15 December 2014
Our friend Tamara Maynes is now based in Melbourne, where she is creative director at The Establishment Studios. She still makes time for her own work (select pieces are available online through The Descendant Store) and she is also working on her first book! We were lucky to catch her mid-deadline to share her Christmas plans.
My Christmas style is last minute!
This year I'll be buying a bunch of TV series on iTunes. After a huge year of work I have a lot of catching up to do!
My failsafe Christmas styling tip is the use of string lighting. It will solve any Christmas decorating dilemma! Decorating for Christmas doesn't usually happen in my home until Christmas Eve when I finish work for the year, so more often than not they the only thing I use. Simple and effective, my use of string lighting is influenced by these great images (below) styled by Suzanne Stankus and photographed by Damian Russell.
This Christmas I'll be serving vodka. Christmas is one of the few occasions I partake in a beverage of the alcoholic kind and it's become a bit if a tradition to grab a bottle as I head home from work on Christmas Eve. This year my husband and I have been invited to an orphan Christmas at the home of one of my colleagues from The Establishment Studios so the hard stuff will have to come with us!
My Christmas playlist includes Son House and Ella Fitzgerald records. Delta blues guitar and the queen of jazz makes for a very merry Christmas.
The crackling of my favourite Son House record 'Father of Folk Blues' will be on high rotation over the Christmas break.
All I want for Christmas is some time off to recuperate after a really busy year authoring my first book with Murdoch Books. This time next year you will find me poking my head inside every bookstore I come across beaming like a proud parent! It has been a HUGE project and once I hand my final manuscript in on December 31st I am going to collapse in a heap… bring on the iTunes splurge!
This image by Melbourne photographer and moonlighting ceramicist Lauren Bamford is one from her ongoing personal series. A Christmas card involving Christmas Bush and a VB in a brown paper bag arrived in the post this week – it's the best I've ever received hands down!
My biggest Christmas disaster was the year my entire family descended on my grandfather's for a few days. My boyfriend (now husband) ended up sleeping in my tiny car because his dust allergy wasn't compatible with the otherwise unoccupied home. That was one Christmas string lighting couldn't fix!
After Christmas I'm planning to get to know my semi-new and as yet semi-unexplored home of Melbourne. I'm also planning to think about what I want for 2015… aren't we all?!
Find out more at tamaramaynes.com or follow Tamara on Instagram @tamaramaynes
All I want for Christmas... with Tamara Maynes
Our friend Tamara Maynes is now based in Melbourne, where she is creative director at The Establishment Studios. She still makes time for her own work (select pieces are available online through The Descendant Store) and she is also working on her first book! We were lucky to catch her mid-deadline to share her Christmas plans.
My Christmas style is last minute!
This year I'll be buying a bunch of TV series on iTunes. After a huge year of work I have a lot of catching up to do!
My failsafe Christmas styling tip is the use of string lighting. It will solve any Christmas decorating dilemma! Decorating for Christmas doesn't usually happen in my home until Christmas Eve when I finish work for the year, so more often than not they the only thing I use. Simple and effective, my use of string lighting is influenced by these great images (below) styled by Suzanne Stankus and photographed by Damian Russell.
This Christmas I'll be serving vodka. Christmas is one of the few occasions I partake in a beverage of the alcoholic kind and it's become a bit if a tradition to grab a bottle as I head home from work on Christmas Eve. This year my husband and I have been invited to an orphan Christmas at the home of one of my colleagues from The Establishment Studios so the hard stuff will have to come with us!
My Christmas playlist includes Son House and Ella Fitzgerald records. Delta blues guitar and the queen of jazz makes for a very merry Christmas.
The crackling of my favourite Son House record 'Father of Folk Blues' will be on high rotation over the Christmas break.
All I want for Christmas is some time off to recuperate after a really busy year authoring my first book with Murdoch Books. This time next year you will find me poking my head inside every bookstore I come across beaming like a proud parent! It has been a HUGE project and once I hand my final manuscript in on December 31st I am going to collapse in a heap… bring on the iTunes splurge!
This image by Melbourne photographer and moonlighting ceramicist Lauren Bamford is one from her ongoing personal series. A Christmas card involving Christmas Bush and a VB in a brown paper bag arrived in the post this week – it's the best I've ever received hands down!
My biggest Christmas disaster was the year my entire family descended on my grandfather's for a few days. My boyfriend (now husband) ended up sleeping in my tiny car because his dust allergy wasn't compatible with the otherwise unoccupied home. That was one Christmas string lighting couldn't fix!
After Christmas I'm planning to get to know my semi-new and as yet semi-unexplored home of Melbourne. I'm also planning to think about what I want for 2015… aren't we all?!
Find out more at tamaramaynes.com or follow Tamara on Instagram @tamaramaynes
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