You’ll have to excuse my shadowy photos, I’m always too shy to ask people if I can take photos, so I have to pretend I’m texting while I take the photo, which I’m sure makes me appear twice as dodgy… but until I conquer my shyness, you’ll just have to deal with the inferior quality of my images. Sorry.

Jesus, Mary and a telephone. Glorious morning autumn sun. Beads beads beads! Old dolls and magazines. Swatch watches! There’s even a pop swatch there (the big pink one) and my cousin Tanya actually owned one identical to the green one beside it… Parker Lewis anyone? Creepy Dolls – yep, I have a weird thing for creepy dolls, note the small one on the very right. Home made Bambi. Striped tops are in! Gorgeous Knits that remind me of Nanna. Swap cards, the one things I wish I still had from when I was a kid, but I notice you can get them here.

From the top: First day of school, hanging out the washing, lazy holiday lunches and crappy daytime TV.

Just exercising my creative muscle. Maybe tell me what you think?

Now, I’ve always been over sensitive, it’s a fault of mine. But I still to this day believe that that “teacher” who shattered my confidence in one fell swoop has a lot to answer for. I realise now that he’s a miserable little shit who was a crap designer himself.

So this is the story of how I finally became a “designer”… and to show that YES, I am a great illustrator.

As an adult, I can’t imagine anything worse than rolling around in grass clippings for an afternoon. But as a kid, making piles of cut grass and jumping on them, covering yourself and your brothers in them… getting them down your pants and underwear in your eyes and ears and up your nose was a fabulous day. Sometimes it makes me sad that we grow up and start caring too much, we get too precious and caught up in the things we need to do rather than just doing things for the sake of it. Although you won’t catch me rolling around in the grass any time soon… maybe I could take my shoes off and enjoy the feeling of the grass on my feet every so often…