Hövding means "chieftain" in Swedish

Hövding

Those crazy Swedes. Yes they do have style, and design must run through their blood but really could this work? Possibly when Winter 2011 hits (no pun intended), I will be more convinced. For now, I''ll just keep on admiring their styling!

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While these Perth lads strum their sounds around Europe, they do so knowing they have 5 ARIA nominations to their name; 'Album of the Year', 'Best Group', 'Best Rock Album', 'Breakthrough Artist' and 'Best Cover Art'. Now thatś a big seller and thanks to the guys at Daytrotter you can find out why the Tame Impala sound is ¨one equally informed by The Beatles as it is beat poetry.¨

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Crafty Wears - made in melbourne

This weekend was dictated by the crafts but in a good way. A week or so ago, I came across Emily Green via The Design Files and was instantly drawn to her colorful brooches. A textile designer by trade, she combines digital prints and resin to create her colorful delights. I am so sold by them that I make my way into town just to catch her at Craft Hatch market, a Craft Victoria initiative, showing casing the works of 25 emerging designers each month. And what a great item to own. For the next day as I made brief appearances in Fitzroy/Richmond/North Melbourne, I kid you not, I was showered with glowing comments over my new brooch. Who would have thought this colorful little pick me up would be such a conversation starter! The only hiccup and my bad, was I kept telling people the designer was Emma Green rather than EMILY Green. If only I had just said Em Green, I would not feel so bad. Oh well.

So the brooch was my Saturday buy. My Sunday buy was another seek out buy. I had met Simply Phoebe at Finders Keepers market a week or so ago. At Finders Keepers Phoebe only had stocks of winter-ish colors left which didn't agree with my bright colors only mission. But all was not lost as she would be at Spring Fling, a North Melbourne Errol Street festival to spruik her wares. Of course I followed and now I am the owner of this neck piece, which is made from recycled material/offcuts (mine I´m told has curtain pieces). Definitely a tick in my sustainability books, thus LUV. Luv so much I no longer need a new outfit for the races rather another neck piece will do me just fine. Reuse (dress & head gear), Recycle (neck piece made from recycled outcuts, and heels from camberwell market) and Reduce (my purchases/consumption), is my motto for Spring Racing Carnivale 2010. Now time to get onto Phoebe to see if she can whip me up the perfect Derby Day piece! Stay tuned.

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As always better late than never. Normal programing will return next week as I have some me time up my sleeve again. Though, a report is still in the works but it's not far off from completion.

Anyhoo, so I missed out on Yacht Club Djs at the Corner last week while I wouldn't have had the energy and time, nonetheless I still missed out. So I give you this week's belated download, Yacht Club DJs, fine boys from Ballarat who have gotten down and dirty with Little Red's highly rotated single 'Rock It' and have given it their touch. Enjoy.

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I remember the very first Laneway Festival, back in 2004 when it was known as St Jeromes laneway festival. When St Jeromes was a bar, a gig venue and a place where we could grab a trusty toasted sandwich. Held in Caledonian lane, stage at little bourke street end and entry from lonsdale street, businesses opened up their back door for all to roam through. One memory was drifting through the kitchen of the Viet restaurant grabbing a spring roll and then heading upstairs to a lounge area. I believe it was Eskimoe Joe and The Avalanches who brought the laneway it's fame. Ahhh... the memories. So I align this week's track with the release of Laneway's 2011 lineup by giving you Gotye who you can expect to see at Footscray Community Arts Centre, the new location for the Laneway festival, no longer a laneway but a riverbank which seem to work just as well last year.

"Eyes Wide Open" by Gotye (released 12 October 2010)

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Why Why Why???

One thing I have got to quit doing is asking myself the question WHY ME? While I embrace the whole "everything happens for a reason" aka FATE I can't help but question why sh*t things happen to me during the times I have been eagerly waiting for.

When I ask myself the question Why me? I seem to start questioning everything and start doubting myself which leads to frustration and stress. I am the root of my own stress. So what I need to do is avoid self-doubt and put myself in non-superficial situations. It is then I am at ease. However, what is stressful to one may not be stressful to another. While I am a happy go lucky person, I am only happy go lucky when I am not constrained by time and when there is mutual respect within the environment one is in. Some people thrive on the sense of urgency, I prefer a smooth process where things just falls into place as I find there is some kind of "realness" in it, whereas the other is really just finding quick solutions to inefficiencies. I HATE inefficiencies, it destroys me as life is too precious to be wasted on inefficiencies. Which is why I have changed my path in life. I have new priorities which kind of aligns with Erik Dammann, Norwegian author, environmentalist and founder of The Future in Our Hands organization, idea of wanting "society to arrange things to allow for more part-time work and similar solutions promoting more sustainable consumption." Having received 'The Right Livelihood Award', more commonly known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize", for challenging Western values and lifestyles in order to promote a more responsible attitude to the environment and the third world, Dammann is not just a man of blubbering words.

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Jose Gonzales last album was 2007 'In Our Nature'. While tracks from the album still receives much rotation, when word on street had it that "Rope And Summit" was a new track from Jose Gonzales' band Junip, I jumped on it!

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Swiss made SIGG

A few months ago I blogged about Vapur, the anti-bottle. While the concept is great but for everyday use, not so. I do like my Vapur bottle for the convenience at music festivals and the likes but it does get grotty and I'm not so keen on grot. But the SIGG on the other hand is the BOMB. It was always a desire of mine not to buy into the SIGG brand but now I realize there is a reason why so many peeps choose the SIGG. An aluminimum reusable bottle lined with BPA-free Eco-Care liner and phthalate-free ingredients, it's easy to clean, nice and light and keeps my water fresh. All that I need to quench the thirst.

With my SIGG bottle, I'm in pretty good company!