARTA ROAD 9409 6494
Wangara Salvation Army 1/49 Prindiville Drive (08) 9409 8668
Wanneroo Drug ARM WA 915 Wanneroo Rd, Wanneroo Ph: (08) 9405 9117
Wanneroo Salvation Army 917 Wanneroo Road (08) 9306 8794
Wanneroo ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY WANNEROO, 925 WANNEROO ROAD
Warwick Good Sammy Shops Warwick Grove Shopng Cntr Warwick WA 6024 ph: (08) 9246 7130
Wembley Merry-Go-Round 149a Jersey St Wembley WA 6014 ph: (08) 9387 5454
Wembley ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY WEMBLEY, 334 CAMBRIDGE STREET
Wembley St Edmunds Op Shop Wembley Church Hall, 54 Pangbourne Street, Wembley, WA, 6014 9387 6467
Willagee AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS (WA) 62A Archibald Street 9337 9255
Willagee ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY WILLAGEE, 92 BAWDAN STREET
Willetton Good Sammy Unit 4 147 High Rd Ph: 92594600
Willetton Salvation Army 165 High Road (08) 9354 4890
Woodbridge Salvation Army Shop 7 / 2-4 Elanora Drive, Cooloongup (08) 9527 8565
Yokine Save the Children 2/201 Flinders Street 9344 4453

Place: My Office

Poison: Altoids winter green

Favourite Things: The window in my new office the park…

Something about ikea that just excites my soul…Is it the $2 hot dogs, is it the refillable soda, nah I’ve just come from America, so Australian Ikea vibes is slightly pitiful…Its the funky furniture, the colour red, the silver, the beech…

We are shifting into our new venue for our north service this weekend…So me and Jen went shopping galore.

Love the random clocks, love the life span of the stuff, usually the caused by the crappy people who put the stuff together (usually me)

Anyways, lovin Ikea, what would we creatives with no money do without it.

Choose a colour, Choose a vibe, create a space…

Nice

A

Place: My Office

Poison: Red Frogs

Favourite Things: Cocunut Mango Candles (my favourite things!)

Just had a conversation re: life being black and white, versus grey! Our office and organisation is going through the roof right now, and with much growth, and with much expansion comes a lot of grey!

Org charts that once worked, now faulter, communication systems that were great for a smaller staff/ organisation etc now are irrelevant. Life as you know it changes and what was black and white turns grey.

So as a creative person in the midst of change, what do you do to maintain a sense of direction and a clarity of purpose? My thought for today is to keep asking questions.

Questions are the sign of a great leader, a great friend, a great creative. Someone who doesn’t ignore the grey, but tries to colour it slightly with a new shade of white or black and bring it into some semblance of clarity!

Life not black and white, but is different shades of grey…Great questions bring clarity into the black and white colours, bringing a semblance of direction.

Small and simple thought…
But it was today’s

A

Place: Mum’s House

Poison: Diet Coke

Favourite Things: My mum fresh home from Sydney

Great mates of mine- Bryce Green and Kym Rolle, have been busting their bubble gums lately to get a documentary finished.

The Documentary is called ‘Child in Charge’ and tickets are on sale for the launch of it in a few weeks time.

If your in Perth, buy a ticket, its going to be amazing. A retrospective look at the genocide in Rwanda and the subsequent child headed households.

I love these two and their wild ambitions, there will be fabulous art work for sale on the night. Held at IMAX in northbridge.

Rockin

Come hang with me and support an amazing cause.

A

Place: My Office

Poison: Diet Coke

Favourite Things: The colour red

I love the word linger. Its rarely used but there is something so mystic and etherial about it. Stay a while, float, be, wait, engage, smile, think, LINGER.

In our world today so many people fling their way through life, rushing from one appointment to the next, one meeting to the next, one task till the next. However whilst bending over in the downward dog pose today at Body Balance, I was thinking we need to create a culture of lingering.

How much more would our children feel the love, how much more would waiting in queues not become such an issue, how much more would driving become an adventure rather than an ordeal.

When your at home, try turn off the phone, turn off the tv, maybe put a bit of music on, but just linger. Linger in your house, walk around, breathe deep and just be.

How about the next party you go too, find a compfy chair, open your heart up to the possibilities of someting new happening, don’t worry about the babysitter, what your wearing, who’s coming to the party, just LINGER.

It’s a stress relieving, life changing thought.

On one of the planes recently I watched the movie ‘A Good Year’ and it was about Russell Crowe, a mean spirited, hard core business, cut throat jerk, who inherits a vineyard in the south of France, who begins a journey of learning to LINGER.

Dance if you need to, turn off the internal dialouge if you need to, shake off the feelings of having to do something…if you need to…

But just Linger.

You never know what inspiration may arise.

A

Place: Bob and Lesley’s

Poison: Flat White

Favourite Things: The Bains!

Well today is Valentines Day and its a beautiful day filled with much fond memories of my amazing friend Coli and the gang of weary travellers who are connected accross Australia and the seas!

Today, mid morning our lovely Maori friend went home to meet with a big bright smile her maker. Its uncanny that she went home on Valentines Day, because she was so quirky and filled with love. V-Day for me now is Coli Day and she will be forever in our hearts.

A shout out to all my crew her know her well and those who only crossed her path briefly but were forever impacted by her fresh sense of fun and niavity. Her love of all things surfy in clothes, the people at City surf whom she worked with but mostly her gorgeous babies- Christian, Nicodemus and Justice.

I will never forget you, even though we have only known each other for a few years, you impacted me.

I remember that day in the Italian resteraunt and Justice sang akuna mata as she wet her pants!! I remember you lying in my back room at lesser street when you flew in last Easter. Remember Claudine running around in a Freddo Cadbury character suit?

That day before I flew to Lebanon in June last year when we had a Gloria Jeans and talked about life. You and Dale and the amazing cafe you run, the way you cooked Oly Bollan doughnuts that first day I went to your apartment, with so many randoms sitting on the couch and you cooking for everyone.

You are a woman of great character, great wisdom and a niavity which is breathtaking!

See ya sometime in heaven soon.

Already missing you

(at gloria jeans!)

A

Place: My Offce

Poison: Diet Coke

Favourite Things: Napolean Dynamite flippin sweet mints

I have a new office, I have a new flat mate, my job is a little different, I have new staff starting, I have new peers but on my new office wall, I now have a chalkboard in my office and the first statement I wrote on it in white chalk was…

Home is where the heart is. I am a homey sort of girl. I love creating a space, I love creating a vibe, I love creating a home.

For me home means, great food, candles, music, mood, furniture placement, the intangibles, the placement of artwork, the photos of those I am absolutely taken with, the smell, the mabo!

But realistically I am learning, home truly is where the heart is. Your heart is your passion, your loves, your expression of who you uniquely are wired to be.

So being the eve of valentines day, (didn’t even think about that until I started to write) I am commissioning those who read this entry to celebrate your heart, your passions, your individuality and create home whereever you may find yourself to be…

I have put up black and white photos in my office of my recent travels, I have just painted a new painting which expresses this new season that I find myself in, and I have a big jar of American Candy on my desk for anyone who comes in to survey my new pad!

Home truly is where the heart is.

Create a home, create life, create connection, create vibe.

It is the essence of celebrating the everyday moments of life that make it colourfilled.

Heartily

A

Place: Claudines Office

Poison: Water

Favourite Things: My Claudine!

My beautiful friend Coli, who is a lover of people life and love, is in desperate need of prayer right now. She is 30 years old with 3 young children and yesterday as she was playing a game of Basketball she had a heart attack.

She is now in intensive care and is fighting for her life. I am believing that the prognosis from the doctors will change and that we will have a miracle. She is in a coma right now and I am asking for your help.

Please pray for healing and that she will miraculously survive this crazy thing.

All my love to her family and friends.

Coli you have always inspired me and always will

forever

A