Lovelorn Unicorn » animal friends http://www.lovelornunicorn.com Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:11:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 nature http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2012/01/nature/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2012/01/nature/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:11:35 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=4916 Continue reading →]]>

As I mentioned in my last post, we recently had an amazing time in the Nelson-Tasman area. We stayed at a bed and breakfast in Mapua and nature was all around. Plant and animal life is so different just a few short hours (and a ferry ride) away from Wellington, and it was awesome hanging out with tui, quails, fantails, geese, and many baby pukeko. So fluffy, so cute. Jason took these photos, most with his macro lens on digital and the first and last on his minolta.

 

 

]]> http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2012/01/nature/feed/ 3 Summerdaze http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2012/01/summerdaze/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2012/01/summerdaze/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:47:45 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=4880 Continue reading →]]> Hello strangers! Been a long time, shouldn’t've left you without a dope beat to step to. I’m so sorry I have been MIA, partly it’s because I’ve been thinking about starting a new blog, something that’s a bit more me now and little less twee. Don’t worry, I shan’t be forsaking all the twee, ya’ll know I still love kittens, I’m just not quite happy with the name of this one.

I have been having a marvelous summer, I’ve ticked off so many things on my Summer Goals list without even meaning to, only about five things left to go! I thought I’d start my return to blogging by sharing my summer instagrams with you.

Wellington: Eating, drinking, Christmas parties, and more recently, gigs. This weekend I went to Fleet Foxes and Beirut – too much fun.

 

Auckland: Awesome Christmas family time, shopping and strolling in Cornwall Park. All the food.

 

Raumati: Holidaying in a spacious bach with lots of good people. Rain, sunshine, barbeques, fancy NYE dinner complete with cat’s ears, fluffy neighbour kittens, and I Have Never in the best fort ever.

Nelson: The ferry, a bed and breakfast with a glorious garden full of tuis and friendly cats, beer tasting, magical treehouses. Not pictured: Emma’s amazing wedding! I was too busy helping Jason take the official photos to grab any snaps.

 

Sorry for such photo-heaviness, I only put up about half of what I wanted to! If you’d like to follow me on instagram, search for kate_mcleod.

]]> http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2012/01/summerdaze/feed/ 6 Auditions for a Black Cat http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/09/auditions-for-a-black-cat/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/09/auditions-for-a-black-cat/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:49:24 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=4624 Fancy vintage ladies and cats on leashes are a match made in heaven. A 1961 casting call for ‘The Black Cat‘ from the Life archive, via Thought Patterns.

]]> http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/09/auditions-for-a-black-cat/feed/ 12 “I cannot play with you,” the fox said. “I am not tamed.” http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/04/i-cannot-play-with-you-the-fox-said-i-am-not-tamed/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/04/i-cannot-play-with-you-the-fox-said-i-am-not-tamed/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:43:55 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=4138 Pet foxes, from National Geographic’s Taming the Wild. I can has, right?!

]]> http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/04/i-cannot-play-with-you-the-fox-said-i-am-not-tamed/feed/ 11 show your teeth to everyone http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/03/show-your-teeth-to-everyone/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/03/show-your-teeth-to-everyone/#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:02:40 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=3917 I’d seen the Deyrolle Pour Opening Ceremony collection and thought it full of lovely things, but somehow missed this lookbook. It’s a bit creepy and I like it. Lord knows I love a good animal patterned textile.

]]> http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/03/show-your-teeth-to-everyone/feed/ 5 Five Things #15 http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/03/five-things-15/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2011/03/five-things-15/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:05:17 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=3887 Continue reading →]]> 1. Nanako Koyama‘s photography, via Banana Meet-Cute

2. Kathryn Wilson‘s Kerry heel.

 

3. Time wasting experiments by Alyson Provax via fieldguided

4. Dresses from Karen Walker’s Runaway collection.

5. Jewellery from we never sleep, via Clever Nettle.

P.S. My heart goes out to the people of Japan, what else can I say.

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Hannah and Landon

TwentySevenNames Winter ’11 via Rag Pony

Ooppssyy via Dreamcats

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Happy anniversary, lovely husband! You’re the best person I’ve ever met, love you.

Photo from the day we got engaged.

]]> http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2010/11/four-happy-years/feed/ 1 Audrey Jeanne’s little cats http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2010/11/audrey-jeannes-little-cats/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2010/11/audrey-jeannes-little-cats/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:33:41 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=3115 Continue reading →]]> Megan is always alerting me to the most awesome stuff, usually cat related. Today it was Audrey Jeanne, a French designer and illustrator. Everything she makes is so precious, but I’m especially taken by these gift wrapping ideas using her stamps.

More loveliness:

Website, blog, shop.

]]> http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2010/11/audrey-jeannes-little-cats/feed/ 4 This is Halloween (again) http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2010/11/this-is-halloween-again/ http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/2010/11/this-is-halloween-again/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:03:19 +0000 Kate http://www.lovelornunicorn.com/?p=2880 Continue reading →]]> Fantastic Mr Fox and Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas win my imaginary costume contest. And can you see that I have Gaga’s armadillo shoe on in the last photo? I was trying so hard to get it in a photo that the backdrop fell down, twice!

Also, my favourite roller derby player is in one of these pictures. I got the vapours.

I love our homemade photobooth so much!

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