not the hamburgers

I often say things that I shouldn�t. It runs in the family.
Upon meeting someone, Its one thing to think wow they have soft hands� But when you say Hi Im holly, wow you have soft hands. Its usually pretty weird.
Recently I did a brief phone interview with the(sydney)magazine. It literally took all of my self control not to blurt out something inappropriate.
Luckily they said all nice stuff about me.

thought catching flower crowns

Here is the infinity thought catcher I made for nella ages ago... back when the sky used to be blue and the clouds looked like puffs of Persian fairy floss. These days the clouds look like angry blankets of soot. Bring back summer!

Q & A

Dear Flower Bucket. 
I used to buy flowers for my girl from the local servo. When I bought them I�d be all like �Oh man, my girl is gonna be so thrilled I stopped to buy her flowers.� I thought the little sticker on the plastic wrapping that said �Say it with flowers� added a touch of class to the whole deal too. I didn�t even bother trying to peel it off. But when I gave her the flowers I kinda got the feeling she wasn�t all that thrilled at all. I kinda got the feeling she thought I was shit. Since when does buying flowers for a girl suck? 

Please help, Lionel Richie 

Dear Lionel, 

1. Service Station flowers are nearly always dead when you buy them.

2. Dead flowers don't make anybody happy. They make people mad.

3. That sticker that says " Say it with flowers" actually means "I like, you, but not that much"

If you want to buy your girl flowers in future I suggest flying something in from the South American rain forest. Then buying flowers will definitely not suck. Or you can buy them from me, that would definitely definitely not suck.

Thanks for stopping by Lionel, good luck with your special lady friend
Enthusiastically yours, 
   the flower bucket

MEX ENDER

Riley Blakeway used to live on my couch. I actually moved out of the house, just so that he could have his own bedroom. It takes five people to tell him what to wear and another 4 to tell him what to eat. EVERY DAY. He doesnt know how to do his washing and he is an absolute peanut on the sauce.  One thing he does know how to do is make a bloody excellent film. 
You might want to sit down for this.   Note the little flower drum headpiece at the start!

A RILEY BLAKEWAY FILM from Riley Blakeway on Vimeo.

I would probably say that i love riley as much as i love flowers...and my swearing parents. Thats heaps.

shocking blocking

You wouldnt know it by looking at their outfits, but the growers at the flower markets are on trend!  HORAAAAY!! Colour blocking is the new forgettin to wear clothes.. its taking over the catwalks, and now, the flower buckets. HORAAAAH! 

Flower Markets/ Autumn 11                          www.theflowerdrum.blogspot.com
             

Style director / forecaster - Victor vladamir vuvuzeala 

aka colour blocking, ciggie smoking master of disaster 

FAFA crisis

Ok, I dont want you to get your clogs in a jam, but I have just heard rumours of a potential 

PLANT BAN!

Yes, the government are really being a bunch of prickly thorns this week, with plans of banning plants that can be used to make illegal drugs. And im not just talking about you know what. They want to prohibit the sale of leopard trees, angel's trumpet, the common cactus and a large number of wattles, but thats not all... Hundreds of plants, or should i say, criminals are under siege...

Will the black market value of these creatures rise? Will people have secret gardens, within their gardens so they can privately enjoy their gossamer wattle? Will the community of gardeners go and get high from their angels' trumpet collection before they are forced to kill them? If we can not grow these plants, does that mean that they become endangered species? Will your grandma be shipped off to jail for being a drug traficker just because shes growing a couple of Cactaceae? 

cactus- contains mescaline a naturally occurring psychedelic alkaloid discovered by dan akroyd

Fall asleep under these, and you may never wake up. Apparently

Golden Wattle-
Are we going to make australia's national flower illegal?

If they are allowed to create these laws, then I wish to create a law of my own. HELLO government representatives, please stop getting dressed in the dark, your outfits hurt my eyes.

this is holly hipwell, chief flower enthusiast reporting for the viewers of the flower drum.

dharma bums

Some friends are joint at the hip. nope not me and mylee, we are joint at the hair!

Thats how we share our ideas. It follows the same theory of traveling electricity. 

Get out your bunsen burners, your incubators, and your derk nord glasses, im about to get sciency up in this drum.

When you have a good idea, i mean, a really good idea, the idea actually travels from your brain, escapes through the scalp and down the hair follicle and into the troposphere. Thats why sometimes you think someone stole your idea. They didnt, you let it escape!

 Now when you are joined up to a receptive device (your friend) by your hair (the conductor) it enables them to receive your brain wave very quickly. HIGH VOLTAGE!!  

We usually find that when we wear our favourite myPetsQuare clothes, combined with floral thinking caps our great ideas get a lot greater.  They really are the thinking clothes of the future. so to break it down -  

got it? we on the same frequency?

right here, this is it, you can see the ideas exploding out of my mind and through the hair! 

shop here for more beautiful brainwaves - www.myPetsQuare.bigcartel.com

myPetsQuare x the flowerdrum = brainiacmaniacs
photo documentationary = Cloudy Rhodes


ps. have you ever noticed that some of the smartest people who have ever existed in the world have crazy hair, or no hair at all? ie, einstein, your college professor... its because they weren't linked up to anyone and their ideas short circuited the follicles

Attention Spam round 2

i spent a good amount of time working on this little creature today instead of something else. I dont  think I knew what else i was meant to be doing... so that makes it ok.

party time excellent

I really hope you enjoy this with a fine tooth comb.

It wasnt one of those lucky moments where I managed to capture the shot the first go.

No. I went through half a god damn packet of balloons!

And not just that. Every single time i popped the balloon, I got a fright. which then meant I wasnt concentrating on taking the photo, i was concentrating on going AHHHHHHH!!!!

i wouldnt try this at home. its pretty scary  

methi man

WHAT? WHO ME?

This guy swindled me out of a two dollar purchase! someone call the petal police!

You see, i payed my two dollars, and as i went to pick up my flowers out of the bucket, my eyes were drawn to the plastic tub full of green stuff.

"Hey man, whats in the tub?"    "Methi" he replied.

Like i was supposed to know what that was.

He told me about the miracles of methi and instantly i wanted to hand over every dollar in my front and back pockets, my bank details, credit cards and my car keys in exchange for just a single bunch.          SIGN ME UP i screamed.

After I paid for it, he told me that my skin would end up smelling a bit weird if i ate it.

And as I was driving home, i realised he totally scallywaged me out of my initial purchase.

LOOK OUT "insert your name here" I am coming to claim whats mine- this saturday.

methi follow up. no signs of miracles just yet, this could be due to the fact that I haven't taken it out of the fridge since i bought it. i have thought about it. think methi miracle thoughts

Lola likes imported-

Lola loves roses! look at her whiffa sniffing away.

They are columbian roses to be specific.

Did you know that they are actually FROM columbia?

AND did you know, that in the time it takes you to make and shake and bake a cake, these roses are cut and on the plane on the way to australia. Yep, within two hours the roses are cut and packed and sitting with their boarding passes in first class. 

Its literally less than 24 hours from Pablo Escobars hands to yours

Speaking of party animals, i realised yesterday that the flower markets are not unlike the discoteque. Dudes all about the place smashing ciggies, drinking beers, singing out of tune...and being ever so charming.

ie. hey flower girl, i liiiiiiyke your leiigs

Attention Spam

Its no lie, I have next to zero ability to concentrate on one thing at a time for more than 

35 seconds. I think i was born with attention spam, instead of attention span.

So today I thought id finish unpacking (ive moved house), and isntead of unpacking I ended up cleaning some roses and getting them ready to go in some water. And instead of doing that... I did this.

Deadly Daily - The flower bucket

THERES SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW


Holly from the flower drum never says anyone�s name in real life. Never. Doesn�t matter if you�ve been friends with her for a day or a year. She doesn�t say �Hello Killer� or �Hello Annie and Jonathan� or �Hello Phil from Grinspoon�. I don�t think she even says �Hello Mum�. She just says �Hello.� And because she�s awesome she gets away with it. If I don�t say someone�s name I instantly feel like they think I don�t know their name. And when that happens I know I�ll be moving in for a really awkward hug or really shitty handshake because they�re not thinking about hugging and shaking, they�re thinking about whether I know their name or not, and I�m thinking about them thinking about THAT. Homeboy. 

http://vaughandeadly.tumblr.com 

Vaughan Deadly thought my blog was called the flower bucket. He also has his own blog which has more followers than posts. thats means its really good. which it is. and im just saying that because im on it.

say it with flowers...

Shield your eyes if you are sensitive to bad language and  magnificent awesomeness.

I was invited to create an installation to sit along side other razzy dazzy sculptures by 

simone decker, george gorrow & stevie gorrow  knitta please, rad dan, fraser the amazer and madsaki for the "untitled" launch.  Everyone was at the party. 
Me, mylee & the mopheads, dion & anna, mike jennings & erin wasson.  you know, the usual.

The best part of the night was when 2 members of my fan club came up to me to announce their love of the flower drum. The second best part was when i sat next to stevie g, i love him. The third best part was dans hair cut booth.

everyone queuing and waiting for their worlds to be un bip bipped

it took 49 hot glue gun sticks, 345 ivy vine leaves and close to a billion flowers to make this

Mylee and the Mopheads

photos by ash mccan't, FOLKE, Cloudy Rhodes & hobo gestapo

im really sorry if you dont like swearing. you wont see it here on the flowerdrum often. 

if you do like swearing, call my dad. you will learn all sorts of bad words you never even knew existed 

and if he doesnt answer, you can call my mum, she knows some bad ones too.