I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like!

When we moved into our home two years back, the quiet leafy streets and beautiful lake nearby convinced us to buy bicycles. We went to this awesome place called Pal and Panther in North Perth which custom made our bikes from refurbished vintage bikes. Mine was duck egg blue and cream and of course had to have a basket, and Jinn’s was a fixie…

Bits and bobs + Happy weekend!

Just some random pics of the stuff that’s been going down this week. 1. Adding to our polaroid/instax wall 2. Trying to eat healthy – it’s mango season! 3. Decorating our house – prints from here and here, LOVE statue from MoMA store (no longer available!), vintage Polaroid camera from ebay 4. Lime tree baby in our garden 5. Happy bee-day Jinn! Crazy birthday candle for Jinn’s birthday from NYC that “flowered”…

Roll over Ruck Rover…(+ Little Willy’s)

Perth City has undergone somewhat of an overhaul over the past two years, and in no place is it more evident than William Street, Northbridge. It once used to be a road lined with strip joints and bad restaurants, and I would certainly never have wandered down it alone after 8pm or so (and even if accompanied, at a very brisk pace!). Now the…

Get your festival on…Beaufort Street style!

Wall art by Robert Jenkins Hope some of you made it to the Beaufort Street Festival! It was a fun day with plenty of different sorts of activities – food, wine, music, art, fashion – seriously you’d have to be some kind of grouch not to have had a good time. Here’s a pick of a few things we did. It was initially a…

Happy weekend! + tiny planets + nose acrobatics

Happy weekend y’all! This photo was taken at Central Park and “morphed” into a wee planet by the iPhone app “Tiny Planets“. You get some pretty cool effects! I find it works best with a panorama that includes the ground and sky. Now if you’re in Perth don’t forget to go to the Beaufort Street Festival! It’s on this Saturday from 12pm onwards and…

Shake your bootie(s)!

A couple of weekends ago I attended the baby shower of a long time friend of mine (we’ve know each other since we were four!). She’d seen a pair of booties I’d knitted for my new niece and so I was put to task to make another! The sex of the baby is going to be a surprise so pink and blue wool were…

Our little orange friend!

Meet Schnooks! He’s our furry little orange friend and adopted son. And when I say adopted – I mean HE adopted US! We moved into our home around two years ago, which is nestled in a lovely neighbourhood lined with gorgeous old 1930s character houses. It was (and is!) the home of our dreams – filled with warmth and the scent of good family memories…

Happy weekend! + the perfect dress

I guess I’m destined to tell you all about our holiday in a non-chronological order 🙂 After a rather cold stint in New York where it had generally always been sweater + jacket + scarf kind of weather, the high 20s-low 30s weather of Los Angeles was quite a welcome change. Except that I had nothing to wear…Thankfully, after two weeks in New York…

Here we go round the prickly pear…

A strange fact about myself and my husband – we’re kinda into gardening. He loves all forms of cacti and succulents, great and small, and I love I suppose what you would call the more romantic plants, roses, tulips, ranunculi etc etc etc. I always thought gardening (forgive me if I offend anyone) to be a hobby for more “elderly” people, but when we…

Hello world!

Sooo, here’s the story from A to Z, you wanna get wit’ me you gotta listen carefully… Hmm, not so sure why that song’s stuck in my head, probably something about trying to start writing my own life story! It’s been a funny morning with that song coalescing around my head with the theme of Fresh Prince of Bel Air (…now THIS is the…