I think this is one of my favourite cafes. Perhaps the favourite. Ever. It is the Samudra café in Dunsborough, and it has all this wonderful furniture, crafted from driftwood, fallen trees and pylons from the old Busselton jetty when…
Banana yellow catamaran in the flowers
If you take the time to look up close the coastline is home to a diverse and fertile ecology. We’re accustomed to thinking of the bush as colourless and drab when actually the colours can be quite vibrant. Most of…
Sandy salty toes
So, here we are at the beach house, and blissfully happy. The sun is broadcasting diamonds upon the water and the sand is scrunching white and squeaky clean under our bare feet. This morning the tide was so far out…
Sky blue and coffee; off to the beach
Feeling a kind of warm pastel-ly comfortable vibe happening today. The sky is a soft, not-too-harsh blue today with a few puffy clouds scudding across, golden sunlight warming the limestone walls of our house… I love how the glossy blue…
Tea Cosy, specimen 4
This is the tea cosy I made for my sister-in-law S; another version of the Roly Poly from “Wild Tea Cosies” by Loani Prior. I love the colours of this tea cosy; before giving it to S for her birthday…
Cherry velvet cocktail dress
Went out to my bookclub Christmas dinner last night and ta-dah, this is what I wore. My hair only looks this nice because it was styled by my hairdresser, I am sadly incapable of achieving this look on my own.…
Classic and cool
I think of this dress as my “indestructible” dress, as no matter how roughly it gets treated it washes up as fresh looking as the day it was made, about three or four years ago. It must be the polyester…
Another walk on the foreshore
After dropping my youngest son off at work experience I swung by my old childhood neighbourhood to take my photos this morning. This is a stretch of beach I’ve always loved walking along; it soothes my soul and recharges my…
