{Wedding} DIY: A Trashbook of Memories, Sneak Peak!

So we got married. We had the most EPIC time. And then we had "the-incident-where-the-wedding-photographer's-dog-knocked-over-his-hard-drive-and-we-lost-all-our-wedding-photos" - which to sum up - pretty much SUCKS-DONKEY-BALLS. Anywhoo.

In lieu of a proper wedding album - The Husband and I have started making a little wedding "memory trash book" - using the few pictures and snaps that we do have and collecting together the pictures from all our friends that were there on our awesome day.

Let it be known, that husband's "DIY skills" leave much to be desired. But I totally roped him into this project because... Ahem... I'm not the only one that got married, ya know. His results actually surprised me! (But you can still totally tell which pages are "his" and which are "mine")


The great thing about making a "trash book" as opposed to a proper album is that you can include all the "bits n pieces" from your wedding day. (And if you're anything like me - there will be loads of "bits n pieces"). Above: you can see some wedding card envelopes from friends -  with wedding cards in it, with some photo booth snaps taped onto the front.


Above: Little wedding gift bags that some of our wedding gifts came in, make perfect pouches to slide in wedding cards, speeches, table numbers, name cards etc.



Making your own trash book means that you can include whatever you like in it - the arrows you see above were from the "Photo Booth Signs" that I made for our wedding photo booth.


Above: On the right hand side you can see my dad's placemat. (I will do a proper post on the placemats I made soon!). I had instructed my bridesmaids to collect ALL THE THINGS for me after the big day and they did a fantastic job. You can also see a gift tag from one of my friends Andrea.


Above: Some table numbers that were on our tables. (Collected after the big party by the bridesmaids - high five gurrrls). Right hand side: Gift wrapping for Warren's wedding gift.

My brother gave us some "wedding-themed" scrap-bookish stuff... but how did he know?!

Some of our menus from our food-tacular dinner! "A Taste of Our Love Story" (that post is actually one of my most popular blog posts to date. Right after our engagement post, this post and surprisingly this post.)

This is just a little sneak peak of what we are up to - It's really fun to have a project that we can work on together in the evenings when I force Warren to (just kidding, he loves it). I will post more pictures when we've done a little bit more on it - and I will also post a tutorial on how to make your own Memory Trash Book - So start collecting "memory-trash" now!

Does anyone have any cool ideas for how they store all their memories/treasures 

I'd love to see! Leave a comment below or hit me up on twitter or facebook!

art journal

A few random snaps of one of my art journals that I took whilst I was packing up from Korea and moving back home to South Africa.











it was quite a big bulging book (and yes, that is some of my hair in the pic above) - so this is how i wrapped it for packing -

quite ingenious if I do say so myself.

heart type

These pics were part of the Visual Art Journal that I created as part of our final year Design Course (way back when). It's not often that you create something so long ago and still really like it years on. In this case I really do, so I thought it deserved it's own post.

old school high school

I've always been a journaler-type. I fished these very old art-journal/scrapbooks out of my "treasure box" at home and took a few snaps. These are old, very old... you have been warned.

Wow. look at my mom and my dad. wowzer.

Celebrating my birthday in Italy at a sidewalk cafe.

Snapshots and memories from when I was a high-school exchange student in England.

School Valentines Day and a V-day card.

Visual Art Journal

When I was studying design at Rhodes University - in our final year we were required to keep a Visual Art Journal for the year. There were no rules for content, subject matter or medium. It just had to be full. I found it when I was at home in May. 

that's me plus buttons plus lace.

random doodling, with fineliners and charcoal.

A mash up of magazine cuttings, adverts and chocolate wrappers.

typography and words.

floor plan of some my digs (university house) and colourised house mates.

Doodles of our Design Class trip to the Design Indaba in Cape Town.

Random pieces and black and white mock ups of a poster we were asked to submit for the Grahamstown Arts Festival. My poster was one of the three finalists shortlisted. The poster that finally won and went to print was designed by my good friend Vanessa. You can see it and some more of Vanessa's awesome work here.

Have a Bright day :)

Beautiful Bright images and journaling... by Teesha Moore.

Find more of her stuff here.

Not all who wander...

I love this small leather journal from inBlue

They have other great designs too. Check out the Etsy Store.