happy CANADA day!!!

here's to our home and native land; sunshine and family wheelbarrow races. i wish i could be there for the fireworks!

Found.

All photos: Nat Geo Found

STOP what you're doing and listen up! National Geographic have a MUST SEE tumblr full of archived images that i only just discovered today. set yourself aside some serious time to take in this magic- wow.wow.wow. 

my best friend's wedding; Tuscany.

All photos by: Aljosa Videtic your man for European destination wedding images; he captures all the candid moments.

one of my best friend's got engaged and then turned this super special, romantic Tuscan wedding around in less than 3 months! we had to take a funicular (so The Grand Budapest Hotel) up to Certaldo Alto an old medieval walled village just above Certaldo, near San Gimignano in Tuscany, Italy for the ceremony. the setting really could not have been more magical if you had 3 years to plan your wedding! highlights for me were seeing and laughing with old friends, learning how to make ravioli and tiramisu (which we made for the wedding dinner) and my stone fox bestie serenading her new husband on the ukelele at the end of the night- i sobbed! do only fools rush in? for a girl who only knew that she wanted purple hydrangeas, she came up with one pretty party- you have GOT to check out the photos to believe it. i promise, you won't help falling in love...

1000 bedrooms.

just under a year ago now, photographer m. ellen burns came to our house one morning and photographed us in our bedroom (which looks so different now!). she has a project called 1000 bedrooms in which her goal is to photograph 1000 bedrooms across the world over the next few years. her images are about the people, not the room. she shoots off a roll of film and processes it in the dark room at her work, so for her this ends up being a time consuming passion project. i was so happy to be part of this! she was also cool enough to send me through contact strip of some of our outtakes. chris just does not look impressed at all; i think he got up on the wrong side of bed that morning ;)

itchy feet.

i'm getting so ready to leave on our little European adventure this weekend. it's time to stand on new lands with our feet in fresh soil; looking out from a brand spankin' vantage point. like a breath of fresh.air.*photos from our trip to morocco

inspired by: Sia - Chandelier.

i don't feel like i have the right foundation to get into the political arguments that might stem from this video (despite having a background in art history & theory); i just want keep it simple and say that this has .moved.me.

this girl is so gloriously unselfconscious, it makes me wish i had something to focus on so wholeheartedly and with such passion (even for just 3 minutes and 52 seconds). she is incredible. my favourite bit is sitting at the little table- i could watch it on repeat.

dolphin dive.

after it takes three hours to figure out how to make your first GIF, the next ones are a breeze. here is my love swimming in the deep blue sea too; indian summer lovin'.

happy international women's day!

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mermaids.

my new favourite captain and the gyspy kid have tugged at my heart strings again. the beautiful little family have all dressed up and played mermaids at the beach. how sweet is this?

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happy birthday little sister!

TWENTY ONE!! woohoo - i love you xoxo

the valen(time) difference.

much like every other holiday i've mentioned on here (birthday, christmas, thanksgiving, etc.), i'm always aware of celebrating it technically the day before i actually feel it. of course i knew it was valentine's day here in australia yesterday, but so many people i want to wish a happy valentine's day to are in north america, so there is a delay for me. it's a tricky one- and this year i'm working on living in the moment- ha!

anyway, i thought this photo of a waning valentine's heart would be appropriate. i love you- you can take that to the banksia (*leaf).

happy valentine's day!

i made cookies and hand-stitched dried leaves into heart shapes. i love valentine's day. all that's missing from this one is cinnamon hearts and a little treat on my seat at the kitchen table.