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

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!!!!

small heads

goodbye renee

May your journey sparkle. I will miss you.

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.

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:

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.