Forget Me Not

The other week, Morgan and I stumbled upon a little boutique/cafe called Forget me not. Shops like this are quite common in Australia, but here in France this was quite a rare find. We shared a pot of organic rose tea and had lovely chats about the world with Marie, the owner. If you're ever in Biarritz, try and find it, you'll love it.

-kim Forget Me Not
2, rue Simon Etcheverry
64200 Biarritz.

thread

One of the best things about living with morgans grandmother is the beautiful vintage things we find around the house. The other day while sowing I uncovered Grannys incredible thread collection. There were so many beautiful old thread spools and I was instantly i love.
enjoy
-kim

our rolleiflex

We would love to introduce you to our newest addition to our family, our lovely Rolleiflex camera. This old gal is more than 60 years old and is our first medium format camera. Apparently the original owner was a reporter, who gave this camera to a friend who lived in Paris, until we bought it off them. It has been so fun playing with this camera, and we can't wait till we get some film developed and can see what she creates.
- morgan and kim

new cameras

It was hard to leave my collection of cameras in Australia, so I am very excited to have a base to call home for a while and start collecting again.



While in Orleans, I found this sweet little AGFA Silette I at a big second hand shop called Emmaus. It's super compact and light, and very easy to use. Because of this, it was one of two cameras we took to Spain and Portugal, the other camera we took was my new Voigtlander. I picked up the Voigtlander Vitoret LR at an antique market close to where we live in France. It cause me nothing but grief as the shutter kept jamming, but the few shots that turned out are really special.



Over the next few days I will share a few shots from these cameras.
-morgan

Scooter P*rn

As we were traveling through Spain I was drooling all over the beautiful scooters everywhere. It satisfy my love, we snapped photos of all the beautiful scooters we saw. Enjoy this series of photos I would like to title... "scooter p*rn".
-kim

Owls

My grandma has a thing for owls. Well not so much a thing as an obsession. Today we decided to count all of the 3D owls (not all the photos and posters). Final number 273. Impressive huh? Here are a few shots of our favorites.








What do you collect?
-morgan

collections.. pt 4 [the owls]

A while back we shared some things we collect [one, two and three] and I have been meaning to share this one more for a while. A few years ago I declared my love for owls, which resulted in an influx if gifts owl related. Now I seem to have collected rather a family of owls and these few are my favourites.







These guys have come from all over the world and have all been such lovely gifts. Although I have actually never brought any of them, I love that I have unintentionally collected this parliament of owls.
-kim

our home.

For a while I have been wanting to do something like this. About a year ago I started reading The Selby and since have wanted to share a little virtual tour of what for the last year and a half we have called home. We have about one month before we start selling most of our possessions and clearing this little apartment to prepare for our one way trip to Europe.



When we first moved here, it was very scary, the apartment is built in the steepest street in Queensland, it is always dark and cool inside and when it rains, everything stays wet and the man who built it simply threw together with odds and ends from scrap shops. As Kim and I tend to collect a lot of treasure/junk we have filled this apartment very rapidly, with lots of beautiful things. Sadly, now we must sort, sell, throw out and reminisce of all our nick nacks.


Hope you enjoy our home as much as we do/did.
-morgan

right round, baby, right round

So for the last 2 years we have become vinyl addicts. When I say we, I mean me. Kims sister gave us a beautiful Radiola record player cabinet which she bought of an old couple that bought it new in 1960, it even had a spare needle that they bought with it. In January the old girl stopped working. We paid the same amount to have it looked at to get fixed then what kims sister paid for it. The diagnosis came back, and it was going to be way too expensive to fix. This begun the journey for a new player.




I bought this one at a good price on eBay. Its a beautiful old Crown portable record player. This one doesn't work to it's full potential but lets consider it my new 'project'. In the mean time we had accumulated almost 15 new vinyls since our first player passed away.




After working a big day on a public holiday (double the pay) I sporadically bought my first brand new record player. This little beauty plugs into our computer and our cd player. It's sounds pretty decent with it's inbuilt speakers, but through our sound system it has brought our vinyl experience to a whole new level.




This begs the question, vintage or new? Vintage looks and sounds great, but parts and repairs are really hard to get. New sounds great and hopefully is easier to fix. I think I would still choose vintage, our cabinet lasted 50-60 years, as far as we know this was it's first time in a repair shop. So who cares if we only got to love it for a year and a half, they were some of the best years of my life.



And for those interest here are a few records we love at the moment.

- fleet foxes>helplessness blues
- death cab for cutie>codes and keys
- rosie thomas>all the way from michigan not mars
- stornoway>beachcombers windowsill
- black keys>rubber factory
- edith piaf>a portrait of piaf
- louis armstrong>hello dolly
- bon iver>bon iver

what do you think/do vintage or new?

-morgan