arrow living

i dare say that preparing for the Arrow Management and Staff christmas party was probably one of the most memorable parts of the year, or even my time here in melbourne. even if i hadn't helped out, seeing the place transform alone would have been inspiring. ALL IN 5 DAYS.

of course this took 6 months of planning (or rather, the garden did). the eventual decor for the party was conceived and birthed in 5 days, because of last minute changes to the original plan.

Day 1. Friday - we started with the giant leaf decals which i cut out while eugene and jean went to ikea to look for drapes for the ceiling (but found nothing appropriate).

Day 2. Saturday - Jean and i went for breakfast at brunswick street. we were going to eat in at babka's. but Jean wanted to..

1) bring home a broken tree and

2) do a taste test on almond crossiants.

so we ended up taking away a crossiant from babka's, and getting another one from baker d. Chirico.

Baker D Chirico - we decided this had a beautiful shape and texture

Babka's: flattened shape, slightly better flavour.

i would still just go to baker d chirico.. because it's just a stone's throw from where i live hahaha. imma get one tmr morning. woohooo!

Jean loves street art and took pictures os some. amazing work huh? this is quite disrespectful though, because the aboriginal people of Australia believe that photographs like this.. even paintings.. will capture the person's soul.

we only got to eat the crossiants after we brought the tree back to arrow though. so here's jean with 2 saws borrowed from a workroom. she managed to persuade jonlee to drive us back to brunswick to saw off branches to take home.

now she's happy. LOL

we spent a couple of hours stripping leaves off the branches and filled up a whole giant bin. lunch ime came and we had left overs from Trinity COllege Valedictory dinner. CHECK IT OUT. ok only 1 picture.

there was way too uch going on at arrow by the time we finished lunch, so we only continued at night and worked till 2am, putting up the branches and decorating the bare arms with christmas baubles and laminated bamboo leaves

i've lost track of the days. i also had to scoot off to help juls, sam and chris with nick and phebe's wedding video.

Monday morning. hard work begins at 7.30am. transporting HEAPS of rock and earth from the ground floor to the 10th.

the planting of the first shrubs. ok the first edible green. that's an olive tree and the other one is something else. i still hae yet to learn my spices and veggies.

GAHHHH blogger's not letting me publish more pictures! many of them would beon fb anyway so check that out under shing's album.

on a random note, isnt this the cutest can tab ever?

one of the other things i did after the exams was uhm. ok so i rescued these roses from being rejected. and i decided to share them with strangers before they dried or wilted. it was scary - just the thought of going up to a stranger and making his/her day.. so i only took 3 out that day. ended up giving them to people i knew. gah. bron win doreen and eugene. haha. HEY but even those, i thought through.

alright. i've got a heap of things to work on tonight. i dont think i'll be able to get too much done considering it's already 1am and i'll be meeting aimee tmr morning, taking my family to the country. kthxbai