leaving gift

 

 

our dear friends lisa and brandon leave to go back to the united states in less than a week and we are gutted. after having them here for so long, it's like they've always been here and we wanted to get them something realy, really special as a gift when they left...

 

so we looked... and looked... and looked and looked. and could not find anything that we were happy with. sigh. it seemed as though we were going to have to send them off without something. until... on the weekend, i found this amazing vintage map book in a store on our way to kalgoorlie, which just happened to have a huge two page spread with a western australian map over it! so freaking cool!

 

we then had the fun of finding someone to frame it before the movers arrived to take all their things (starting thursday...) but we made it! object framers in balcatta agreed to have it done - and called me just three hours later - to tell me it was ready to collect! holy moly! i was stoked and it looked amazing! thankfully they loved it as much as i did - and it's now on it's way to the u.s.