Hola Crapola!!!  We're in Freo De Janero!  And I nearly had something brown in my pants!  A brown snake!!!!  Brown snake = Brown Pants!!!

We rode our mobiky's over to Rottennest island...over the undulating hills to a small private deserted (Desert-ed alright...this place is like the desert by the sea! the dry washed out landscape, pointy rocks and dangerous snake warning signs!!) and we found a cosy cove we called our own.  But we were not alone!!!

Freo De Janero (my name for Fremantle) was so laid back!  Dee and I were staying in an eco-green renovated hippy tram. We felt kinda like trailor trash but tramtrash...actually it's such beautiful surrounds..there's nothin trashy about it. Cept when I drank too much at night.  Apart from that it was cool...(literally)...it had an outdoor shower!!!

I also finally got to go to Xanadu!!!  A winery of the same name on the Margaret River!!!   Keep on your rollerskates...pics etc coming soon...

It's hard work towing a train!  (wedding train) My nieces kept riding on it...I also carried a pantyliner that had dropped out of my bag around for part of the night, (a guy I work with picked it up...how embarrashment!!) A green ant crawled up it and bit me on the inner thigh...and my partners mums dog kept attacking it.

The night was still dead fun though!  (as the Corpse Bride)    Only a few photos...Click here for a spooky treat (or not)

D flew me over to Tokyo to meet him on the way back from a working trip (he's been on for a month in the UK!) to celebrate my birthday!  I had a crazy exhausting time in Tokyo!   Excessive drinking and shopping will do that to a girl.  I succesfully Asah'ied and sushi'ed and shoe-she'd myself into the ari-guttero!!!  Three pairs of shoes and thirty thousand million drinks later...  (drink fests in the land of the rising sun till the rising sun a few nights there!)  We met so many friendly cool people that were really thirsty!!!!

Cocktails at the famous Lost in Translation bar, getting lost in trainstations, and also getting lost in the red light district (by myself the first night) and playing dressed up ho in the streets of Kabukicho (err...not this outfit...I'm talking bout a more ho-ier one) made the trip more enlightening!  In a city that's always en-lightened! 

See the pics here!

Woke up Saturday up the coast (our weeked place)... opened the top drawer on the 'chest of drawers'(I love saying that...such a stupid name for furniture)  and I let out a HUGE SCREAM!!!!  D has some wierd and evil looking contraptions in the drawer.   And I ask myself...is he practicing gynaecology on the side??   It seems gynaco-logical...I can't think what else such wierd instruments would be used for...

Then he tells me...he's making guitars!  10 of them!  How cool is THAT!  (He's so inspired and creative!) PHEW!!!  They're instruments for making instruments! And I'm so relieved...as I sing...."Dance Dance Dance...with your ten guitars!"

FREEDOM from SMOKING street art campaign!
I'm no sweet art...but I have made street art!   And it's an anti-smoking campaign I'm paying for myself!! (no government funding)  Just a community based expression on how sure...smoking might kill you but it's JUST NOT COOL!   (You might as well die from doing something cool!...I could list a few suggestions here...but I don't want to put ideas in your head :-P)   I've seen so many 'yooves' of late smoking in the street and at parties!!!  I can't believe so many young people are STARTING to smoke...after all we know about it!  (it's like they're living behind a smoke screen...only LITERALLY!)

Front of my first ipod design. Write something nice about my front side of my ipod...and I'll show you my backside!! ;-P
see my front   HERE

head swelled, aching to wear my new yellow dress (matches my yellow hair)...night out at byron...ate too much...tummy swelled...aching to get off new yellow dress...but not in a good way...:-P  that'll learn me.

March 08 - crotcheted bikini UPDATE...(err..."upDATE" being an appropriate word for THESE bikinis bottoms!) gallery coming soon...

Finally tested the crotcheted bikini I made last year on a kinda deserted beach at Byron.  Err...cept found we had an audience...three guys drinking beer in their backyard overlooking the beach...which was embarrassing...cause they kept waving and wouldn't go away.   Which made me nervous...cause as the sea kept 'waving' I thought I might bikinis might go AWAY  But...SUCCESS!!!  They stayed on!

err...as on as they could!  Since I made them last August...I hadn't tried them on again...and when I put them in the car park I screamed to Dee..."oh my gawd! Something drastics happened to the bottoms!!!!  ie: THERE IS NO bottom!"  Dee said...err...that's how you MADE them Dom!  They haven't shrunk!   To which I said "was I crazy when I made these????!!! what kinda crazy b.tch makes bikinis with no bottom in em!"    A forgetful cr.azy bi.tch it seems!!!   The art of old lady crotcheting must have given me Dom-ensia!

Pics coming soon...

Aug 07

Hey!  As the start of being creative again...

I bought my self some crochet needles and sparkley wool for my  38th birthday!  Yep...such an old granny thing to do! 

But...to make up for it...I crocheted a bikini!  Now THAT'S not very grandma...umm...unless when they get wet they get all saggy in the bottom like!    But I'm not showing it till it's done...err...that is if it doesn't fall apart at the seems... then it will be ixnay on the crochet it seems! 

Seriously though...I've been working on some ideas for making some clothes...illustrated handpainted tshirts...like the one I made for my New Yoik visit...(below)  Keep posted!  Scary picture I know...but I wanted your attention!  8-/

Hey!  I'm currently uploading a lot of  the galleries from our big U.S/Costa Rica trip I missed out on uploading last year...but don't peak yet...I'll tell ya when they're ready! No peekin- ya here!

Came across this photo from Byron Bay earlier this year...kinda liked it cause it was so SPAZ!   Like...besides looking like a 'jelly bean' in  wicked weasels...(scary togs from Byron bay) what's the imaginary thing I'm holding?!!!.......................looks very suss!  I have a vivid imagination!  Either that...or I have an imaginary  friend:-P  and I hope that's just an imaginary HAND I'm holding!  
8-P

O. "K"  This might look a bit "K.RUDD."  to you... but the night Kevin Rudd won the election...we were at an election/birthday party with friends...watching it on a big  projector screen.  And we celebrated in a very daggy way...by spelling 'KEVIN 07' out Sesame Street style... this photo montage is brought to you by the letter K.

Click here to see the whole word

playing tamborine at karoake...
Going off playing tamborine at karoake...loved it so much...D bought me one...finally an instrument I can play...now I just need one in each key...
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New swimsuit...was wearing thigh high black socks when I tried it on...looked so farny...I did a 'Sweet Transvestite' song routine for shop assistant cause I thought I looked like Frankenfurter... she laughed and agreed...which amused me greatly so bought it!!

It's the High of the Tiger...it's the cream of the fight...rising up...

Or alternative title: Is that a tiger in your pants or are you just pleased to see me?!

Yep...I was on such a high after Dee took me to pat and play with the baby tigers at Dreamworld that I  wanted to take one of the baby tigers from Dreamworld home!  Only...maybe not so much down my pants...they bite!  And my pants are always too tight to squish one in...nothing worse than c.rotch bite. :-P

Anyway...Dee did the most amazing thing for my 38th birthday!  At 5.30am (yeah...even more ama-zinger than me being up that early!) in the morning he surprise drove me to Dreamworld...to be two of the first 20 people to line up like crazy people in the cold...to pat and play with the 3month year old tigers! 

I highly recommend it...it's not often you get to play with a couple of wild cats!  Big Big paws!!.....................(thoughtful paws about the wonderment of nature)  Though...there's not much time to paws!!   There's only till the end of this month (they're getting too big for the public to handle)...cat them while you can!!!    See kitty pics here!

Ok...So lately  I've bean expresso-ing myself  artistically  through Latte Art!  I have  just perfected making coffee's with our office coffee machine...and now everytime I make coffee for people...I try to make a pretty picture as well! 

Check out my latest and BEST!! The cream of the crap!  Stampy the Elephant!!  This one just came out in a pour...(I added only the eyes and ear lines)  I was actually trying to pour a leaf...but got an el-leaf-phant instead!!! 

See below a messy grub I made for Sach...

and just one of the smiley faces (a bit amature) I make one of the guys at work to perk(ulate) them up!  Mocha me if you likea...but it's kinda fun! 

May 05 07
Every morning I take out the garbage...this grasshopper takes me by surprise and the then garbage goes flying!!! I Fall for it (literally to the ground) everytime...I'm kinda scared of a lot of things...but PESTilence (love that word) is a big one on that list...and this is one big grasshopper!

The first time I fell for it...we were walking home along the river in the dark...and I saw it's dark sillohette sitting on the path before us and froze exclaiming "OH MI GAWD!  that's the BIGGEST DIRTIEST GRASSY-ASSED  hopper I ever seen!' Then my partner goes 'And I'm gonna CATCH it...cause it's like some RECORD BREAKING SIZE!!!'   And then  I screamed and ran as he poked it with a stick! 

err...then he poked it some more...ensued by more screaming and running by me. (some of it in circles) Then...he poked it again!  cueing my scream.   Then when he picked it up...we really heard screaming!  Screams of laughter in the dark...coming from some house across the road.  It was all a dirty set up!  So we TOOK the dirty grasshopper and ran with it!!

Now it lives sitting STILL on our front  fence...and instead of scaring passersby...it just  STILL scares Dee and Me EVERY MORNING!  So I guess the joke's STILL on US!!!  We have a lot to learn...grasshopper!

drinks, tickles, giggles, tongue wagging and torch swallowing fun at Darlene and John's birthday drinks.  See photos here. oh and bum grabbing (though thankfully there's no photo of me grabbing two guys bums near bumswick st. Michael is a bad influence! "Dom I dare you to grab those guys bums"...:-P   There's no photo of a guy (we now call Mr. Potatoe head)  throwing Deb potatoe at Michael and I out of his window on the corner of my street either....after we gave him cheek on a long walk home.  What light from yonder window breaks...AAARGH tis Deb potoatoe...and it nearly hit us in the head!!!

Had lunch with Dee today...I'm reading my new glossy glam book on fashions of the late 60s and 70s...when he sends a spray of coffee flying past it...  Now I know he finds some of the fashions the pits (and past it)...but he tells me that's not the reason he's laughing...and shows me the book from his point of view by taking a photo...err...maybe he's right...these shirts ARE the shits! 

the old fold concealing the lette'R' in the page trick!

We're back  back in the Brisbane Groove.  This photo was taken the week we got back...we were soo desperate for something new to do and so used to doing nothing...we jumped a river city cat to New Farm park then had a kitty cat nap.

I'm slowly uploading photos from our last trip...gallery 2

afternoon view from our park where we live...

I've been riding EVERYTHING...getting some practice in for the bullriding in Las Vagueass...if I don't chicken out!  I haven't ridden a chicken though...but I rode this inflatable caterpillar Imre gave Minky at her Third it's a Wiggly Pirate Party!!   At least I'm working my way up to the bull...but I got a long way to go from 'catAAAAARRRRpillaaaarrrrrr' (that be fancy pirate talk for Caterpillar)

Check out her dad...he's like...such a child!!!  ;-P  more photos uploaded later-er

I must confessie...I love this little dawg whole hog!  My weekend ugly friend.  Jessie is half pig half dog.  She's got one pink eye and one black eye...little piggy trotters and a spotty bum.  But hey...who am I to say what's  hamsome and what's not.  She's got spunk even if she's not a spunk!!! 

July 20

Ok...so you might think I'm obsessed with Wieners or something...since this is the second story I've written about them this week.  This however is not a schnitzel story.  It is however a story about a scary piece of artwork I found (from years ago) when I was cleaning out our studio recently.

Err...the poor little wiener...what he ever do to hurt anyone?!  Do ya think I might have been in a "I HATE all men" mood at the time I painted this one.?!! Funny though.   Even funnier...is the naked photo we took of me screamin in front of this painting...just to keep in theme.   I'm so in themer with the screamer and the weiner...it IS funny!   Not showing though.  I don't think I want people laughing at me naked!!  (or screaming for that matter)  ;P
I think I'll put this painting outside on Brunswick St. on a Friday night...see if there are any 'takers'. 

So I'm watching my favourite comedy show "Little Britain" with a friend.  And the friend turns to me and says "Don't take this the wrong way Dom...but you remind me of 'the only gay in the village...the way you dress and stuff"
And I go...But I don't wear stretch latex!  And then I go..."oh...cept for the absolutely fabulous black latex shorts jumpsuit I bought the other day  I simply Muuust show you!!erm...perhaps I AM the only gay in the village!!!  Albiet a slim girly version.

I just love to snorkel...and I wish I could put fish in our pool!!   The first time I tried it was in Fiji!   I wasn't very comfortable with water then (I can't swim)...and scared of sharks!  Till my partner said the magic words "DOM!  If you don't stop, screaming, fwailing and flapping round in the water like that...you're gonna ATTRACT  the sharks"    With this...I totally relaxed...found I COULD float and found I was better off relaxing and looking around under the water...than freaking out on top of it not being able to see what was under there!  I had breathing challenges though...(found I was more snort-girl than snorkel)...possibly cause I was so overstimulated and overexcited with the underworld beneath!  I've  loved snorkelling ever since!   I'm going to COSTA RICA in November!  I can't wait to snort-girl there!  ...err...cept for the crodadillos!  oh oh...there's gonna be some fwailing!

Snorkelling puts a smile on my face...a much fatter sillier smile! ....like I've got collegen implants!   It's good to look like a fish...when amoungst them!

A little red gallery dot makes a little white gal very happy. My sexy starsign prints are currently on show in a new gallery...and I sold one on opening night! Here's me and my wide smile and my tall friend, Imre...and my little red dot, err...dotty. 

Dom and Dommer (I'm the dommer outta the two)  Things got dom confusing on gallery night...when I ran into Dominique...
another Dominique from years past.  Everytime someone yelled Dom...we'd both answer!

ok check out this bug.  I think it's the coolest!  Have you ever seen a bug as silly looking as this one?  I'd never seen a bug like it...obviously...cause I did stand there a good 15 minutes laughing at it...which kinda made me look a bit silly too!

It was on our stairwell...and well...it could stare well!  From which ever angle you looked at it...it could swivell it's buggly eyes around and stare. Me thought it 'mazing...and me found it 'musing!

ps. if there are any entomologists out there...log on and ento me the details as to what kinda bug this is!?

cause the buggle-eyed bug beguiled me!

of upmost imp-snort-ance!

Of all the things my parents taught me...it's the art of snorting I cherish the most. While some might think laughing like  a pig is not kosha...I say laughter is important, so do it with greed guts and gluttony...gahead!

When my mum laughs...she screams.   literally.   So much so, when I was little, the neighbours used to ring us up to find out what channel mum was watching.  Dad is a snorter, not so much a loud laugh...but  more  tempered punctuated with occassional snorts. 

I think mine is a hybrid of the two. Sometimes when I laugh...Darren comments 'Jeezus Dom...I don't get how such a small thing can make such a loud scary sound!'

I'm so much NOT a laaady!

what sort of dickhaired pays a whole lotta money for fake hair...that nobody can notice!  A me-dickhaired!   I tried to find a recent photo that would prove my hair locks look  longer.  The migranes have gone now...so I mightn't really get the hair-out till I can grow my real hair out!   (which is actually short now...cause I got the blonde tips cut off.)   

27 October 05

You know one of those days when you're just kinda feeling blue...and you can't exactly put your finger on it...well...today was one of those days.  AND in the late afternoon Daz bought me a BLUE geetar!  So now when I'm feeling BLUE...I can actually FEEL (the) BLUE and put ALL my fingers on it !!!  It's small... It's me sized...it rocks!  :D  I don't rock so much though....I gots to learn more how to plays it! 

though...Daz just taught me how to 'hammer'!  And I'm SO gonna nail it!  err...that sounded w-rong!  But I know how to hammer...so I'm gonna hammer in the morning...gonna hammer in the evening...all over this land...

Seriassly though...I've always wanted an acoustic guitar exactly like Holly Golightly's (Audrey Hepburn) from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"  and this one is almost exactly the same shape, size and colour!!  I'm learning "Moonriver" right now...and I'm SO gonna sit in a window sill, with a towel on my head singing it when I'm done!  Watch out...Audrey 2 is on her way!  (hopefully the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" version...not the Audrey 2 from "Little Shop of Horrors version!" ) :D

bev chick. (no offence to your hat though imre!)
I did it.  I turned into a bev chick.  Last week I got some hair extensions.  I'm ready to rip em out already...I think I hate em! Or vice versa!?

I've had a horrid hairaches (migranes) ever since I got them, can't sleep on them at night...and to top myself off...I think I look like a BEV chick!  well...I've been acting like one. And on the weekend I was out, with long bleached hair, a singlet, my tight sheryl jeans and Pink boots...and I suddenly looked at my self and went 'oh mi gawd...I've gone BOGAN!  The hair is suppossed to be from India...but I think it's from Inala!   I think I'm gonna get them out and that means my hair will be heaps shorter...will I stay a bogan...or  just go back to the boganning...and grow it all again!?!  I think I over-extensioned myself and now I've got P.E.T... Post Extension Tension!

Sept 16 2005
I've been feeling a little drab lately...and I've been thinking about getting some 'fakies' to give me a 'lift'.  You'll probaby never guess what kind of fakies...but I'll just leave it up to your imaGINations.   :P  First person to guess...gets err...a gold star for wherever they wanna stick it!

 this is your caption speaking...welcome to flight dom.com.au. where the gin flight entertainment flows 24-7 and the airways radio is tuned to cheese.  Sit back, relax and enjoy your meal...wait up! better still...sit UP, DON'T relax! feed-me-BACK, comment, interact and help keep this baby flyin!  I now appoint you co-captions! Heck, I'll even name your Rogers...I mean, I'll name you all Roger! (oops, my first word slip...keep it clean dom!)

Cause this is my first time!  'nervous?' (you say) no, I've been nervous before... but it's my first time flying a travel blog! Flight duration is 4 weeks, a short journey but covering a lot of distance.  Updates maybe sparodic depending on high or low attitudes (ie: how lazy I get locating an internet cafe) but please remain seated until we are ready to bring this baby down..and I hope you enjoy my flight! roger that?...crrrr

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March 12
I love old songs...but sometimes think I should be more into the now...by singing new lyrics like...
"If I said you had a beautiful body...(and I started seeing your personal trainer)..would you hold it against me?" 

sadly the other night I had a dream...I was getting ready for work...and dressed as a police-woman...singing "You can't stop the museli!...nobody can stop the museli"  The wierd thing is... I hate museli!

A rootin tootin cowboy shootin photo shoot out in theold Nevada Ghost Town of Rhyolite. -5 degrees...made this cowgirl with a toy gun one coldblooded killer...well I nearly froze to death anyways.

And they say you can only experience Death once...but we went through the valley of death twice...Here's just some of the photos...Joshua trees, slot canyons, crystalised salt lakes...etc. etc. We loved it so much and there's still so much to see we're dying to go back one day!! Yay...as we walk on through the Valley of Death...we feared no evil...cause we were couple of evil sons of biartches ourselves!! ;-P

nov 4 05
planet of the apricots - a recent dream
I got NO sleep that night I dreamt of ...."Planet of the Apricots!"

So there was this dramatic drum-beating kinda soundtrack playing "dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb"...some horses galloped in...and then the camera pans down to reveal a whooole lotta freakin dried apricots just sitting there on the dirt...THEN "dumb dumb dubm"... a  humungarsed  "Planet of the Apricots" title  flashes up...and  right  then in the middle of my dream... my brain goes..."What the fark??!...that's SO dumb dom!" ...SO dumb it woke me up!!!  Then I couldn't get back to sleep cause I was scared... of my brain! 

just thought I'd share that one with you all...update you all on my latest dumbest dream!