Yaaah! It must be my lucky day today! Look what arrived at my doorstep!

My new imac, a vintage cash register from ebay and a pack of recycled writing set from Kirsten at Paper by forget-me-not.

What should I open first???

So I said I was going with an orange theme. Well I finally found shoes to get married in. I thought I would never find one in my size (apparently not a lot of people wear orange shoes) but these ballet flats found me.

What do you think?

I hope my parents don’t freak out. But I think if they see this now, they may not get such a shock on the day. Am I right mum? Anyway, it’s all part of the fun!

Here’s a simple equation:
chocolate + art + love = a very happy helena

If you follow this formula, you too will be feeling giddy with delight.

Also when you’re having pink and white marshmallows with hot chocolate, it’s only logical that you match it with a pink and white cup set. Don’t you agree?

Soooooooo….we are mailing out wedding invites today. It’s a bit like snail mailing…only ten times scarier.

We’re going with a blue and orange theme for our seaside wedding. I drew some coral like flowers and made up some postcard invites..nothing too fancy. I also found some orange envelopes to match our cards.

When I think of orange and blue, I think of some of my favourite things:

- a summer sunset
- chilled orange crush
- orange poppyseed cake
- fresh salmon
- blue m&ms
- blue candy floss
- the ocean!

What’s your favourite orange and blue?

So the warm summer months are approaching down under and it’s time to bring out the flip flops. It’s also 2 months till we get hitched. We’re pretty excited (which reminds me I still have to make our invites).

But just the other day I was missing the best part about winter:

- collecting pinecones

- drawing on foggy windows

- warming my hands with a hot mug, preferably filled with something sweet and decadent.

- stepping into rainy puddles

And this morning I got to have one of those as a treat! A very lovely customer sent me a surprise mail package..

a box of hot chocolate mix and marshmallows! UNREAL!

That’s the best thing about my work, I get to meet so many wonderful people from my shop and blog. So thank you Allana, you just sweetened the rest of my day! CHEERS!

Hello! I am typing this from our new place, with our very fast internet. While sorting out the kitchen box, I came across this sushi maker set I bought in Japan.

So for tea time snack, I made some bite sized sushi. I only wish I had cute utensils to serve them with! Come over for tea, I’ll make some more!

So I’ve got a new man in my life. He’s tall, dark and handsome. I haven’t decided on a name for him, care to suggest one? He’s a gift from Niina. She knows of my fascination with Golliwogs and so she lovingly sewed him up, with pants and all. Gotta love the trousers!

And because it’s Niina’s birthday (a belated one I’m afraid), I got my man to pose and sing for her. I did try to comb his hair neatly!

Happy Birthday sweetheart! I hope your prince charming is as dashing as mine!

With my blue sneakers that Big mo bought for me. Thanks bearz!

And my blue owl pins by Michvanetta.
Have a nice day everyone!

We are back from Geraldton. It was a good trip, and we managed to finish all our filming. I was feeling unwell during the trip, maybe because of exhaustion but still it was good fun.

We didn’t do much sightseeing but we had a few hours to ourselves in between shoots and we walked along the rocks. I’ve forgotten how blue the sky is over here in Australia…and the sea is forever calm.

Super busy weekend! After finishing Made On The Left I had to get my act together and package up all my online shop orders. I had a little Christmas In July sale this weekend and all these Mo goodies have been packaged up to go to good homes! Thank you so much for buying my art. I hope you love your gifts as I must as I loved drawing and making them for you!

I even took out my good old santa rubber stamp for that special occasion hehe. I can’t wait to use it again for REAL christmas. And then of course I used my new Mo bags to carry all the goodies to the post office. I think I was so pleased with myself I actually had a big grin on my face the whole time!

I will blog about my market in another post. Hopefully soon! Tomorrow we are flying up to Geraldton to do some filming for work, so we have to get things organised first. Stay tuned!