signed, sealed...delivery pending.

raaaaaaaaaaaaaad! my pattern has been shipped away on the seven seas to my door. last week i bought a vintage, 1950s dress pattern all the way from the US of A (via the ebay of everything indie, etsy). i was quite excited as anyone would be by the prospect of inheriting (with a small pinch to the back pocket) an actual 1950's dress pattern...UNCUT! (for those of you with no seamstress knowledge, this doesn't mean the pattern is rated r, explicit or raunchy. the paper pattern has not yet been cut to size).

and today i recieved the grandest of news: order status - shipped.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! so as we speak it is making its way to my doorstep. flipping wonderful!

though, there's one downside...i won't be able to start making the dress until november. CURSE YOU COLLEGE!

yours stylishly
tea and toast: tori :D

auditory orgy

i present to you, 5 bands/musicians i am in love with this month.

cabins are a little known band from Sydney, that sound somewhere between muddy waters and children collide. blues and grunge combined, comes the glorious sounds produced by the 4 east coast boys. suggested listening : "The Moon" and "Catcher In The Rye" (from Bright Victory)

the sweet, the lovely, jonathan boulet! i've seen him and his band of maniacs live (brilliant mind you), as well as catching the train from college with him one day. he infuses electronic, indie and folk (and self produces and plays everything himself), ending up sounding like gotye, whitley and jose gonzales in some kind of delicious cake creation.

born ruffians are back! with album number 2 (Say It). seane hates them (claiming luke can't sing), but nothing will ever tear me away from this endless love affair with their cute indie pop/rock. ever! they're simply just wonderful :D.

ahhh best coast. hot cali gals making the music the beach boys never could. i normally am quite biased toward female musicians in rock bands (ahem adalita!) but man does bethany cosentino pull it off! their music melds beach rock with indie musings about a boy who "is just a friend" and not bethany's boyfriend...aww. defs gives a check. they are already having major success worldwide, so catch then now before they go all commerical and yuck.

plus bethany has a cat like me.

and finally, the best of them all, who i'm seeing again this thursday night... children collide. rad rad rad rad rad. nothing but pure australian garage rock goodness. plus added insanity. LISTEN!



give your ears a treat. go check these guys out.

yours sonically

tea and toast: tori



breakfast fit for a queen.

did i not tell you posts would be furtive? well, seeings as this is my week off i have more time to spend here.

and thismorning, rather than succumbing to my gut's neverending longing for my morning coffee, i decided i would have my namesake for breakfast. tea and toast. now, usually, tea and toast is a favourite late night snack of my mother and i, after a long day trip where much gluttony has been practised. but maybe its the amount of caffiene in the tea, sugar in the jam and fat in the butter (and maybe also the etherial glow of this gorgeous spring day today), has made me feel utterly sparkling after the high complex-carb morning re-fuel.

and of course, being the die-hard photographer i am (i still get dark-room withdrawals to this day, regardless of my fear of the dark indoors), i photo-documented my gastronomic enlightening.

and of course i had to leave the strawberry jam toast till last! that bit lasted for a good 5 minutes.

i must also add that i found a recipe for lavendar ice-cream thismorning. RAD! Destined To Design: Lavendar Ice-Cream. definitely go have a good looksee.

i warn thee all i will probably end up writing another post today, not about food but about a handful of bands/musicians/artistic genii i have a great appreciation for.

till then, enjoy your late morning breakfast and soak up the warmth of the southern hemisphere spring :D

yours tastefully

tea and toast: tori.

i grace thee with prettiness.

a proper blog post! squee!

for now i'm letting you all know about a couple of radical sites i have been whiling away many hours on.

the first of which is actually a multitude of a network of blogs (get your cortex around that one), the core network going by the name of artessen, leading to other topic specific blog networks like yours artfully (photography), we love indie (indie and handmade) and nestfully (home and lifestyle). i have spent hours and hours just killing my eyesight scouring the photos for ideas for things to do...to while away even more hours NOT completing college assignments. hell, who doesn't want to know how to make caramalised fig icecream!?

the second website is a closely linked site, etsy, is basically the ebay of the indie world. on sale is everything from vintage dress patterns, to wallpaper! it showcases many artessen fans' own handmade work, falling under the great ol' classification of indie.  i personally want this pattern. and its ships to aus. yipee!

i know that i'm only a novice when it comes to indie blogs and websites, but if you haven't yet heard of these 2 sites, i strongly suggest you gives them a lookie.

tis all for now.

yours artfully,

tea and toast: tori

if i can hold down anything or longer than 4 hours/days/weeks/months...?

hello, hi, greetings, yo, hey, *waves*.

as of late i've been trollin indie blogs and the like for weeks now and something inside (from my old TRAINVLOG! and bloobelle days) sparked my old passion for blogging.

if i have any kind of persistence i will keep this blog up! therefore it will not be weekly, monthy or such. it will be when something tickles my fancy enough to make it into compubox literary history. be it a rant about creepy people i encounter on the train without my lovely schapperone, seane, to save me from commuter evils, or cute little projects i have begun. i promise i will try to blog about it.

hold me to it.

yours,
tea and toast: tori :D