A Few of my Favourite Things & My Hot New Boyfriend...

Ok Ok...  no, not really... haha!  You know that I'm happily married with 4 beautiful kids and a very cool hubby right? 

 

The thing is... I'm kinda like totally crushing on Mr super-cool-rockin'-tattooed-to-the-hilt-bad-boy-Adam-Levine... yeh not sure how he suddenly came to be on my almost 40 year old radar, but when I introduced  him to Mr C as my new Ifie screen-saver he responded with "ugh! he's a skinny little runt" lol...

 

 

He cracks me up! 

 

Anyway its been a long time since I did an "A Few of My Favourite Things"  post, so here we go...

 

Current Favourite song

 "Daylight" by Mr Levine himself... and skinny-little-runt or not, there is no doubt about that fact that this man can sing!  Here he is with Maroon 5, singing it live on The Voice...

 

 

Favourite line from Current Favourite song:

Here I am staring at your perfection,

in my arms, so beautiful...

and by the sounds of it, it's the favourite line of every woman in that audience too... lol...

 

Ok... are you done drooling... a-hem... moving on...

 

Favourite blogs right now...

I haven't spent a lot of time in the last few months wandering around blog-land so I made a concerted effort over the last few days... and just Look at these absolute gems of fab NZ Vintage blogs...

 

Two Squirrels Vintage

 

 

The Velvettes

 

Both these gorgeous ladies give me green goose bumps of greedy envy with their supper stunning vintage dresses.  I love their style perfectly!

 

You find lots more awesome blogs from New Zealand right HERE

 

Favourite Family time this week...

The C Family and Nana, were asked to do a little photo shoot for some publications going out from work, we had a ball of a time and here are a few of my favourite shots...

 

 

Aren't they beautiful?  Yes!  They are!  Even if I do say so myself! Haha!  I really enjoyed watching the photographer work, he was a real pro and had all the gears, I think I learnt quite a bit just watching...

 

I hope you are having a fabulous weekend... I have a little reoccurring something wrong with my ear, but it seems to be coming right for the moment...

 

Till next time

Mrs C

xox

 

 

A Vintage Vespa and a very Inspiring Person...

So do you remember the Super Photography Post with the beautiful little Vespa I spied sitting outside my neighbors house? I've watched with interest as this post has slowly but surely crept its way to the top of my most popular post's list...

Well today it happened again, I got home and saw this...

...Same spot, vintage Vespa, in the most beautiful colour!

So...I thought I'd go over and say 'hi' this time.

And I found Andrew Ross. He's not my neighbor but he practically grew up there hanging out with the boys that lived there.

I gave him a few of the cards that I had made here and this is what I found out about Andrew.

He owns 8 vintage Vespa's, YES! 8!!!  Some dating back to the early 1950's.  He's been collecting them since his late teens and 5 of them actually work, the other's being works in progress. How cool is that? Super Cool I say! 

Aaaaaaand... He's a photographer too, when I barged into the neighbors backyard to meet him he was taking photos with this stunning old camera.

I told him of my love of vintage style photoshoots and asked if he thought I could use one of his Vespa's for a prop, not only did he say yes, but he said he has the perfect one for me to use (Think 'Roman Holiday'.). Woohoo!

I'm so excited and I can't wait for the weather to warm up a bit and do this shoot.  I have my model... and I have my prop, yay!  And now I need to go shopping for wardrobe double yay!

If you want to see more of Andrew's work go and have a look here or here.  He's really a very, very accomplished photographer and I consider it an honor to have met him. 

And Here is a fabulous documentary from VIMEO about Andrew and you get to see him riding around on his beautiful Vespa (the white one)

Those of you in Wellington, Andrew currently has some works on display at our National Mueseum Te Papa, go along and have a peek.

Take care

Mrs C

xox