this neck of the woods » Garlands

Giveaway!

this neck of the woods — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:29:16 +0000

For the next few days, etsy seller The Starcraft and I have a dual giveaway going on over at one of my favourite blogs – Young House Love! It’s my first ever giveaway and I’m thrilled to be doing it with the help of John and Sherry of YHL.. thank you so much guys! And thank you to The Starcraft for sharing this experience with me! So go and check out the giveaway, enter to win some cool stuff, and check out all there is to see on YHL in the process :D

now in the shop…

this neck of the woods — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:25:51 +0000

Hi there! Remember me? …No?

Who can blame you – it’s been a while! Hows about I make it up to you with a peek at one of the reasons I’ve been detained!

I’ve been trying to add some more stock to my shop in preparation for a giveaway I have coming up (with one of my fave blogs!), and below are 4 of the newbies – two of which are actually mobiles making their debut! Over the next days I’ll be adding a couple more, and then very soon I’ll be able to tell you more about the giveaway!

New!

this neck of the woods — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:25:51 +0000

Just added this one to the shop.

Featured

this neck of the woods — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:07:59 +0000

This neck of the woods was featured on the blog Oh So Beautiful Paper the other day!!

I didn’t even know until I stumbled across it in my google reader.. haha! Thanks to Nole for such kind words :)

This week

this neck of the woods — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:00:55 +0000

Phew – what a week! I’ve been madly making garlands all week long and have managed to send out the first few orders.. exciting! My routine this week has been something like this:
- get up
- stop by post office on way to work
- have 20 minute lesson in the art of communication with post office lady (much hand-actioning included)
- work
- come home and start garland
- eat dinner (which Dave cooked)
- continue garland
- wrap finished garland, write card, find buyer address
- put everything at front door so I can grab it on the way out next day
- fall into bed.

So it’s been busy.. but fun! I’ve glued my fingers together far too many times to count – not to mention gluing ribbon to pants and losing a gazillion little beads all over the house :D

This photo is in no way related, but I thought it was lovely. It was one of the flowers we picked a couple of weeks ago (same as the last flower post), but this one had a double centre.. pretty!

Mysterious glow

this neck of the woods — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:25:26 +0000

We had an interesting glow coming from our study for most of today..

And here’s the reason for the glow…

And here’s the result of the glow…

If someone out there reading this happens to be good with light tents – please don’t judge us.. we’re learning as we go :D

Schmetterlinge

this neck of the woods — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:46:52 +0000

3 new garlands I’ve been working on over the weekend.

new!

this neck of the woods — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:41:09 +0000

We’ve spent many-a-night lately standing around scratching our heads about how to photograph the mobiles and garlands in full… because they’re so long, it really had become a challenge! In the end, we built ourselves/Dave built me a tallish light tent from tubing, fabric and hot glue – et voila! The below photos are the outcome – not quite perfect yet, but we’re getting there!

More photos can be found on flickr

New garlands

this neck of the woods — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:22:27 +0000

We had gorgeous weather yesterday, so I took the opportunity to get some photos of the garlands I’ve been working on.

mobile in the making

this neck of the woods — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:18:42 +0000