Ok so my last post sorta bummed me out so let's talk about creative handpainted gold leaf baked goods before the weekend hits. I don't want to end my blog this week talking about dead birds! Downer! I decided to launch a new column on decor8 that I believe I can actually stick to called Instagram Fave Friday because I find a bevy of great stuff on IG and I feel so limited when trying to share great IGers. And trust me, I find some amazing IG peeps because I have a baby and my iPhone is my best friend when he's asleep in my arms - so I surf and save constantly. I'm an IG machine. So I figured to just devote a weekly column that you can visit on Friday to end each week looking at beautiful things from talented people. Sounds like a plan.

I was thinking this morning that IG doesn't have a real way to share, does it? I mean, you can see some stuff in that News feed but it's not that great if you follow say, more than 50 people. You miss stuff unless you are refreshing the News feed every 10 seconds and I'm just not into that. Sure, you can fave images but no one can see your faves (which in all honestly I sorta like) but on the other side, when you WANT to share stuff you can either repost or regram it, which I just don't like, or you have to tweet it but still a tweet doesn't have much reach these days like a blog post. I still find that my blog posts go the distance when it comes to shares.

Yeah, so I'm going off topic slightly... But I'm going to take you on a little Instagram Fave Friday, my debut installment, right now. Today I'm highlighting IG extraordinaire, Nectar and Stone, who is Donna-Caroline Khoo a Dessert Designer with dreams to open a cakery someday in Melbourne. All I can say is MY GOD SHE SHOULD. Support this woman, people. If you live down there and have some leads for her, or ideas, or whatever she is someone that I believe could do beautiful things with a brick and mortar bakery. What talent. And hello publishers... Book deal alert!

On IG Caroline shares the things she makes and bakes, chocolate with gold leaf! Cupcakes! Girly Smoothies! Zebra cookies! Mini ice cream cakes in cones! Ice cream-shaped cookies! I know, I'm really living it up with these exclamation marks but oh! my! so! cute!

I love what she says about her growing brand, "Nectar and Stone - it's who I am, what I love, my passion and creativity. I tell a story each day with my designs, colours, photography, flowers and style - it's a collection of things from my past, present and future. I'm not here to make a quick dollar - my brand is about building loyal followers who love what I do and believe in me. I encourage people to find new ideas and concepts... " So nicely stated. Makes me want to support her even more. 

To view her instagram click here, and to check out her website, visit this link.

Yeah, this post is going to blow my diet too.

(images nectar and stone)