Category Archives: Inspired By

Auckland Festival of Photography 2011 – Leigh Sawmill Cafe

    Celebrate photography this month with the Auckland Festival of Photography 2011! We are both very excited to exhibit some of our personal art work at Leigh Sawmill Cafe. Come along to our opening if you are in the area. You can also check out all the amazing shows and events on offer over...

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Inspired By: Maira Kalman

We’ll be posting some wedding stories in the next few weeks but until then, I thought it was high time I revived the Inspired By series. Have you seen Maira Kalman’s illustrated blog on the New York Times website? As my dear mother would say, it is a thing of great and glorious beauty. It’s...

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Inspired By: Todd Selby

Lately, I am loving the pictures taken by the photographer Todd Selby of creative people in their spaces. Check out the website The Selby to see them. As a homage to The Selby, I took my own shot of myself in my office: I love jumping shots – they are sometimes hard to get right,...

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Looking out my back door

Ten points to anyone who can name the song the title of this post is taken from! I am now back in Auckland and was so happy to discover these surprise miniature roses that have sprouted outside the back door. There’s nothing like New Zealand in the springtime – the grass is so green and...

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Happy trails

I’m off to London this week for the wedding of my dearest friend. She and I have known each other for 27 years. She was my ‘best lady’ at my wedding, and in a few days I will be hers when she marries her own ‘Gilbert Blythe’ (we are both huge Anne of Green Gables...

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