Books

I have to admit, two of my favourite chic lits are from journalists who worked in magazines and then turned over their pages and went into fiction, and thank god for that!
Mia Freedman - Mamma Mia
Zoe Foster - Air Kisses
I absolutely love both of these novels, however, Bird and I are a little disappointed with the reprinted cover of Zoe's new book. I loved the old cover (pictured) boohoo. Fabulous read though! my friends and I have all read it and obsessed over *Dec* - read it and see, you will fall in love x
P.s I also love Jill Mansell - Rumor has it

 

Cute Bling

Who would have thought it would ever be cool again to wear boom boxes as an accessory to show off your street cred. Well now you can wear them strung around your neck with all your bling as you bop down the street singing your favourite tunes... Cute Ability's little necklaces, earrings and brooches feature retro jewelled pieces that you can wear on your sleeve and reminisce with the 80s x

Wrap it up

My sister bought me a lovely new stamp from TYPO in Brisbane, it looks lovely stamped with black ink on white cardboard to be used as a gift tag. For a small price, this gift tag is a personal way to wrap up gifts x

Bloomers, Brooches and Buttons

Something is in the air, and the new arrivals of baby's are coming in full bloom, so it's all in good fun and high spirits to be making little bloomers with brooches and buttons to give away for presents.

By following a pattern out of Pip Lincolne's, Meet Me at Mikes Book I have made some little bloomers to give as gifts.

Polka dots, stripes, flowers and love hearts are printed on my materials and bright coloured buttons have been used to make little brooches fashioned to the Bonds singlets.

I have added more elastic than the original pattern to allow for chunkier little legs and bellies, and they look uber cute on little ones.

Allo Allo

Ok, so my best friend Bird and I have been pretending to speak French fluently for some time now, with a few little words learnt from high school French classes we seem to think we can string these all together and make sentences adequate of a typical French person.... they are not.

However, thanks to Larkmade we can buy French cards to speak for us - OOH LA LA!

Letterpress Love

I have also become obsessed with all things "Letterpress", from wedding invitations, business cards and beautifully pressed prints. Suprisingly a lot of Australian companies do letterpressing, and the designs are just wonderful.

Lark have homemade letterpress cards for sale, and Bespoke have invitations and some really eye-catching prints for sale. I absolutely adore this teacup print from illustrator Kristal Melson- it is so fabulous, that I would love to have it hang in my room. x