australia day

a kookaburra laughed at me from this tree this morning.

This is my new diary.

We all need a little Orla Kiely in our lives.

Please watch this link for some divine quirky elegance.
It will make you sigh and wish for that wallpaper, those dresses and a whole new life to go with them ;)

   

(I took these pics off youtube. Hope that's kosher x)

teatime

    

So nice to share a cup of tea this rainy afternoon with sweet Ariane.

I made mine with fresh camomile. 

"Life is short but you're here to flower."

(Pete Murray)

back home

But really, we didn't really need to go anywhere...

thank you!

       

to lovely alynn :) who sent me a gorgeous gorgeous notebook that she made.
all the way from Singapore. i'm a little scared to write in it.
so clever and sweet and every page has something delicious and beautiful to look at.
please visit her blog. every day she posts what she has had for a 3pm snack.
you will drool over the photos and the food.
:)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)

summer holiday

    

We have been away. 

Down the south coast.

Summer is slowly stirring  

The sun is coming out piece by piece     :)

a new year

  

three days late. 

may birds flutter and sing above you.

may your heartbeats have wings.

i am hoping for so much this year

x

artwork: david bromley

 

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.