Home Grown

I am the worst gardener in the world. Anything I haven't killed yet looks to be slowly dying and because I love having flowering plants around I just keep buying them - cost effective...not.

Two Christmases ago mum bought me plants to start a garden. The Gardenia (bless her scented heart) didn't live to see last Christmas, the yellow rose didn't even make it through a season (may it rest in peace), miraculously the Jasmine has returned from the dead (hallelujah) after almost 2 years, due to no efforts of my own (black thumbs) and my two year old Magnolia, well, she finally bloomed...

Easy Like Sunday Morning

Simple. Real coffee. Boiled Eggs. Bread crumbs. Sunshine.

A Delicious Weekend

Mama sent me home last weekend with a gorgeous bunch of her garden roses. What was left of their petals I posted here. The baby cupcakes are by the Cupcake Princess from Fox Markets.

Paris in the Autumn

Arc de Triomphe / lunch at Laduree / Versaille / Laduree does breaksfast. As kindly suggested by fellow Aussie, the lovely Life, love clutter & other beautiful things, I bring you the one and only, Paris. Ahh...

Over 1000

I see blogs with 76 comments per post and I wonder how you get that kind of following. I don't quite understand how you judge the popularity of a blog, but my humble little blog is very proud to have collected over 1000 little bees in its hive. Thanks for pollinating this blog with comments and visits, I hope you've managed to scrape together some inspirational honey.

Saturday papers, market roses & chocolate sour cream cake - recipe here. Yum

Well Hello There

I've been so slack lately...thanks for sticking around. I'm sorting my picks and deciding what order to post them in. I am yet to post any holiday snaps either so if there are pics from a certain place you'd like to see first, help me decide and let me know where!

GIVEAWAY - What Are You Doing Next Weekend?

I have a mountain of Better Homes & Gardens Live tickets to give away. From October 15-17 at Sydney Showground there will be 3 amazing days of inspiring talks and demonstrations and lots of cool products to try and buy for your house and garden. If you'd like tickets, just email me your address and the number of tickets you'd like and I'll pop them in the post first thing Monday morning. Have a gorgeous weekend xx

Beheaded Blooms

The morning of before we left for our 24 hour flight to London, I couldn't bear to put these perfectly healthy rununculas in the bin nor could I just leave them to rot til our return, so I had to capture their beauty before I could send them to an early garbage grave, oh the guilt.

Cake & Tape

The weekend before I left we had an early birthday dinner for mum and dad as I was going to be be away for the real thing. So off to the markets I went and bought some gorgeous bread, meat and herbs. I cooked a 12-hour lamb shoulder with lots of beautiful salads and made a cake decorated with this tape bunting using the recipe from the gorgeous book you can see here in the background (which was actually mums birthday present).

Garland Fit For Cheerleaders

Heloooo, I'm back after a wonderful month away in amazing Europe. How has everyone been? What have I missed? How cool is this Third Drawer Down Garland?