Friday, March 26, 2010
the making of a mural
That's me... making the mural I mentioned earlier in the year!!!
Show everyone you know! ;)
I'm waiting to get some good photos back so I'll show n' tell more soon. In the meantime please enjoy my 70 hrs of work compressed into just over a minute (not including the initial 20hrs of client briefing, research and concept sketches).
Thanks to Mr You for his excellent movie making skills .xx.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
guess what we bought this week?
A . H O U S E ! ! ! !
A whole life sized, real bricks and mortar, mother-lovin' house!
Our first...
We will no longer be renters. We will be able to paint the walls whatever colour we like, and positively litter the walls with picture hooks. We will be able to rip things out and tack things on, and even plant a garden! Our pot plants have done us well over all these years, but they deserve to stretch their roots and live as they should, with their toes in the earth.
We move in a month.
W e . A r e . V e r y . E x c i t e d .
Images from Etsy:
Letterpress Paper Pop-Up Houses, by 1canoe2
1. Balloon Factory, by Pearson Maron
2. Bird House Cabin, by Barkin Mad
3. Yellow House Print, by Swallowfield
4. Little Houses Zipper Pouch, by Moon Tea Artwork
5. Pop-up Patchwork Doll House, by Sarabande Press
6. Tiny Porcelain Clay Houses, by Shoda
7. Avenue Screenprinted Fabric, by Summersville
8. Carriage House 2, by Artworm
Saturday, March 20, 2010
murphy's law
YESTERDAY our neighbours moved away.
These were the nice ones; the nurse and the part-time snake handler.
TODAY, can you believe it, we discover a snake. A BIG LONG RED-BELLY BLACK SNAKE...
Speeding across our back yard and disappearing under our house!!!!
Never happened before, (that I'm aware of), and the day after they leave a deadly snake moves in.
F-REEEAKING OUT!!!!
These were the nice ones; the nurse and the part-time snake handler.
TODAY, can you believe it, we discover a snake. A BIG LONG RED-BELLY BLACK SNAKE...
Speeding across our back yard and disappearing under our house!!!!
Never happened before, (that I'm aware of), and the day after they leave a deadly snake moves in.
F-REEEAKING OUT!!!!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
the tale of beth's bag
Once upon a time there were two bloggy friends who lived a world apart- flossy and Beth. Despite the distance they teamed up and did stuff together: wrote an article for Mix Tape Zine, submitted illustrations with matching themes, sent each other gifts, and even started an environmental blog together. Sadly, each of their lives got busy, the blog was never launched, Beth stopped blogging herself, and they lost contact (not the friendship however).
Two years later, Beth went shopping on flossy's Etsy store and bought herself a print called "Wilderness". So excited to hear from her old friend, flossy recalled an item that had been on her "to do" list for TWO YEARS! ... "Make a bag for Beth".
Beth had asked flossy to make her a messenger bag one day. This was very exciting, and flossy bought lovely fabric for the project, and even started, but then had to suddenly move towns, and got very busy... never getting around to finishing the bag.
Until....
flossy realised she would never get a good night's sleep again if she posted the print without the long forgotten bag.
So one day she kicked her own ass, and made the best bag she could for Beth.
Two weeks later, flossy was delighted and surprised to find a personalised video from Beth, so emotional and excited about her new bag (and the print... but mostly the bag that she had completely forgotten about), thanking flossy, and showing her how well her new bag suited her.flossy could see how sincerely Beth LOVED her new bag, how well it did indeed suit her, which made flossy happy for the rest of the week and reminded her how great bloggy friendships are!
The End.
Monday, March 08, 2010
another new site
Last week Mr You and I made a new website (or "online postcard" as I think to think of it) for our friend chunkychooky:
Thursday, March 04, 2010
wedding: the outfits
This is the first time I have shown us above the neck on this blog... gulp... I'm scared... please be kind.
The Flower Girls:
The flower girls each designed their own dress, hair, accessories, jewellery... And both looked adorable.
Mr You:
We both opted for the classic style, but Mr You personalised his look with a "wood theme". Our friend made his button flower with stuff from the garden! Isn't it amazing?
He asked me to sew his tie to look like wood... the single item I believe to be my true masterpiece of last year ;) He also has a rosewood wedding ring (rosewood is used to make guitar necks, something he is passionate about).
He bought two pairs of cufflinks from Etsy. Lucky, because as he was putting them on, one broke, so he wore one from each set. So cute...
And he wore vans skate shoes, as he always does.
He looked cool and so handsome ;)
Me:
My dress was an off the shelf formal dress. I liked it because to me it had a classic antique 1930's style, like my engagement ring. I was later justified when I found a very similar dress from a "1939 Vogue" in a historical dress exhibition.
My caplet turned out gorgeously. Everyone loved it. Some of you may remember I bought the wool from Etsy, recycled from an old angora jumper, and I got a lady from the local markets to knit it up for me. She charged me $40. I paid her more.
I also commissioned a feather hair thingy from YJ Design on Etsy, she was fantastic, and it turned out gorgeously too.
A special friend loaned me a lace handkerchief that her, her mum, and her grandmother all used at their weddings. I kept it safe inside a little silver purse that my mum was given for her 21st birthday.
And my shoes. Ooo my shoes... All I can say is that we were fated to be together.
So, that's it. Wedding done! Marriage begins :D
Our ceremony began with the line "...while this is their wedding day, what we are about to witness is yet another bond in an already lasting love". That, to me, pretty much sums up the rest.
Thanks for coming on the ride with me, for your patience and your excitement. I will endeavour to answer each of your questions personally. Hope you liked it.
The Flower Girls:
The flower girls each designed their own dress, hair, accessories, jewellery... And both looked adorable.
Mr You:
We both opted for the classic style, but Mr You personalised his look with a "wood theme". Our friend made his button flower with stuff from the garden! Isn't it amazing?
He asked me to sew his tie to look like wood... the single item I believe to be my true masterpiece of last year ;) He also has a rosewood wedding ring (rosewood is used to make guitar necks, something he is passionate about).
He bought two pairs of cufflinks from Etsy. Lucky, because as he was putting them on, one broke, so he wore one from each set. So cute...
And he wore vans skate shoes, as he always does.
He looked cool and so handsome ;)
Me:
My dress was an off the shelf formal dress. I liked it because to me it had a classic antique 1930's style, like my engagement ring. I was later justified when I found a very similar dress from a "1939 Vogue" in a historical dress exhibition.
My caplet turned out gorgeously. Everyone loved it. Some of you may remember I bought the wool from Etsy, recycled from an old angora jumper, and I got a lady from the local markets to knit it up for me. She charged me $40. I paid her more.
I also commissioned a feather hair thingy from YJ Design on Etsy, she was fantastic, and it turned out gorgeously too.
A special friend loaned me a lace handkerchief that her, her mum, and her grandmother all used at their weddings. I kept it safe inside a little silver purse that my mum was given for her 21st birthday.
And my shoes. Ooo my shoes... All I can say is that we were fated to be together.
So, that's it. Wedding done! Marriage begins :D
Our ceremony began with the line "...while this is their wedding day, what we are about to witness is yet another bond in an already lasting love". That, to me, pretty much sums up the rest.
Thanks for coming on the ride with me, for your patience and your excitement. I will endeavour to answer each of your questions personally. Hope you liked it.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
wedding: reception
The Reception:
(Whoah, is anyone getting wedding fatigue? I sure am. I'll let the pictures do the talking this time.)
(One more post to come... the outfits! I was going to try and finish it all today, but I'm not sure I have the stamina. Tomorrow might have to do. In the meantime, that last pic shows me in my "party outfit")
(Whoah, is anyone getting wedding fatigue? I sure am. I'll let the pictures do the talking this time.)
(One more post to come... the outfits! I was going to try and finish it all today, but I'm not sure I have the stamina. Tomorrow might have to do. In the meantime, that last pic shows me in my "party outfit")
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
wedding: decorations
The Decorations:
(I'm eager to wrap all this up by Wednesday, so these wedding posts will be coming thick and fast till then)
When thinking about the decorations for our wedding, there were a couple of things we kept in mind:
1) we didn't have to do too much because the location spoke for itself
2) we wanted to enhance the location rather than distract from, or compete with it
3) we wanted to respect the environment (both immediate and overall), keeping away from the notion of luxury and excess.
Our aim? "Vintage, Rustic, Recycled." (And of course a good dash of handmade added into the equation too). We wanted an overall style, rather than a "theme" consisting of matching things.
The river, the trees and the flowers were the focus. But, as we all know, it's all about the details...
Mum and I made the table runners for each table from fabric either from my existing stash, or from second hand fabric I found at op-shops. They were all un-matching, some linen, some candy stripes, some satin. They looked great, and helped to break up the whiteness of the tablecloths.
We used lots of wood throughout the whole wedding. On the tables we had little chunks of wood. (Earlier in the year when the flood hit, it destroyed a few trees, so the timber came from those). We used large stumps of wood in the garden, and also one as a cake stand.
At the end of the night people took them as a memento. We had handed out sandalwood fans to the pregnant and elderly ladies before the ceremony, but other than that we had no "favours". So these little chunks filled in, and people loved them. Now everyone has a little wood chunk in their home to remind them of the wedding and their holiday. One friend insists hers is shaped like a heart!
On the wood chunks, on the tables, we had jars. Lots and lots of jars, all different sizes and shapes. Plus lots of vintage cut glass cups, sugar bowls, bottles, etc. Some held flowers, the rest had tealight candles in them. (The jars were from our own collection, or donated by friends, and cut glass was all from op-shops and the tip shop).
We also had jars with candles in them throughout the garden too, so at night it all twinkled.
Mr You and I spent the wedding night on the boat, so my sister and her husband made us a beautiful "just married sign". They stencilled each letter onto fabric, hung with little wooden pegs.
The lovely old wooden box, that belonged to Mr You's Grandfather, was a postbox for guests to put their cards in.
We hung vintage lampshades in the tress. I collected them all from op-shops and reconditioned them all. We also had some lamps inside the marquee too, so later in the evening we turned off the big lights, and just had the candles and lamps light the marquee. Outside we had fairy lights and had spotlights shining up all the trees.
There were some things that we originally wanted to have at the wedding, but didn't make it in the end. One of these was a photobooth (a spot set up with a backdrop and props, for your guests to take silly staged photo's of themselves in).
It turned out that, completely un-intentionally, we ended up having one, as friends took turns at having their photo's taken on the day bed under the lampshades. This is something we didn't even realise until after the wedding, as people started sending us their photo's. Almost everyone had a photo of themselves posed under the lampshade tree; some nicely posed, others funny and staged. Just another example of the nice surprises of the day!
(I'm eager to wrap all this up by Wednesday, so these wedding posts will be coming thick and fast till then)
When thinking about the decorations for our wedding, there were a couple of things we kept in mind:
1) we didn't have to do too much because the location spoke for itself
2) we wanted to enhance the location rather than distract from, or compete with it
3) we wanted to respect the environment (both immediate and overall), keeping away from the notion of luxury and excess.
Our aim? "Vintage, Rustic, Recycled." (And of course a good dash of handmade added into the equation too). We wanted an overall style, rather than a "theme" consisting of matching things.
The river, the trees and the flowers were the focus. But, as we all know, it's all about the details...
Mum and I made the table runners for each table from fabric either from my existing stash, or from second hand fabric I found at op-shops. They were all un-matching, some linen, some candy stripes, some satin. They looked great, and helped to break up the whiteness of the tablecloths.
We used lots of wood throughout the whole wedding. On the tables we had little chunks of wood. (Earlier in the year when the flood hit, it destroyed a few trees, so the timber came from those). We used large stumps of wood in the garden, and also one as a cake stand.
At the end of the night people took them as a memento. We had handed out sandalwood fans to the pregnant and elderly ladies before the ceremony, but other than that we had no "favours". So these little chunks filled in, and people loved them. Now everyone has a little wood chunk in their home to remind them of the wedding and their holiday. One friend insists hers is shaped like a heart!
On the wood chunks, on the tables, we had jars. Lots and lots of jars, all different sizes and shapes. Plus lots of vintage cut glass cups, sugar bowls, bottles, etc. Some held flowers, the rest had tealight candles in them. (The jars were from our own collection, or donated by friends, and cut glass was all from op-shops and the tip shop).
We also had jars with candles in them throughout the garden too, so at night it all twinkled.
Mr You and I spent the wedding night on the boat, so my sister and her husband made us a beautiful "just married sign". They stencilled each letter onto fabric, hung with little wooden pegs.
The lovely old wooden box, that belonged to Mr You's Grandfather, was a postbox for guests to put their cards in.
We hung vintage lampshades in the tress. I collected them all from op-shops and reconditioned them all. We also had some lamps inside the marquee too, so later in the evening we turned off the big lights, and just had the candles and lamps light the marquee. Outside we had fairy lights and had spotlights shining up all the trees.
There were some things that we originally wanted to have at the wedding, but didn't make it in the end. One of these was a photobooth (a spot set up with a backdrop and props, for your guests to take silly staged photo's of themselves in).
It turned out that, completely un-intentionally, we ended up having one, as friends took turns at having their photo's taken on the day bed under the lampshades. This is something we didn't even realise until after the wedding, as people started sending us their photo's. Almost everyone had a photo of themselves posed under the lampshade tree; some nicely posed, others funny and staged. Just another example of the nice surprises of the day!
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