here comes the sun...

Or, more accurately, here comes a big freakin' thunderstorm... but where did accuracy ever get anyone anyway?

However, in anticipation of the sun someday returning, I wanted to share a project that I have been really excited about for a while now (I just haven't gotten around to it yet)... some diy cyanotype art!

After seeing this blog post over at House&Home, and this one at Apartment Therapy... I have been dying to try something like this at home. Basically it is as simple as lightly spray-painting (or spray-paint-misting) a cyanotype blue colour over some leaves or flowers, or anything you want really (I am planning to use some herbs - rosemary, thyme and sage would make such lovely silhouettes, especially to hang in the kitchen) on white bristol board, and then framing your prints with the old go-to white Ikea frames. I love projects like this, that are so inspiring and so SIMPLE, that it might actually provide me with some confidence and motivation to tackle one of those other diy ideas that I am accumulating at an alarming rate. (Thank you for that, Pinterest.) Also, if you clicked on the link to the Apartment Therapy post, you will have seen those gorgeous chairs. You will have also noticed that there is a company selling cyanotype fabric (now available in a beautiful array of colours). It is called bluesunprints, and their white cyanotype fabric is selling for $20/yard... maybe it's just me, but that seems like an awesome deal! I have a chair that I picked up at a thrift store a while back, I am planning to spray paint it white, and I have been trying to find the perfect fabric to cover the seat... well this is definitely it! (I have had these pages bookmarked for ages, I don't know what took me so long!) All I can say is, those Sunprint kits of my youth have come a loooong way.

On a related note - I just spotted these plates over at West Elm... just beautiful. I would love to get a set for my Mom, I know she would love them.

My favourites are the wild grass and the clovers

west elm - nature sun print dessert plates, $8 each

Well my friends, I hope this has provided a little bit of summer inspiration for you! I am quite excited (she says as the first crack of thunder rolls in) and I hope to have some photos of my own cyanotype artwork to share with you sometime very soon. Have a lovely weekend!

seriously cheesy

This is actually making me half reconsider my longtime sentiment of not-so-interested-in-having-a-wedding (not that one is on the horizon, at all, just to be clear). I think you can understand why.

That's right, these are cheese wedding cakes. I'm sorry, did you catch that? One more time, for the people in the cheap seats... CHEESE wedding cakes.

Sophia, maybe you should reconsider Hilton Head and just get married in the UK, with one of these beauties? Just sayin'...

On second thought, who needs a wedding to have a multi-tiered cheese cake?! Maybe I'll just have a wicked wine and cheese party... so much simpler. I'm sure my diy version won't be anywhere near as spectacular, but hey, I'll still have four or five wheels of cheese on my table, won't I.

Cheese wedding cake images from The Cheese Shed. First seen on A Cup of Jo.

must have

These antique-silverware-style cheese tags! With the amount of cheese I eat and the amount of cheese platters I serve (no, not only to myself... I do have friends over occasionally, you know, to justify the cheese) I really don't think must have is too strong a statement!

Found on Cupcakes and Cashmere.

Now, does anyone know where I can get them??

*Update - May 13: I found some here but unfortunately, a) the retailer is located in L.A., and b) it's $49 for a set of six, which is a little lot more than I am willing to pay. I am now thinking that this is totally something I could maybe diy (totally maybe intended)... or else it totally isn't... but there's really only one way to find out. I will keep you posted!