Shadow Shot Sunday

This mornings rock pool discovery

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Flea Market Find

I was pleasantly surprised this week with a number of items including two of these gorgeous stools. I have added them to the increasing number of pieces of furniture that I intend to recover.

I have a Christmas project in mind and have started scouting the Op shops for my supplies. My Christmas project will include this wonderful collection of vintage lace and ribbons I found. I also spied a lovely glass jar to put the lace in. The scales are from a previous Op shop find. My collection of Knicky Knacks is growing!

My favourite though is this cute little vintage dish and lemon tinged doily.

Head over to Sophie's at Her Library Adventures for more Op Shop goodies.

A picture tells a thousand words...but with what camera?

This is a community announcement to all and sundry who know how to take photos - I'm in the market for a new camera and I need some helpful advice and guidance.

Critical to this purchase are a few things to note:

#1: I need something practical that's happy to travel around with me, in bags that share the same space with hair ties, sand, wet ones and Barbie band aids. I will endeavour to keep sand to a minimum as I know it doesn't mix well with state of the art, precision made lenses!

#2: It can't be too pretentious and flashy as I'll never learn how to use it. I don't need lenses that can take shots of Brittany Spears topless on a boat in the Maldives from 8 kilometres away...and let's be perfectly honest, who on earth wants to see that anyway!

#3: Whilst I'm under no illusion that a camera is only as good as the joker holding it, I'd like one versatile enough to take landscape images so I can capture the beautiful scenery that I am blessed to wake up to every day whilst also taking...

#4: Run of the mill action shots of my kids (who are not these ones in the photo but are bound to grow up doing this) so I can look back and say "where on earth did the time go"

#5: And just for good measure, a few nature shots wouldn't be bad either.

So, hopefully this isn't too tall an order. Look forward to hearing all your suggestions and I will keep you updated on my progress in buying this new camera (or pestering my husband enough so he buys it for my upcoming birthday).

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My Creative Space

My creative space this week is my sweet little love chair in the Autumn sun. It was a great day today and although I reclined on this chair for all of about 20 minutes, it was long enough for a nice cup of tea with an Anzac biscuit pouring over my favourite design books and putting some draft plans together of what I'll tackle next in my house.

Of course, no sooner do I sit down that I look around at my garden and realise it needs weeding, so I donned on the gumboots and tendered to the flower beds.

Of course, in my house with young children, when a biscuit is unattended 'finder's keeper's' rules apply. It didn't take long for my youngest to sniff it out and gobble it up.

 Hope you all had a creative day. For more creative space's, head over to Kootoyoo.

My ultimate obsession

If you are a regular in following my posts you will know that I'm slightly obsessed with white interiors but today I really fell in love. It could possibly be the Single White Female love but rest assured, it's her home I'm obsessed with. I hope that doesn't sound too creepy - it's really meant to be a huge compliment. I just love everything about this home including the intent behind the style. I would love to deck my house out like this - perhaps without the ladder (my toddler would base jump from its top step). Very inspiring!

Maria from Dreamy Whites is the mastermind behind this amazing home. She's a mum of 5 living in California. She recently posted an interview on a friend's blog site explaining that her style was "a mix of different styles...vintage beach, French, country farmhouse and shabby...and I mix that up with real living in a real working home, with a budget and all that family life stuff going on all the time".

I just love the practical approach to this home - centering it around the family, valuing the important things in life and not being too precious about sharing the space with a young brood. It's simple yet elegant.

My place or yours

This week's challenge for My Place Or Yours is Yellow! As a first time player, long time reader, I wanted to capture this gorgeous colour with something fitting. I searched and searched and just when I had given up all hope and was becoming quite despondent, I decided to take a load off and pour myself a cuppa and low and behold - I found yellow!

For more yellow hello's pop over to see Danielle at Hello Owl

Shadow Shot Sunday

Horsing Around...

Hello Gorgeous - Come here often?

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