Walking through town the other day I spotted this sign: To be clear, it is an advertisement for a cafe. This might not be immediately apparent due to the image of a small baby taking over the majority of the sign. Don’t get me wrong, I want to gobble up babies as much as the next overly...

Given my rather sedate existence, I’m always troubled by the number of peculiar incidents that befall me. In particular, the weirdest things seem to happen when I’m in my car. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been in many car accidents, one while I was stationary at the...

This morning I had to wake up at a normal human hour. The horror! Being a night owl who works from home, I usually don’t get out of bed until about 10am. I know, how slothful. But in my defense, I’m sure I go to bed later than you so no need to be such a judgy wudgy bear. The reason I had to...

I love checking Google Analytics for my “Confessions of a Stuffed Olive” statistics. It offers no practical benefit, but discovering the search terms used to find my site has provided me with hours of amusement. Due to the random nature of my blog, a lot of rather obscure terms...

Dear My Readers, I’m sorry I haven’t been blogging so frequently lately. Unfortunately the world has conspired to make me ridiculously busy with stupid things like work. I know, I know. How boring is that? Sadly, I have to eat, and in order to do so, I must earn money.  I’d like to say I can...

Today is my actual, real Blogversary! YAY! According to my lovely WordPress Dashboard Thinga-ma-bob, I have posted 79 posts (80 including this one!) within 36 categories, and approved 607 comments (203 spam!!… and apparently 5 pending comments that I really better check out!). Google...

I know you are all waiting in desperate anticipation to hear the outcome of the window crayon experiment. You really didn’t have to put your lives on hold for this, but I do understand. It is very important, edge-of-your-seat stuff. It turns out that window crayons do NOT work like bath...

This Olive Angel is for Pauline Connolly, who was not completely satisfied with the Olive Fairy.   Unfortunately the halo doesn’t quite fit.   The things I do for you guys…...

Sorry I didn’t have time to write a post this week. I know you are all heartbroken, so I drew you a picture of me as a...

Guess what?! The wonderful, astounding, amazing, glorious, Emily over at Emily’s Tea Leaves has awarded me a Beautiful Blogger Award. That’s right! More blog love. Isn’t it just grand? That means yet another excuse for me to share some more of the blogs that I follow, read,...

After reading one particular comment on my last post, I really felt as though my time today would be best spent drawing pictures of rogue penguins. Here’s my favourite: Oh, and, by the way, this is what a real fairy penguin looks like: (Thanks to Pip for the inspiration.)...

Look! Isn’t it exciting? I have a shiny new website! The lovely Hamish at Bark Host made it for me, and I just love it SO much! This is the comic I made to celebrate my website’s release: Hamish ate all my M&Ms.    But I decided to forgive him after he made me an awesome new...

  This is a picture of the inside of my mail box (warning – terrifying):   Obviously the spider is dead – I spray Baygon Target Kill into the box every two weeks. Just as obviously, however, I can never use my mail box again. I considered the possibility of asking someone to...

During my recent trip to Melbourne, I visited the wonderful paper store Kami. I love paper craft and spend hours during sleepless nights folding tiny flowers, cranes, and paper stars. Most of these pose little purpose other than to briefly focus my thoughts, only to be scattered on my floor...

I rarely go into town, what with… the people. This is one of the main reasons I would never move to a bigger city – even little Hobart is too crowded for me. All the same, I did venture into that sweaty and heaving congestion the other day, and discovered this*: I’m no expert, but this...