'70's Patchwork

How was your Easter? We've had a very quiet time, with Roxy home from school sick for the last week of term and over Easter, and now I've had the lurgie since Monday. We were booked for a short break in Fiji next week, but I've cancelled because of the cyclone and potential health and safety issues following it. So all in all a disappointing start to the school holidays!

Totally unrelated - but something to brighten my day - is this totally fab quilt that was on my bed as a child. I found it and washed it when I was packing to move. Although my mum did sew she didn't make this, but I have fond memories of it and I'm really happy that she saved it. Mum was a chucker (or gifter), not a hoarder, so I'm grateful to have the few things she hung on to. When I get the apartment organised I'll find a place for this quilt, it's so bright and fun and the fabric is so of the time.

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What Are You Reading?

I've just finished reading these two books... I couldn't put either of them down and I devoured them within a couple of days (very late nights!). I also recently read An Object of Desire by Steve Martin, which I loved.

What are you reading? Any recommendations?
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My Home :: The Dining Corner

Here's another peek into a corner of my new home - the dining area. I bought the amazing Armadillo & Co rug to go in the centre of the living space, but today I moved it under the dining table and love it there. It's such a gorgeous statement piece (especially on the dark floor), that I'm thinking it dominates the room too much when it's in the centre.

I'll leave it under the table for now, and wait until I get another plain rug to go in the room and play around with them a bit. I also need to find something to put the TV on so I can get rid of the Ikea drawers that used to be in my office (you can see the corner of them in the photo). They don't go at all, but they are a stop gap solution. At least they're white.

The table was a major bargain find at the Citta Design outlet store (secret's out: run, don't walk, for amazing bargains on beautiful homewares and furniture) and I got the Nudle stools at a Freedom half price sale.
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Megan Morton :: The School

On Saturday afternoon I was lucky enough to attend the launch of Megan Morton's latest venture: The School. Megan has a fantastic space at Rosebery from which she'll run styling masterclasses, together with crafternoons and make it classes which will be taught by the who's who of art, craft and design.

The classes Megan will teach include: the use of colour in your home; how to display art; inspiration; and of course how to style a space. Other classes cover creative topics like making lampshades, short film making, screen printing and flower bombs. There are great classes for kids too. You can see The School syllabus here, and the calendar of classes here.

Megan is always a lot of fun and she was on form on Saturday. And looking fabulous as usual. Holly Hipwell of The Flower Drum (in vibrant yellow) taught us how to make flower bombs as we ate sweet treats and sipped on sparkling water and wine. It was so much fun and I got to hang out with old and new friends.

Belinda, Viv and Lexi.

My ombre flower bomb. They are so much fun to make and truly gorgeous. 

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Loving :: my Frenchie sofa

Until I get more storage this is what my work space looks like on a gorgeous Sunday morning with the sun streaming in through the verandah doors.

I bought my fab retro stylin' Frenchie sofa from Freedom's new range. I love the colour and it's name - Scooter Highlighter - just as much. I went for a big comfy conservative-won't-date linen sofa for the living room and couldn't resist the bold pop of Scooter Highlighter for my bedroom.

I have an old Ikea Expedit book shelf behind the sofa for temporary storage and have just put some books and prints on top for now (needs a bit of styling!).

It's very different to be working from my bedroom after having my own studio/office space in the house, but thankfully it's not a bad different. Five weeks and counting until the built in storage is installed. And there is something fabulous in the works to hang in that big white space above the sofa.

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