Lately

a posy by bespoke letterpress from the little posy stall at the Sydney Finders Keepers market, just the right size, I wish I could buy one every week / a birthday gifts from my mum / christening favours by SCE

Pink & Porcelain

Lucky Girl

I received some lovely gifts this year. Stunning flowers, a stack of amazing little cakes delivered in pink plastic bags and white boxes and porcelain so fine its almost transparent arrived wrapped in swathes of tissue paper. More on that shortly.

Thirty One

Image made up empty bottles of things I have used this past year, things I have received, accumulated, broken and bought. Recycling at it's prettiest? p.s. can't wait to share with you some of the amazingly thoughtful and original gifts I received today.

The '3' - Crabtree and Evelyn rose body wash (empty), Norsca deodorant (empty), Burt's Bees decolletage cream (empty), Decleor eye cream (empty, need more), porcelain Easter gift from mum which I superglued back together when it fell from my shelf when doing another pad reshuffle with candles from I don't know where and ribbon from Paper2, Moxie's, flower used in my profile pic, skull and felt cake broach, Chanel ring was a 30th gift (lucky me), broken iPod shuffle (too much running in the rain) have barely run at all this past year, not a step since the half marathon last October, plastic blue fan from The Society Inc., fake Rolex bought in Bali last year (broken), porcelain bird was a gift from my best friend (broken, the friendship not the bird), porcelain feather from The Society Inc., 30th birthday tag from my sis (still obsessed with Paris), vase from Industria Melbourne with dried flower (from bunch mum bought me as a housewarming gift), plastic ice cream cone (emptied of candy) via my nephew, pink sea urchin from The Society Inc. on Decleor moisturiser (empty), vintage pastry baking shells and pink striped mints from Donna Hay Cornerstore.

The '1' - Claus Porto soap packaged in vintage Portuguese paper, French bottle from Noosa, Cedel Hairspray (empty - love the colour of the bottle and the smell reminds me of getting ready for ballet), Daisy perfume from my angry little brother who bought me this for my 30th, a note from my little sis, a Paris post it note pad, a dried hydrangea from mum's garden.

31 today...

...and goodness do I need a new camera...mine currently vibrates, buzzes and blurs all at the same time resulting in terribly cloudy pics. Looks like I'm not the only thing getting older around here. I have the day off today and have been planning for a while to have a dreamy day... sleep in a little, go for a walk, have a coffee at Single Origin, a cafe so good it only opens during the week. It is here that I will enviously people-watch those whom sit in cafes all day with their laptops for a living. Yep, I'm having a morning of the life I want followed by a long lunch with a few glasses of icy wine and a delicious cake of any description before heading home for a family dinner and mum's amazing cooking.