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Month: August 2010

  • Are macaroons the new cup cake?

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    A few weeks ago my parents were visiting and my mother declared that ‘macaroons are the new cup cake’. That’s funny I thought and dragged out the Wednesday Canberra Times Food & Wine magazine with a cover photo of, you guessed it, macaroons. Does this happen to you? You become aware of something and then…

  • Flickr three :: dark green

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Dark Green

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    I love green, but I think you already know that. It’s a colour that just attracts me. I wear it, I eat off it (placemats) and I even walk on it (rug). So finding three and only three for dark green has been a mammoth task for the person that does not like to eliminate…

  • Flickr three :: light blue

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Sweetness and Light :: Gabrielle Kai Photography

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    In my quest for light blue inspiration this week I stumbled upon a single photo by Gabrielle Kai. I was going to include that photo (the one with the raspberries) but then decided to save her work for a whole post of it’s own. I’m so enchanted by the sweetness and light in her works.…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Light Blue

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    I seem to have chosen quite a few variations on the colour today. I’m not really a blue person, I seem to always go for green. But I do like my choice for today. They are: TOP: John W Golden’s Pal Roundbot Print. I’m a bit of a fan of John’s quirky prints and I…

  • A Head Full of Jane Austen

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    There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind. There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness…

  • Flickr three :: chocolate

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Design Dilemma – Help Please

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    I’m appealing to you for help with my next assignment… again. We have to design a small brochure for a restaurant opening and this is just the front cover. The assignment is quite prescriptive in terms of text content but the style of food that the restaurant serves is really up to us. I’m going…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Chocolate

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    I think the word comfort comes to mind when choosing my top three today. This is very fitting as it’s cold and raining outside and the little one and I have braved the cold to visit the markets, eat blueberry muffins, drink hot chocolate (him) and buy ‘secret chocolate’ (aka Green & Blacks Maya Gold)…