Thank you...

To lovely Anita at A Dreamer's Den for the Stylish Blogger Award. 

It is so thrilling to know people love reading your blog and am honoured to get such recognition.

The challenge is to share 7 things about myself! I looked for things about myself that I haven't shared on my blog before. Here goes...

1. I was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Lived in Melbourne, Victoria. Now live on the Gold Coast, Queensland. But soon to move too.....???

2. I love to travel (ok maybe I've shared this before) and I am currently craving to travel somewhere right now. So far I have visited Paris, Barcelona, London, Tokyo, LA, San Diego, Hawaii, Queenstown and all over our beautiful country too. Where to next...

3. When I was younger, I dreamt of being a dancer and being on the stage. Whilst I did my dance classes, participated in a number of performances and even travelled to America to perform, I gave up on the dream as I got older. I now watch and admire from a distance...

4. I love the beach and love to live in the close vicinity of the beach. The feeling the beach brings is simply sublime, you can't help but feel good...

5. I'm a bag lady! You're either shoes or bags and I am hands down bags! But they must be of beautiful style and quality which is usually accompanied by a hefty price tag and usually a brand name, but I love them. They can completely make or break and outfit...

6. I have extremely curly hair! Therefore my best friend is my GHD...

7. And I'm a total night owl...

I now want to pass on this Stylish Blog Award to a couple of friends who have joined blogland recently but also to thank some bloggers who follow me, what more can I do to say thanks.

Coco Pearl

Scrapbook

Natalie Merrily

Kristy Lee Interiors

One World Girl

Far Nearer

The Pash Report

Den Of Chic

Thoughts for today.....

 

 

 

images via dustjacketattic, ladolcevita, thisisglam

Room for today...

I just love it's simplicity with a mix of the textures.

image via lonny

A touch of Tolix

The Tolix chair is a great option to use both inside and out. First designed in 1934 by Xavier Pauchard with the orinigal use for hospitals, factories, offices and public parks. Today you can buy vintage Tolix (if you can find) or there are some great replica's and they are making their way as a stylish statement into a number of different spaces.

 

 

I have considered this as my extra 2 dining chairs, but I'm actually thinking more for outside for me in a bright colour. Surprisingly not yellow but in another colour for the outdoors.

images via decor8, desiretoinspire, happyhome, niceroom, onehour, teaforjoy, lonny, mattblatt

And so it does ...

No matter what we face in life, the below is true. 

Very much so for our felllow Queenslanders today. Even though the flood levels are still unbelieveably high, some people have been able to get in little boats and float down their streets and see the level of water at their homes. From what I have seen this morning it is devastating and am overwhelmed at the clean up they now face. The clean up is beyond imagineable and for people to build that safe, home environment for their families again.

At a time like this something has to be said for the architecture of the Queenslander homes, many of which are still standing in Brisbane. As modern architecture has become more popular it is still important to know that the Queenslander style homes are still being built and heritage groups are working hard to have many older ones prevented from being torn down. 

Not only are they gorgeous in appearance, they are also a very practical design.

 They are a large timber structures built on stumps with extensive deep verandahs. The climate was the main reason for the Queenslander being built. Being up on stumps, it alllows the air to flow through under the house meaning the heat is not retained in the home therefore offering respite from the heat. As times have moved on, many Queenslander homes have now converted the lower area to gain more living space.

And I guess faced with the current flooding, this type of home has helped somewhat in preventing the amount of damage done to homes.

images via thingssheloves, realestate.com

A Fashionable Wednesday

You would either love her or hate her right?

Well I don't love her but I must say over the years I've started to like her just that little bit more. Is it the fact her husband is rather good looking (??) and she has a very cute family? Or that she has a successful career from doing..... welll let's just say a few different things?

But this is a fashionable Wednesday so why not have at look at her style.

The one thing about Mrs Becks is that she knows how to put an outfit together, travel in style, wear sunglasses, strike a pose and is always ready for he paps!

Sure she's made a few mistakes in the past, but who hasn't - it's fashion right!

Here's some I think she got right.

 

 

Dreamy Spaces

I love these cushions against the white

 

 A touch of glam

images via marcusdesign, emilyhenderson, myfavouriteandmybest

Queensland Flooding

Our blogs are usually filled with such pretty images and positivity but today I want to post about some devastating news. South East Queensland, the part of the world I live is experiencing severe flooding. Fortunately not here on the Gold Coast but in Brisbane (an hour north of here). 

You've most likely heard about it on the news around the world.

I have good friends who live in Brisbane and our store in Brisbane CBD had to be evacuated today and closed tomorrow  :(

The water's expecting to rise to more than 3 metre's tonight and most likely to peaking to 5.45m on Thursday. It's just too surreal.

 

People climbing on the roof as there's no where else to go

If you would like to donate to the victims of the floods, click here to find out more

To all South East Queenslanders, stay safe and thinking of you all xx

Beautiful Home : East Coast Charmer

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend. I am, it's raining and stormy here and I am exhausted after a big week. What a better way to do absolutley nothing, get lost in my world of design and regroup...

Which leads me to this beautiful home of magazine editor, Paula Joye. Her and her husband trasformed their Sydney red brick bungalow into a family friendly Hamptons inspired home. You can definitely see the India Hicks inspiration too.

Suits my mood for today of relaxing...

images via house&garden

Dash of colour

Another option is to introduce 2 coloured chairs in a different style!

Surprise - it would be yellow! But I think that would look really fresh and fun against the white, plus tie the living space into the dining area.

Mmmm, this could be a great way to introduce a bit more colour to my space!

images via sketch42, lonny, marcusdesign