Happy Valentine’s Day! And Happy Lunar New Year!

It’s the year of the tiger so here’s a Tiger Mo drawn specially for this festive occassion! You can save this picture and send it to all your friends to wish them a Happy Tiger Year!

You can also say “Gong Xi Fa Cai” which means wishing you prosperity in the coming year!

A cupboard to put all our film equipment.

A super 8 letterpress print by Roll and Tumble Press.

An old bacon press I found in a vintage shop…this piggy was too cute for me to resist.

Snail mail day = spending a bit of quiet time to pen a letter to my friend.

Using this lovely pack of handmade recycled paper from Paper by Forget-me-not.

Sharing life stories and sealing my envelope with a kiss. I love snail mail day.

I like cozy cafes with fresh bread and pastries.
I like menus written on chalkboard.
I like girls in aprons.
I like my coffee milky.
I like sitting by the window.
I like people-watching from the window.
I like the word ‘old fashioned’ and will most likely order an ‘old fashioned apple pie’ than a tiramisu.
I like bread take away in a brown paper bag.

Photos of our blue and orange wedding, captured by our photographer Jen Regan from Anna Rose Photography.

Have I said how amazing her magic fingers are? Yes I have:)

Thank you Jen for spending the day with us! You can see more of our wedding photos here. And the art gallery we got married in.

Gah! It’s finally over and we can go back to our quiet lives! One of the scariest things about getting married is coming dressed up and being conscious about the fact that everyone is looking at you! I really hope that I didn’t look too out of place with my dress choice. Truthfully it was the only white dress that I could afford for our handmade wedding. I dressed it up with a flower headpiece and orange shoes. That’s it!

The night before our wedding was pretty crazy. We spent many long hours at the art gallery setting up the tables and chairs and doing all the decorations by ourselves. I roped in mum to iron all the table cloths and got my friends to fold the paper napkins. Rich also decided that we should have blue bubble bottles instead!

The flowers were a different drama altogether. The florist rang up to say that the flowers we ordered wouldn’t arrive for the wedding so we used what they had left in the shop; orange mokara orchids, red and yellow James story orchids and orange calla lilies. As for the vases, I just made do with what I had lying around my house and in the art gallery. Truth be told, I was starting to think we would never get any rest! By the time I got into bed it was 3am and then the alarm clock woke me up 2 hours later for the wedding!

As it turned out, everything was so fun and the wedding really reflected our personality and our handmade spirit. We didn’t order a wedding cake so we got everyone to bring a home made dessert to sweeten up our day.

We’re just so glad to spend the day with our closest friends and family. I’ll share more pictures once they are ready!

Hello! Happy 2010!

I had such a great holiday. We spent time with the in-laws during Christmas and I ate turkey 3 days in a row!

We also watched a boxset of Rodriguez movies (big mo’s idea). We watched El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico all in one day. What were we thinking?

New years was a little quieter and between the two of us we made udon, drank some Tiger beer, played Katamari Damacy on playstation and put on a funny dvd.

This week our friends and family are flying in from overseas for our wedding. Things are getting a little bit crazy…I can’t believe this is my last week and by the end of the week I’ll be writing Mrs on forms. So so weird! I also kinda wish I could roll all my anxiety away like a Katamari ball.

Anyway folks, happy new year and here’s wishing you all a great 2010, filled with lots of love, joy and creativity! I also hope you’re using your Little Mo calendars!

I made orange labels for our mini champers. They are not real champers though, they are actually filled with bubbles. Big mo’s mum thought it would be fun to blow bubbles at the beach. She bought us 70 bottles. Yes I spent the day wrapping up 70 bottles. Never again.

Summer fruits
Sticky fingers
Rosy cheeks
Lemonade
Mangoes
Paddling
Summer playlist
Vast blue sky
Sunset roads

What’s yours?

When you press the buttons, it makes the loudest ding!! It’s a beautiful sound and I can’t stop giggling like an idiot! It also drives big mo crazy when I play with it. But it’s cute though and I use it to store little bits and pieces like my mail stamps.