Makin' wreaths, my first bit of letterpress

I've been making wreaths! It's that time of year, right?! I feel like I've skipped a season. I also feel like the luckiest individual ever---> the folks at The Disillery have made me tags and business cards that completely undo me. Letter press is pretty extraordinary and this place is great because everyone in there is so charming and in love with what they do. It shows in their work. They also get to use giant antiquated equipment daily so I'm kind of jealous.

Here are the first wreaths off the block, some sweet pea I grew {that's almost a lie, I plonked the seeds in the ground back in July, saw them come up out of the ground then I went overseas for 2.5 months and came back to a wall-seriously it's nearly two meters tall-of delightful peas. So they grew themselves I did t do much at all} and some letter press. They drew magnolia branches and flowers for me. Cassie and Elise at The Distillery you are delightful, talented women and I am ever so grateful.

{ps If you look closely, you can see a Lipton tea bag on the tiles. I saw it as I was taking the photo, went to move it and then left it there. Realism, you know}

I found my first bird's nest on a walk with my pal. I am always ridiculously jealous of people who find them. I did feel a bit sad that the bird had to make a new one but I'm fairly certain they wouldn't be able to pick this one up and they did a grand job of this one, maybe they enjoy the work

The exquisite nature of blue gum

I was delighted to be involved in the opening of a new gallery/wine bar space called 3to7. They are at 3-7 Danks St Waterloo, which is an area I do enjoy to visit {good wandering, excellent food stuffs to be had}. The exhibition is running until early September. I am heading to Europe this week for one month then to NY for 6 weeks so I wanted to do something interesting and long lasting. Enter blue gum. I made a giant wreath-it's about 2m in diameter. The gum is really beautiful, it smells so crisp and fresh. The leaves are so wonderful-sagey green with silvery tones. This gum also had tiny gum nuts and a creamy lemon coloured flower that looked like micro flowering gum. It was really fun to work with and I know it will age gracefully. It was also quite lovely to work on something that was subtle and brought something which is often more of a frame for flowers into focus.

Our cockatoo was trying to help I think but he was in a traitorous mood and kept pruning my gum so every time I turned around I had to move the gum. Eventually he settled into gnawing on the lavender. It was quite a sensory experience.

I also put some magnolia branches, monstera leaves, ivy and balloon vines into a suspended piano which is in the entrance way. I love being up a ladder with a pocket full of cable ties. Good times.

apologies for the screen shot-I forgot to take a photo of it

Go and visit if you're able!