{Food} Emily Blincoe's sugar series

I wanted to share some sweets with you today, since last weekend it was a sweet fest at our place. My daughter had 5 of her friends over for a sleepover for her 8th birthday celebrations. Enjoy these yummy images from the sugar series by Emily Blincoe at These woods. Emily lives and works in Texas as a freelance photographer. I love how she has managed to convey the nostalgia of childhood in these images. 

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Follow more of Blincoe’s work on her Instagram, @thuglifeforevs and on her Facebook page.

{Food} Pantone tarts by Emilie de Griottes

I love my food & design! So this project combines the two in a fab way... French food stylist and photographer Emilie de Griottes was commissioned by French culinary magazine Fricote to create a special feature for one of their issues. Emilie recreated Pantone colour swatches, using berries, carrots, lemon, candies, and other foods arranged upon a tart base decorated with the correspondent Pantone number and colour. 

I also love that her name is de Griottes [a type of cherry in french]! Yumm!
See more of her work here.

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Instagram

I am addicted... Every once in a while, I will show you my favorite Instagram snapshot.

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{Art} Hutt Lagoon series by Steve Back

I love these abstract aerial photographs of Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia, by photographer Steven Back. Isn't it amazing that these colours occur naturally because of an algae. In these manmade lagoons, the algae have been concentrated to be farmed for food colouring. Thanks to colour bloc for sharing.

VIA Steve Block

VIA Steve Block

VIA Steve Block

VIA Steve Block

Shades of green

Two weeks ago, after 4 years on a waiting list, I was offered an allotment in Highgate. For those of you who live in less urban environments, an allotment is a tiny plot of land that the council rents to you (for a very small amount of money), providing you prove you can make use of it...

This was a whole 125 square metres just for us to grow all our fruit and vegetables. My dad burst out laughing when I told him the size of the plot. For him, land is counted in hectares...

After contemplating the amount of work that was involved, we decided that it was not the right time for us to take on such a time consuming project. I am so sad about it.

I had visions of picking up the kids at school and going to the allotment in spring to do some work while the kids have a snack, do some messy play and run around. Not this year.We decided to stay on the waiting list for now, as there are too many projects that need to be completed in our home first.

On this note, I am mostly monochrome kind of person, but there are certain colours that I just love, and green has to be one of my favourite colours. 

Here are a few photographs for you sourced on Pinterest.

 

Print your Instagram photos with Origrami

I love the photo sharing App Instagram, and take a lot of photos using it. I love how I can easily tweek your photos, use the filters to create dreamy effects... The photos easily look like somewhat of a special photograph even though I am not so good at photography. 

I was trying to find a way of printing mine and Ori­grami stood out. This Australian company prints your Insta­gram pho­tos in a fun Polaroid-style format or on a roll of film. 

The double-sided prints include a photo on one side and the date and num­ber of likes on the other. If the photo is geo-tagged, they can print a map of the loca­tion where the image was taken on the back of photo.

For around A$20, you get 36 polaroid style prints with free world­wide ship­ping. So easy: go to the Ori­grami web­site, con­nect your Insta­gram account and select the pho­tos you want to print.