#ITTC COLOUR PALETTE CHALLENGE

I am a huge fan of Instagram and I have so many favourite accounts, it would be hard to pinpoint even just a handful! I absolutely love wasting time perving on their beautiful galleries and sometimes my feed is just so full of beautiful imagery it is often a quick pick me up as I usually feel inspired or just darn happy after looking at the beautiful photographs.

What I am starting is a personal challenge but you are most welcome to join me, what I want to work on is using colour palettes to pretty up my instagram account with a flowing block of different colours and also as a way of practicing and challening my styling and photography practice. Using particular colour palettes seems to be a pattern which is prevalent with the accounts that I personally enjoy looking at and I would like to work on using different colour themes. I have often steered clear of doing it because I love colour and I really couldn't play favourites to just one particular colour palette, but with this challenge I can play around with different palettes each month.

First rule of the colour palette challenge is that you must have at least six consecutive photographs which express at least four of the colours from the colour palette challenge. Yeah, and that's it.
So my plan is to release a colour palette every month and my aim is to have at least six consecutive photographs using a minimum of four of the colours from the months colour palette challenge. Some months I may follow the palette exclusively with my styling and photography, and other months I may just do my six consecutive photographs, I guess it just depends on what I feel like doing or how much I am loving the colour palette.

Ooops, I lied. Second rule of the colour palette challenge is that with each photograph posted (blog or instagram or facebook or ello) you must hashtag #ITTCCOLOURPALETTECHALLENGE that way we have a reference as to our progress (wow, i'm a bit bossy). You must hashtag #ITTCCOLOURPALETTECHALLENGE (just incase the first bolded, uppercase shouty style hashtag demand missed the point). At the end of each month I will decide on my favourite photograph and give myself a pat on the shoulder.....unless you decide to join in, then I will share a pat on the shoulder with you too and we can emoticon high five each other and say, 'We did it!'. 

As of tomorrow, let the challenge begin.

Cowabunga!

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A TABLE FOR SIX

 Oh my glob, can you believe that this entire set was sitting on the side of the road? As soon as I saw it, I pulled over, knocked at the front door and asked if it was free. You can only imagine the beating of my palpitating heart when they said yes. I took two chairs with me and then came back to claim the rest by foot. It was only nine houses down the road from mine, and it was a collective effort taking the four chairs and the table (which is quiet heavy as it has an extendable center) down the road and up our dirt driveway. So the old table got promoted outside to our deck and this little set got a wipe down and is now our main table. I am inlove and feeling very lucky!! This is exactly what I have been looking for and I would have been willing to pay for it. 

Thank you Universe! What are your top pre-loved finds?

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CURBSIDE PRIDE

I am pretty good at driving in reverse which comes in handy because I love a good curbside clean up and I drive with a pretty keen eye. These are some of the amazing things that we have found on the sides of the road. Over the weekend I found these amazing cherrywood bed legs and I got into a pretty interesting conversation with the previous owner about what I could make out of them. 

What would you make out of them?

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WHAT DO YOU SHARE?

She has two kids and so do I, but today I came over with just one. She was smiling generously in the sunshine as I pulled up outside the front of their home. Her home was flush with light and we made our way straight to the lounge room to finish our conversation sitting on the comfort of the lounges. Before long, she was sharing a kettle of boiled water amongst three mugs and searching for spoons and the sugar, all with one arm while bubs sat happily scrunched up agaist her waist with her little legs dangling over her other arm.

Sitting outside in the sunshine we sipped at our tea and watched the boys gather the winter leaves into piles, they were working harmoniously together and as we talked I watched his dad silently smile at him with an open grin as he counted to three before throwing a bunch of dried leaves up and into the sunlight.

We all made our way back inside with empty mugs and I watched them share the space in their home harmoniously with a silent contentment between them. Home is truly where the heart is, and sometimes I find that notion easy to forget especially when I am busying myself with how our home looks and fine tuning the practicality of it. Today my friend shared more than a conversation and a cup of tea inside of her home with me, she made me feel at home with the love, patience, thoughtfulness and kindness that I saw between each of them. What is it that you share inside of your home?

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Kodak Portra 400 & Ilford HP5

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