A Peek Through The Window...

FINALLY. A post with pictures! Current pictures! For whatever reason, I've been putting off posting pictures on this blog. Which is silly. I think my main problem is that I'm ashamed of my bad photography skills. So the other day, my problem was temporarily solved! I've got a blog sponsorship coming up in June over at My Girl Thursday and had to send her a bunch of pics. I had a small panic, then texted my super-busy bestie who, like any amazing photographer friend, took time out of her crowded weekend to take photos for me :) I only needed a few of them for the feature, so I decided that, rather than let them go to waste, I'd post them here! So here it is. A peek into the window of my life. Well overdue. (Thankssss Kat!!)

#1 Spices. Kat took this for fun because she found them on the table, but the fact that they were out on the table is an indicator that I use them a LOT. I love cooking and I loooove playing with spices. Yay!

#2 My Work-space! I'm blessed enough to have my very own craft room in this little house of ours! It's such a mess so I very strategically cleaned up certain parts of it for Kat to focus on... tehe!
I have a lot of scissors...!
Current projects. Anyone sensing a theme???
That's my sewing machine on the left, all covered up. Because I can't use it without a power cable, and I am yet to find... Clever.
#4 Ooo! This photo is one I took! It's the sky above my house the other morning. I just loved the bits of cotton candy floating around! The whole sky looked like this, with whispy pink patches everywhere. Best sunrise EVER.

#5 Token cute puppy pic :) I took this photo of Cupcake on our way to the park. He looks super funny with his face to the wind!

So there you have it! Between now and June, I'm going to be working my ass off getting the shop ready. I've never been involved with a blog sponsorship before, so I'm pretty excited to have this opportunity!

I promise, more photo-y posts from now on. My exciting news is that Chris is giving me my own computer in the craft room!!! Can't wait!!

This One's For You, Husband...

Thank you for:
- Treating me like a normal person when I have strange freak-outs and crazy-lady mood swings
- Letting me get Cupcake even though he was very expensive and we weren't even supposed to be getting a puppy yet (let alone 2!!)
- Surprising me with flowers AND a Master Chef cook book over the last fortnight
- Looking at my herb garden when I tell you to, and throwing in impressed and encouraging comments
- Cleaning the floor amazingly
- Offering to cook when you start finishing work earlier
- Fixing the TV reception :)
- Letting me buy dumb things (like dresses) that I don't need, and we can't afford, but I reallllly want
- Feeding the dogs pretty much every night because Cupcake prefers to eat food served by Daddy for some reason
- Sitting under the patio, looking out at the garden and dreaming with me
- Going grocery shopping with me
- Driving pretty much any time we go out
- Eating everything I cook and making me feel like I've made the tastiest meal in the world every night
- Carrying the love bird cage around even though you don't really like the love birds
- Letting me call you all kinds of embarrassing, non-manly nicknames
- Treating me to back rubs even when you're just as tired as me
- Giving me sips of your Pepsi because I can't justify drinking a whole can of it any more
- Putting up with me telling you to "stop eating my chips and get your own!"
- Explaining technical stuff to me when you know I have noooo idea
- Answering my questions about movies/TV shows while we're watching them
- Being a genuinely amazing husband. Seriously, you deserve every gold star in the world!

LOVE YOU

Winter...

I can see that you're on your way here. And I like that.

Chris is away this weekend. I miss him when he goes. I'm a bit strange, when he's not home I can't think of stuff to do. Everything just feels a bit pointless. I could never have moved out of my parents' home and lived alone! I definitely need people around in order to exist properly. Is that a bad thing? I guess it is, when you're stuck home alone for an entire weekend!

I'm hoping to make the most of the weekend and tick off the following things:

- More shop updating. I've gotten slack

- Proper blog work. I feel like I've drifted in and out of here leaving nothing but other people's pictures and a vague update on my life, since starting this blog. It's still plain white and boring. Boring!

- Indie Biz class catch up. I am like, 20 lessons behind. Ouch.

- Laundry. Because it will be sunny for the first time in a small while, and the dirty clothes are piling up everywhere. Plus, Chris is going to come home with a pile more...

- Wishing and mindlessly brainstorming for this crazy new dream I've discovered inside me. Heck.

Wish me luck!

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Um, Adorable!!

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I would love to do something like this on a cushion cover or something... soooo freaking lovely!!
As usual, I've been a bit AWOL lately. Life is dishing out lots of unwanted physical pain at the moment. I mean that literally. In the last 3 weeks I've had a terrible reaction to a bee sting, a stiff neck, and now a bad back (I've never had a back injury in my life!) It's all very exhausting. I swear everyone at my new job must think I'm the world's biggest hypocondriach (K, don't know how to spell that big word!)

Aside from being in various pains, life is great. It always is, despite the silly little things we have to deal with along the way. I'm dying to get in the craft room and do something new (a castle appliqued cushion cover perhaps? Tehe). I'm dying for it to rain for 2 days straight (preferably over a weekend, even if that is when I usually do my laundry!) And I'm also dying to actually post interesting stuff on my blog. Plus, I'm dying to catch up on the Indie Biz classes I've been putting off... yikes!

I guess I'm just waiting for life to get less crazy... probly not gonna happen! Oh well!!

Sweet, Sweet Purple

Yes, we are close to being broke. But I am a foolish lady who can't say no to an adorable bag.

And she is really, really adorable. Like my favourite shade of purple EVER. And quite cheap, as far as bags go. So yesterday I brought her home with me. I'm calling it a "congratulations on your new job, me!" present.

WOW!!

Colour me BEYOND impressed!
So I've started Indie Biz 2.0 and I am LOVING it! It's such a great class, and is way going beyond my expectations! Big work-load though, I'm struggling just a little bit to keep up the class-a-day routine. Not worry, because it is work at your own pace. I just don't want to fall behind.

A.N.Y.W.A.Y. The teachers have set up an amazing business networking/socialising site and it is fantastic. I'm really getting to know my class mates, their stories, and I'm telling you some of them just blow me away! I'm thinking I might do a blog feature once a week or something on someone from the class. It's so exciting.

This week I'm kicking it off with a post about a little duo who call themselves Jordan Taylah.


Taylah Golden is one half of the duo and she's in the class. And she's 14. At 12 she and her friend Jordan started making PJs for school camps, and almost instantly started finding that everyone wanted a piece of them! They were selling to friends, and started expanding crazily, to the point where they now run an online shop and stock a couple of local stores with their pyjamas. Yes, at 14. And look how cute!!!




How inspiring is that???? Plus they're a pair of Aussie girls, so they are pretty much the coolest :)

A Bit Outdated But... The Photoshoot!

So I realise that I've been meaning to post the 'out-takes' from the shoot I did with my models/sisters a few weeks back, but I haven't done it yet! What a fool! It was a blistering hot day and I never, ever want to try and take so many photos in 42 degree heat. Yick! The sun was so bright I couldn't even see the pictures I was taking. But the girls were very good to me and posed their little hearts out, swapping brooches and hair clips after every third or fourth photo.

Here's Hannah cooling off in the shade of some hideous native tree in our yard that we were very thankful for!


The girls goofing around...!

And this is how I got them to help me get the backdrop (AKA creased white sheet) higher than head-level so I wouldn't get sky in the pics... Ha!

Tons of great product pics came out of the shoot, but I'll just share a couple. They can all be seen in my shop under each separate item anyways :)


Steph's hair was the best for my brightly coloured hair clips! Gotta love the black!

And that was the shoot. Next time I am soooo finding a better backdrop and better light. I think my photography is always just going to be a work in progress...