Heart Home

I am loving the cover of the Heart Home Summer 2013 edition, especially since we are in the depths of winter. Must remember for future florist purchases that a mass of only two types of flowers is so gorgeous.

White is Not The Mere Absence of Colour*

Such a beautiful cover and issue of Vogue Living (Apr 13). Gracing the cover is the home of Wendy Paterson (pg 114) and she has a love for beauty and words and decorating. She surrounds herself with beautiful quotes, 'mot de jours', like this one: "He who seeks beauty will find it": Bill Cunningham. 

When asked what she does in these rooms, she answers "...nothing. They have the luxury of having no obvious purpose except to be beautiful."  What a glorious luxury. She has a love of light, space and the idea of "visual silence" and like me, once she has read a novel, she passes it on, yet she can't seem to part with images "...pictures are like food to me."

We are renovating at the moment and our rooms have no obvious purpose either. They aren't beautiful (yet) either. We'll get there.

*Title is a quote by Gilbert K Chesterson quoted on pg 124 of VL Apr 13

Adore Exciting News

Check out the most gorgeous colour issue of Adore mag right here.  Isn't Alice's colourful home below gorgeous (and I love the wall colou and art in Claire's house on the cover too! I would so love a whole book of this amazing mag and guess what? You can pre-order here:

 

Lovely Wedding Mag

 In my humble opinion, Lovely Wedding Magazine is absolutely the loveliest online wedding mag around and I'm proud to say, it's Australian.  You can enjoy the latest issue here.

This New Year's Eve shoot is one of my favourite pages in the whole edition. Oh, the flowers.

 I love this location...The Boathouse at Palm Beach.  The girls' gold glitter dresses look amazing, they are from Asos! and the flowers are so pale and beautiful.

You might recognise this wedding! Yep, it's Mr and Me. Thanks Loni for inviting us to be part of such a beautiful publication.

Beautiful Est

This gorgeous room features in the latest issue of Est. Such a gorgeous magazine, I have since looked through all their archives for amazing home inspirations.  Look at that flamingo! I might have been on to something. I've since come across these little fluffy flamingos, this absolutely stunning sculpture by Abigail Brown and event the garden variety selling in Sportsgirl.

Frankie & Poppy

Do your self a favour and get the latest issue (their 50th!) of Frankie mag. It has an embossed cover which looks like it's embroidered and even the inside cover looks like the reverse stitched side. Amazing! Oh and I made a vanilla vanilla christening cake for a delicate little petal named Poppy.

An Unremarkably Casual Thing

"We are spinning with every emotion: we are happy and sentimental,confident and nervous, focused and scattered, but mostly we are busy. Busy with the preparations for the guests, the ceremony, the parties, the honeymoon, the lifetime we wake up to when the carnival dust settles...Yet, as I consider all there is left to do before we close the dating chapter of our life and open the married one, I can't help but recall how our story first began - back before the bouquets and the giant cake and the first dance and the waiter with trays of champagne...It has started years ago with just a lunch. Just one shared meal: an unremarkably casual thing...She wore a blue top over olive skin and she smiled as easily as she breathed."

Austin Sailsbury, Kinfolk Mag #3.

I read this when I was travelling for work and snuck into a Magnation on the way to the hotel.  I didn't want to pay $30 for the mag so I committed the writer's name to memory - Austin Sailsbury - and checked in and and googled to try and get back the gorgeous snippet I just read.  To no avail. I had Mr come to the Sydney Magnation store with me and of course it was sold out.  I ended up paying the money + shipping when I got the mag posted from a lovely shop in Tasmania to be in my hands and read at my leisure.  I read the article to Mr.  I guess when I read this originally, I was in the same boat as Austin, mad in the preparations and needing to see the romance in it and to step back and look how we got here and what we had to look forward to ahead. A story such as this, whomever's it is, ends happily ever after (in the short term anyway, I should mention I'm planning for the ever after).

p.s. that's my mag - all wrapped and freshly received from The Maker.

Reverie

These lovely ladies (an event stylist & stationery maker) are launching the 1st UK digital & online quarterly wedding mag here on 12 Jan! Very excited to see it.

My Garlands in Donna Hay Mag

Turn to page 209 of the Donna Hay mag Issue 60, past the beautiful pavlova and upon the tree are my garlands. I'm delighted.

Adoring the Weekend

Some lovely weekend reading with the new Adore magazine. Have a beautiful one. x

Summer Reading for Some & Winter Reading for Others

I was so excited when Du Jour wanted to feature my humble home (middle pic) in their Handmade edition and even more so when I realised what great company I was in, my 2 favourite bloggers (Jeska & Pia) were in amongst the pages too. Then I got to thinking about my fave online publications and how I should share them with you...Sweet Paul / Papier Mache / By Fryd / Lovely Clusters.

Spring Finally Springs

Country Style mag

Covered in Style

This top cover is from Spring 2009. I can't wait til Spring 2010 when all the gorgeous flowers are back in the florists. via

Du Jour

A little ray of sunshine.
Today I came cross Dujour mag and was thrilled to find a little project of mine as today's post. Thanking you and your gorgeous mag.

White Alright

Images from Country Style mag.

Beautiful on The Inside

via Country Style.

Covers Before Contents

I absolutely do judge books by their cover. I buy novels for the image on the front. Even better if it has raised lettering, flocking or a lovely title font. I imagine I'll like what's on the inside as much I do the outside. Magazines are a different story altogether. If I'm a loyal follower, like I am to so many, I buy it no matter what the cover. But sometimes there are covers alone that can suck me in and make me add another monthly mag to my already heaving mag towers. These covers have done just that. Irresistible.

My New Found Love

Image via Country Style.