Love in a Jar

I am not a lover of the shape of a heart. I like stars and crowns. I love wreaths. I like spots and squares and chevrons. I don't like hearts. Never have. From the outset for anything to do with my upcoming nuptials (what a terrible word) the rule has been no hearts.  But then I bought these little gems and couldn't resist sandwiching them together with neon thread.

I call them 'love in a jar'.  Whenever Mr goes out to get something he asks me "do you want me to bring anything back for you?" Every time I ask "can you bring me back some love in a jar?"

Of course he never has so I made it myself.

Weekend Loving

A story to follow.

Metallic

Dots Anew

I'm so looking forward to having time to bake and create new artworks and garlands over the xmas break.

Heads in The Crowd

I've started overlapping my dots. Mr calls this 'heads in the crowd'. Ill be adding it to my etsy shop soon. Hope you gad gorgeous weekend. I went to a christening and can't wait to show you pics. xx p.s. Happy Birthday Masie

Dot Maker

I'm taking orders on the dots and all-colour clouds.

Art Attempt

Well these are my dots, after much bad maths, I finally got the spacing right. These are bright & happy and probably and would look amazing in a lounge room, dining room or kids room - at the moment I have them in my study. The other colours I did were 'army' greens, greys & metallics and a bit more 'grown up', almost masculine (except I snuck in some pale pink).

Gone Dottie

I've used my dots in art and this is one of them - the other is happy bright. These clouds became gingery honey jumbles. The gorgeous cookie cutter was handmade in Canada by Herriott Grace whom I have followed for ages (see Nikole's blog here) and fell in love with even more when I bought Anthology - the best little mag ever (available in Australia through magnation).

Mr Made A Bench

So Mr the carpenter CAN make furniture. He's going to wish he did a terrible job because my list of orders just grew - next a lounge, then a four poster bed, a beautiful chair, stacks of storage cubes...

Cooking & Crafting

Bespoke

Lovely Louise asked for a 3m garland in teal, light blue, cream and gold to match her blog, Bijoux Bride, and here it is. If you'd like a custom garland, just email me. x

The Home Front

I'm excited about our little getaway to Melbourne this weekend. I'm most looking forwardto a nice hot bath in our lovely hotel room. It will be chilly but lots of good food and a change of scenery will be lovely.

Pic 1 - Although the scenery from our house is pretty, well serene. Check out our beach. All ours. It will be a different story in summer no doubt.

Pic 2 - This is our new Persian rug we randomly bought when driving through Rozelle to pick up some recycled timber Mr has been working with to fashion into a bench seat for our dining table. Quite a commitment was buying that together. We tried to justify the expense all the way home.

Pic 3 - Mr named this photo 'reflections,' which I took a Sunday afternoon walk, bless his little heart, he has been naming my garlands when I dance around the house to show him the most recetly completed one.

Pic 4 - Another little project - glitter covered letters. Very messy indeed.

Doily

Beautiful doily ideas from Bliss include lace doily by Field Journal for Project Wedding and Doily envelopes by Heim. I adore this all white super modern tea party.

Feet Beneath a Billowing Skirt

How to make feet look nice? It's a tough one. These pics were part of the Unravelled e-course by Susannah Conway which I completed almost 2 years ago now, which I mentioned here. Last Monday I started Nicole Hill's Photo 101 online course, yes that's right, let's use to use that camera on manual instead of relying on auto with a few random tweaks here and there! So here's to hopefully vastly improved photos in the coming weeks and forever more (fingers crossed).

I also came across Photography Institute online course, which is a serious commitment of time and money, but in 24 weeks you have the knowledge and skills to be a freelance photographer! Years down the track, I may just need to come back to this.