Blogiversary 8.0
Posted on Sunday, 18th July 2010 (2 weeks ago) at 11:30pm10 Comments Ensuing
Eight years ago I registered the domain Kitta.net and created a blog that I assumed would only be read by a few friends and a random person from Sweden who was bored late one night and submitted ‘Australian girl’ in Google. My assumption was wrong.
Over the years I’ve amassed a decent amount of visitors and forged friendships with some amazing people. I’ve blogged about those who’ve helped and inspired me in previous entries, but I’ve never really thanked them. This is for you…
I hope you all enjoy these cyber heart cupcakes I prepared earlier.
Red Dusk Photoshoot
Posted on Friday, 25th June 2010 at 2:37pm4 Comments Ensuing
I’ve spent the last week sorting through photos from a photoshoot I did with Red Dusk Jewellery, an online boutique based in Perth that specialises in vintage, classic, pin-up & burlesque inspired handmade head wear, jewellery, bustiers, corsets, masquerade masks & other accessories. I recently wore the black Encore top-hat to a friends Suit-Up themed birthday party.
Miss Yolie was our lovely pin-up model, she did a fantastic job modelling the sexy Red Dusk corsets and accessories. I used a basic set-up for lighting/backdrop and I’m quite happy with the results. I’m slowly sorting through the photos, but here are a few behind-the-scenes shots and a sneak preview of one of the photos featuring the divine My Little Show Pony corset.
The F Word
Posted on Friday, 7th May 2010 at 12:35am5 Comments Ensuing
I was hunting through Valleygirl recently looking for a bargain. I found a few dresses that I liked and headed towards the change room. I waited in line and tapped away at Zombie Farm on my iPhone. Grow, invade, grow, invade. In front of me was a young couple, the man waited patiently and tried to say the right things at the right moments.
“Is this cute?”
“Depends what you mean by cute,” he replied while rubbing the sheer material together to see if it was durable.
“Cute, like, good cute, not bad cute,” she said while trying to explain the definition of girl world cute.
“I guess it’s good cute, this part here, what do you call it?”
“The straps?”
“Yeah, they’re a bit, strappy,” he said with a serious stap talking look on his face.
“Strappy?”
“Umm, bad starappy?” he guessed.
“You’re right, it is bad strappy, but still cute.”
The man was confident with his girl translation achievement, he decided to wet his fashion palette more.
“This one is a bit small, you should get it in a bigger size for when you get fat.”
The entire store stopped and stared; jaws dropped, hangers crashed to the ground, a lady opened the change room door to visualise the guy who called his beloved fat…
Did he just say the F word?
“Pregnant fat! She’s pregnant! I’m buying her pregnant clothes, she’s not fat, she’s pretty and pregnant, good fat not bad fat!” he quickly explained to the entire store full of females hungrily waiting to defend their fellow vagina-card carrying sister.
Everyone laughed and put down pointed objects once the F word was explained in detail and awkwardness was averted. The sales girl wished them good luck as he proceeded to purchase a five bags of good cute clothing for his soon-to-be good fat beloved pregnant partner. It takes a brave man to patiently wait by while their significant other try on varies sizes, colours and types of the same dress to decide which is good cute and bad cute.
Queen Mary II
Posted on Wednesday, 7th April 2010 at 10:52pm1 Comment Ensuing
On Sunday March 14th, 2010 I headed to Fremantle to shoot the Queen Mary II departure and festivities. It was hard to take your eyes off the immense Queen Mary II as she berthed in Fremantle Harbour, she arrived early Sunday morning and departed late in the afternoon bound for Mauritius. Thousands of locals flocked to secure vantage points and witness the largest ship ever to visit Western Australia depart Fremantle.
After some quick talking and social engineering, followed by Assassin’s Creeding through the crowd, I was given access to the Fremantle Port Authority building to shoot the departure and took some great photos on the roof. My only regret was that I didn’t format the CF card before shooting, leaving me with limited space, I missed a few good shots while deleting photos to make room. Lesson learnt.
She was indeed majestic, even a tad gorgeous, as she sailed into the sunset cheers of “aussie, aussie, aussie” from passengers abroad were followed by “oi, oi, oi” from the flag waving crowd on the docks who gathered to watch her depart.
Playing With Balls
Posted on Wednesday, 10th March 2010 at 11:55pm1 Comment Ensuing
Last Sunday the PTUB (Perth Twitter Underground Brigade) crew headed to the North Fremantle Centre for BowlingTUB, where we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon of barefoot bowls, live music, BBQ and beer. It was a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Thanks goes out to John Cooke, for organizing the event and cooking up the BBQ in the sweltering heat, and to all the PTUBians who attended.
Tahlia’s Twentieth
Posted on Saturday, 6th February 2010 at 11:59pm5 Comments Ensuing
My dearest friend Tahlia celebrated her 20th birthday today. I first met her when I was 21 and she was 15 years old at a costume party – I was a bunny rabbit and she was a nurse – she ran up to me, gave me warm hug and then introduced herself. I fell in love instantly with her and I feel blessed to have such a kind, funny, positive and wise person as a friend. She has always been there for me, during good times and bad.
Last year we went to Kings Park for an afternoon of relaxing and playing in the park with friends. As always, my geeky friends and I were armed with laptops and cameras. As the sun went down my boyfriend and I took a few photos of Tahlia, the light was warm and perfect for a spontaneous photo shoot.
Happy 20th birthday, my gorgeous Tahlia. You’ve grown into a beautiful and wise woman that I shall cherish forever. 
A Belated Christmas Story
Posted on Tuesday, 2nd February 2010 at 9:39pm6 Comments Ensuing
On Christmas eve 2009 I found myself in my local supermarket pushing a trolley with race car precision through the isles to hunt down a few remainder Christmas items. I inquired to a stock lady where the ham bags were kept, she tried to help me find one, but another staff member informed us they had sold out days ago. I decided to use a pillow case for the ham. It won’t mind, it’s just a ham, and I’m sure the smoked ham aroma could be washed out of said pillow case. An announcement came over the speaker alerting customers that only a few kilos of prawns were left. “Shit! I forgot to grab some prawns!” the stock lady exclaimed loudly, as she rushed between two trolleys about the collide with her reindeer hat bobbing along.
As I contemplating licking the ham pillow case I suddenly remembered I needed butternut pumpkin. I did a three point turn with the trolley and headed towards the fresh produce section to grab the last pumpkin. I was checking my list (twice, got to find out what food is naughty or nice) when I noticed a scruffy man with no shoes and a backpack, containing all his belongings, strung over his shoulder enjoying a few grapes. One of the junior stock boys noticed too. He scolded the shoeless man and waved his hands at him in an attempt to make him put down the grapes and move along. The shoeless man said sorry, that he hadn’t eaten in two days, and attempted to leave as the manager arrived. The junior stock boy looked very proud about his accomplishment of protecting the grapes. But the manager wasn’t pleased. He grabbed a bunch of grapes and handed them to the shoeless man. “On the house” he said with a friendly smile. A radiant smile appeared on the shoeless mans face, while a look of confusion appeared on the junior stock boys face. They both walked away, leaving the shoeless man alone with his grapes. Moments later the manager returned, handed the shoeless man a $30 gift card and said “Merry Christmas.” He thanked the generous manager, then proceeded to buy copious amounts of fresh food and other items.
As I looked around I noticed that everyone was far too busy with their last-minute Christmas eve shopping to notice what had just transpired. I received many gifts for Christmas, one of the most precious was to witness a gift given to someone who really needed it.
One Point Oh
Posted on Sunday, 17th January 2010 at 3:32pm11 Comments Ensuing
A year ago today a cute boy sat outside my house waiting for thirty minutes because he was early, picked me up for our date, spilled his drink because he was nervous, watched the sun go down with me, picked a sad movie that made me cry, and then made me fall madly in love with him.
He’s the only person in the world who knows what ‘homp’ means.
Southbound 2010
Posted on Friday, 8th January 2010 at 1:50am1 Comment Ensuing
All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go, I’ve had no sleep… something, something, something. It’s 1:50am, our alarms are set for 6:00am, and we (Devar, Antz and myself) have only just finished packing for the Southbound 2010 music, camping and arts festival.
For now, this minuscule blog update will have to suffice, I’ll upload any photos I take to Flickr and blog about my adventures down south upon my return. After I have shower and have a long nap.
Project 52
Posted on Friday, 1st January 2010 at 3:46am4 Comments Ensuing
I’ve decided to participate in the Project 52 (p52) blogging challenge, starting today January 1st, 2010. Project 52 was devised back in 2007, when Anton Peck proposed the idea of posting a blog entry every week for one year.
“Project52 is a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year. Because we all know what it‘s like to procrastinate on our content. A website is not just a fresh design that can be uploaded to the web and forgotten about! All you need to do is just commit to the challenge and write the content. This site is just here to remind you of that commitment. The Project52 challenge will go from January 1st, 2010 to January 1st, 2011. It will be interesting to see how many of us make it that far.”
The reason for my participation in Project 52 is that I need to form a healthy habit of publishing blog entries. I suffer from lack of time, not lack of content. To rectify this I will be forcing myself to make the time and post once a week, 52 times, during 2010. Hopefully I will slide back into the habit of publishing, instead of letting draft posts collect binary dust. My other hurdle is Twitter, I find it easier to post a tweet than compose a blog entry. I need to learn to save the good bits for my blog. As I’m starting to get into photography more, I’m hoping to publish some photos and other content.
Project 52 starts on January 1st, 2010. There are over 400 bloggers signed up already, if you’re interested you should sign up at the website and join us. And feel free to contact me if you notice that I haven’t posted an entry.
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