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Choose the RedBubble Home Page

Posted 25 days ago

You may not know this, but you (yes, you) can choose what artwork is featured on the RedBubble Home Page.

It’s actually quite easy. All you have to do is head on over to this forum thread and share eight images you think are home page worthy, and which fit “the criter…

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what did I miss?

Posted 2 months ago

Over the last 5 weeks I got married, meandered the streets of Venice in a big straw hat, saw the opera in Verona, lay on the rocky beaches of Monterosso, ate and drank through Tuscany, climbed the leaning tower of Pisa, and put the SLR away to enjoy Rome through my eyes, not my lens. Then we came home, went on a hot air balloon ride over Melbourne, tried to sleep when it was dark and stay awake…

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wedding bells and all things mushy

Posted 3 months ago

The day I added my first image to RedBubble, some lovely people took a moment out of their lives to comment and tell me how much they liked it. They could see past my blurry focus and amateur composition and found something genuine and kind to say. When I realised that the whole community was like this, so giving of their praise and thoughts, I was instantly hooked.

Before long, commenting …

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Unexpected Pregnancy

Posted 3 months ago

Nature is a funny thing. You go to the aquarium and buy 12 female fish. You don’t give them names because, lets get serious here – it’s pretty damn hard to tell plain orange fish apart.

So you leave the girls unattended for a while without any parental supervision and then… You wake up one morning to find several baby fish swimming around the tank just beckoning the bigger fish to mistake…

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International Hair Show

Posted 3 months ago

Yesterday I tagged along to the International Hairstylists Society hair show which is one of the largest hair shows in the country. Having never been to one before, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but “complete and utter chaos” comes fairly close.

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making up tunes in the afternoon

Posted 3 months ago

I can’t work out where this came from, but all afternoon I’ve been singing a little rhyme that I managed to think up and is now solidly stuck in my head.

A is for apple
B is for bear
C is for cucumber
D is for dare

Trust me, after repeating this 194366 times, it becomes far less cute, and a lot more annoying. I need another song. Help!

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make art, not waste

Posted 4 months ago

Today I celebrate a little milestone – 20 coffee cups saved from landfill.

Not too long ago, I became very aware of the huge quantities of coffee the RedBubble office consumes. (The internet never sleeps and neither shall we!)

I probably should have been concerned about the adrenalin pumping heart tremor causing effects of caffeine, but instead I set off on a personal crusade to reduce th…

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just the latest

Posted 4 months ago

I changed my avatar…





...started sharing links to inspirational artworks via facebook...



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Pin Up Nicole

Posted 4 months ago

I recently had the pleasure of working with a ridiculously fun model, Nicole, on a retro pin up shoot.

It’s funny how some shoots I walk away from shaking my head and praying for some decent results, and then others I freak out of the way home about how much space it’s going to eat up on my hard drive. This shoot falls into the latter category.

Nicole was so easy to work with and everyo…

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Photographic Overshare

Posted 5 months ago

Recently I was talking to someone about how wonderful it feels to shave off all your hair and stop wearing make up. They asked for a photo from when I did it back in my rebellious school days. I thought I’d just share it here instead of emailing because this is more fun.

And since I’m in sharing mo…

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