Brisbane Meet January 08
Well, Brisbane finally took the plunge and we had our first meet where people actually attended!! The lovely Helen (LittleHelen) arrived at my house at 10am Sunday morning to me still in my pyjamas, so naturally I put her to work in my kitchen :p It rained most of the morning and we were a little disheartened as our meet was a picnic in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens! Luckily by the time we’d driven to Brisbane from the Gold Coast the skies were blue and it was hot and sunny! Helen and I put our balloons up and set up our table just as the first Brisbanite arrived! It was a fun, relaxed, enjoyable afternoon and it was wonderful to finally meet some Brisbane artists.Here’s a few pictures from the day!
(Jack01 aka Collie also came with her husband Peter and brother Kev but they unfortunately had to leave before I broke my camera out)
drec (Derek) says: always Coca Cola
GabrielK listening intently to some profound and philosophical conversation no doubt. (and can I just say these photos don’t do him justice! Really beautiful guy! Romanian and something else if I remember correctly lol)
Drec (Derek) tries to come to terms with Kathleen’s psychic powers
Kathleen does her best “no really i’m sweet and innocent” face
That infamous soccer game!
GabrielK pretending he doesn’t know i’m taking (another) picture of him
Scott Robinson charges his solar panel for the long walk home
Food!
Kathleen uses all her jedi mind powers to shrink an unsuspecting guy and his park bench
Drec (Derek) has farted and is hoping nobody’s noticed
Steven Lippis explains to everyone how his birth defect has impacted upon his life. Gabrielk isn’t interested as he’s perving on that blonde chick in the bikini
Helen Every pic I took of Helen is blurry because everytime I went to take a pic of her she’d make me laugh! (And when I dropped her home she invited me in for coffee (wink wink nudge nudge :p)
Cake Face!
Steven Lippis and the birth defect
gordontant
Looks like you had Fun, hope the UK one is just as good, but now you made me think about food and games and other activities….
Steven Lippis
Mock all you like, that face gets the laaaadies.
Melissa Vowell
lol or the men dressed as ladies
Paul Louis Vil...
LOL! Great pics! :D
Durotriges
Sounds (and looks) like you had lots of laughs. Look forward to the meet you’re going to organise for your UK housewarming!
kathleen
oh dear…
Lorraine Creagh
Great shots. Looks like it was heaps fun =)
Melissa Vowell
You’ll have to teach me that Jedi mind trick one day Kathleen!
Lisa Jewell
So very cool Mel, love each and every pic….
You guys look like you had a briliant time…
Ta dinks for sharing :))))
Anne van Alkemade
oh you had chocolate cake.
Hey Mel, they look just like the Melbourne crew, just as crazy but maybe a bit hotter and sweatier (an I mean that in a tropical sense).
Good on you guys!!!
LittleHelen
Haaaaaa! Fuck…I really need to grow a butt :| Love these pics Mel! Cracking up!
Steve is just….no words, I have no words.
Everyone looks great. Thanks again for a wonderful day….and the coffee afterwards:| Eeee! xxxx
Scott Ruhs
Looks like you had a blast! (and I’m not referring to drec’s alleged fart) LOL!
Michael Alesich
Looks like fun,
I thought you guys always had good weather up there?
GabrielK
cool stuff Mell, but there are no picks of you, and thanks for organising the meet, you did a fantastic job, will be sorry to loose you to the UK
jack01
peter has one
pauldrobertson
mel is leaving ?
WHAT?
one day perth will have enough people for a picnic… not a specific redbubble picnic, or even any other organisation or group of like minded, related or politically aligned say, or with like, the same number of limbs.
but we will have a PICNIC. oh yes…
there will be hatefueled and robbah… and… me… and we will be reallly cool… and there will be sausages and we can watch the sun set over the ocean nyah!
Faizan Qureshi
Seeing Kathleen and Steven in a “normal” photo for the first time :-P
Looks like you all had lots of fun :D
Can’t wait till the UK meet with you Melly Boo
Jo O'Brien
MELLA!!!! Your present came for me today. My front door key never looked so cool and funky before. I LOVE it :)
This is a great post. Congrats on organising it. Looks like you all had a bunch of fun.
Cathryn Swanson
Funny stuff Melissa, your photo’s and write up were a real treat to read. Sure looks like you guys had a great day :)
Scott Robinson
Ha! It never fails to amaze me how photogenic I am..
Great day, great company, much fun was had.
dendoo
that looks like fun
AngelArtist
It was very nice to look at the pictures. And the cake looked yummy.
Melissa Vowell
haha thanks everyone and Scott your photogeniality is surpassed only by my own lol
LostBoy1
did you reeeaaally play soccer?
braidy
oh bum… i wish i could have made it!
Melissa Vowell
of course we really did Dave!
kseriphyn
Glad you had a great day and turn out. Wish I could see the pictures instead of little red X’s.
Helen McLean
Awesome pics.
LittleHelen – what is it with Helen’s having no butt? (I suffer the same thing) but I have to add – your butt looks good in those short shorts!
LittleHelen
We could change our names to Hel no butts :| Lol!
I look like a piece of spaghetti with hair in that shot :( Eeew!
Helen McLean replied
LOL – ahhhh yes, Hel no butts. Very good idea Hels.
Melissa Vowell
hahaha Helen, if looking that good means being a piece of spaghetti i’m going to lie in a tub of it and close my eyes and pray please God let me become spaghetti
LittleHelen
Haaaaaaaaahahaa…..silly bugger ;)
Did you feed the leftover rolls to the kids? Hahaha
kathleen
that first photo is not really of me… it’s jo…
kathleen
actually, it’s confronting and scary… I am never meeting up AGAIN…
LittleHelen
Yes you are…you wuv us :)
kimbaross
Great pics, looks like a great meet up.
Christopher E...
awesome shots!
funkyfacestudio
Sounds like a great time Kathleen :)
funkyfacestudio
I mean melissa :0
Melissa Vowell
I froze some rolls and have been desperately attempting to feed the rest to my family. Suffice to say last night and tonight dinner is rolls.
dairygirl
sounds like you all had fun, so sorry I missed it but could not attened with a badly broken back, pleased to see all the pics and you all had so much fun.
Christine Wilson
looks like fun great pics
LittleHelen
I’ve had fruit cheese and jatz for lunch three days running :(
;p
Suzanne German
looks like you had a great time mel – hey none of you ???
sunchaser
Wow, looks like a GREAT get together…..no snow?? shorts??? sunshine??? I am jealous. (and cold)
PS: Little Helen, I would die for a butt like that!
Gregoryno6
I linked to this for a computer forum I belong to, just to show them how sociable RBer’s are. Here’s a response:
I wanna meet Helen! If I dig a hole straight down I should reach Australia right?
ian walton
Hello-
-I just got up from melbourne. kind of. In England at the moment after a stint in Mali. when is the next one? I am keen to hook up with people interested in collaborations – see my pics for what i do… I wanted to in Melbourne but life got int he way. Rubbish.
Hope to catch up soon, I am back in Brisbane in August….
Cheers ian