Recently I came up with the idea to make these handmade “tea fortunes.” They are simple to put together and make pretty, thoughtful gifts. They are really a mixture between a tea-bag and a fortune cookie, and you can tailor them to be as personal as you like. I think they would be great as…
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A good friend of yours is visiting your neck of the woods. What cheesy souvenirs do you give them? Here are six ways I’d like to welcome someone to my wonderful (adopted) city, or say “thanks for visiting” as they leave. Clockwise from top-left: Toy Melbourne tram // Hook-turn mug // Melbourne skyline watercolour //…
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How is it possibly even Monday again? I mean I know it’s a cliche to talk about the weekend going by so fast but I HONESTLY think I blinked and missed it. Approximately two hours ago (in my head) it was midday on Friday and one of my best friends in the world, Cara, was…
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When I carried Madeleine into her playroom at 6.30 on the morning of her second birthday party she breathed “The park!” in wide-eyed wonder. I put her little sock-feet down on the grass where she was used to feeling floor-boards and she slowly spun around, taking in my dodgily-drawn toadstools, wonky painted fir trees and…
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This is Madeleine, flying. The swing is her favourite thing in the world to do right now. She can stay on there for hours. Sometimes in silence. At other times, the park echoes to her jubilant shouts of joy: “Weeeeee!” she yells, mimicking Peppa Pig, as her funny little baby-mullet lifts in the wind and…
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Can you believe it has been 10 years since Sex and the City the TV series finished? What a fantastic show that was. Boundary-pushing (at least in the early years), clever, witty, oh-so-stylish and, despite the often risque subject matter, heart-warming. It could just as easily have been called Fashion and the City. Or better…
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Last year, I painted a little set of four Christmas-themed “tea friends” to hold onto teabags, as gifts for my friends. You can see my efforts here. If I get my act together in time, I’ll make some more of them this year and send them out. But I also thought I’d share them with…
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You know those weekends that happen sometimes that are full to the brim of lunches and dinners and walks and house-guests and catch-ups with old friends, and you never stop talking or laughing or hugging or lining up for the shower or saying “I have really missed you!“… ? I had one of those last…
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A little while ago Mr B and I pushed a pram with a sleeping Madeleine through the Melbourne Cemetery on Lygon Street. It is old and sprawling and, as you would expect, wonderfully peaceful. Some of the graves, especially those closest to the road, were shiny and beautifully kept, dust-free and with fresh flowers to…
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I sent two little “thinking of you” boxes to friends last week, inspired by this post on B for Bel. I do enjoy sending letters and packages to friends in the mail. We talk a lot about how email killed post, and say we long for the days of old-fashioned mail. But I’m starting to…
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Last night friends dropped around to visit and brought pizza with them, so we sat together outside as the sun went down and the twinkle-lights came on and the perfume from the dying first-blooms of jasmine thickened in the night air. I spread the table with a piece of gloriously red Masai cloth that was…
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I hope you are enjoying the change of seasons. I sure am! I confess I’m more than a little apprehensive about the onset of summer, winter-and-cold-loving weirdo that I am. But earlier this week Melbourne turned on spring in a major way, and I was undone. All that sunshine, and the scent of jasmine in…
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