I was approximately seven-and-a-half months pregnant with Scout before it began to dawn on me that this beautiful bump I had been cherishing for more than half a year was actually going to have to come OUT. And aside from feeling mildly nauseous with terror, and narrowing my eyes at the suddenly-enormous-looking circumference of Mr…
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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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Do you like my new shopping bag? I sure do! If the design looks familiar, that’s because it’s a picture of my old typewriter that I once drew on a napkin, which later became the logo I use on this website (and elsewhere around the traps). I got the bag at Das T-Shirt Automat on…
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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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Summer afternoons with this little caterpillar are spent lying on the floor, face to face, smiling at each other. They are spent wandering around the back courtyard, looking at the plants and bees that cling to life in the edges and cracks alongside the tiles (we are yet to build a real garden). Summer afternoons…
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My gorgeous friend Sonya sent Harry this onesie in the mail last week. It makes me so happy. I can’t wait until he’s big enough and chubby enough to wear it! The folks at Out of Print Clothing say they “scour library stacks and dusty bookstores” to find the “classics and curiosities” that end up…
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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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What’s in your dream kitchen? Mine* will have floorboards and white cupboards and wooden benchtops and a big, fireclay farmhouse sink. It will have a gas stove and a big oven that doesn’t leak, is easy to clean, and is up high so curious little hands can’t get into trouble. My new kitchen will have…
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This little “Roshambo” mini-series from Free People reminds me of Mr B and me when we first met, and it has me feeling all nostalgic. Of course we were neither so good-looking nor glamorous nor well dressed as these two, but I know what it feels like to be living a Grand Adventure while your…
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina This photo shoot makes me feel like Anna Karenina has just stepped into our time. I am picturing snow, and Grand Tours, and lonely…
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Ophelia: There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. Laertes: A document in madness! Thoughts and remembrance fitted. Ophelia: There’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me. We may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear…
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I like to pop over to New Yorker Joanna Goddard’s blog A Cup of Jo from time to time, for a bit of a style top-up. It is simultaneously inspiring and intimidating to peek into the life of such a gorgeous, successful mother. Most often when I read Joanna’s blog it is while wearing my…
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