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I'm typing this on one of those old fashioned PC keyboards. You know. The ones that make a lot of noise and always have dubious amounts of browny to grey gunk down the sides of the keys. I didn't realise it, but those smooth mac keyboards just aren't the same. I love a good satisfying clunk as I smash away at an email.
Picture is not entirely unrelated :)

A few sleepy things...

 (1, 2, 3, That bed is where I wanted to stay this morning and gardening ideas are floating around my brain right now...)

* I wore double waterproofs (top & bottom - mmhmm sexy) and still got rather damp on my ride into work today. WTF Sydney?
* If you happened to be on Redfern street at about 10.30pm tonight you may have noticed a girl riding a grey bicycle carrying an impossibly large bunch of flowers in one hand. Yeah that was me.
* I think I may have decided to switch from my beloved Real Living magazine to Inside Out, it feels like it's got more.
* We recieved a hand written letter and a photo of 2 cute babies in the post and it was so so lovely. Note to self: Write more letters.

Things to be thankful for.

* The Smell of summer rain.
* Good theatre.
* Grey skies, for making me appreciate blue ones more.
* A cold beer (or 3) after a week of hard work.
* My husband. My amazing, amazing husband.
* Watermelon. Its colour, it's flavour, the free chunks we got given after our breakfast this morning.
* Sydney pubs that havnt been made trendy yet. Gold.
* Old friends. Where you can be silly again, and gossip and laugh about old times.
* Even older friends, who despite time and vast distance are consistent and comfortable.

Linking up with Maxabella.

In bloom

I'm so stoked to have hydrangeas growing in my garden.

Have you seen the little people project? Ummmm, it's awesome. {props to the lovely Carly who made me aware of it}

Also, I'm plunging back into mega work land, so it will be irregular around here for the next lil' while. Don't worry {OMG what will I do without my daily shinelittlelight*???? - I hear you cry}, when I'm back it will be all about Christmas (eek!) food, pressies, summer fun! Huzzah!

Flea Market Finds*

Yeah baby! We picked this awesome sofa up from our local Salvos. It folds out flat and has storage underneath it. Its a "firm" sofa (husbando's preference), so I'm gonna be countering it with some super slouchy chairs at some point. I'm tossing up reupholstering it (baby blue? Grey?), but it's got a great Danish shape to it and hasn't worn very badly at all. We shall see how it looks in a new situ.


Playing along here.

Things to be thankful for*

* Friend's babies that I can cuddle.
* Freakin' awesome thunderstorms (and how my headache clears when they come!)
* It's Jacaranda time, purple carpet everywhere.
* Things being ticked off lists.
* Cheese.
* Awesome brave women sharing their birth stories. I am HOOKED!
* Our travels. I can't believe it's been 2 years since we left.


Linking up here.

Link Love For Friday*

 * Make your own Jelly bean Bike.
* Try on glasses virtually!
* Cool Australian online place for ladies.
* The awesome Pip has made an awesome holiday guide of awesomeness.
* Cute Belt.
* Umm can someone please knit this for me?
* Crazy moves. {via}
* Sweet party projects.

{Castle Linen}

My Creative Space*

 Pillow Cases. After realising that the divine but out of my price range Castle linens where not coming my way by my willpower alone I decded I had to get to it and do something about the lust myself. After all, how hard can a pillow case be? Errrr... Quite? For starters I did it off an old pillow case that had a tear in the seam. I picked it apart and just um... cut around it straight onto my new fabric... No, I didnt even pin it in place. Yes, I am extrordinarily impatient (you could also say lazy) when it comes to sewing. Anyway, I did it. The spotty ones were easier as I could follow the rows of spots to get my lines straight (sending me just a little cross eyed!). Just no one turn them inside out and inspect the seams! Ha! Look they even have fancy folds in them and a hood to keep the pillow in. Am planning on adding spotty buttons to the grey ones... Just as soon as I can work out how to do button holes!

Oh, and clearly I don't iron. Actually, we dont even own an ironing board!


More creative Spaces here.

Colour...

I've been daydreaming (a lot) about decorating our house. In my mind it got a thorough going over with a coat of white everywhere, but now I'm thinking in colour! Check out this Road Trip Palette by Mr Jason Grant for Murobond!2 Peas for the living room, Lazy Haze for our bedroom, Happy Days for the kitchen and it has to be Hello Yello for the Laundry. I love Glorious too, but where do you paint pink? I have a bathroom, sunroom, guest room and study left....

Oh Florence.

I love you. I've decided when asked what kind of music I like I'm gonna say: "Epic".

Flea Market Finds...

I found this amazing Dutch Pewter coffee set at the local vinnie. Look at those lines! Look at those little wooden bitties inbetween! Look at the price tag - thirty buckeroos - Sahweet! Currently gracing the mantel piece, it's next to mini wooden London, my old school camera and a felt pot plant.

Things to Be Thankful For*

* Colours in our garden.

* Zucchinis. What a marvelous vegetable.
* The feeling of riding on smooth new tarmac.
* An impromptu time at the beach.
* Balsamic vinegar, making eating raw greens more delicious.
* Online shopping, anything that helps me avoid a Westfield over the Christmas season is appreciated.
* Deadlines and how they help you get more stuff done.

More Gratefulness over here.

Link Love For Friday

* Beautiful satchel.

* Have you tried photoboother?

* How amazing does this hotel look?

* Love this iPhone cover.

* Awesome list of homemade gift tutorials.

* Great home planters.

* If anyone wants to send me this rug, that would be nice.
* DIY light fittings.
* An oldie but it cracks me up.

Berry and Rhubarb Ginger Crumble

Whilst prowling (I do tend to prowl when on the hunt for a recipe) for something to take as a dessert to a dinner party I was taken aback by the top post on Smitten Kitchen. That crumble just looked so good. And though I normally associate crumble as a winter dessert, her spin on the crumble itself got me thinking about it in a more summery way. We just got our first batch of stone fruit in our vege box delivery this week, a sure herald of summer. Plus beautiful berries are on sale at the moment. Pondering what summery combination of fruit I could match with the ginger crumble, I stopped short of the stone fruit, peach and ginger sounds too wintery to me, and nectarine and ginger doesn't quite sound right... Thats when I spied the rhubarb. I also ended up making up the crumble recipe as our internet went down just as I was about to cook it (come on broadband), it's pretty close though.

Surprise....

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At last some pictures of the surprise party I threw husbando! See he really was surprised! I'll tell you more about it soon!

Terrarium

Okay, so I've been pronouncing it TerrANIUM (like Geranium) for aggges now.... yes, yes, I am a grown up. Hem. Anyway, talented friends made us Tim this beautiful thing for his birthday. Isn't it marvellous!? I'm going to harass her into showing me how to do it and then I'm going to tell you how to do it! Yeah? Yeah! Name submissions are now being taken for the gnome.