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poem-today · 9 months
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A poem by Audrey Molloy 
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Smoke, Mirrors, Narcissist
We’d all ended up in a Leeson Street club called Leggs, and we were smoking—me, and a blonde in a majorette blazer. We were laughing hard at each other’s jokes, though we could barely hear ourselves think. Is that Bono over there? I shouted, and she looked, and I looked. I asked if I could light my cigarette from the tip of hers. We brought our hands close. She wore a cameo pinky ring just like my own. I leaned in and she leaned in, and I thought she was going to kiss me. My breath made a circle of fog on the mirror. I drew a little heart in it.
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Audrey Molloy 
First published in Live Encounters (September 2023)
More poems by Audrey Molloy are available through her website.
Photo: Felix Man/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty
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rustbeltjessie · 1 year
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Audrey Molloy, from “A Brief History of Smoking”
iii. A pool of denim and velvet on the floor between bed and door; sending a taxi for smokes at 3am; all those things we don’t do now, like cigarettes after sex—crackle as leaf becomes ash, sheets of smoke suspended, up-lit by a candle in a Mateus Rosé bottle. On the nightstand, like a carriage clock, Dunhill’s claret-and-gold pack; alas, now gone, replaced with images that would put you off coming.
iv. Lighting up in the fire escape: me, filing clerk and hot CEO, who tells me I should wear red to work more often—you could back then.  And the switch to Silk Cut Ultra, when you realise addiction is not strictly chemical. I mean, how much nicotine is really in those things? Fourteen years post-quitting, the gaps—still there, after dessert, or making love, or when news comes on the phone that someone’s died.
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enbylestat · 10 months
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Plusieurs Petites Morts
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Plusieurs Petites Morts.
The beginning.
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49015285/chapters/123660094
Pairing: multi.
Fandom: Vampire Chronicles book series by Anne Rice.
Rating: E - explicit. check the tags. Don’t like… don’t read.
Summary: Happy Vampire Chronicles kink week 2023! Here is a series of not canon compliant self indulgent one shots and my contribution.
Excerpt: Lestat’s mistress or that is how du Lac and Madam Audrey first met. Now, they were at Trinity Gate and she was so much more than that. Lestat was away and caught up in whatever drama he was in these days. His former disdain and misogyny towards the well… ‘harlot’ which he would only call her when she asked to. She was beautiful, like some raven-haired Venus. “You cut our evening short.” — Louis de Pointe du Lac
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Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Playlist.
Archive of our own.
Link of links.
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meerawrites · 7 months
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Character intro: Isabella, better known by her pseudonym "Elise" or "Elisa"
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Inspired by: Daniel Molloy (in Anne Rice’s 1976 ~ IWTV), Lana del Rey, and @elisaintime (Elisa Hansen and their persona and meta commentary). Maven of the eventide.
Character summary: she/her, white-American, bisexual. A journalist and call girl in present day San Francisco, specifically, the Castro, trying to make ends meet. She could always anticipate when the rent is due, she didn’t anticipate the vampires.
Fun Fact: by creation date, my newest character!
As genre commentary: there isn’t enough women in the gothic genre and it makes me mad. Also, like Audrey, I wanted a sex worker character who isn’t doomed by her actions or the fact she’s a sex worker.
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charmantevamp · 1 year
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Absolutely unpredictable
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Saying this here, I do not do fandom uncivil discourse. 
Technically addressed to @the-apostates-martyr @sangcreole, and company. But if someone else on the dash sees this, I beg them to read further and not assume intent. This is a long post. Something I’ve been thinking on for awhile. Something I’ve talked extensively about in all the vampire adjactent discords I am in, including Maven’s.
This is something I’ve noticed in all fandoms including all Ricean work, especially TVC. The lines that come to mind are as follows….
“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.” and “We're frightened of what makes us different.” (Anne Rice)
To get to the point, this wasn’t exactly a thing back when the TVC fandom was just the queer and global majority gothic and goth kids yelling on tumblr, exchanging notes. It’s the puritanical rhetoric for me. I don’t consider myself “pro” ship or “anti” ship. Merely being able to separate fiction from reality. If the straight, normie, white people can have fictional toxic relationships and messy bastards (affectionate) so can we. I am increasingly tired of Marius anti’s. It’s hypocritical and tedious and furthermore, not real. They’re vampires, therefore all questionable and you cannot consent fully willingly if a preternatural creature is threatening you. Additionally, 40 is not old. You can dislike Marius’ treatment of Armand, you can dislike a character but to be hurtful to real people is a step logically, too far and I won’t have it. I personally very much disdain David Talbot. I still think him interesting. I simply don’t post about him. Lastly, I am just incredibly tired of people treating devils minion as healthy, happy or sane or as Daniel’s end point. It’s definitely not healthy and it’s S&M af. That’s what interesting about it. Love makes monsters of us all and love drives many an individual especially in gothic horror to do “bad” things. What’s the point of liking these characters if one can’t comprehend none is ethical, they’re all traumatized and they aren’t in any capacity straight.
I think y’all are cool. Also, I updated these for the first time in a year:
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markulyseas · 9 months
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The Figure-Eight Pools, poems by Audrey Molloy.
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poolresources · 7 years
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Audrey Molloy (b. Würzburg, 1993) is a photo based artist, writer, and occasional performance artist. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 2015 where she studied digital photography, critical art theory, and video art. Most recently, Audrey was chosen as a 2016 Scholarship Artist in Residence at Pump Project in Austin, TX. She currently lives and works in Nashville, TN as a freelance arts writer.
Interested in the limitations and constructs that contemporary photography presents psychologically and formally, her work engages ideas of medium specificity, digital fallacy, and postmodern narratives.
Pushing Sonny: In 2002 my dad left the golf course business and began work at as an account manager for Open Works, a franchise of Facilitec, who he used to scrub the grease off of restaurant exhaust systems at night for. This meant that I no longer could collect violent green golf balls and shine them for quarters and that my dad smelled like Fabuloso and drove a windowless van. Later on he also acquired a white Jeep Cherokee.
He said that if he writes a memoir, it will be called Driving in Cars.
One of my dad’s work partners in Mesa wore a soaked business suit in his car everyday so that the hot air would slowly cool him, evaporation style. In passing, my dad mentioned the salt from the man’s body quickly imbued the navy suit with white sediment deposits and that his gait was preempted by a threatening crunching sound.
The same thing happened to our towels. It was an unspoken caution when drying oneself off to rub slowly, as the sun had dried the absorbent terry cloth fibers to hardened sharp nodules and sun-towel-lacerations require difficult explanations. Eventually, my mother left the towels on the line all afternoon and they simply cracked in half. I presume the man’s suit faced a similar fate.
Displacement, or a dissociation from place, occurs when the thinking self and physical self become estranged. This inability to feel “located” is conditional for a contemporary experience of daily life, where our negotiation of real and temporal spaces is constantly in flux.
Interested in the limitations and constructs of contemporary photography, Pushing Sonny (2016-17) parses the medium’s technical discourse to construct hyper-realized environments, disclose digital fallacies, and disrupt authentic space, as a method for engaging in an aestheticized image of physical and psychological estrangement.
View the entire series on our website.
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headstuff-org · 7 years
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Valentine’s Day: A Gradual Eden
http://dlvr.it/NN1SXt #HeadStuff
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brian-in-finance · 2 years
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The Rep
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The Rep
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Cast: Much Ado About Nothing, The Renaissance Theatre Company, 1988
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Sir Kenneth Branagh as Benedick, Samantha Bond as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Dame Judi Dench, 1988
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Sir Kenneth Branagh as Touchstone, Dearbhla Molloy as Audrey in As You Like It, directed by Geraldine McEwan, 1988
Photo Stage
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Sir Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, Sophia Thompson as Ophelia in Hamlet, directed by Sir Derek Jacobi, 1988
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Remember… the elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. — Sir Kenneth Branagh
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burlveneer-music · 5 years
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Jonathan Scales Fourchestra - Mindstate Music - a steel drum orchestra
One year after the release of PILLAR, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra presents Mindstate Music - a concise, but musically dense instrumental journey that explores six psychological states of composer/steel pannist Jonathan Scales. Inspired by true events in Scales’ personal life, this music is intended to be something of an emotional release. The real-life, off-stage vulnerabilities and insecurities of the internationally respected artist are orchestrated here for the curiously adventurous listener to dive into. Mindstate Music finds the Fourchestra in the middle of a steel drum orchestra for the first time, exploring that lush, sonic pallet while staying true to Scales’ unique writing style. While movements like “The Maze” and “The Mad” showcase the Fourchestra’s signature style of mind-twisting, grooving complexities, a real sense of human frailty is exposed on pieces like “The Mean” and “The Mud”. For true fans of Jonathan Scales Fourchestra, Mindstate Music is a momentary glimpse into the artist’s head & heart, beyond the bounds of the music.
Musicians: Jonathan Scales - double second steel pans (soloist) E’Lon JD - bass guitar Maison Guidry - drums Louis Raymond-Kolker - tenor pan Audrey Holden - tenor pan Jeff Jones - tenor pan Diana Loomer - tenor pan Lauren Molloy - tenor pan Vance Umphrey - double second pans Jonah Payne - double second pans Jonathan Scales - double second pans Wyatt Bradford - guitar pans Eric Luke - cello pans Yuko Asada - bass pans Jonathan Scales - triangle, tambourine, low toms, suspended cymbal River Guerguerian - congas, bongos, shakers, cow bell, & silkworm cocoon rattles on “The Man”
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poem-today · 3 years
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A poem by Audrey Molloy
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How I Knew It Was a Dream
The day was strange from the start. Small things, like the way the grass leaned towards the dying moon,
or the air lifted the table linen. The eggs, when rapped lightly on the bowl, rapped back, and this went on, back
and forth, until I tucked them in the warm cleft of my breast, where they sang like happy kettles.
The solemn badger in the hallway held my Barbour coat as I slipped it on. A strange day, I tell you.
People were talking in the street and on the train, heads thrown back to laugh at nothing. No one wore a mask.
I accepted all this as a marvelous run of coincidence—that is until I saw you waving from your car.
I looked around but I was alone, unmistakable in my velvet cloche, quilted coat and button-sided boots,
and you, beaming like a man who’s spied a special friend he hasn’t seen for years, not the woman who was once his wife.
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Audrey Molloy
More poems by Audrey Molloy are available through her website.
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bookerplays · 6 years
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Popshot 21 - the Dream Issue
Popshot 21 – the Dream Issue
I dreamt I had a poem published in Popshot then woke up and found I really did!  A quarterly magazine of flash fiction, poetry and short stories mouth-wateringly illustrated by more than 20 cutting-edge artists – that’s what dreams are made of.
Each issue of Popshot works to a theme and draws submissions from across the globe. I find myself returning to old issues time and time again. It’s a…
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its-going-great · 5 years
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Work Was Dead So Here is some Raw Data about the 2019 Jimmy Award Nominees
86 students are performing, representing 25 states. 
California, unsurprisingly, has the most nominees (10)
Three sets of two nominees were in the exact same production (Freaky Friday, 42nd Street, and Throughly Modern Millie)
This year’s nominees represent 83 productions of 50 different musicals
31 Nominees are performing the same role of at least one other person
Les Mis was the most performed show out of the nominees, with 5 productions. Little Shop and Mary Poppins tie for second place with 4 each.
And then I went crazy, and counted the number of nominees per role. 
It’s listed in order of show (god help me)..
9 TO 5 
Judy Bernly - 1
THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Olive - 1
42nd STREET
Peggy Sawyer - 1
Billy Lawlor - 1
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Gomez Addams - 2
AIDA
Aida - 1
ANYTHING GOES
Lord Evelyn Oakleigh - 1
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Belle - 2
Beast - 1
BIG FISH
Will Bloom - 1
Edward Bloom - 1
BONNIE AND CLYDE
Clyde - 1
A BRONX TALE
Calogero - 1
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Carl Hanratty - 1
CINDERELLA
Ella - 1
CRAZY FOR YOU
Bobby Child - 2
CURTAINS
Lt. Frank Cioffi - 1
Georgia Hendricks - 1
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
The Drowsy Chaperone- 2
THE FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Tevye - 1
FOOTLOOSE
Ren McCormick - 1
FREAKY FRIDAY
Katherine - 1
Adam - 1
GUYS AND DOLLS
Sky Masterson - 1
HEATHERS: HIGH SCHOOL EDITION
Veronica Sawyer - 1
HELLO, DOLLY!
Horace Vandergelder - 1
Mrs. Irene Molloy - 2
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Quasimodo - 1
IN THE HEIGHTS
Usnavi - 2
Nina - 1
INTO THE WOODS
Baker’s Wife - 1
Cinderella - 1
Baker - 1
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Jesus  - 1
KISS ME KATE
Fred Graham/ Petruchio - 1
LEGALLY BLONDE
Elle Woods - 1
Paulette - 1
LES MISERABLES
Jean Valjean - 2
Eponine - 2
Marius - 1
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Ariel - 2
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Seymour - 3
Audrey - 1
LITTLE WOMEN
Jo March - 2
MAME
Mame Dennis - 1
MAMMA MIA!
Donna - 1
MARY POPPINS
Mary Poppins - 2
Bert - 2
MISS SAIGON
Chris - 1
MY FAIR LADY
Eliza Dootlittle - 1
NEWSIES
Jack Kelly - 1
Katherine Plumber- 1
OKLAHOMA!
Curly - 1
ROCK OF AGES
Drew - 1
SIDE SHOW
Terry Conor - 1
SISTER ACT
Deloris Van Cartier - 2
Eddie Souther - 1
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Maria - 1
Captain Von Trapp - 1
SUESSICAL
Gertrude McFuzz - 2
THROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
Millie Dillmount - 1
Trevor Graydon - 1
TITANIC
Alice Bean - 1
[TITLE OF SHOW]
Heidi - 1
TUCK EVERLASTING
Jesse Tuck - 1
The Man In the Yellow Suit - 1
URINETOWN
Hope Caldwell - 1
WEST SIDE STORY
Anita - 1
Tony - 1
WHITE CHRISTMAS
Betty Haynes - 1
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nolanhollogay · 2 years
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gossip girl ocs
original
reboot
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
angelica asher - she/her, monet de haan love interest, fc: madison beer
daisy evelyne - she/her, audrey hope love interest, fc: jeon somi
jacqueline “jacks” johns - she/they, julien calloway love interest, fc: myra molloy
piper "squeaky" mcnamara - she/her, zoya love interest, fc: rowan blanchard
sunwoo “sunnny” lee - he/him, aki menzies love interest, fc: lee donghyuck
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jeremystrele · 4 years
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Thoughtful Home Deliveries To Nurture Your Creativity
Thoughtful Home Deliveries To Nurture Your Creativity
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by Amelia Barnes
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Tools in The Classic Weaver Kit by Wunder Weave. Photo – Sam Wong. Styling – Natalie Turnbull
We’re now into our sixth week of isolation, which probably means you’ve already watched Tiger King, baked several loaves of bread, reorganised your wardrobe, Zoomed with every long lost friend… 
There are so many articles right now dedicated to being ‘productive’ during this time, but at the point, we’re all about taking this time to simply experiment with something new that mind expand your mind, improve your creativity, or just bring a little joy! 
SO we’ve rounded up a bunch of ideas to keep the creativity firing during this weird time – and they’re all available for delivery to your (Australian) doorstep. Many of these are produced by local makers who have lost their regular income due to the pandemic, so supporting them is a win-win!
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Guy Vadas of Céramiques. Photo – Amelia Stanwix
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The Home Delivery Tool and Clay Kit from Céramiques . Photo – Guy Vadas
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Wunder Weave Yarn Pack. Photo – Sam Wong. Styling – Natalie Turnbull
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A Beginner’s Weaving Guide by Wunder Weave, illustrated by Ashley Ronning. Photo – Urban Safari
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Crockd delivers home clay kits! Photo – courtesy of Crockd
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Learn-To-Weave Kit by Tjanpi Desert Weavers. Left: Right: Nancy Nanana Jackson and Mrs Burke near Warakurna, WA. Photo – Rhett Hammerton, supplied courtesy of Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Womens Council.
For your creativity
Céramiques Clay & Tool kit: Melbourne ceramics studio Céramiques has pivoted to home deliveries and online classes to get you hand building your own pottery pieces at home. The pack includes 10kg of clay and all the tools to get you started.  $65 + $15 for interstate delivery. 
Crockd OG Kit: New Australian company Crockd specialises in home clay kits designed to be shared with loved ones. Their OG kit provides enough clay and instructions to make four cups, which you can look forward to firing at a studio near you in future. They’re also delivering a special Mother’s Day edition, perfect for a virtual clay making date! $80, free delivery Australia-wide. 
Wunder Weave Classic Weaver Kit: Try your hand at weaving on a locally crafted loom stand delivered by Wunder Weave. This kit includes all the tools required and an instruction manual suited to weavers at a beginner and intermediate level. There’s also mini and large size looms available. $95 + $15 postage or local pickup. 
Tjanpi Desert Weavers Learn-To-Weave Kit: Weave your own raffia basket using traditional techniques with this kickstarter pack from Tjanpi Desert Weavers. This social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yakunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council works with women in remote central and western desert regions who earn an income from contemporary fibre art. The organisation represents over 400 Anangu/Yarnangu women artists from 26 remote communities. $40 + $8.99 domestic postage or $30 international postage.
Other Melbourne ceramicists who are now offering at-home hand building clay kits include Tantri Mustika (whose kit includes 5kg of clay and various tools, available to pre-order now) and Bisque Studios (who are also offering a firing service for the first 100 orders!).
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Photo – courtesy of WellRead
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Clemens Habicht’s Colour Puzzles and more are available from The Jacky Winter Group. L: Photo – Amelia Stanwix. R: Photo – courtesy of The Jacky Winter Group.
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Biz Cranston and Laura Brading, founders of book subscription service, WellRead. Photos – courtesy of WellRead
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Golden Girls jigsaw puzzle by Chantel de Sousa. Photo – courtesy of Smith Street Books. Right – Bondi Icebergs Jigsaw Puzzle by Australian Unseen.
for your mind
WellRead subscription: This book subscription service delivers the best titles to your door, along with reading notes to spark conversation with friends or in their exclusive Facebook group. WellRead subscriptions are available at various frequencies, with options for both kids and adults. Monthly subscriptions $29-$35.
Jacky Winter jigsaw puzzles: Melbourne artist agency The Jacky Winter Group have long been makers of incredible puzzles. Our favourites include the 1000-piece style by Sydney artist Karan Singh, and their range of Clemens Habicht’s colour gradient puzzles. (FYI: Jacky Winter are also currently hosting a daily virtual activities program called Homeroom – head to their Instagram to see what’s on!) Jigsaw puzzles from $30. 
Australian Unseen jigsaw puzzles: Sydney’s famous beaches may be shut, but we can still experience them in puzzle form thanks to photographer Vincent Rommelaere from Australian Unseen. Vincent’s aerial photos of Bondi, Clovelly, Bronte and more are available in 500 and 1000 piece versions, and make for a stunning print once complete! Jigsaw puzzles from $49 + $10 domestic postage or $30 international postage. 
Golden Girls jigsaw puzzle: This puzzle illustrated by local artist Chantel De Sousa is part of the new pop culture gift range from Smith Street Gift, an imprint of the Melbourne independent publishing company, Smith Street Books. Other fun products in their range include playing cards, puzzles and bingo featuring your favourite characters from Seinfeld, Friends, The Office and more. 
For even more puzzles, check out florist Hattie Molloy’s featuring her beautiful floral arrangements, or for serious puzzle enthusiasts, The Melbourne Map jigsaw!
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Audrey Pot Pack by Plant Mama. Photo – courtesy of Plant Mama.
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L: Jenna Holmes of Plant Mama. Photo – Eve Wilson. R: Audrey Pot Pack by Plant Mama. Photo – courtesy of Plant Mama.
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Buy A Bunch flowers by Georgie Boy. Photos – Dan Roberts
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Neighbourhood Box by Flowers Vasette. Photo – courtesy of Flowers Vasette. Right – Vitamin C Pack by Flowers Vasette. Photo – courtesy of Flowers Vasette
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The Plant Society are shipping a Home Plant Butler Kit! Photos  – Caitlin Mills
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Seasonal blooms available for delivery from MyFlowerMan. Photo – courtesy of MyFlowerMan 
for your senseS
Buy A Bunch by Georgie Boy: Melbourne floral studio Georgie Boy are normally focused on events, but in the wake of COVID-19, they’ve commenced deliveries for the first time. Jump onto their Buy A Bunch page to snap up one of their limited weekly deliveries of seasonal, locally grown flowers. $30 + free delivery to select Melbourne suburbs. 
Flowers Vasette boxes: Melbourne icon Cherrie Miriklis-Pavlou, managing director of Flowers Vasette, wasted no time pivoting her business to the current times (read all about that here!), and is now offering a whole variety of flower and produce boxes. We recommend the Vitamin C Pack for keeping healthy and happy with plenty of fruit, veggies and flowers, or the Neighbourhood Box which provides enough blooms for sharing, or perhaps practicing your floral design! Boxes from $50. 
The Plant Society Home Plant Butler Kit: Keep your house plants thriving this handy pack of maintenance essentials from The Plant Society. Included in the Plant Butler Kit are leather handle secateurs, neem oil spray, plant soil food, plus a complimentary pin, tote bag and patch so you can look the part! $65 + delivery from $15.50.
MyFlowerMan flowers: Sydney’s MyFlowerMan are still operating during the pandemic, delivering single variety and mixed bunch seasonal blooms. All deliveries are arranged in MyFlowerMan’s signature loose and textured style featuring whites, neutrals and plenty of greens. From $55 + delivery.
Plant Mama Audrey Pot Pack: Never one to sit still, Jenna Holmes from Plant Mama has been busy introducing new services to her business, including seedlings and large pot deliveries! Her pot packs include four coloured pots in various sizes and custom painted colours. $1125 + $60 for delivery within 30km of Melbourne CBD. Additional costs for further and interstate freight. 
Other sense nourishing deliveries we love are Hello Botanical’s Self Isolation/Self Care Package, and the creative blooms from Sydney floral designer, My Violet.
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markulyseas · 10 months
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She was awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2020, and was shortlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship in 2022. She is the grateful recipient of a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
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