Deers and Bears

One of my good friends (and groomsman to my husband on our wedding day!) takes pictures for New Zealand's version of the Cobrasnake: Neon Sleep and also for his own site- Deers and Bears

Just thought I'd share and show him some love, (he's also the boy in the top picture). Always good to get a bit of kiwi talent out there for the world to see! I love that I have so many friends doing fun stuff with their lives and living creatively.

I ♥ vintage tins

I love old tins and containers and I'm building up a nice little collection. I usually use an old cigar or tobacco tin as a wallet and my house is filled with lovely floral tins holding my tea, or biscuits or secret notes. I have the worst luck actually finding pretty tins whenever i go op shopping- the ones i do find usually end up having ducks on them (seriously, it's so weird, i always find duck tins) or kittens, which isn't really my taste- but lucky i have a lovely friend who gives me a few treats every now and then.

Do you guys collect anything? I'm not a big collector really but i'm always on the look out for bits and pieces to decorate my home with and i love anything old because it just seems to have so much more character.

The above tins can all be found for sale on etsy here, here and here.

Lonely Hearts + Giveaway winner announced

New Zealand label Lonely Hearts opted out of their regular cat walk show at this years fashion week and instead showed a video installation of their 2010 winter collection.

These pictures are stills from the film. Liss posted about other designers doing this as well, over at Daydream Lily. I like this new trend! All these little film clips are giving me heaps of inspiration at the moment.

And in other news, the winner of my owl necklace giveaway is The Little Blog of Happiness for this lovely comment:

Congratulations hun! Also make sure you guys do check out Really Really Design, there's many more great products to be found.

Blog of the week: Rosa-Fiona Bettina

Finnish beautyRosa-Fiona Bettina has a gorgeous blog with amazing pictures documenting her life. I love finding blogs in languages i can't understand and not using google translate to find out what they're saying, but making up the content myself instead.

Check out her lookbook here as well.

Just a minute in...September

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I think i kind of forgot about this for the last couple of months maybe? But it's time to bring it back! So here we go:

Watching... Band of Brothers with the hubby... it keeps him happy :) And out of most war programs or movies I've seen, BOB is probably the best

Reading... Relevant Magazine. It's about music, God & progressive culture and the articles are always so interesting. Zooey Deschanel was on the cover this month.

Drinking... tea tea tea. every type- green tea, lemon tea, english breakfast, early grey etc. Can't get through the day without a hot drink.

Eating... healthy for once! Trying to shape up for summer so I'm cutting out sugary treats and getting back into fresh fruit and veges.

P.s make sure you check out my giveaway below, there's still a few days left. I'm really enjoying reading all your answers to my question!

p.p.s just noticed i wrote "picture credit" but then never attached the link and now i can't find it... it's from a blog i found recently. if it's yours let me know so i can credit you! sorry!

Giveaway!

This cute little fellow is the prize up for grabs in my first ever giveaway. New Zealand website Really Really Design sells gorgeous handmade jewelry and to celebrate their first birthday they're giving away this owl necklace (wish i could keep it for myself!)

To enter just comment on this post, and if you want two entries comment with something that you're Really Really grateful for.

Winner announced on Friday oops I mean Monday.

Meet Stacie and Geoff.

Wow wow WOW i can't even express how much i love these pictures! This is Stacie and Geoff celebrating their engagement and if you go here you can see the pictures of their wedding day. What an amazing couple! They have such great style, so vintage and dreamy-- I love it!

I just discovered the Sloan Photography website and there's so much beauty to be found. I only wish the hubby and I thought to get engagement photo's taken-- it would have been great to have something to celebrate that season in our lives. But at least on the actual wedding day every step and smile was recorded.

P.S I have an exciting little giveaway happening on this blog sometime this week so stay tuned :)

Whimsical beauty!

Just a little cuteness to brighten up your day! Taken by Matias Troncoso and found through Little Lost Love.

Hope everyone's weekend has been wonderful xx

Neverland Collective

As some of you might know, I have another blog over at Fix Up Look Sharp, with a collective of New Zealand creatives- artists, musicians, designers, entertainers etc etc. Anyway, one of my fellow FULS bloggers is a friend who I met during my degree and she's an amazing photographer/ artist/ jewelry designer- check out some of her stuff at her page here. AND check out her new giveaway with Frankie here.

Clare's stuff is amazing so make sure you guys check it out and enter. The pictures above are from a beanie collection she designed, and you can see more of her jewelry on the Neverland Collective website.

Silver Saga

Silver Saga takes pretty pictures.

She also has a blog here and is yet another one of my Swedish loves. I really need to go there!

Here Comes the Sun... do do do do...

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The title of my blog seems so appropriate right now..... spring is here, the birds are chirping, the sun is shining and I am getting more and more joyful at the thought of long, hot summer nights spent barbecuing with friends. Oh happiness :)

Anyway just to let you guys know I have an exciting little giveaway coming up shortly which i think you will really like so keep an eye out :) Not long and all will be revealed!

Parasol•Craft Magazine

Parasol•Craft is an online magazine, dedicated to all things handmade and inspiring and only costs $2.50!!! It's a spin-off from Parasol Magazine and full of super cute tutorials and projects as well as giveaways and downloads.

Check it out here.

New work from Anna Wolf

Anna Wolf has some of her new work up on her offical website and it's as beautiful as ever. Such a talented photographer!

Where the Wild Things are

The new posters for Where the Wild Things Are have arrived.

I am so excited!!!

Happy weekend lovelies :)

The Never Ending Story

Saga is an Icelandic blogger, currently living and studying in London. The Never Ending Story is her blog where she showcases her photography, including her latest works, the lookbook for these gorgeous heels, Kron by Kronkron in Reykjavik.

The shoes are designed by Hugrun and Magni, the owners of shop Kronkron in Iceland and I LOVE how the pictures have turned out!!

Ezra Roise

Esra Roise is a Norwegian freelance illustrator, living and working in Oslo, Norway. You might recognise her illustrations from Nylon magazine, Vice or Idn, where she's featured regularly.

I like her art, it's fun. Check out some more of her work on her website here.

Anna Aden Photography

Photography from Anna Aden always makes me smile. She's a talented Swedish beauty (seriously, can we please plan a trip to Sweden??!!) and you can check out her website here and flickr here.

Sweden seems like such a magical place!! Do i have any Swedish readers? If i do, please contact me and tell me more about your wonderful country.