We went to a Christmas party last night and I had intended to wear my new cocktail dress but a quick phone conversation with my friend confirmed that smart casual was more the order of the evening. I didn’t want…
Casual shopping chic
Blah blah; shopping and Christmas preparations on the agenda today. Came home yesterday to piles of mail and a to-do list a mile long, plus a few parties on the horizons, it’s back to happy chaos in our house! In…
Quiet study in neutrals
Today’s outfit is a little drab and neutral, however sometimes one feels like being drab and neutral. Especially if it’s the last day of one’s holiday (sad face). One is possibly overusing the impersonal first person pronoun here. However this…
Traditional beachy colours
I’m realising this blog is becoming way too “holiday photo album” and not enough about the handmade clothes. Yesterday particularly, and I really wanted to only include other photos if I feel they’re related in some way to my creative…
Purple flowered shrub, what is your name?
Not as hot today as yesterday, thank goodness! Visited Castle Rock and lay about in the sun, occasionally getting up to splash about in the cool turquoise waters. Ah, but this is the life. Today I dressed as inspired by…
Hot morning in the grasses
Went for a walk this morning along the bike path, past a lake that is a bird sanctuary. Accordingly Sienna was leashed, something this spoilt pooch is becoming fast unaccustomed to. She pulled us along like a freight train doing…
Warm rocks and wet sand
Beach-combing this morning; my husband was deeply disappointed that Mr Cappuccino Man seems to be taking a day off… So peaceful and blissfully tranquil out on the bay, we shared the beach with about fifteen people and everyone calls “good…
G’day, Mr Bobtail
Today we spotted our first bobtail lizard of the trip. I feel so worried for the poor little blokes; partly because of the fast cars on the roads and also the receding bushland, and they are so slow-moving. We managed…
