in search of the real captain kk

happy new year! here i am. back. alive. present. i figured it's a new year, so why not have a crack at firing up the old blog. seriously, what happened? life, that's what. no wait. make th...

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what kk did: march 2012 1.  despite my grumpy pants about the mini & it's new home in the garage meaning the contents of the shed were dumped throughout the house to accommodate...

http://www.captainkk.com/2013/04/what-kk-did-march-2012.html

i couldn't' let february 2012 go past without acknowledging the mini. the husband bought it for himself for his birthday last year in an effort to get him off the vespa & into a safe...

http://www.captainkk.com/2013/03/the-mini.html

what kk did: february 2012 1.  honey, i love you. valentine's card from here . 2.  some favourite books. sweet cushion covers made by the talented kingsley . 3.  cutest l...

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in an effort to return to blogging & continue capturing some of our life here that i don't want to forget, i've decided to do a series of quick monthly catch up posts, starting ...

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we hung these small pom pom garlands out the front to welcome mirka's birthday guests for her recent party & although that was exactly a month ago today, you guessed it, they are still...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/10/pom-poms-rainbows.html

happy, happy, happy, happy, fourth birthday mirka grace. we love you to the moon and back.  x

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  charlie, lucky pants, harper. that's our boy. it has been crazy busy around here lately, not least because charlie & mirka have birthdays only 2 weeks apart. some may say it was genius o...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/09/charlies-2nd-birthday.html

my sister kingsley is pretty awesome. just sayin. she laughs at all my jokes & lets me believe i'm stylish, even though hipster fashion that ventures past wearing leggings escapes ...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/09/my-sister-kingsley.html

in the spirit of improving my photo skills, i took myself off to a one day workshop yesterday with the talented tim coulson . i think i first saw tim's work on ms. beetleshack 's blog here ...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/09/dial-m-for-manual.html

here it is. the 24 month portrait. the last official monthly portrait of our charlie. so this is the end of my baby-mama years. is it? i'm 99.9% sure it is. the monthly portraits...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/09/charlies-24-month-portrait-on-eames.html

wow. 23 months. second last portrait 'til he turns 2 & i finish up with the monthly updates. so here is our mr. charlie; decider of all things cool. "cool sthoes (shoes)".. "c...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/08/charlies-23-month-portrait-on-eames.html

all you need is love. i remember when i was pregnant for the first time with our gracie girl four years ago & realising how true that is & how reassuring i found that at the time. we were l...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/07/all-you-need-is-love.html

that's right, you better believe it's real. yeah it's real. i'm not into the whole copy-cat, replica, faux, fake,  furniture industry that knows no boundaries. anyway, this rare beauty...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/07/whats-in-box.html

22 months & so big already. at least charlie thinks so. in his mind, there's nothing he can't do. nothing. in fact his favourite game at the moment is "sthoo-per dhar-lie!" ..(...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/07/charlies-22-month-portrait-on-eames.html

it was my birthday yesterday, so to celebrate i lazed about in bed for an hour, (best use of time ever - don't be too jealous), before making our way over to st.kilda for lunch at restaur...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/06/birthday-time.html

charlie, charlie, charlie. funny little boy. i wasn't sure how to encourage charlie to stay on the eames rocker for longer than 10 seconds, but it was a stroke of genius* that made ...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/06/charlies-21-month-portrait.html

while i'm playing catch up, i thought i'd post these photos from the yarraville festival. you can tell it was a few months ago by the sunshine. i gotta say i was loving the pop-...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/06/yarraville-festival.html

did y'all think i was dead? uh-uh i'm not dead; just lost my bloggin' mojo for a while, which not surprisingly seemed to go hand in hand with being crazy-time-busy at work. trying to fi...

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18 months. eames rocker. my 'baby charlie' is fast becoming 'big boy charlie'. lots more teeth. lots more words. his first word to me every morning lately is "narna" as in "get ou...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/03/charlies-18-month-portrait.html

who isn't doing a pop-up something right? but i'm feeling surprisingly* joyful tonight after chatting to kingsley on the phone & thought i might just pop-up myself here on this little ol' neg...

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   what does that even mean? the stylish ms. montmartre asked me this after my bragging about my new castle/ gorman tea towel acquisition on facebook  recently & she's right...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/01/put-love-in-coconut.html

architecture. design. food. friends. furniture. interiors. life. laughs. melbourne. shopping. treasure.. down the rabbit hole.

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i loved how all of the flower stalls at the pre-xmas markets were bursting with holly branches & couldn't resist adding them to my armload of oriental lilies, along with a few banksia f...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/01/holly-banksias-oriental-lilies.html

before i move head first in to the new year, i wanted to capture mirka's tiny bouquet of 'santa flowers' in a post. when we asked mirka what she was hoping santa would bring, "santa flower...

http://www.captainkk.com/2012/01/mirkas-xmas-bouquet.html