MOVING TIME

It's that time again.. Moving time! My wonderful partner & I are letting go of our beautiful little apartment and are moving back to my family home in an effort to do some hardcore money saving for the rest of the year. I've been a bit AWOL lately because I've been running around like a headless chicken trying to organise the move before we run out of time! While I am pretty sad to be leaving our place behind (it's our first home together too), I'm so excited to be going back home. My family built our house when I was young, it's surrounded by trees so it's insanely quiet and it's always been such a comforting & safe place to be.

It's definitely going to be an adjustment for Justin & I to not be living alone, but we're both excited to be getting set up for our future rather than just wasting all our money on those damn rental payments!

Just on a side note - how beautiful are these native flowers! These ones are the last survivors from a couple of different arrangements I had. They've lasted for months and still have that lovely earthy scent, that's my kind of flower!

MOODBOARD: SUBTLE COLOUR

When I was younger I was a colour fanatic, and if I had my way everything would be rainbow and full of colourful goodness! Thankfully I grew out of that stage, and working as a designer has taught me to appreciate the beauty in subtle colour. As the old saying goes "less is more" - sometimes all you need is a little hint of colour here and there and it can be more effective than going crazy and using every colour you can possibly imagine!

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INSPIRATION: HAND LETTERING

Here's some of my latest typography inspiration, I've been going nuts for hand-drawn type lately! I'd love to get into the more hands-on aspect of design, it would be such a refreshing change to be able to step away from the screen every once in a while (much better for my eyes too).

Click on the links below to check out the more of the artist's work, there's plenty more design goodness to be found ;)

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DIY: MACRAME DREAM CATCHER

So this is a bit of a funny DIY cause I didn't really follow any instructions and I just sort of made it up as I went and hoped for the best, so it's going to be a bit tricky to explain!

Basically all you need is;

• A circle to use for the frame (mine was just a 12" metal hoop)
• 10 metres or so of thick rope for the macrame
• A ball of cotton/yarn for the dream catcher

Start off by cutting five separate 2 metre long strands of rope (I got lucky and found a braided one) and loop them over the metal hoop, once they're folded in half that gives you ten 1 metre strands.

Knot each strand right at the top, and then knot them in a (very basic) macrame pattern. My knot terminology isn't exactly up to scratch so I can't even tell you what type of knot I used - but basically you just grab two of the rope strands and knot them together. I definitely left room for improvement with the macrame, it was pretty tricky doing it on a curve!

Next wrap the whole hoop with yarn, go all the way around and made sure you do the gaps between each of the rope strands from the macrame. This was probably the most tedious part of the whole thing, trying to balance the hoop and wrap the yarn around it at the same time was a bit of a juggling act!

Now for the fun part, the dream catcher! This was way easier than I thought it was going to be, I followed these instructions and it was pretty straightforward. You could add some beads in if you wanted some colour, I wanted mine to be neutral so I stuck with just the yarn.

My last finishing touch was to knot the bottom of the macrame in a diagonal pattern, and then I unplaited the ends of the rope to give it that frayed effect! I'll definitely be trying this one a couple more times so I can try out a few different techniques (and get that damn macrame right), but I think it's a pretty versatile project because you can basically create it any size, provided you can find the right size hoop!

SPACES: LOUNGE LOVIN'

This week's obsession... Lounges! After a long day at work the only thing I want to do is curl up on my couch and veg out, and I think that having an inspiring & creative lounge room can work wonders on speeding up the relaxation process.

These are some of my top picks - it's amazing what you can create with a simple colour palette and some interesting wall art!

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FREEBIE: DESKTOP WALLPAPER

I read this quote somewhere the other day and it sort of stuck with me. Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a bit of a rut, and then I realise that I have actually come quite far since graduating uni even if I feel like I haven't! I think that as long as there's some form of improvement I can't really ask for much more (except maybe winning the lottery).

The photo is from a website called Unsplash, if you haven't already stumbled across it I highly recommend you do! All of the images are high resolution & free to use for commercial use so you can go crazy with them!

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Download Wallpaper here!

TYPE SPOTLIGHT: COCORRINA

One of my favourite new discoveries is this lovely handwritten font by Corina Nika of Cocorrina. I've been digging my way through the archives of her blog and I'm so amazed by all of her beautiful hand-drawn lettering. She has some great other freebies so it's definitely worth a visit!

You can download the font for free here

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SPACES: BEDROOM INSPIRATION

Lately I've been scouring Pinterest for some much needed bedroom inspiration because I've been feeling the urge to re-decorate coming into the colder months. I usually get pretty moody around this time of year and it's nice to change things around a little to try and brighten my spirits! I'm loving these simple neutral colour palettes, with some plant life, wall art & textiles to add that little touch of colour.

One thing that I really dislike about having carpet in our apartment means I can't go crazy with rugs. They can make an otherwise boring room look so homey!

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