I found this tapestry in a garage sale.

And I have moved into this bed full time...

xssy

  

mud

 

I have been quietly obsessed with beautiful Mud Australia products for a while now.
There is a chalky, pastelly, organic simplicity to them.
Their vases are made for fresh daisies. Lemongrass tea needs to pour from their teapots and their bowls filled with ripe lychees and plums.
Beauty and function. Perfect.
Today I found out that I won this photo competition.
I'm chuffed.
I really needed some news to sweeten the start of the week.

Wish I was a food stylist/photographer..... how do you become one of those??

Love and Pain and Beauty

They all seem to go together, like one little tiny confusing package.

It's a messy business, Life.

It's hard to figure and it's full of surprises.

Some good and some bad.

(spoken by the character Chris from Northern Exposure)

    

Ms Summer.

Where did you go?

We want you.

today

 

  

Great photographic book self published by Sophie Howarth.

November is looking slightly neglected here.
My brain space has been taken up with other things lately.
The big and the little things that make up Life.
If you have been visiting - thank you and I will find more time this weekend. X

charles

      

Mr Blackman, who I mentioned 5 posts ago in relation to his gorgeous Alice in Wonderland paintings  (and also here)

He is still drawing.

Mostly girls and black cats.

Mad as a Hatter, but still drawing beautifully.

eleventhoftheeleventhoftheeleventh

  

How nice it would be to be able to sing.

To stand on stage in a gorgeous dress and belt out a classic with a double bass keeping in time behind you.

Sigh.

My friend Anita can. 

(also, i need to apologise for all the blog neglect)

birthday girl

 

I'm ready number 46.

Whatever.

birthday boy

a very real and rare gentleman

sigh

     

Looking through this gorgeous book once again for some inspiration.
Still thinking of Alice ....

And still wishing Halloween came more often...

trick or treat

    

 

 

This year.

Last year.