Thursday, December 30, 2010

Happy Island New Year



Getting ready for tonight's celebration and of course I had to add a little 'island life' to the party!






Enjoy tonight everyone! Have a wonderful evening and thankyou to all of our wonderful friends, amazing family and gorgeous customers. We are oh so looking forward to 2011. It's going to be an amazing year...... just wait and see????!!
Take care xxo





Thursday, December 23, 2010

Our Little Designers




Just wanted to share with you some Christmas tree styling images from our 'up and coming' interior designers! (well then ....each tree was specifically chosen and decorated both Faith's little girls!... Oh sooo cute!)

Sunday, December 5, 2010

As seen in Australian Homespun magazine











A huge thank you to AUSTRALIAN HOMESPUN magazine for featuring us in this month's edition of "The Summertime Issue". We were so delighted to be approached and to be featured in their "From Coast to Coast" article on page 12 &14 .



Please take a look at this incredibly creative magazine. There is so many wonderful ideas and projects to do over summer. There are also many, many creative people with amazing talents in patchwork, applique and stitchery to read up on in this magazine. Take a look at page 24 on "how to make a mermaid", by Natalie Ross. It so cute and even I'm going to give this project a go over the holidays!!

AUSTRALIAN HOMESPUN http://www.completecraft.com.au/

Christmas has arrived!




Well I debated whether or not I should put up our Christmas tree.. as we are renting this house while we are building.. and sourcing my Christmas bits and pieces amongst the endless packed boxes initially felt very daunting! But today I thought I must make this house feel special at Christmas.. so over and under boxes I clambered.. and finally I located my ye olde faithful tree.... but that was all I could find! The rest is courtesy of a quick dash down to the local shops. I did however find my red rug! That's sort of Christmas like, isn't it?

Wait until you see Faith's Christmas tree, it looks soooo beautiful. Faith and the girls did an amazing job!

Thankyou Zoe- Oceania Island Living

A big thankyou to Zoe, for adding us to her blogger list. Your blog is looking gorgeous..... Jamaica here we come! Love the title of your site-
Oceania Island Living
A prescription for sand between your toes

Friday, November 12, 2010

My Home Update


Yippeee! Ply bracing has been added to the back of the house to provide strength and now we are ready for weatherboards! I'm still confident that we'll paint the house white/off white, rather than a latte colour (well that's this month anyway!).

Monday, September 27, 2010

Burleigh, Byron and Bangalow


Isn't this a great idea! It's a decorative timber cutout above a doorway at the 'Balcony' in Byron Bay. We went there for a quick coffee, which led to dinner... then wine... then dessert. Hee Hee.




We visited some of our friends in Byron Bay who were also escaping Melbourne's cold weather. We were obsessed with their cute little dinning room in the house that they were renting. Lots of windows and an abundance of dappled light.





Oooooooh we loved the Gold Coast Antique Warehouse with all of it's little treasures. I fell in love with this little bamboo tea set.







I spotted some stunning bird wallpaper in the shop 'Lazy Bones', and was desperate to get a roll to cover my walls but unfortunately it was sourced as an off cut off the Internet! We did however buy ourselves a few summer dresses from 'Lazy Bones' in preparation for our summer in Victoria...hopefully sunshine and sparkling warm coastal waters will appear soon!




We jetted off for a quick break north for some much needed sunshine. And of course QLD and Northern NSW did not disappoint. This is a quick snap of my unsuspecting mum looking very gorgeous and tropical about to order us a coffee in Bangalow. My goodness what a beautiful and inspiring little town this is!