a selection of images I took
while walking through Melbourne.
It was interesting to have something
different for me to focus on.
I don't come across buildings & street
scape like
this everyday!
what do you enjoy about your city?
This Saturday I'm grateful for... the humble pea.
This Saturday, I'm grateful for...
1. Peas. The ever-ready vegetable.
2. Sunshine breaking through the clouds. A little breeze sweeping away the grey. Happy weather.
3. Friends who take your children to the animal-free circus ('cos you're really just not that into clowns).
What's making you happy today?
[Image by the divine Chantelle at Fat Mum Slim]
Bird Love
1. Pip studio mug
2. Grey Song Bird Bookends
3. Handpainted Metal Etagere
4. Conure Rug, Round
5. Hanging Bird
6. Hand Painted Peacock Candlebra
This week in my series of posts, "Fridays Finds", I bring you all things birdie as by now you should know how much I love birds around my home!
Don't forget you can click on any blue lettering in any of my posts to link through to the relevant store website or blog post for more info!
Have a sweet day!
1000 fans celebration..
To celebrate nearing 1000 fans on the Lulu froufrou Facebook Fan page,
I thought I'd send some love your way!!
I'm putting together a few pretty packs to give away as we speak!
So quick help us reach that magic number so we can begin the celebration!!
Have a lovely weekend!
Imagine Sleeping at the Library!
There isn't much I truly miss of my 'old' life. You know... Before nappies. Before teething. Before crumbs permanently smushed into my suede sofa.
But I admit that high up on the short list of things I've had to give up or pack away temporarily for my 'new' life include reading. And I don't mean wearily scanning 7 pages before bed at the end of another exhausting day... I mean reading. In the most luxurious sense of the word.
- Lying in the bath for an hour - topping up the hot water every 10 mins, reading a trashy romance novel
- Sprawling out under the Elm on a picnic blanket on a glorious sunny day with an icy tonic-and-lime and the latest Home Beautiful.
- Curling up on the couch all Sunday afternoon under a doona with a cup of hot chocolate and one of the classics...
Sigh.
Reading for me, now, feels like a guilty indulgence. Something that I do while I SHOULD be doing something else. Something I do between doing other stuff.
Then I stumbled upon this hotel in Koh Samui, Thailand.
Dear God. If you are listening, I'd really love to stay in this hotel.
It's called 'The Library" and it had me at the name! And it's design ethos?:
Real happiness is not complicated at all
If we know how to utilise it.
Basic simple things in life and existing natural resources are more than valuable in itself
We need only time and space to feel, touch and treasure it.
Moreover, the Library says it "aims to share happiness in another angle of view on how to spend valuable time when on vacation."
Quite frankly, the place looks amazing. The architecture. The rooms. The red pool. The library!! Sigh.... enjoy your weekend - I'll be spending mine in dreamland!
x
Friday Favouries {For the Boys}
This week's Friday Favourites has been inspired by Jessica Turner who emailed me earlier in the week to show me her son's 2nd birthday party all about Elmo! Being very girl orientated in my house I do forget the boys a little so today it is all about boys parties - the first three photos are courtesy of Jessica and you can check out more of her Elmo themed party here.
Happy Weekend Everyone
Things I learnt this week including how to make a pinwheel
The weather has been grey this week and my mind has gone grey with it (fortunately my hair has not followed suit). Along with the fabulous weather that broke through on Wednesday, here are a few bright sparks from the week that was.
1. Guinea pigs do not like zucchini. At least, the GPs who are currently holidaying with us won't touch the stuff.
2. A pregnant guinea pig looks exactly the same as an unpregnant one. We know this because we started the week babysitting 2 guinea pigs and now we are babysitting 3 guinea pigs.
3. Even a dedicated, super-experienced chocolate devourer like myself found it tough to get through an entire Bill Granger self-saucing chocolate pudding (but don't worry, I punched through to a brilliant ramekin-licking finish). I'll post the recipe on Easy Sunday so you can give it a go yourself... dare you.
4. The brilliant Old Spice - The Man Your Man Could Smell like commercial was shot in one take. Plus that's a CGI fake hand with the Old Spice rising up out of it like a Phoenix... Of course it is! Even the man my man could smell like couldn't produce a can of Old Spice out of thin air. Or could he?
5. My new gardener (I just love saying that!), tells me that the reason most people don't garden is really because they don't like getting their clothes dirty. He reckons if you just had specific gardening clothes to change into, getting into the garden would be a breeze (I'm sure there was no pun intended). He's right, don't you think? To motivate yourself in all things, you just need the right stuff.
6. Draw! Pilgrim taught me how to make a pinwheel, which I think is essential knowledge for any mother of youngsters.
7. If you have bed wetters and you're not acquainted with Brolly Sheets, let me introduce you to your new best friend. Now, technically this isn't something I learned this week as we've been using Brolly Sheets for over a year. BUT, at 3am on Monday this week when the pull-up dam was busted, I learned just how much they truly mean to me.
8. Epstein-Barr virus is the virus responsible for glandular fever, but it’s not the actual virus that causes the symptoms of glandular fever, it’s how the immune system responds that makes people sick. If people are exposed to EBV early in life, their immune system doesn't react. It's those of us (I had GF in 1993-1994) who are exposed later in life that suffer. And you can get reactivations, too.
9. We are all creative beings, but convention often strips us of our ability to think, to feel, to be our true self. So often our instinct is to 'correct' our children, when really we should nurture our instinct to 'respect'. Allow your children the freedom to express themselves in the way that feels right to them. If the sky is green in their world and the grass is blue, then that's a rather marvellous world, don't you think?
10. The chicken is the closest living relative of the Tyrannosaurus-Rex. Really.
Did you learn anything new this week?
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