// Jen is 30!

Travis and I made a suprise Smile Booth for our friend Jen's golden-themed 30th birthday party last weekend.
We danced our bums off.
And then we made a little video.
Of everyone dancing their bums off.

x

// Current Obsessions # 01

This is my second post in one week.

Thank you for all the sweet comments welcoming me back - so happy right now :)

Today I'm doing my first 'Current Obsessions' feature, with many-many more to come, I hope :)

 

Although I'm someone who loves colour, I've really been enjoying the scandi-inspired monochrome trend. If someone gave me loads of Ronds and plenty of free time, I'd re-do our home and buy all these pretty things. And add little pops of colour, of course :)

1. Instagram by A Merry Mishap  2. These Painted rocks. 3. This sweet Cat and Girl Tote Bag 4. Feathers in a bedroom from A Merry Mishap 5. Marimekko ceramics 6. A swedish kitchen via Emmas Designblogg 7. Man and Woman Tea Towels by depeapa 8. Conversions tea towel available from West Elm 9. This hand-printed mug  10. A swedish kitchen via Basic Label Sweden 11. The Bono Monochrome Cup Set 12. Semi Circles Decorative Tape  from Seventy Tree 13. This beautiful home office from Weekday Carnival 14. This clutch by OneElevenStudio  15. Instagram by A Piece Of Cake 16. This Nordic House Cushion from OyOy 17. This jug via Project Decor 18. sweet room from A Merry Mishap.

// New beginnings

Hello, hi.

Here I am.

I've been on a fun adventure and finally found my way back to my blog.

What do you guys think of the new look? :)

For those of you that have been following me for a while and have been wondering where I am, this is for you :)

I've been on a lovely and exhausting and beautiful and overwhelming adventure that is marriage and welovepictures. A while back there was talk of me working part-time, which would've allowed me to blog more. This never happened. The last wedding season took up all my time, attention and energy and I ended up ignoring my blog. All the spare time I had I invested in hanging out with friends, climbing mountains or making out with my husband :)

But this has all changed now.

For realsies.

I am now officially working 'part-time' for welovepictures and I have muuuuuch more free time.

We're still finding our feet, and since I still shoot and do all the admin, my free time is limited.

But blogging is on top of the list. So you'll be seeing more of me :) Oh yes.

So in celebration of new beginnings I'm blogging about this sweet little wreath I made for my amazing friend Karin. Karin and Craig got engaged on Sunday! Oh yes! And I have not been able to stop smiling. They are so good together.

Father did good, He did so good.

On Monday we went to have dinner with Karin & Craig and Karin's family.

Karin, like me, is a German South-African and we have a love for all our sweet 'sunshine' German traditions. The wreath is a 'Verlobungs Kranz' (and engagement wreath), given to the bride-to-be on the day of her engagement :)

Love made me do it. 

Congratulations again, my Kazie and Craig! Oh man - your wedding is going to be amazzzzing! 

'With Grace in her heart and flowers in her hair' - Mumford & Sons

love,

Maike

// 645

So these awesome friends of ours, Bruce & Rebecca from Love Made Visible, got this flippen sexy 645 Land Camera from Bruce's granddad.
I almost peed my pants.
And if I didn't love them I would've totally stolen it from their home.
But I didn't.
Instead I have been dreaming in 645 format. And having digital nightmares.

I found this today again, and although I have seen Parker Fitzgerald's 365 Polaroid Quotes before, I still love them.



















Plus he has some other embarrassingly beautiful work that makes me want to quit my day job and just jump on a train or walk through a forest and shoot film (oh-so-hipster of me!) x






Travis and I went to this exact waterfall, just outside Portland, OR, on our honeymoon road-trip around the States. Oh I still have to blog some of those pictures. Hmpf.







Man. I wish my surname was Fitzgerald. All Fitzgeralds are awesome.
Check out Fitzgerald's blog and Flickr photostream.
He will rock your knickers off.
x

// Sweet home feature

So a few months back, the sweet Natalie from CLEO Magazine contacted me to check if we'd be interested in featuring our home in their magazine.
I've never read CLEO, and I suppose it's not a magazine I'd actually buy, but hey we thought, why not?
Plus, they commissioned me to take the pictures, which I wasn't going to say no to either. Ha!
So on Friday I went to buy this little magazine and dug my way though the teenager gossip and random sex-tips and enjoyed the sweet piece Natalie wrote up and put together of our home. Thanks Natalie, you're very awesome!



P.S If you bought the CLEO Magazine, check out the page before ours, it's a yummy-lick-the-page-double-spread of my Interweb-buddy's Sian Rice's recipes . I already made the Roasted Nectarine & Goat's Cheese Salad! Nom-nom!

all pictures by lovemademedoit

// hello long-lost maatjies

Shoooe-weee.
It has been a while.
Hello friends :)
So as you might have noticed my whole 'blog-and-work-from-home-housewife-adventure' didn't quite happen.
We've been working really hard, the season has us busy shooting pretty much every weekend.
In between shooting, editing and meetings, I try to hang out with friends, go for swims in reservoirs, do a little yoga, make a home and be a wife.
So that leaves little time for blogging.
Nevermind being a full-time housewife.
But that's okay.
I suppose that's just how grown-up life works out.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to pop my head in quick and say hi.
And I'm sorry I haven't been around too much.
And I won't be around much any time soon.
Which I'm super bummed about, but it's just worked out this way.
And it's okay.

x


image from Cubicle Refugee

// and we have a LOaded winner!

Oh my hat! What fun!
For those of you that missed it, we did a 'live' lucky draw on Twitter/Instagram for the LO give-away!
Yay for LOrien - you are LOaded!
I wish you guys could've seen my face when I pulled her name out of the hat!
I mean seriously, what are the chances of her name having the letters LO in them right?!
And I promise I didn't cheat! Otherwise I would've pulled my own name out of that hat! Duh.
Congratulations LOrien, you will receive an e-mail soon and I hope you know we're all crying tears of envy because you're gonna look damn cute on Christmas!

x

// LO give away - last day to enter!

Friends! Today is the verrrrry last day that you can enter this LOvely give-away from LO and walk away in one of these sweet outfits!

You can check the competition 'rules' over here, but you pretty much just have to comment with a damn good reason why I shouldn't cheat, and draw my own name out of the hat, but give YOU that voucher!

x



all pictures by lovemademedoit

// 2012 Calender

I'm a sucker for a beautifully designed Calender.
It's the coolest gift you can give me for Christmas.
I love a good calender.

So today I did a wee bit of interweb surfing in search for my 2012 Calender.
Oh man, bad idea.
I'll take them all, please.

x





1. Cats let nothing darken their roar 2. Snug Calender 3. Crested Shield Calender 4. Poladarium 5. Emma Dime
6. Dream Cats Calender