Sunday 30 December 2012

I believe I can fly

Yay!!! Finished my Giant Weta pic! what an AWESOME way to finish up 2012!!!
She's been a hum-dinger of a year...
Got a crazy amount to be grateful for...
Beautiful, healthy, flippin crazy cool children... Amazing, semi-supportive-he-has-his-moments Hubby... Haha which reminds me of a movie we watched the other night...
Ever seen Wanderlust!!! If not, you should... Gosh super funny. We had a few laughs at Jenifer Anistons character...  and not because my body is "Redonkulious" cause after having two lil bubs it REALLY isn't.
Nope, she's a dreamer like me... Don't worry Linda... I believe I can fly too!
hehe.
I'm also stoked to have brilliant super sized family and a perfect amount of great friends, old and new...
I'm not greedy, I don't need 1000 facebook "friends"... the way I figure it, if I saw them in the supermarket and didn't hide behind the stacked boxes of vino trying to plan a stealthy escape then they must be friends right?
 
Anyway... Cheers to a fab 2013... Hope it's kick ass crazy for everyone... I'm wishing and working on BIG things this year... She's gonna be GREAT!!!
 
Mx
 
 
 
 
 
Sorry about the bad photo... I haven't got a big enough scanner for this one.

Thursday 27 December 2012

HAPPY HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!! Yeah, yeah I know few days too late... BUT I've been too busy having a ripper of a time with the Hubby and lil' Sprogs to get onto the computer... Hope everyone out in Bloggerland have had an awesome few days... We've been kickin back with Bubbles, BBQ's, Hammocks, Swimming and Trampolines... Woo! lovin it... Been workin on a new pic too... This one's illustration only (I think... haven't got a photo in mind yet)... Well... Keep Safe, Be Merry and have a kick ass Holiday... And thanks so so so much for the fab feedback, support and all round awesomeness you've all shown for Free Bird... Thinkin of having a give away type thing soon via Free Bird's facebook page....
So pop over and "like" Free Bird to keep up to date!
M.
 ps sorry about the not so awesome pic...
 


Tuesday 18 December 2012

So I've just entered my second competition via Talenthouse and Diners Club...
We had to Photograph our life journey for  in celebration of 'Life of Pi'...
 
HERE'S MY ENTRY
 
 
This pic was taken on my hubbies 30th birthday... we rounded up the the little ones and headed to the top of Mt Iron to watch the sunrise... It was seriously a magic way to start the day...
 
you can view it here...

Tuesday 11 December 2012

I've been thinking about why I want to be a Illustrating Photographer for a while now.
Before going "live" (is that the word I'm looking for?) with Free Bird I wrote
lists on the pro's and con's of both finding a "real life" job or taking a chance and just going with my "it's time" feeling... Then I came accross this vid by the crazy talented Chris Burkard...
this pretty much sums it up for me aye...
Take a peek...
M.
 
 

INSIVITY - CHRIS BURKARD from Insivity on Vimeo.

Sunday 9 December 2012

This is what I LOVE LOVE LOVE doing...
Mixin' it up...
For the past year I've been driving my super awesome Hubby crazy!!!...
Like totally off his rocker!
I'm one of those frustrating creatives... BIG DREAMS, loads of starting different types of projects (needle felting, spinning, painting, refurbing furniture, upcycling, recycling... you name it, there'll be a project in my studio)
anyway, what I always come back to is my Photography and Illustration...

So after years of wishing and dreaming about whether I should become a photogapher OR illustrator I decided why don't I do both????.....

This is what happened....
Slade and my Free Bird

This is just the start... a tester so to speak to see if it would work and if I'd enjoy doing it... Needless to say I LOVED it and am on my second pic for super awesome friends...
(Hey Trish... Bet she's reading this)
Watch this space...
 

Saturday 8 December 2012

Beautiful Cardrona

We live in one of the most beautiful places in the world... It's quite barren... Romantic... Full of history and treasures... I fell in love with it as soon as my hubby bought us here on a road trip a few years ago... (I'd travelled the world, but not my own country... naughty huh!!!)
 
We love the Cardrona Valley.
It's an amazing little road in between Wanaka and Queenstown...Every time we go up there something new pops up around the corner...
 










 

Thursday 6 December 2012

Aaarh... My first posting on my very first blog!
craaaazy
I feel very exposed for some reason... Like I'm walking around the nuts aisle at the supermarket with EVERYONE staring at me, not realising that I totally forgot to put clothes on before leaving the house!


So this is where you'll find me on my journey of self discovery of sorts...
I'm a huge believer in trying to do something awesome everyday for the rest of time and for me it's going to start with my passion for Photography, Illustration and Design. I've been flying around the commercial designers world for a very long time and although I'm not totally going to give this up, I'm ready to take a chance and share my secrete world of graphite, ink, sandpaper and shutter speeds.

So... "POP"... "CLINK"... Here's to Happy Days and
LIVING THE DREAM
Mx