// this post is way overdue...

Oh. My. Hat! I can't believe how long it's been since I last blogged! Actually, I lie, I can believe it. My guilty conscience has been trying to eat me alive for almost two months. But horray! I have finally found a quiet 5 minutes to sit down and blog.

Sooo much has happened since my last post! And it all explains and kind of justifies my absence in the blog world :) The biggest and most exciting things that have changed in the little life of the Mc Neills are a brand-spanking-new-awesome Studio and a gorgeous-new-and-pretty home!
It was heart-breaking to leave the beautiful house in Woodstock behind, but luckily our new home is just as lovely. And it has a garden! Oh joy! Our brakkies are happy too!

Our new Studio means that for the first time since we've been on this wonderful little adventure that is welovepictures, and this awesome journey that is marriage, we get to separate home from work! Which is something that really was even more overdue than this post... unfortunately being a working-welovepictures-team and being husband-wifey-team don't always go hand-in-hand. It may in fact be one of the biggest challenges we've faced since we got married... and it's the one thing no pre-marriage-counseling or gentle-mother-advice could've prepared us for!

So, with today's, (yes, I'll say it again and again) way overdue post, I'm sharing a few sneak peeks of our new home and Studio. Unfortunatly both spaces are still rough-cut diamonds but we are in the process of polishing them both down to perfection... so patience friends! more pictures coming soon! I promise!

love!

p.s be sure to follow us on Instagram - the hubby is always iPhotographing :)





And the Studio...



More coming soon!

// I heart Yellow!

I think my husband may be getting sick of me saying "let's paint it yellow!"
But isn't it lovely?





all image-sources can be found via my pinboard on pinterest!

P.S last image is from the lovely eatery in Woodstock!
If you live in Cape Town, go have a cheese on toast at Superette!
nom-nom!

x

// wow (words of wisdom) sunday

all images via pinterest

Style Me Pretty indeed.

Happy dance again!
Style Me Pretty featured our wedding on their blog today!
Oh yay!
Huge thanks and love to Otto Schulze!
weloveyou!
x




All images by Otto Schulze.

// happiness

The awesome Lindi from Sarie Bruid contacted us recently and told us that our wedding will be featured in the next issue. Happy dances all day long! We didn't think anything could top making the cover-image of the last issue, but having our very own wedding featured is pretty special.
We're super excited :)



These lovely heart and moustache Rosettes were a joint venture between my favouritest 'mate of honour' Maaike Bakker and my awesome brides-maid Elzanne Louw. All the grooms men and all my girls, plus all the moms and dads and grans got to wear one.

// oh I am a proud wife

Meet Werner and CF // A Skyline on Fire.
This is their brand-new video shot by none other than my awesome and insanely-talented husband :)
My cheeks are glowing with pride right now :)



Check out their blog here for gig dates and loads of other cool stuff!

x

// wow (words of wisdom) sunday

via we heart it

// worst blogger award

This is my fourth blog post of the year.

"and... (drumroll please!) the worst-blogger award goes to Maike McNeill!"

:P

So I've been in an ever-changing state of mind that could be described as a mixture of guilt, a little bit of despair and a lot of frustration. In the last few weeks I on numerous occasions considered deleting my blog, I have even made it as far as the "Are you sure you want to delete 'love made me do it' blog" button... but I can't seem to do it.

My biggest frustration is the fact that there just don't seem to be enough hours in my day anymore. Where are the days when all I could think about was blogging about the oh-so-pretty doily bunting flags? When my hours were filled with drooling over pages after pages of inspirational blogs?

I think this is what it feels like to be grown up.

But this week I got an e-mail from the awesome Meg from Apartment Therapy.
She has an awesome new project coming up and for the first time in a long time I had the urge to blog.
I unfortunately can't say too much - I'm not sure how much I can say actually. Mhm.
But for now let's just say it gave me the long-needed and much-appreciated push to start something like a 'project' - oh fun! And thanks Meg :)

So, today's post - which is insanely overdue - celebrates studio spaces.
welovepictures is moving into a brand-new and super-awesome and our very FIRST studio space at the end of this month! HAPPINESS! Today I'm sharing a few of my ideas, dreams and hopes for this awesome space...

More updates to follow soon-soon!

x









all images via pinterest

itching for ink (soo lame... but I had to :P )

My husband is going for another tattoo tomorrow.
I'm itching too...



via fuck yeah, girly tattoos

// sweet wedding

We shot this wedding a few weeks ago and these two dreamy and soft pictures just totally brightened up my day today.
Check out more of Pieter & Ingrid's beach wedding on our blog.