Pineneedle & Thread Issue 2

I am sporadically making these mini-magazines for my blog. Let me know what you think of them! I hope you all enjoy this second issue (it's a kind of best-of from my blog for the past month, plus some extra features like the Style Guide and Jennifer from Art in Our Blood.) Click here if you are unable to view the embedded version. And you can also view issue one here. Heaps of love,

I Really Am A Mermaid!

My mermaid membership arrived in the mail this morning, officially certified from the magical kingdom of the Merpeople. So it's indusputable now - I am a mermaid. See? My official-membership-necklace even says so. Are you guys totally jealous? Yeah, I thought so. I've heard that this shop called "I Love Crafty" is selling mermaid-membership necklaces too, although you won't have official certification from the magical Merpeople Kingdom (because obviously you guys aren't real mermaids like me). But I guess you could pretend you were a mermaid, if you had one of those necklaces, and were so inclined... necklace - c/o I Love Crafty skirt - c/o Faith & Lola tights - Yoshida (Japan) shoes - Japan t-shirt - Thank You Mart (Japan) bag - DIY (instructions here) Now this definitely falls into the realm of science fiction, but speculative biology is always a fun topic. This page features several awesome images that speculate on what the anatomy of a mermaid would look like. Below is the skeletal anatomy of a mermaid: Also, I found this pretty funny: did you guys know that last year, the US government had to make an official statement saying that "Mermaid's do not exist"? Come on guys, obviously they do exist... otherwise who would have sent me my official mermaid necklace...?

Monochrome / Tadpoles & Colour Vision

How cool are these tights? I'm a bit worried about wearing them about now I'm back in Australia - I've already had some "hilarious" comments from random seedy men about how I accidently put on odd tights HAHA (you're all so original) :| - as people seem to think they're a little bit odd. But then I remember that you should always dress for yourself, and if people find you strange or amusing, well, you're just making the world a more interesting place. blouse - c/o EFoxCity skirt - c/o Sheinside sweater - c/o Sheinside tights - tight store in Japan shoes - Asos necklace and headband - Claire's (Japan) In science news today, researchers in America were able to transplant eyes into tadpole's tails, and through nervous connection with the spinal cord, the tadpoles were able to see. Through their tails. The tadpoles were able to distinguish not only light and dark through their tail-eyes, but different colours as well. The researchers wanted to look at the ways that the brain can adapt to new signals, or signals coming from unexpected places. This is suuuper important stuff in designing prosthetic eyes for people who are blind, or types of blindness where the the eye functions fine but the brain "misreads" the information coming in from the eye. Read more about it here. I hope you're all very well!

Still In Love With Pastels

There was a point last year where every outfit I wore, especially when I had pink and lilac hair, was pastel-themed and super girly. I still adore the sugary sweet pastel palette. And I'm also still obsessed with my new clear rainboots - I've been trying them out with a different pair of socks every day and marvelling at how that little trick essentially provides me with a new pair of shoes. blouse - Vintage from Japan necklace - c/o Merrin & Gussy skirt - Vintage tights - Yoshida socks - Tutuanna shoes - Alibaba Remember my post from about a week ago about how incredible 3D Printing is? Just in case the use of 3D printing to make new organs, or the applications of 3D printing for chocolate technology didn't impress you, yesterday news of a man who had 75% of his skull replaced by a 3D-printed prosthetic was released. The new skull was made by scanning the man's head to generate an accurate 3D replica, and then printed out using a 3D printer. Not only is this new skull made from polyetherketoneketone, a super strong and resistant material, but special details were also added to the structure of the skull to encourage growth of the man's own bone and cells. We are living in the future. Read more about it here. Oh! And one more thing before I go today. This is what I woke up to when I switched on my phone this morning (a bad bad habit, checking my emails is the first thing I do every morning now): Isn't this illustration just incredible? I have to thank Maria Ramirez so much for drawing such a gorgeous portrait. Check out more pretty illustrations on her page here - she's only just started sharing her illustrations with the world, but I am so excited to see what she comes up with next!

A Handmade Dress

I'm a little obsessed with my new haircut and I just want to take a moment, again, to thank you all so much for all the lovely feedback and styling tips. I am going to have to bounciest, most voluminous hair after following all the tips you guys gave me ;) I am a little bit interested in getting something called a 'hit-and-miss' perm now thanks to Sunae (and if anyone has any horror stories/happy stories about hit-and-miss perms, now would be a good time to bring them up). I just realised, as I was looking through my clothes for something to wear, that I have never worn this beautiful, handmade Naughty Shorts dress on my blog before! Isn't it nice? It's even made from vintage fabric, and it goes perfectly with my new hair and these pretty vintage brogues. dress - (won in a competition) Naughty Shorts (shop) cat socks - Thank You Mart lace socks cuffs - DIY shoes - Vintage I'm just about to head off to a FIVE HOUR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LAB SESSION (actually, I'm pretty excited about it) so I'll just leave you all with this pretty picture by Roberto Ziche of the solar system to scale. We're the third little speck from the left. We are so tiny.