Teacups From Nana Brown

My nana came to visit a few weeks ago. Last time she was here (in January), we got into discussions about glory boxes and how me and my friend Jamie wanted to start them. Since then I've been slowly collecting bits and pieces for my glory box and it's starting to fill up. I love opening it up and looking at all my treasures in there that will one day be used by me and (hopefully :P) my family. 

Anyways. So back to my nana. She found some things that she had gathered back when she was my age to go in to her glory box, and decided to pass them on to me for my glory box. My favourite things she gave me were these tea cups. I absolutely adore them! 

Cute cute cuuute!

I think I like this one best.

There's something really cool about pre-loved things, and something even more special when they're handed down from your family members. I think it's so cool that these tea cups were originally bought (or is it "brought"..?) to go into my nana's glory box in preparation for a whole new life that lay ahead of her, and now they're going into mine, also in preparation for a whole new season in my life that lies ahead.

 I have absolutely no idea where they'll go, who will use them, or even when they'll get used, but for now they sit in my glory box as both a part of my nana's history, and a part of my future.

 How magnificent. 

Here's to the future. 

(Hopefully one involving lots of tea parties)

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P.S. One day soon I will take photos of the things in my glory box and post them. 

Inspired.

I don't know whether I'm a little late getting on this train, but I've just started getting in to pinterest.com (by the way, I think it's silly that you have to be "invited" to join up. Like, how snobby and exclusive is that? One of my personality traits is inclusive in case you can't tell haha). Anyways, as I was searching through some photos today, I came across this really cool photo of a family tree.

Neat, huh?! I think the original source of the photo is a company that makes them as a print and sells them, but I'm going to just be cheeky and steal the idea to do it on a canvas. I'm really excited about it! Not only will I (hopefully) end up with a real cool piece of art at the end, but also I will have a greater knowledge of my family history and whatnot. I went on a marae trip recently with my Vision college class. 

(This is a picture from outside the marae)

Anyways, as a part of the whole experience, each of us had to write out our pepeha which is kind of like your introduction explaining where you come from and your family background and whatnot. But one thing I was struck with was how little I actually even know about my family heritage, and so by doing this project I'm hoping I can change that. At this point, I think I will do one canvas for my mother's side of the family, and another for my dad's side. Oh! I just love new projects! Haha. :)

In other, completely unrelated news, I found this super cool article on stumbleupon today which was all about how to best use space if you have a really small house or apartment or whatever and it was entitled "7 Ways To Get Rid of the Bed". It showed all of these cool ideas of how to put your bed in a place where it doesn't take up all of the room in your living space. Why am I telling you this? Because it had some seriously cool photos of fancy schmancy designer beds. Check this one out! 

(If you want to see the article for yourself, here's the link http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/7-ways-to-get-rid-of-the-bed.php)

So rad! I probably wouldn't want my bed to be like that personally, but I think it's such a clever design. I love reading things like that. Even though I don't even have my own house or anything haha. It's still fun to dream..:)

Anywho. That's enough rambling for now!

Megan xox

P.S. If you want to follow me on Pinterest, go here: http://pinterest.com/meganwarn/ 

Bookcases.

I have a growing passion for bookcases. I don't really know what it is about them, but I just LOVE them. When I am old and have my own home, I want to have a whole wall one sort of, but not exactly, like this.

Recently I was watching Grand Designs and there was this chick on there who can't have been much older than me, and she built the most beautiful home. What I particularly liked was the bookcases that she had built into the stair case. She actually used it as shelving for the kitchen, but I like this idea of having a bookshelf in your stairs. Kinda like this. 

Or this.

Although if it was me, I would probably use some of the shelves for books, and some for displaying other objects. 

Ahhh...I love bookcases! 

Caffeine.

I have a bit of an on-again-off-again relationship with coffee/caffeine in general.

When I was a young buck, I drank coffee and energy drinks etc. quite frequently. Not like, heeeaps. But fairly regularly. Then I developed an intolerance (I can't call it an allergy since it hasn't been officially diagnosed :P) to them. So I cut energy drinks right out of my diet. And coffee..well..I just drank LESS of it. I have the odd relapse now and then. Like when I was on holiday this year and everyone was drinking coffee like it was going out of fashion and I got caught up in the craziness and drank WAY too much of it (for me and my tolerance level) and ended up feeling completely wretched and swore off it.


Anyways. Today I had a real coffee for the first time in a while.

Now I'm jittery as anything.

I feel like doing an intense cardio work out, then climbing up Mount Everest..
Then spending a few hours in a mosh pit.

Anyone wanna go to Nepal?

The First Post..

Hello blogging world. 

I've decided, after much procrastination, to join you.

I'm not sure whether I'll ever have anything very interesting to say. 

But nevertheless, here I am. 

This is quite weird. 

I definitely feel like I'm talking to myself. 

So yip. There goes my first post. 

Seeya 'round!