Today

Dabito for Old Brand New

Today has been made for pottering about your empty apartment in overalls and stripes, putting flowers and leaves in milk bottle vases, watching the light stream in through windows for hours on end and eating jam on toast (and nothing else). These days are so good sometimes you wonder if you dreamt them all up in your head. Take a picture.

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wild prairie

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I want this for christmas so bad that I'm tempted to just get it myself and wrap it up in red and green with a big velvet ribbon and stick it under the tree. That's how much I want it. I've been getting out my Slim Aarons print almost twice weekly because I just can't stop looking at it. There's something about the home and homewares that's getting me excited at the moment, more excited than clothes, or beauty, or books, or movies. I've got new sheets, new pictures, and dreaming of enough coffee table books that my house just looks like this. Time to move out, maybe??

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well read

Out-takes by Rachel Kara for Brace . See the full article here.

Working with RKB is always a dream. There's an instinctiveness to the way she shoots that makes her the ultimate partner in crime; who would you rather have driving the getaway car? The person who asks you if it's time to go or the one who's had the engine running since you ran into the bank? This piece we shot for Brace Digital with Brenda, the creative director behind my favourite Australian label Benah, was my favourite kind of work. Friends coming together, talking about nothing but books, bottomless pots of tea and wishing hopelessly for cake. I feel like I always say this when Rachel is involved, but if only it could always be this good.

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a kitchen of one's own

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 Talisa always has the best interiors inspiration because she is the gal I know with the best house. It's like anything - fashion, movies, books, chocolate - if you want inspiration ask the people whose taste you admire. Well, I spent hours trawling this website last night (despite and found this apartment, which I love not for its reality (bottles on top of the fridge and a mis-matched book case, you are too good), but for its kitchen. It doesn't all work together - blue chairs, and two different kids of wood, and mis-matched crockery - but that's life isn't it? We don't always have things that go, or colours that work, or furniture that we bought especially for that room. I can't wait to have a kitchen of my own. I think because I've been cooking a lot more that I've started to think about what I want, what works for me, what I need. My kitchen at home is pink. It's wonderful. It's so my mum it's not funny. But when I have my own kitchen it's gong to be white and wood, with pictures on the wall (who said that you should hang art in the kitchen? because they're brilliant), and a place to eat breakfast on a weekend, and lots of bench space for when I want to make coconut dream cake or nougat for christmas, and windowsills to store cook books and plants and everything in between, and best of all, it's going to be all mine.

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life in a tiny room

Today a package arrived containing a set of sheets so fresh, so clean, so light and bright, I had to put them on straight away. Of course they were from IN BED store (thank you, thank you, thank you!), that delicious purveyor of dreams, and it was such a treat I almost crawled straight back into bed again (on a Monday morning, very bad). One of my favourite blogs to actually read is Read My Tea Leaves, and she has a lovely section where she shares the trials and tribulations of her life in a tiny new yawk city apartment. Well, those who have seen my room know that I live in a tiny room. It's not even a real room, it's like a sunroom annexe to my house, and though that means that while it is gloriously light-filled the whole year round, it is also very, very small. One of her tips? Use white sheets. Because it makes the room seem bigger and they're also a dream to sleep in. Well, Consider this suggestion well and truly observed. Now to get some low-maintenance house plants and actually start to take proper care of them...

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Stay IN BED

IN BED

I wrote a profile on new lifestyle store IN BED for Broadsheet, and I fell completely, unashamedly in love. If you - like me - are a fan of clean sheet days, cottony throws that double as wraps that double as towels that double as blankets, breakfast in bed and spending whole weekends in your pyjamas, this is the site for you. Dreamy.

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where

Vogue

Pink for the wardrobe but green for the house. Even back in February I knew this was the life I wanted (with Ashley's wardrobe, natch). But revisiting it now only drives the point home. I don't know what I'm going do, I don't know who I'm going to do it with, I don't know when, or how, or what, but I do know where. 

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how could I ever?

@hannahroserose

'We would not leave our native home
For any world beyond the Tomb.'

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