much love monday [handmade greeting cards]

Love: handmade greeting cards.

I've made some blank greeting cards using recycled card, vintage storybook pages, and maps. Each card comes with a handmade map envelope too. Wonderful to give to your loved ones for any occasion (including Christmas, of course! *wink*). Check out the atlas/map set and the storybook set in my Etsy shop (I know, it's been forever since I updated my shop!).

What are you loving?
To join in Much Love Monday, simply do a blog post that includes a picture of a heart and mention something you love. Then leave a link of your blog post in the Linky space below, and put it in the thing you love as the title. A link back would be much appreciated.  
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You can also add your Much Love Monday photos to the Much Love Monday Flickr pool.

giveaway ♥ $45 Beta Boutique gift certificate

Continuing from the last post's 70s theme, I thought I'd show of my "new" 1970s vintage bag that I got from one of my favourites - Beta Boutique. It's the perfect sized bag for all my daily needs - my wallet, iPod, book, lunch box, pencil case, and camera think so too!

If you're thinking of getting something from Beta Boutique too, then you're going to love this giveaway. You can win a $45 gift certificate from Beta Boutique, and all you need to do is leave a comment telling us what your favourite item is.

This giveaway is open to everyone worldwide, and will end next Saturday (4 Dec 2010).
Good luck!

P.S. the winner of the Gilded Bee giveaway is #16, Marta. I'll be in touch shortly :)

70s vibe

Completely loving this 1970s-style editorial., and would also love that green skirt in the 2nd photo!

Photography by Venetia Scott. Images via Fashion Spreads.

friends from work

C: Wide lens Superheadz. F: Fujifilm Fujicolor Superia 200

Just couldn't resist taking more photos of that family of ducks near work!

Thank you for the wonderful comments about my double exposure photos in my last post! For those asking how I did it, I'll try my best to explain (bare with me!). First of all, I took a picture of the main  shape (i.e. the paper heart, a decorative paper hanging, a plain mug) against a window. This creates a strong silhouette where the shape is dark and the surrounding is light/bright (due to the light from the window). Then when I rewind the film, and take another photo, the second photo fills the dark part (the silhouette) more vividly than on the other areas of the photo. In a way, the dark part of a photo can still be "used"... if that makes sense. I used the same theory (if it can even be called that) to do the last photo in this post, with the hand prints and "city of Melbourne" sign. Those prints were originally painted on a black wall, so the colours of the lake and grass fills in the darkness of the wall.

... To anyone who managed to read through all that and even understood: congratulations! hehe. Sorry if it was confusing, I probably wrote a whole paragraph of something that could've been explained in 2 sentences!

much love monday [silhouettes and double exposures]

C: compact 35mm point and shoot. Film: Kodak Colorplus 200.

Loving: More experiments with double exposures on film, and playing around with silhouettes too. Need to work out how to frame the shots better.

What are you loving?

To join in Much Love Monday, simply do a blog post that includes a picture of a heart and mention something you love. Then leave a link of your blog post in the Linky space below, and put it in the thing you love as the title. A link back would be much appreciated.  
If you cannot see the Linky, please leave your link in the comments.
You can also add your Much Love Monday photos to the Much Love Monday Flickr pool. 

shadow shot sunday [lunch break]

C: Wide lens Superheadz. F: Fujifilm Fujicolor Superia 200

This weekend's shadow shots were actually from a few weeks ago, but I only recently got them developed. Taken at the new workplace, during my lunch break. It was a really nice day to be out in the sun, and I got to meet the neighbours (a.k.a. the duckies! see them?).

Plenty more shadow shots over at Hey Harriet. 

who won the 'a year in yes' 2011 calendar giveaway?

..I'll tell you who! The lucky giveaway winner is #50, Maxabella. Congratulations! We'll be in touch shortly.
Yes and Yes has given us some more previews of the calendar pages (above is the February one). I love them all, and am about to buy a copy for myself!

giveaway ♥ the gilded bee goodies

The Gilded Bee has got to be one of the best suppliers of pretty paper and crafty bits on Etsy: everything you need for decorating gifts, mail, journals, that cute corner of your room, - whatever you can think of! The good news: The Gilded Bee are generously offering a whole set of goodies to giveaway. One lucky Much Love reader will receive:
12 hello tags
48 forget me not flowers in a clear top tin
12 glassine envelopes
24 kraft tags
24 cream tags
24 asst. lacewing butterflies
12 asst. mini envelopes
10 yd.’s red/ white striped bakers twine
10 yd’s mint/ white striped bakers twine
10 yd.’s light blue/ white striped bakers twine
10 yd.’s chocolate/ white striped bakers twine
2 yards dot medallion garland
12 sea salt buttons
1 roll white corrugated paper ribbon

For your chance to win, simply leave a comment telling us what which is your favourite item from the above list, and how you'd like to use it if you win. Please make sure you leave an email, if it's not in your blogger profile.
Open to readers worldwide, until Wednesday (24 November). Good luck!

we were finders, we were keepers

Camera: compact 35mm point and shoot; Film: Kodak Colorplus 200

I just got 2 rolls of film developed (yay!), so expect lots more film photo posts on the blog in the coming days/ weeks. These were taken during the Finders Keepers market weekend at Docklands. Unfortunately I messed up a part of the the film roll (again..), so although there were some interesting colours and double exposures that resulted due to this mistake, there were also some photos from that day that were ruined. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

much love monday [daiso]

Daiso, otherwise known as the "100 Yen" store in Japan has just opened a store here in Melbourne, and it seems to be the talk of the town lately. A friend and I got to check it out on the weekend to see what all the fuss is about, and we were so glad that we did. Everything is just $2.80, and they have so much cute stuff, we spent over an hour just looking at everything! Amongst my bag of purchases was this adorable coaster and mug. Pink, polka dots, and lace? Perfectly kawaii! ^_^

What are you loving these days?

To join in Much Love Monday, simply do a blog post that includes a picture of a heart and mention something you love. Then leave a link of your blog post in the Linky space below, and put it in the thing you love as the title. A link back would be much appreciated.  
If you cannot see the Linky, please leave your link in the comments.
You can also add your Much Love Monday photos to the Much Love Monday Flickr pool. 

emilie faif

How amazing are these artwork by Emilie Faif? Too amazing not to share. I love the combination of beautiful fabric and imaginative shapes. My favourite is the 2nd one, that appears to be balls made out of lace! See more in her website. Discovered via Good Things*.

giveaway ♥ 'a year in yes' 2011 calendar

Can you believe that 2010 is coming to an end already? Me neither! A new year is fast approaching, time for new resolutions (whether you'll end up keeping them or not!), a fresh new start, and of course a fun new calendar. The always inspiring Sarah Von from the blog Yes and Yes has come up with this brilliant 2011 'A Year in Yes' calendar, containing "12 months of fun ideas, lists, non-nauseating quotes and great photos". Each month has a fun list to fill in, and there's also a 'Things I Loved This Month' space - so you can keep a mini-diary of all the good things that will happen throughout the year (2011 will have many Much Love Mondays, I just know it!). It's locally printed on recycled paper, and will look fabulous on your wall.

For your chance to win one of these calendars, leave a comment here telling us what your favourite month is, and why.
For an extra entry, leave another comment if you follow the blog Yes and Yes. Make sure you leave your email or a way for me to find it.

Open to readers worldwide, until Wednesday (17 November). Good luck!

P.S. the winner of the (into) the fray giveaway is #21: suswins.

pink

Camera: wide lens SuperHeadz. Film: Kodak Colorplus 200.