How To Be Alone..
I love this video. It is beautiful. I came across it at All About Lemon.
Being a girl with the best of both worlds – I have alone moments (more Hayley time) and I am also very lucky to be in an happy and healthy distance (not long, just distance) relationship. As much as I know it is not for most, I really enjoy the time by myself, having that time to be independent, to be alone and soak up the world in my own time. But then I get to enjoy happy loving times with the coolest dork in the world.
One thing I struggle with the most is with my phone in those alone moments. I find it absorbs me.. How do people with iPhones do it??
I stopped using an iPod years ago because as much as I LOVE music, I realised I was missing out on enjoying the world and its sounds. I want to do the same with my phone. Not become so dependepnt on it for time filling in.
The world around us is pretty interesting anyways so why not go out and soak it up? Read a paper, book or magazine or even just people watch. Have lunch outside, sit down at the beach on your lonesome or even have a boogie in your room. A couple of my faves are just lying on our deck watching the clouds or finding a park and watching the trees sway.
It amazing what simple things bring you HAPPINESS when you take all that other guff away and give yourself the time to enjoy being alone.
Watch and enjoy. It gives me warm fuzzies every time.
After Work Treat ♥
When ever it’s a nice day out and you’ve been stuck inside, nothing says “You did an awesome job today” like a wee treat to yourself. I picked The Ice Bar Co. Old Fashioned Lemonade iceblock for my after work treat yesterday. Good choice and with that end of day sun, how could I go wrong?!
Incase you can see the writing on the stick it says..
“All good things come to an end.
Unless you’ve bought a six pack.”
LOVE IT!
Super YUMMY!
The only prob was, I demo’d it pretty quickly..opps!
L.S.H
x
Hoffin’ Around..
Helloooo all you Hoffinatics!
My beloved David is at it again.. Causing a stir and getting down on one knee AGAIN!
Sadly I am not the Hayley Roberts you were looking for but I do like that you stopped by my wee blog.
I wish I was that babealisous.. But I am just a kiwi girl that is in love with summer, flowers, trees, art, photography, crafting and everything else in between.
So while you are here, why not have a nosey around? If you like what I do, you should follow my posts. EASY AS!
HAPPY HOFFING!
Not too sure what I am on about?? Google my name for a bit of a giggle :)
L.S.H
x
Getting Crafty!
Last week I came across this post by Jess over at New Deja Vu on giving your camera strap a bit of pimping..
With my 7D on its way I decided to make one for my old 300D and I have to say it looks pretty neato!
I went for a wee shop and found a bag that I thought I could pull apart and also re-use, added bonus it was on sale. YAY! I ended up reworking it to make two awesome new pieces in my ever expanding collection of accessories.
Bag from Equip
With my really strong muscles (ha!) I managed to get the two handles out and put them together.
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What about the rest of the bag?
This was a bit of a rush job but I remembered I had some rope in my box of creative bits and piecesso I threaded that through and tied it off.
It is yet to be sealed and finished because I know the bf will have some sailor knots that will look awesome and will be super strong.
SHAZAMMM
It’s an easy as beach bag!
If you were one of the lucky souls to have a long weekend I hope you got to enjoy it!
Wasn’t it just a magic day?
Lots of
LOVE
SUNSHINE
HAPPINESS
for the rest of the week
xx
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BEST NEWS EVER!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!
Happy Mistakes
This is what happens when you do not wind the film enough.. I do this all the time anyways, I love the overlapping and always try and make it a portrait or a landscape and then overlapped with a shot of detail.
But since it was my friends wedding that I was shooting I wanted to make sure I had it all spot on, but old habits clearly die hard!
Here we have Miss (now Mrs) Kylie walking through a field of daisies into a native NZ forest.
YUM!
Taken on Holga CFN 120 with 35mm.
To the South
Incase you actually thing I am a mad women. I have been lately trust me. Time to update on a little bit of life. Here’s the first >
Christmas and New Years was spent at home in the beautiful top of the south. Nelson is such a massive piece of me and has shaped me in more ways than I know. Was sad to head home to see what all that nasty rain did to my magic home town and find out what it did to all my stuff.. But that is all it is STUFF. I was there to catch up with the people and the place that are so found to me. My friends. My family. The beach. The Abel Tasman. The cider. The food. The market. YUM!
Nelly essentials: Book. Taonga. Holga. Earings. Wolf Cub. TICKETS.
Check out that sight. Nelson you were magic the day I touched down.
WAIT WAIT WAIT!
Before I get carried away with views and beaches and yummmmmyness..
How awesome are airports?
Checked in my bags, was gonna go get a feed and BAM! Hello Christopher Saggers.
Me and Chris follow each other. We started off working at the Du in Christchurch together. After a mutual love of longboards, beaches, beers, tunes, summer and whanau we have always kept in touch and his darling lovely lady is another person I am very happy and lucky to call a friend. Such awesome people!
We ended up working in Nelson and setting up the Du in Gisborne together.
Might I add Chris makes the most AMAZING long boards out of old water ski’s and has also ventured into up-cycling snowboards.
He does all the art work, carving, truck selection EVERYTHING.. Boardsmith extraordinaire!
AMAZING!
Check out his stuff.
We ended up having enough time to have a beer and catch up. So good! I love AIRPORTS!
On to the next one.
The Christmas day adventure.
Off down the sounds with Muma and blister to catch up with my cuzzies.
And it finished off with this..
A few days down the track..
Real fruit ice creams on the way to Kaiteriteri for the day.
@ T.O.A.D Hall
New Years Day Fair @ Tahaunanui
Captured on Brownie 127 on 35mm.
Last day – A trip with some lovely faces to the Abel Tasman
Followed up by Cider and Brownie
See you later beautiful home
You make me at ease as soon as I see you.
Love at first and last sight.
I definitely got a good dose of
LOVE
SUNSHINE
HAPPINESS
To all my magic friends that I got to catch up with/didn’t get to catch up with,
Let’s not leave it so long next time…
You made going home all the more special.
xxxxx
YOUR Art Room – Part One
Helooo everyone and a massive HAPPY NEW YEAR!
What a crazy ride 2011 was and boy was I happy to see the back of it.. Although I do have a lot to be grateful for. As a very wise friend of mine said to me over the hols – “With every negative, there has to be a positive. So every time you speak or think negative, follow it up with a positive thought”. Simple stuff really! That is how I now look at all the poos that last year just kept throwing at me. Sometimes its hard to maintain a positive out look when you feel your soul constantly being smashed by people you only helped, thought the best of and by situations that are completely out of your control. But thats all apart of the game of life, we live and we learn and for us artists, well I know it is the case for me, it is those visual memories of love, sunshine and happiness that get you through the bad.
NOW back on topic.
While I was away for the first time I took a book. Yes a book. Those that know me, know that me and reading are not very good friends. I love to read things that inspire me and relate to what I am up to. I cannot get enough of art books. I love the way artists and art lovers write and how they paint the picture without cluttering it with babble, waffel, crap. Well some do, but for some reason most art books I have read have hit my button. It is when it gets cluttered with babble, waffel and crap that I get lost. For instance not a fan of novels and stories books, I start to imagine too much and then I am lost, normally reading the same page five times over before realising I have read that page haha..
ALRIGHT back to the point!
So I took away with me Justin Paton’s How to Look at a Painting. Back when I was studying it always came up in reading lists, tutors always mentioned it so when I cam across it at the Boarders closing sale I snapped it up.. and for $9 how can I go wrong. So far it has been a great way to get my mind back at thinking about art. I love making art that people enjoy looking at, or at least art that stops people. I am really into what the f***k art at the mo. So it has been really interesting relating it to where my mind is at before I embark on my masters.
Before I even got into the book fully, the first chapter had me thinking.
“The art room that matters the most exists in memory. This is where you hang the paintings that changed you.”
I started to think about all my fave pieces of art that helped change me, create me and inspire me. I thought I would share a few that have been so instrumental at creating who I am as an artist. I think I will do it in stages so for today here is where it all began for me.
5th Form/Year 11/2002
Francesca Woodman - 1958 – 1981
I will forever be a lover of black and white, slow shutter and layering.
And I will forever will be inspired by the body of work that this young lady created during her short yet beautifully artistic life.
Pat Steir – b.1940
Night Chant Series, Number 3 Dawn, 1973.
For my 5th Form boards I made a photographic version of this. Not too sure where it is now but this painting sparked my love for the darkroom using it to create more than just a developed image. Painting with developing, flicking fix, scratching the paper, using OHT paper are all major loves of mine.
I managed to find this tester. Still so proud that I made this.
Doug and Mike Starn – b.1961
The masters of large scale photographs, collages and all round beautiful creations.
Layering, scale, handmade in some way. Love everything they do!
Well that is all for today, hopefully I get the chance to put together some more pieces form my art room of a noggin. There are so many!
What is in your art room??
Have a wee think, it is awesome to find out whats stashed up there!
xx
