And what a beautiful, beautiful day it was. The setting was breath-taking, the detail amazing..and what a bonus to have stunning subjects to work with! Keira and Craig, thankyou for letting me share an amazing day…you are a truly beautiful couple.

This is Keira getting ready – since when do brides look this relaxed? I just love the sheer joy!

I love to imagine one day I’ll have a totally zen house. Devoid of kidstuff, clutter and paperwork.. A few bits of uber stylish furniture, white of course, and not a lot else.

The reality is that I live amongst all manner of shades of practical taupe, beige, chocolate and espresso, apart from the lego decorations which are multi colour of course, and just indulge in an all white bedroom.

Having said all that, when it comes to the kids rooms, I aim for total carnivale! Ivy’s room is candy pink, orange, blue and green! The possiblities are endless! I love collecting little unusual things for her..babushka dolls are a favourite, as are those teeny suitcases!

Each night she says goodnight to the tin people you see here..we call them her “friends” and she gives them a kiss and a wave.

So there you go…a peek into Ivy’s bookcase. I’m quite sure I’ve never posted so many pictures of non moving objects :p

I’m so excited! I’ve been working on my new site which includes gorgeous illustrations by Mandy Sutcliffe from Belle & Boo so have decided to pretty up my blog, with Mandy’s permission of course, and include one here. Mandy is an amazing artist – she’s doing five commissions of Ava for me and I’ll be really sad when she finishes – she’s just been so beautiful to work with.. I chose photos that were really special to us and to see them illustrated by Mandy took my breath away.

Check out Mandy’s Etsy shop where she sells gorgeous originals and prints and other sweet things.

I don’t normally do this kind of thing but was looking through old photos today and thought I’d post a few…

This is me circa 1992 with my first proper boyfriend. We lasted three years until he became quite sure I had a thing for my flatmate. I was quite sure he was wrong at the time but seeing as I went on to marry and have four children to my beloved flatmate, I guess he was onto something!!!
Similar timeframe, outside the MCA in Sydney. I’d gotten home from work the day before and announced “Hey, Andy Warhol has an exhibition in Sydney this weekend, do you want to go?”. So being 20 and free, forementioned fellow and I drove the nine hours to get there, only to find the Gay Mardigras was also on so we had nowhere, and I do mean nowhere, to stay. I’m suprised we actually lasted after that weekend, it was so damn miserable :p

1991. When Daisies Attack….
Now at the risk of never living this down, I had to share my totally humiliating attempt at chanelling Drew Barrymore. Sherrie and I took ourselves along to one of those ridiculous studios where they plaster you with a tonne of makeup, airbrush you to within an inch of your life and insist you look breath-taking. You decide for yourself.

1993. Returning from LA with Jennifer and Sandra. I mentioned previously our hyperventilating at the sight of Saks…that was just the start. It’s no coincidence that I experienced my first peti-mal epileptic seizure about an hour after this photo was taken…three weeks of non stop shopping will do that to you. :p

And lastly, 2003, celebrating my birthday with Sherrie and Emma…

So that’s my little trip back in time…

Anyone else game?