TO CALL EACH THING BY ITS RIGHT NAME: part two...

In my previous post I shared some photos of the glass vials I used to put in our herbs and spices. I wanted my tea, coffee and condiments to match as they would be on the same shelf, but instead of clear stickers I used vinyl that had been cut on a plotting machine. In the above pics I've shown how you apply this with masking/application tape. Overall I'm pretty happy with how they turned out and I just love the white Dane Canisters from Freedom.

TO CALL EACH THING BY ITS RIGHT NAME: part one...

My lovely husband has built me some rimu shelves in our kitchen (photos to come) and I didnt want to ruin them by putting our mishmashed herbs, coffee, tea and oils on it. So I decided I would customise our condiments so they would look like a set. I started first with our herbs and spices. I wrote out all the herbs and scanned them into my computer which I then got the printers to print on a clear sticker. I purchased some glass vials with cork lids from etsy and applied my labels. This method looked better on the spices as they were lighter colours. Unfortunately the herbs were a bit dark for the black writing to be seen clearly, but I can still read them so it will have to do!

“Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”

– Boris Pasternak

MOONRISE KINGDOM

In the weekend I stumbled upon this film Moonrise Kingdom and fell in love with it. It was quirky and whimsical with a wholelota adventure. I mean, just look at these stills... Don't you just want to jump right in and live there?

HOMEOWNERS

On May 25 Brendon and I moved into our every first home! Eeee! The place is definitely a "doer-upper" but that is partly why I love it. (And partly why I married a builder! Ha, just kidding). So, you can expect that quite a few posts from now on will be house orientated.
We've been in our little house for just over two months now and we've already done a few little projects. (We wont be doing anything drastic for a year or so though). I think my favourite part of the house at the moment are the little numbers that are stamped into our floor boards – a silly thing to like, I know. Plus we have this funny little brick bridge in our garden that I like to call our Narnia garden as it has a lamp post next to it. It's pretty random but I kinda like it. Maybe we should have a Narnia themed house warming party?! Anyway, I can't wait for summer to roll around as I think our little deck will be great for BBQs and entertaining.
PS. do you like the candle holders that I made?

LOVE IS THE NEW BLACK.

Working on a little project for some friends of mine... Black hoodies and Chucks – they're all over it.

AHOY!

In my last post I shared some photos from my sailor themed birthday... (You would think I was turning 5!) And this is the invitation I sent out beforehand. I used an old photo of myself on the back of the main invite from when I was 6 or 7. I drew a map of the area we would be staying which I roll folded up and wrote my friends names on the back. I threaded through some navy and white bakers twine to finish it off. Ta da!

A QUATER CENTURY

The weekend before we moved into our new house (Eeee!) we went up to Omaha beach to celebrate my 25th birthday. And in true "grown up" fashion, I made everyone dress up as sailors... Ahoy! Even though it was forecast to rain, the sun stayed out which meant a lot of cycling trips through the dunes to the beach.

On the Sunday we went to the Matakana Indie Craft Market where I bought a few little goodies as well as some tasty treats. This market is on every third Sunday of the month... I highly recommended it :) Thanks Alana for some of these cute pics!