Monday, August 15, 2011

Toast Catalogue

On Saturday morning, I sitting on the deck with a hot coffee in my fluffy dressing gown (I was still in the process of waking up), when the post lady dropped a catalogue of some kind in the mail box. As I went to grab it, I realised it was the Toast Catalogue I had ordered ages ago and completely forgotten about.

Toast Catalogue Autumn 2011

Eeeeeeee!!! I was so excited. Ever since I found out where Natty was getting her beautiful images from, I have been on the hunt for places offering free catalogues. Sadly most that I have signed up for never arrived. I guess it's because I'm at the bottom of the world but who knows (maybe someone just liked the look of it on it's journey here).

Toast Catalogue Autumn 2011
Toast Catalogue Autumn 2011
Toast Catalogue Autumn 2011

I couldn't wait to rip it up and start making new journal pages. The thickness and the texture of the paper was perfect for painting over and embellishing. As I was flicking through it and absorbing all the wonderful and rich photography, I thought to myself "Why do I need to rip this up?" I started to warm to the idea of making this the start of a new journal. I will still probably rip some pages out but I like being able to add to the existing pages instead of transforming them into something else. So I did one!

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Rhiannon xxx

P.S. On a totally separate note; it snowed in Auckland today. First time in about 80 years!! Granted we are grasping at straws here and any country with regular snowfall would call it cold rain because as soon as it landed on anything it melted. But it's the closest to snow I have seen in quite some time so I'm sticking with it being exactly that. Snow! (I really hope it snows a little bit tonight to leave a sprinkling in the morning to see)

4 comments:

  1. YAY! I just ordered my own Toast Catalogue I CAN'T WAIT for it to arrive! I just thought I would stop by to say thanks for being such an awesome blogger! I just started Elsie's Blog Love E-course and your post on the subject helped make that decision! So thanks :) Keep up the awesome!

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  2. Hiya! Thank you so much for such kind words!! :D I'm so happy to know that the post on Blog Love helped you make the decision to join the class. I still love refering back to it; it really has helped me focus so much more on what I want to make this blog. xxx

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  3. i LOVE this magazine -- erm, catalogue. i thought i'd ordered more, too, but they never arrived; maybe mine are being sneaked away, too! brilliant idea of working straight on the pages. and congratulations on the snow, too!

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  4. Hey Ingrid - yes, I think it's more like a magazine to be honest hehe. It's absoutley gorgeous to look through! The whole country is being blasted with Snow at the moment. Some random "once in a lifetime" antarctic chill thats been blown our way. It was -13 degrees celcius yesterday somewhere in the south island. Crazy!! xx

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