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December 19, 2011

Our Home Tour

Through a House Photographer's lens...

After six years of calling this place our home, it's almost time to say goodbye. Oh! I am so going to cry when I shut the door to this place for the last time.

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Hello everyone! Some of you already know this... but our house has sold! We have been talking, thinking and praying about this for a couple of years now. It went unconditional a few weeks ago and we have till the end of January to find a new place. We have a couple of options but nothing concrete. Anyway I know I said I would share some of my living room projects with you all, but I just can't right now, so please forgive me for this! I will however show you the photos... I think you've waited long enough... heehee - I've waited long enough for it to actually look like this! And now we have to move! Crazy I know, but I'm confident I can re-create the look else where and better.

So here are the before pics -

After-title

and a really terrible view from the other corner, I took a blurry photo then sharpend it like mad - sorry about that, not sure why I settled for that, but you get the idea anyway.

What I love most about this makeover is the gallery wall. I wanted to find away to make that wood-burner less in your face, so I bought or painted frames in black and created a gallery of memories and special collected pieces. I love it so So much!

It will be sad to say goodbye to this space.

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December 14, 2011

Organizing a Five Year Olds Party

I'm hosting my daughters 5th birthday at the beach this Sunday afternoon! Today I created this mood board and some print-ables to use on the day, which I will make available for you all to download in another post. Doing this helps me see that everything is going to fit together and how it will all look on the day, even though I'm not using the exact same products for some items. It's the colour, shape and textures I want to see together.

I found this picture on pinterest while looking for inspiration, I'm going to swap the frame for a pretty hula hoop and maybe place some butterflies on it too. Hopefully my camera will be faithful on the day, because I keep getting "Clean the lens Contact's" error message, and I have dry cleaned it already. I might purchase a proper kit before the day though, just in case.

I have lots of shopping to do for both the birthday, aaaand for the Christams dinner, which will be at my place this year!(for the first time) SO much to do right now... but its worth it for all the fun and smiles that come afterwards.

I hope the rest of you are cool and calm.

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December 07, 2011

Winner of the Mat Giveaway

Is...

Irina Teeshoom

Thank you so much for your lovely comment! And congratulations on your win. This is what Irina has won -

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December 02, 2011

Kitchen Makeover + Giveaway!

Thought I'd show you what my kitchen looks like. I don't have many or decent before photos. Only what I have below. We only put a wall up to block off the entrance and left everything as it was when we moved in.

It was in pretty good condition already the kitchen, as you can see -
This picture was taken through the entrance when it used to exist. Checkout the after photo now!
So as you can see, not many changes, except the wall, the stunning teal accent colour and my floors have been freshly mopped... I think!

The details

So here's the giveaway. Guess what item from the pictures above, will be available next year for all the world to purchase designed by me. Write it in the comments section of this post and I will announce the winner, next week Wednesday(nz time) 9pm.

Increase your chance of winning! If you mention this giveaway on your blog, forum or facebook page, you can enter again for an increased chance of winning. Just copy your post link on to your next posted comment! You can enter as many times as you like, just make sure you have a valid link mentioning this giveaway.

Entries close 5.00pm Wednesday 14th Dec 2011. Product will be shipped once the store has launched, which will be some time early next year.

All the best guys!

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November 24, 2011

Two Birds - A Mixed Media Piece By Me

I painted this yesterday!

SUPPLIES USED: Tattered Angles Mists; Acrylics, Inks, Prima Stamps; Texture Medium; Alison's Acquisitions flower; Miscellaneous charm; Thread; Paint roller.

I've been wanting to create something huge and teal saturated to hang over my dining room table for a very long time. Finally I had some spare time yesterday and knew it had to be a paint day - and a paint day it was! I made such a mess in my kitchen, the clean up was PAAINful. I have to say I am totally satisfied with it! I thought I wasn't going to be, because I felt the time pressure big time and I don't work well knowing I have to have everything cleaned up at a certain time - kills my creativity big time! Any way, once the inspiration started rolling in... about half way through the project! I knew this was going to all work out. I always dread going in the right direction then mucking it up, because of too much misting or something... (sigh) oh how I love misting. I really need to order some more bottles in actually!