I love to wrap

It's been a while since I shared a photo on how I am packaging up orders.

I don't just do this for the holidays, 

I do it all year round.

Because I love wrapping up pretty packages,

tucking a surprise notecard under the string,

and sending them on to my lovely customers all over the world.

It's Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, 

which means FREE SHIPPING worldwide on all items in my Etsy shop until the end of Monday.

birds, trees, snow and daydreams....

In this part of the countryside, 

everywhere I go,

I see birds.  

I see fields.  

I see wide open sky.

I see rows and rows of gorgeous trees.

And all of this seeing, 

of course,

leads me to daydreaming........

101 woonideeen

I am so thrilled that 'theirs was a love story'

is the typewriter photo used on the 'We've got mail' page 

in the November issue of the gorgeous Dutch magazine 101 woonideeen.  

The wonderful editors even sent me a copy, all the way here to New Zealand.  

Although I couldn' t read it, the pictures are beautiful and the interiors - oh my!  

Thank you 101 woonideeen!

"us"

So today I spent a bit of time blog reading, and ended up at this article 

{found via Kelly Rae Roberts}

I read it twice.

Then sat and thought about it some more.

It is pretty powerful, thinking about the future years and their memories of me.

And realised that yes I do this.

Make excuses not to be in the photo.

Or because I am generally the one taking the photos, 

I am not in them.

And decided, that today, with both kids at home,

we would snap a 'selfie' on the Fuji Instax

{which doesn't scan so well, but you get the idea - 

smooshed faces all together}

So this is 'us'.  

My kids and their Mama, as we were today.

 

the memory makers

 

Every school holidays, I get inspired.  

And most of the time we are too busy for me to fit in any photo creative time.

So yesterday, with the house all to myself, 

I got all of my cameras out, 

and had a play.

So here you have it, another 2013 4x6" Calendar,

for all of you camera lovers out there.

I have called it 'The Memory Makers'.

 

 Available here.

Whimsical Daydreams - 2013 4x6" Calendar

I just couldn't resist creating another calendar for 2013.  

I have the 5x7" Pale Blue Daydreams calendar, 

but felt the year needed a Whimsical Daydreams compilation.  

 This calendar is smaller, each of the 13 pages are 4x6".  

Each photo is a 4x4" square, so when the month is over, 

simply cut the bottom 2" off and you have a perfect 4x4" photo to frame, 

pin to an inspiration board, stick to your fridge.....

 A selection of my favourites, and yours.
Available here.

October

 October, is it really you?