Lonely gold shoe // Christmas already? // A tale of two cities: New York and Melbourne // First face paint // Mummy Pig // Celebration in stock // Typewriters in the city // Ralph is crawling now. Can you tell? // Boys’ night // “Hey Mummy I writing your name” // Afternoon light I’m taking…
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I liked ceramicist and sculptor Valerie Restarick immediately, when she didn’t want to sell me the beautiful stoneware bowl that was proudly displayed in her little studio-shop. “Are you sure?” she asked, hugging the bowl tightly to her belly. “Have you seen the price?” The price was actually quite reasonable. Admittedly it was 100 percent…
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I am super grateful to the folks behind the Grand Designs Live Home Show in Melbourne for sending me tickets to this event on the weekend. Here are eight things I spotted at the show that I really wanted to spend my (sadly non existent) money on. Clockwise from top left: This sweet set of…
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At any given moment, if you were to pop around to our house unannounced, there would probably be piles of washing waiting to be folded and put away, overflowing the green chairs in our hallway. As you stepped over the plastic toys and pushed passed the jolly-jumper hanging from the door frame and waded through…
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Little things in my home… This pensive cowboy sits outside his restaurant and on my kitchen bench. I found his photograph in a bric-a-brac shop in Aspen, Colorado, when I was staying up there for a fiction writer’s course (called Aspen Summer Words – if you ever get the opportunity take it – it was…
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Scenes from my house. How was your weekend? Mine was pretty simple. I worked most of Saturday, while Mr B played with the kids. They did painting and went to the park and baked chocolate pudding and generally had a great time letting nutrition and nap times go to seed. I got my hair done…
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Happy Friday, friends. Oh and an extra big welcome if you’re visiting for the first time from Pip Lincolne’s blog Meet Me at Mikes. How awesome is Pip! Sending big love and thanks her way for sending YOU my way. I’m a Melbourne-dwelling mother of two, a journalist, an author, and a big fan of…
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What does your workspace look like? Do you like it clean and organised, or do you thrive on creative chaos? I love those pictures of great writers sitting at their antique desks, all slumped and drowning under mountains of paper, with pictures in scraps pinned all over the walls, and old coffee cups, stacks of…
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Little things in my home… This dusty little German weather house sat in my Nanna’s house, on a little shelf beside her kitchen table, for as long as I can remember. As children it was the first thing my brother and I went for every time we came to visit her. It was the Nanna…
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Little things in my home… The Global Financial Crisis hit New York about six weeks after I moved to SoHo in 2008. It was just in time to come AFTER I’d signed a 12-month lease on my apartment, effectively locking me into a year in a dodgy, six-floor walk-up with mice and bed-bugs, for a…
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I’ve been all about bringing green back into my home lately. It’s been a long time since I lived with house plants, and I can’t quite think why. Here are five of my favourites. 1. Sky Planter Have you seen these Sky Planters from Boskke? Our local organic food store has them hanging from the…
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Small spaces are tricky to furnish and decorate, aren’t they. For example a combined lounge and dining area that isn’t entirely teeny-tiny but certainly isn’t spacious, like the one in our new house… how would you fill it and make it yours in a way that worked? For us, the big challenge is designing the…
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