Amanda | January 26, 2012
You know when you read a book and it speaks to your heart so clearly that you feel as though it was written specifically for you? I felt that whilst reading every word of Pia Jane Bijkerk‘s My Heart Wanders. If you love to travel, to discover, to follow your heart, to make your home [...]
Amanda | January 16, 2012
Hello everyone, Let’s kick off the year with some blog talk. I get a lot of emails from people asking me about blogging in general and setting up a photoblog, and a number of the Shoot By Design participants have asked for advice, so I thought I’d share some of my blogging tips and ideas. [...]
Amanda | January 13, 2012
The woods and I have become kindred spirits. – from a little project I’m working on. I’ll be adding more each week to the set here. Lately I’ve been: enjoying flickr on a daily basis. Rachel from Buttons Magee wants us to bring back the flickr love and I’m totally on board. I’ve posted every [...]
Amanda | December 14, 2011
I could tell you that part of the great Winter Embrace of 2011 is really getting into the spirit of Christmas too but for this merry one, Christmas needs no encouraging. It has always been my favourite time of year and there’s really nothing about it that I don’t love. Christmas in Canada is oh [...]
Amanda | November 29, 2011
Why do we take pictures? We take photographs to make the old new. We make pictures to create a possibility out of the impossible. Or is that an impossibility out of the possible? To make stars out of lights, bubbles out of shadows and rock stars out of ordinary people. To climb, to create, to [...]
Amanda | November 22, 2011
Some decadence in black and white. Lately… I’ve been listening to a lot of her and her and him. Reading this beautiful book. Snuggling in my new cowl by Ozetta. Enjoying the photography of Marcos Rivas. Lusting over these woolly goods. Thinking this would work on my wall. Salivating over this cosy brand of pjs [...]
Amanda | November 14, 2011
most days feel ordinary. most minutes of most days seem to lead to more minutes of the typical realities of life. and in those minutes, it all just feels very familiar and ordinary. in between those minutes, between the moments that the hands of the clock tick over, i am being the only thing i [...]
Amanda | November 2, 2011
I’ve wanted to visit Sibella Court’s Society Inc store for the longest time so it was a must on my “Need to Visit in Sydney” list. As you can see from the outside, it’s picture perfect and so utterly quaint that you just want to snuggle into the chair out the front with a book [...]
