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Spring flowers

It’s almost Spring! And with that time for a bit of a clean sweep. And some new growth.

With a few food projects under way this year and my growing realisation that I want to do more professional photography, I really need a proper food photography blog. And a proper photography portfolio site. So this weekend I set up Lovely Food and started work on my folio.

A few small tweaks later and I have a whole new updated look which I’ve also moved to A+B. My intention is to run both blogs equally. I will keep everyone posted here but please do subscribe to Lovely Food as that is going to be the repository for final recipes and food photos.

If you have any feedback please let me know. And most of all…

Enjoy!

lupine

winter kitchen

Recently I’ve looked back on my blog and seen that indeed, I did used to make things.

Making things usually coincided with not working full time. I also used to write a few other blogs (which I’ve started doing again). And I still managed to buy loads of fabric and yarn even with no money.

It makes me sad I’ve not been making things anymore. And while I am so grateful for my commercial work, which is really amazing work, and I am very fortunate do do what I do – but I really don’t feel as though it’s what I want to be doing with my life. From a Soul persepective it’s not what I want to look back on my life and see that’s all I did.

Creating my web projects though, that is meaningful.
Time with the girls. That is meaningful.
Time spent making things. That is meaningful.

I went to Astrid’s school today and there was a big tug at my heart to be able to spend more time there. More time in that world. And there is so much I want to share here. Our home looks incredible all beautiful for Christmas. We have a seasonal table, a little tree I made with ribbons and decorations. Beautiful Winter faeries and angels. Lights, The best tree ever. And here sit I, literally sitting on my hands. My heart and my soul just bursting to jump out and be creative and make and do and sing and laugh and cry and run and watch and smile.

And be a mother again. And be me again.

Back on Ravelry – Lupine

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@N07/5016078540/" title="living room by anknel + burblets, on Flickr">living room

Ah, the beautiful whiteness of home. So I can photograph again – something I have so been looking forward to and I can’t wait to get the house in order and begin to style everything and make it all cosy. It’s midnight already and I’ve not even begun to look on eBay tonight.

Tomorrow we are off to Ella Doran in Shoreditch for their book launch party of the new Paumes book as part of the London Design Festival. Astrid is super excited as I’ve told her it’s a tea party.

On Sunday we have new parents day at Astrid’s new school – it’s a full day which will be loads of fun. Such a shame I’ll be missing Michaelmas festival and class picnic next week. But I’m back at work now – and it’s been a really hard, but hard in a good way week. I’ve used my brain 100% and have had to very quickly get myself back into illustrator mode having been in photoshop or pen and paper mode for the past few years. It took a few days of feeling very stupid but I know what I’m doing now so my software can keep up with what I want it to do now. Super good.

The other day after dropping Astrid off in Islington the busses all decided to not go through the lights at Angel and I got out at Cross Street and did my usual urban running (now I have my Adidas pumps I’m all set for that) – and I happened to undershoot my destination, and being in such a desperate rush I thought it better for forge ahead than go back to correct my mistake and ended up in East London. A small adventure and a bit of bus mix and matching and a fair old bit of jogging along – I made it to work in time to not look too late at all.

Work is so awesome and brilliant. I feel so brainy being there. And I feel very very priviledged to have been invited to work on such an amazing interaction design project. Really really lucky. I think I must be a grown up London designer now. Everyone has short nails and wears strange clothes. Perfect.

… is back!

I’ve merged all the sites and we’re now running everything out of Lovely NZ. Please add it to your bloglines – now I’ve got my iPhone hooked up with a decent camera – and to wordpress we’ll be updating regularly.