i found a rabbit...

honestly. i found a rabbit. a couple of nights ago we dropped my brother off at work and i saw a black shadow skip across the road, at first thought it was a kitty....but it was moving really odd and with none of the grace of a cat. realised it was a little bunny, a domestic one (think we've identified it as a chocolate brown rex, but we know very little about bunnies!) and i couldn't bear to leave the little thing hopping around and dashing between car wheels. so the next 20mins saw the bloke and i flagging down traffic, hopping, skipping, dashing and leaping after the bunny. it's a quick one. and with fur like silk it managed to slip by everytime!

an oncoming 'couldn't care less' car put the pressure on and after some quick footwork we managed to snatch the bunny from it squidged by car wheels fate. a sweet friend at a nearby restaurant provided carrots and a box to transport it, and another sweet lady who lived a few doors down offered hay and guinea pig pellets (we did a bit of a knock and 'have you lost a rabbit?' - she hadn't, but offered us rabbit food and even temporary rabbit lodgings until we found out who it belonged to....the kindness of strangers...)...we decided to take the little beast home and work out what to do with him in the morning....

i've made some 'found rabbit' posters and will be flyposting along the road we found it tomorrow....and i've rung the rspca and local vets. but starting to feel a little like no-one cares about rabbits, the response has pretty much been "so are you keeping it? you are keeping it?" erm, um, am i? i'm worried that in theses few days we've started to get attached already, this curious and friendly little creature might have burrowed it's way into the hearts of my boyfriend and brother (....and possibly mine....) but i know that there is someone out there who loves it very much and is missing the cheekiness....and i will stop looking at rabbit hutches...anyway, i don't even know how to look after these little beasts!

exploring the blue mountains and byron bay...

crikey time flies, nearly 2 months since we came back from australia....getting deep into the english autumn and winter is sneaking in and making fingers and toes tingle in the frosty mornings. and in those 2 months i only managed to upload one batch of photos! so making amends below and sharing some of my faves from our 'blue mountains to byron bay' leg of the trip.

by the way, happy anniversary babe (i love you)...it's mine and the bloke's ten year anniversary today. ten! now that time really did fly....two many memories that i don't know where to start. so maybe i'll start my sharing how we decided to celebrate our ten years (yeh, we did it 2 months in advance, i told you about the awesome deal we got?)

so, this leg of the trip started in katoomba...quaint, like a time machine back to the age of aquarius (i mean that in the nicest of ways!). highlights were most definitely the common ground cafe, a beautiful building handmade (handmade!) by the family and friends who live there. the rawness of the woods, the very wonky beams, the snugness of the log fire and the deliciously warming squash soup were...wonderful. i neglected to take photos but happily lots of flickrites have. if you are a festival veteran you may have seen common ground cafes before - beautiful wooden buildings put up especially for the festival serving amazing food. i remember sheltering in one at glastonbury festival one year...

a second highlight was the lovely bed and breakfast we stayed in at katoomba - ballykissangel. at £55 for the night it really was a steal and i would throughly recommend it. a stroll up the hill brings you the blue mountains, a perfect location. see my pics below - just like a house your gran might live in a just as warm and welcoming!

the blue mountains were surprisingly more blue in the photos than the looked when we were there! check out those steps, hand carved by the ranger nearly 100 years ago!

after a...10 hour drive (i think....i slept! i am such a bad passenger/girlfriend) via a fruitless stop for food in coff's harbour (a stop recommended by lonely planet...i, however, would not recommend. we settled for dominos and dominos is baaaaaad in australia) we arrived at our 'my name is earl' style lodgings for the night. i'm not going to post a link, you dont want to stay there....though it was mildly amusing to stay somewhere that looks like the setting for every redneck shotgun murder scene you see in movies! but happy days, we were off to meet loved ones in byron bay and so the next morning we hastily made our way there.

byron is lovely - as bohemian as expected and full of lovely shops and restaurants. the falafels at orgasmic are definitely worth stopping by for and you can take away little boxes to devour at home! before driving up to brisbane the next morning we stopped in at the utopia cafe in bangalow for breakfast...one of my many poached egg and toast breakfasts whilst i was in australia, but this time on organic sour dough - deliiiiicious. stomachs full we took a wander around the market, collecting macadamia nut butter, a chilli jam and admired all the beautiful antiques at heaths old wares and collectables. what a lovely antique shop - beautiful objects beautifully displayed. lots of enamel, vintage tins, old wicker baskets and some stunning copper pots (see below) that i REALLY wanted. really wanted. £30! what a bargain. except for the cost of flying it back to the UK...

one batch of photos left to get ready - brisbane! i've been in photo heaven these last few days. having the week off with no plans has allowed me to indulge in those little tasks that are very fun but hard to make time for....like adding photos into photo albums and chuckling over the bad hair cuts in old albums! you know the types of photos i mean don't you....!

butterflies now ready...

eek - i'm really pleased with these butterflies.....mainly because i'm so slow with a thread and needle so it took me an age to make each one! now available in my etsy shop.

and i've just had a new shipment of felt turn up! lots of yummy berry colours.....can you have a berry coloured butterfly? well, i haven't seen a green butterfly and i made one of those so maybe i'll do a berry coloured one too!

a free necklace for you!

eek! lovely christina over at down and out chic is featuring my jewellery on her blog - go check it out because you can win a necklace of your choice by entering our giveaway!

and...i will definitely get the rest of my aussie photos up very very soon - promise!