Homewares.

I am having some sort of illicit relationship with homewares at the moment where I know they’re no good for me but I can’t help but look and maybe touch them, and sometimes buy them. I’m also definitely stalking them online.

Until we have our own house buying anything for a home seems redundant, but do you think that would stop me? The answer is no.

Last night after work I was in Bed Bath & Table looking at the linen, at the deliciously pastel coloured crock pots and giant vases. I had to calm my beating heart by purchasing a candle.

I’m very happy with my candle purchase, to me there is no limit to how many candles you can have. I say the same thing about scarves, cushions and outfits for my dog.

I’m sick I know.

So although I can’t bring myself to purchase any of these wanted items (the guilt of it) maybe you are in the market for a cushion, or throw, or bird lamp.

Here is my wish list.

Ada and Darcy Macaw cushion $72

Ada and Darcy Classic Blooms Cushion $20 (on sale)

This cushion has a contrasting back, the other side is a geometric print.

Urban Outfitters half dot duvet cover $89

Urban Outfitters Bauhaus duvet cover $89

Down that little Lane rustic storage box on wheels $115

Urban Outfitters pineapple pillow $24

Down that Little Lane turquoise side tables $75 each

Jumbled Online vintage North America map $330

Etsy  multicolour bottles $9.95 each

Ada and Darcy Cockatoo lamp $319

Okay I think I need to stop now otherwise we’ll be here all day.

I’ve started following Interiors Addict on Instagram recently so this has not helped my shopping ban. There is image after image of beautiful things. I also love the 7 vignettes photo competition they run over the first 7 days of the month. If you’re interested about it you can read more on The Interiors Addict blog here or follow on Insta @interiorsaddict

 

Obviously no one is paying me to say anything about anything ever. I know there’s a lot of that talk going on at the moment. WINK

Today.

Today I was absolutely losing it over this thread on Reddit, here

It’s about the creepy things kids say and it starts off hilarious but it does actually get quite spooky. If you’ve got 20 minutes to kill (no pun intended) reading this is sure to please.

This was one I found particularly funny.

“Not to me, but to his grandmother.

He was cuddling with her and being very sweet (he was about 3 at the time). He takes her face in his hands, and brings his face close to hers, then tells her that she’s very old, and will die soon.

Then he makes a point of looking at the clock.”

Creepy yet hilarious.

Dave’s nephew James says some crazy things sometimes, Dave’s been keeping a log of them in his phone. Here’s a few.

“I’m gonna wrap you like a present.”

“I’ll eat you like a fruit bowl.”

“I’ll cut you.”

“I’ll put a nut in your eye.”

“Where’s my willy, it’s in your eye.”

Great times indeed.

So Orange is looking super lush at the moment, I took this photo from our bedroom last week.

 

There is no filter on this photo, the red trees project this light. Ahhhh I love this time of year.

The flowers on the windowsill are fakeys that I bought from Jumbled. The peonies are in my new grey Pantone vase, and then I’ve got a tulip bunch. If you’re interested in the flowers you can find them here

This photo is from a wedding we went to a couple of weeks back.

The wedding was at a beautiful winery in Mollymook, it was such a sweet and fun wedding, the bride was gorgeous, the groom, the bridal party and groomsmen all looked amazing and we danced and drank wine. Perfect. Perfect.

I wore a Sportsgirl kimono and this Tigerlily black maxi dress with splits up the side. I just wore jewelled sandals and a gold belt as it was an outdoor wedding.

I ummed and ahhed over buying this dress as I thought it was too casual but I’m really glad I got it. I also wore it to the One Night Stand in Dubbo with a black slouchy jumper over the top and suede stone coloured cowboy boots.

 

 

O.N.S

Last weekend we headed to Dubbo for the Triple J One Night Stand. It felt really odd being at a festival and not drinking, I quite enjoyed it though and I still bopped around to The Rubens and you couldn’t help but dance to Flume even though generally speaking I need a couple of drinks to get the jelly arms and legs going.

The music was really good, the people watching was even better. My lord there were denim shorts everywhere you looked, so small though that combined they’d barely make one pair of jeans.

Seriously though, the denim shorts were out of this world, they were short, and tight and ripped and studded and tie dyed and awful. There were bum cheeks, there were hands in crotches pulling at invasive seaming. It was a real scene.

Someone needs to put a stop to this. These poor uncomfortable teens.

When the young ones weren’t busy picking their denim wedgies out they were either vomiting on the grass, standing in circles wearing identical outfits, begging for ciggies and taking photos with random guys.

Super weird, but so interesting. We were basically on safari, the teens were the wilder beast, the occasional tripped out guy with no shirt doing punch dancing was the lion you always hope to see.

I love people watching.

The Rubens were so dreamy.

Whilst we’re on the subject of festivals has anyone seen Vanessa Hudgens outfits from Coachella?

Too little clothes too much look.

I love this skirt though, and don’t find the whole thing overly offensive but I cannot work out why she is carrying a giant flower.

Kate Bosworth looks perfect in both the below outfits.

I love looking at outfits from Coachella, I put it up there with the Brownlow red carpet. Brynne needs to go to Coachella. I want to see her in a flower crown.

the trusty denim jacket.

My Marcs denim jacket has got to be one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.

It was about 5 years ago now and it cost me $200 which wasn’t cheap but it has

been well worth it having being worn countless times and working out to be about

only 40c per wear.

I haven’t worn it much recently though so created this mini mood board to get me

thinking about it and wanting to wear it again, everywhere.

Do you have a particular item you’d consider your best buy?

I think my new Sportsgirl boyfriend jeans might make it into this category in time.

 

Long weekend I love you.

I’ll have two Saturdays and a double Sunday thanks.

I know, that’s a bad one but I’ve been saying it all long weekend, it’s right though really!

Happy Easter’s all round, I hope everyone has had a lovely few days off and gorged themselves on their chocolate of choice (mine is mini eggs.)

After a few busy weeks with NZ and moving I’ve spent this time off at home, watching Geordie Shore and The Walking Dead marathons, eating food (more mini eggs) and enjoying finally having the internet connected again.

Of course for me having the internet connected again leads to looking at clothes online, over and over and over again. I held back until today when I placed a little ASOS order.

Here’s what I’ve got coming.

Stripe Boyfriend Jumper

Ponte Pants

3D Star Jumper

You can never have too many knits if you live in Orange, well at least that’s my excuse.

The ponte pants are to replace the Zara ones I’ve worn down to nothing but a few strands of cotton. I was going to buy a pair from Witchery or Country Road but $100 or $120 for basically what is just thick leggings is a little cheeky to me.

So, even though I’ve been home for the most part of the last 4 days I still made it out to see a movie on Friday. I took Dave to see ‘The Host’ which he’d never heard about, I told him the premise but chose to leave out the part about it being written by Stephanie Meyer. It was awful. Truly, truly awful. We actually walked out. The internal dialogue was driving us both nuts and the acting was weird and awkward. I thought it would be better because Diane Kruger and Saoirse Ronan were in it. It wasn’t.

I was too lazy to take my track pants off so wore them to the movies.

Trackies – Valleygirl, Jumper – Sportsgirl, Ballet Flats – Sambag, Scarf – Lovisa.

Off to catch the last of the afternoon sun! x

Hello Friday my friend.

Last weekend we moved into our new place, which I’m loving. The move itself however is another story, I don’t think anyone has ever said they enjoyed moving, and I of course didn’t but what got me was cleaning the entire house. My god. My back.

I was really feeling it at the start of the week, my back hurt, I was so tired and I even had a sty in my eye. Not ideal.

Come Friday though I am feeling great. The sty is gone – hurrah! And a few good night sleeps has helped soothe my achy bones and improved my overall lethargy.

I’ve got a day of crafting (amid a few boxes of unpacking) to do tomorrow to get ready for the Verandah Markets at the cafe on Sunday. I’m really excited about this market, there’s lots of great stallholders and it’s also really nice to hang out down there. I bought these super cute faux tulips to have on my display yesterday, I have lots of other things too but I am especially excited about the tulips.

I heard this song on Triple J yesterday and am loving it.

Maybe now I can stop listening to Haim over and over. (I love Haim.)

Have a great weekend! x

NZ.

I’ve just gotten back from a week in NZ and what a week it was!

We were over on Waiheke Island for the wedding of two great friends but decided to turn the trip into a holiday by taking a few days on either side.

We spent our first night in Auckland and stayed at the Waldorf Bankside, this was cheap accom at only $94 on a Wotif deal but it was so good! Close to the action and really comfy. We spent the first night drinking in the fact that we were on holidays, high fiving each other and whatnot.

We had a kilo of mussels for dinner at a bar in a lane way followed by beers here and there, Auckland felt suspiciously like Brisbane.. but the mussels we ate were double the size of the ones we get here so that’s how I knew I was indeed somewhere new.

The next morning we met up with our friends Gaz and Kel for breakfast before heading over to Waiheke on the ferry.

Waiheke was beautiful.

We stayed at a place called Fossil Bay Lodge. When we rocked up there was two signs, an arrow pointing to ‘accommodation’ and another pointing to ‘kindergarden’ Our funny little accommodation was half steiner school for 4 year olds and half mismatched shacks for visitors. There are only 4 shacks so there’s hardly anyone around.

Our room smelt like a delicious sauna, as it was all wood and natural timber polish or something. Dave was initially horrified as there was no TV, I was pretty happy about it. It felt like we were on some sort of yoga retreat/detox from the real world.

I picked up a book at the airport and it was read within 3 days. (The book was Gone Girl and I really enjoyed it.)

The wedding was held at a vineyard called Mudbrick. The ceremony kicked off at 5 and it was the sweetest, loveliest wedding to witness. I cried about 5 times throughout. A very special moment was when the father of the groom sang with his friend who had performed at the parents of the grooms wedding years previously. My eyes are misting just thinking about it.

I could go on and on about everything but I’d be typing for hours, the wedding was all in all just perfect and joyous and so full of love.

A duck free ranging around our accommodation. Cuuuuute.

So I thought it was going to be a bit cold on the island, this was definitely not the case. I had to borrow swimmers. Look at that water!

Two little jumping beans at the house the wedding party were staying in. The house was huge, the trampoline is huge. We called it the ranch.

Sunrise. Because I was too excited all the time I was up at 5 every morning. But then I can’t get out of bed at 7.30 this morning to get to work… Hmmmm, I think I see what’s happening here.

Picking pears and leaving them in the windowsill to ripen. I was really get into the whole ‘back to nature’ type thing, stirred on by our cute little room.

The view from ‘the ranch.’

Now you can see the house!

The table settings at the wedding. Once the sun was lower the blinds were lifted. It was so pretty!