14 February 2019
Remembering Carmen Argenziano

It is with a heavy heart that I write this post, I learnt on Monday morning that Carmen Argenziano had passed away. It has been an emotional few days, as I remember some of the special moments I had with this amazing man, a wonderful gentleman who made you feel comfortable and important no matter […]

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19 November 2017
My Origin Story into the Fandom World

This is my origin story, the tale of how I got into this amazing world of fandom and convention attending, people who know me well have probably heard this story before but I don’t think I have ever actually written it up for the world to read at least not in as much detail – […]

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6 November 2017
20 Years of Stargate

Yesterday I attended a Stargate event held here in Melbourne, this event named Return to the Gate was to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of when Stargate SG-1 first started. For this event we had three members of the original SG-1 team cast Richard Dean Anderson (RDA), Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks with the addition of […]

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31 October 2011
Amanda Tapping at Armageddon

This weekend I got to do something I never thought possible I got to work with my idol Amanda Tapping, I mean she was just a guest at the conventon I was working but that’s the closest I would ever get to working with her. Armageddon is hands down my all time favourite event of […]

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8 March 2010
Stargate & Richard Dean Anderson

This event was the first Stargate specific convention that had been run in a while, unfortunately it was also a rather memorable event but for all the wrong reasons. The event was chaotic, one of the worse events I have ever attended – the previous day a hail storm had hit Melbourne and did a […]

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16 February 2010
Corin Nemec at Supanova

This event only had the one guest I was interested in seeing and that was Corin Nemec from Stargate SG-1, there was suppose to be another Stargate guest but unfortunately they had to pull out only a few days before. Corin was such a great guy and an honour to meet, was great to get […]

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3 November 2008
Armageddon and Friends

Armageddon time again and like last time I put my hand up to volunteer because it was such fun the last time, hectic but fun and worth doing again. This year we had different shirts to the bright orange of the first event, this time they were simple black shirts with the logo and ‘Staff’ […]

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24 April 2008
A Night with Chris Judge

An interesting event and different from all others this was held in the middle of the week on a Wednesday night, the guests in attendance were Chris Judge and Gary Graham. Having paid a little bit extra for a VIP ticket it included some extra time before the main event started to mingle with the […]

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31 March 2008
Meeting Teryl Rothery

A new event hit Melbourne in 2008 called Supanova, who had previously run events interstate, their guest list included Teryl Rothery who is my second favourite actress from Stargate. I was thrilled to get the opportunity to meet her so there was no way I was missing this event, this was also the first event […]

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30 April 2007
Tok’ra – Tauri Summit

This event is an incredibly special moment in my life that I will never forget, it was an absolute pleasure to meet Don S. Davis, Carmen Argenziano and he’s partner Eileen Grubba. Again my friends and I went as VIP were we had dinner with the guests the night before the convention, started the night […]

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18 December 2022
2022 – The Year of Change

This year has been a crazy roller coaster and I’m sorry that I haven’t been around a lot and it was never intentional life got in the way and I have struggled to do many things I love… I stopped streaming, stopped doing art, stopped playing games, stopped hanging with friends, I stopped doing a […]

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24 September 2022
Life is Overwhelming

It’s been a while since I posted a blog and the reasoning is that Life has just been one big overwhelming mess for the last six months or so. I started my new job, I have lost a couple of family members, had some medical issues and I have also had to change living arrangements […]

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4 March 2022
New Career Journey

Three weeks ago on the 14th February 2022 I began my newest career journey, I started at a company called Cleanaway as part of the inaugral Women’s Drivers Academy and am currently in training to not only get my truck licence but also to learn how to be a side-lift truck operator and collect bins […]

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7 January 2022
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Little bit late but it’s still only single digit days in January so not too late… I hope everyone had a great Christmas or holiday period and had a good time bringing in the new year. Let’s hope that this year 2022 is better than the last year. It’s been a crazy few months for […]

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25 November 2021
One Year Stream Anniversary

At the beginning of this week on Monday I celebrated my First Stream Anniversary, it was the 22nd of November 2020 when I broadcast my first stream and it’s crazy realising that it’s now been over a year. I am so very appreciative to everyone who has helped me on my Twitch and Streaming journey, […]

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1 October 2021
A Year Without You

I still struggle to find the words to explain how much I love and miss my beautiful Nan, for the first time in my life I have lived a whole year without her, but has that really been lived? Feels more like surviving than living…. Because of COVID and everything the world was/is facing our […]

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30 August 2021
Birthday Stream

Hey everyone, please come and join me for my birthday stream on Twitch! Another year spending my birthday in lockdown, not being able to see friends or family and not being able to celebrate the way you normally would has made it neccessary to find other ways to celebrate, for me I thought it would […]

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10 July 2021
First Event in Two Years

On the 22nd and 23rd of May I attended my first event in two years and it felt amazing, I have been in a bit of a slump lately just feeling really flat in general and attending this event and seeing my amazing con family, it gave me the boost I so desperately needed. I […]

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14 January 2021
Meet Smidget Bot

I have been busy lately with having started streaming on Twitch, but I recently got back into doing some drawing and decided to reimagine one of my old drawings and create a character from it and want to use it in my streams as emotes and other things. SMIDGET BOT I started to reimagine this […]

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31 December 2020
Happy New Year – Here’s to 2021

I honestly don’t even know how to put into words what this year had been like for me and I know so many people have had their own struggles too…. this year will definitely be one that I will never forget and I’m sure a lot of people can say the same thing. This year […]

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