sepia tones

half way through my internship now, still alive despite week after week of early starts (pretty sure I'm running on nothing but coffee)
currently going through old photographs of The Rocks, they're absolutely fabulous! cobbled roads and horse-drawn carts, women in long dresses and men in suits and tophats... I love old photos!
looking forward to having my work put up on some buildings too, there will be many pictures when this happens!

a vivid end to the week

Hurray! Week one of my internship survived, and enjoyed! I didn’t exactly enjoy the 6:30am starts, or the long commute into Sydney, but the gorgeous Baker’s Oven Café on George Street cured me of my morning grumpiness with a large cappuccino and fabulously friendly staff.

My week has consisted mainly of research. I’m pretty sure I’ve read everything there is to real about early colonial bricks and Peters Ice Cream.

I am also loving Trove, an online initiative by the National Library of Australia to digitise, and make searchable, a number of resources, such as books, newspapers, pictures, objects, letters, maps and websites. It’s absolutely fantastic, especially if you love old photographs, like I do!

Check it out here http://trove.nla.gov.au/

My week finished with a lovely dinner out with my mum, and then a wander through The Rocks and Circular Quay to check out the Vivid Sydney lights and displays after work… I won’t lie, I was expecting it to be a little tacky, but it was actually amazing and beautiful. Photos can’t really do it justice since everything was constantly moving and changing, but I tried…

farewell semester one!

Goodness, gracious! Last day of semester one today! It seems like only yesterday I was looking at thirteen weeks of study, study, study and essay writing... I'd probably be more excited if I didn't still have two essays and a presentation to complete, but at least from here I can see the bright shining lights of spare time cresting the horizon of somewhere in early July. Until then my weekdays will be spent interning for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (currently researching methods of brick production in early to mid nineteenth century Sydney, which is exactly as interesting as it sounds! But at least I'm generally inside, hidden away from the crazy Sydney weather!), and my weekends will be spent doing assignments.
On the brightside, early July brings my birthday, which means quality time with my lovely friends and family (and yes, I'll admit, presents!) and a trip to Brisbane to visit my brother and his lovely family... My sister-in-law and I have plans to spend a weekend at the Abbey Medieval Festival, decked out head to toe in Medieval garb, watching jousting and archery and partaking of Medieval shenanigans! Should be fabulous fun, many photos will be taken, I promise! xo