I am a designer, photographer, teacher, homeowner and newlywed (among other things). My passions (besides design and photography) include Food, Sport, Landscaping and Renovating, and fun DIY projects. I am madly in love, with my husband, my animals, and life in general.
My blog is about the things I love to do, when I can find the time to do them, and serves as a photographic journal of day-to-day happenings.
The photo on the left is a good indication of my personality. 40% of all photos taken of me I am pulling faces like this. My tongue features a lot in my wedding photos. Another 40% I’ll have my photo face on, and the remaining 20% would be genuine emotion.
I’m into photos. Not just photography, but snapshots of random events. I love that these images are documenting a time in our lives, be it happy or sad, for us to look over later and remember that moment.
I’m also into creating. All sorts of things. Since I was little I’ve always loved making things, building stuff, painting, crafting, sewing, drawing, writing.. This is definitely my area of creativity, since I am severely lacking in any kind of musical, singing or dancing talents.
My business ventures:
Mikaela Handmade is my latest creative venture. I have been a busy little bee, designing all sorts of handmade goodies to sell at the Canberra Markets. I make magnets, pins, bookmarks, anvas paintings and more! Checkout the Mikaela Handmade website for more information and photos of my bits and bobs.
Juno is my jewellery design business, re-named and re-launched after a 5 year hiatus. The last time I was making jewellery I went a bit nuts with having a billion different designs and not much focus for the business. This time around I’m much more organised and have 8 set designs that I create by hand. I love all of them, and have a pair of each of my designs that I wear often. I sell the earrings on the Juno website. I especially like the way the black beads I use (lava and glass) contrast with the sterling silver wire. Soon I hope to learn how to cut designs from sheets of sterling silver and have a whole other set of designs, which I also plan to turn into necklaces and bracelets.
Danvers Creative is my main freelance business, I work as a graphic designer. The services I offer range from very affordable web packages for those in need of simple and straight forward websites to promote themselves or their business, to very in depth and complex custom web design for small to large business owners. I work for local, national and international clients, as distance is no barrier when working on the internet.
I am also available to design identities for small business’, including logo design, business cards, matching stationery and promotional items. Flyers, brochures, calendars, uniforms and postcards are all possible, feel free to contact me if you need anything designed at a good rate!
Just Details is a Canberra based community website and forum, providing wedding planning services and guides to Canberra Brides (or Grooms). I hope to grow the community to include members involved in all facets of the wedding industry that are based in canberra.
The purpose of JustDetails is to help you out with the little things, the details of the day. The details are what make your day about you, so let the Brides-to-be of Canberra help you make it a great day.
I am currently looking for talented people to run the website, please get in touch if you are interested!
GeorgeandGracie.net – Quirky wedding accessories brand, coming sometime
Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. I'm Mikaela, I am female, 25, married, and busy by choice. I love life and have too many ideas in my head, and wish there were more hours in the day (I'm sure old people always said that when I was growing up). I live in and love Canberra, Australia (2 hours to beach or snow, what more could you ask for?). For more about who I am and what I do, go to the about page =)
We had giant hamburgers for dinner. Bun, tomato sauce, mustard, cheese, hot chilli meat pattie, more cheese, pineapple, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, avocado, bun. YUM. Giant! I had two. See my last post about always eating too much.
Yesterday I was in Coles and saw this yummo looking Italian bread which inspired me to make Bruschetta as an entreé to dinner last night. I forgot to get Olive Oil when I was there so had to improvise with peanut oil, but it wasn’t too bad. I buttered the bread (no oil, remember?), spread [...]
This is a recipe I sort of made up about 4 years ago. I think it’s probably based on something I had once and I just tried to remember the ingredients when putting it together. I’ve got it down to a fine art now, everyone loves this salad. It goes perfectly with snags and steak [...]
Before going to the coast last week I made 2 ribbon organiser boxes. One turned out really well, the other not so much. Here is the latter, made from an old tissue box. The reason I don’t like the end result is because the tissue box was too flimsy to begin with, the walls went a [...]
As promised, here are Girds’ and Harley’s new doggie beds! The reason I decided to make these is because their current beds are lumpy, big oofy pillows, with blankets on top. They take up far too much room in our bedroom, aren’t very portable, and are hard to wash. These beds, however, are the opposite [...]
Yesterday and today were spent putting my house back together, so I haven’t had a chance to complete the DIY projects I wanted to do today to show here. Hopefully I can finish the doggie beds tonight as well as at least start on my ribbon organiser… We’ll see how I go, I still have [...]
