Category Archives: House

Better Beer

Posted on 10 March, 2023 by Justin Fox

Love this beer.

Love the Yamazaki silcone coasters just as much!

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BenQ ScreenBar Halo LED Monitor Light

Posted on 8 March, 2023 by Justin Fox

Let your soul glow.

In an attempt to keep my tiny desk clean I decided against buying a desk lamp, and instead went for this lightbar which comes with a cordless puck which I can use to adjust the brightness, colour temp as well as backlight which lights up the wall behind the monitor. It came in “Apple like” packaging, which I thought was pretty damn funny as the packaging nor the design of the item is anywhere near the level of Apple products, but hey, it works and I like it!

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Spotlight: Art Supplies

Posted on 8 March, 2023 by Justin Fox

Needs more love but it’s a start!

2B is all I REALLY need!

Trolley.

One of my old pieces.

My main mission is to get back into making art, and whilst I do think I’d be most comfortable drawing and painting in the main lounge room I’ve decided to set up the spare room as a dedicated art studio (I suppose I can paint in both!).

I’ve brought over all of the art that I’ve decided to keep from Maroubra. I bought a trolley (so I can easily wheel art supplies around within the art room and even out to the lounge room) and a small (but deep) standing table and ergonomic stool from IKEA. What I really need though is art supplies.

I’ve been looking for art supplies online for the past few weeks. The RIOT! Art & Craft chain stores have shut down (there was one in Eastgardens which I had planned to drop into). There’s an Eckersley’s in Bondi Junction Westfield’s, but that place is a fucking nightmare. A few people on reddit suggested that Spotlight had some bargains so earlier today I checked out the Spotlight site and it turns out they were having a 30% off everything in-store until 8pm. Perfect!

In a rush to get out the door I locked myself out! I could break in to my old house in Maroubra, but there wasn’t any way I could break into my new apartment. Luckily for me I had my phone on me so I called the locksmith (Kevin Wong). Amazingly he was free! Better yet it only took him 15 minutes to get to me! Just as Kevin got to the building another tenant was entering the building so they let him in (the apartment fob to use the lift was obviously in my apartment!), all the luck!

He was done in 10 minutes. I headed off to Spotlight and bought another easel, a couple of canvases, an art pad, pencils, brushes and paint. I saved $130 with the sale, most of that went to Kevin the locksmith, but hey happy days!

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Calathea Makoyana

Posted on 8 March, 2023 by Justin Fox

Calathea Makoyana (AKA Peacock Plant).

Dropped in to see Alex at More Plants today and picked up another plant to live outside of my cabinet. This time I picked up a Peacock Plant (another Calathea) because A) It’s got a wonderful painterly pattern on it’s foliage and B) it’s going straight into the spare room which I’m setting up as an art studio and C) It’s pet safe, a good thing as Mia’s still chewing leaves!

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Apartment update

Posted on 3 March, 2023 by Justin Fox

Replaced every instance of these ugly handles in the apartment.

Replaced them with these simple black handles from Bunnings. Still might rip off the sliding mirror built-in wardrobe doors from the 2 spare rooms.

Ripped off 6 doors in total from the master walk-in wardrobe but have decided to leave the last 2 doors at the end, for now.

The Finding Space Journal.

DO DRUGS (the whole pencil actually says “TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS”).

ALL BLACK ERRYTHANG!

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IKEA Rudsta Greenhouse Project

Posted on 3 March, 2023 by Justin Fox

Yes. I caved. The ultimate goal is to have a Queen Anthurium with huge perfect leaves as the only plant in the cabinet. I bought a baby queen a little while back, and it’s pushed out a new leaf, but it’ll be years before it gets to the size of this one.

Anthurium Clarinervium pushed out this cute new little leaf (how is this not heart shaped?!). It gets bigger every day. Fingers crossed it’ll be way bigger than the biggest leaf!

Alocasia Cuprea pushed out this amazing new leaf!

Late night internet shopping is nasty. I had seen this Queen Anthurium for sale over a month ago on Rootd Plants. It was the last of the batch that no-one wanted as the leaves on it looked pretty banged up, but late the other night I saw it was still there and I pulled the trigger on it. It came quick and was packed well. She’s definitely pretty beat up. They have very sensitive leaves which many who keep them say not to touch. A small mark on a small leaf will become a HUGE mark once the leaf gets big.

I have every single plant in the apartment growing in leca now except this queen. I’m nervous about moving her over, but at the same time I’m a little less nervous as she’s not the perfect specimen.

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Pine and Sprout

Posted on 28 February, 2023 by Justin Fox

I stumbled upon these amazing plant trellis made by a brother and sister duo in the US. Love at first sight! I had to have the evil eye trellis! Viv is NUTS about the moon (and she has a lot of plants!) so I bought her the moon phase and sun, moon stars ones too. Visit: https://pineandsprout.com

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