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Thursday April 21, 2011

High tea anyone?

It’s school holidays and I’m hoping to take the boys to visit my parents next week. What does this have to do with high tea I hear you ask? Well, in my recent visits my mother has progressively been handing back all my treasures that have been stored in her house for way too long. [...]

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Friday April 8, 2011

Made in Denmark

There is a joke in our house that we keep Scandinavia in business – betweeen my penchant for Georg Jensen jewellery, Stokke chairs and our many trips to Ikea we seem to represent almost all of it. Our heads are full on Denmark at the moment (Legoland for the boys) as we are planning a [...]

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Thursday March 31, 2011

Taking a look at stones

At the end of our kitchen counter are a dozen or so beach pebbles – smooth and weathered. Every year we bring home a few more and to the collection we add seed pods and any other unusual organic objects we find. I confess I’m quite attached to this little pile and amongst it sits [...]

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Thursday March 24, 2011

flags :: bunting :: garlands

It’s been blowing a gale outside for the last two days which has made me think it’s perfect flag (or kite) weather. I love flags – love them – and I can’t account for it at all. If I had my way I’m sure our house would look like a mardi gras float but I [...]

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Sunday March 13, 2011

On ya bike

Tomorrow is the Big Canberra Bike Ride and I’ll be taking part with my good friend and cycling, swimming and walking buddy. I went for a ride yesterday in a new direction and just enjoyed the light filtering through the avenue of birch trees, the cool breeze, the warm sun and the whirring of my [...]

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Saturday March 5, 2011

It’s beginning to feel like autumn

This chill is already in the air and the leaves are just starting to turn heralding my favourite time of the year. It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of summer and I get quietly excited when nature reminds me that winter is approaching. The mornings are dark, the fog appears on sunrise, the [...]

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Wednesday February 23, 2011

Reclaimed timber delights

I love wood and was reminded of this while trying to move our very own coffee table made from a nature-got-the-better-of-me slab – it’s very heavy. Practically every door in our house is wood and I love wood bowls, chopping boards and floors. I have a very heavy Oregon wood chair that I made at [...]

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Sunday February 20, 2011

Flickr three :: stars

My starry finds are all from flickr – from top Stars by Ohad Ben-Yoseph, How Many Stars? by cobalt123 and Shooting Stars by Stefan Van der Straeten

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Wednesday February 16, 2011

It’s in the stars

I love stars! I really do, especially when they’re red. What’s at the top of a Christmas tree – a star of course. I grew up in the country in a town devoid of city lights and one of our favourite pastimes was to lie in the garden on a moonless night and look and [...]

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Wednesday January 26, 2011

Time to weigh anchor :: nautical themes

Despite being raised and educated in land lock locations I really like to think of myself as a seafarer. My maternal Grandfather ran away to sea from the UK and ended up in Australia as signal master for Macquarie Lighthouse – Australia’s first lighthouse. My favourite uncle was in the merchant navy and could tie [...]

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