one year

 

I can't believe it's been one year already. I just got back from a lovely long weekend down the coast with the husband. We visited our favourite place away from home - Port Willunga, where we married one year ago - and stopped in for lunch at the Star of Greece. We spent the next two days lazing about in a cosy shack at Goolwa, walking along the beach, eating delicious fish pasties and fresh squid at Aquacaf, and indulging in afternoon naps. Wouldn't it be lovely if we could do this every day...

(All photos by the amazing and humble Luke Simon).

hoot

I have an obsession with owls of late. Loving these wooden creatures made by UK designer Matt Pugh, found via Oh Joy!. I'd like all five, please.

wall art

We are yet to finish painting our interior walls, but I have been slowly collecting more artworks for when we finally complete the Dreaded Painting Project. I saw the above on the Real Living blog highlighting affordable artworks. At $48 including shipping, this beauty by Sydney girl Kate Banazi is on its way to my house, yessiree.

bloomin'

Flowers make me oh-so-happy!

I bought this lovely bunch for only $15 from a woman at Bowerbird Bazaar who runs her florist business from home. Why oh why did I not know about her when I was planning my wedding?! (The one thing that was a disaster on my wedding day were the flowers!)

Some more things I brought home with me:



Cards from Able and Game. Absolutely love these guys for their originality and humour.

Cards from Naomi Murrell. I love Naomi's work - I first saw prints hanging in one of our favourite little cafe's Tincat, and she is from Adelaide so of course I have a soft spot for her! (I just noticed many of the photos on Naomi's website are actually taken in Tincat Cafe.)

I have loved these Alphabet Zoo cards from Lola & Bailey since I saw them on a blog a few weeks ago, so bought my initial 'J'. This would be a lovely card to buy for a new mum!

And finally, what do I see but none other than Sharon Muir's beautiful ceramics, which I blogged about last week. Of course I just had to buy this little brown owl. He now lives on my bedside table and holds my collection of earrings.

I saw many other beautiful things from loads of talented people, including a bottle vase from Angus & Celeste, but I will have to put them on my Christmas list. (Oh my, it is almost Christmas!!)

ray of light

We had such beautiful weather this weekend but again I couldn't fully enjoy it. I still haven't managed to shake this flu and am finding myself sleeping most of the day, unable to get out of bed from exhaustion. Blood tests have shown various things that I am trying to improve with vitamin supplements and diet, and one of them is a deficiency in Vitamin D. I am now taking it in pill form to boost my levels but have also tried to sit out in the sun a little each day. On Saturday I laid out on our concrete and took photos of the sky and our garden (or The Jungle as we often refer to it, as we are very slack at mowing...).

I am looking forward to feeling perkier so we can enjoy these sun-filled weekends at the beach or the park. I'm sure the husband is too - he is being ever so patient at the moment, making me breakfast in bed on Sundays and ignoring my grumpiness, but I imagine there're only so many weeks you can wait on someone hand and foot!

I did manage to drug myself up enough to attend the wedding of a beautiful couple we have known for many years (aren't they always the best ones?) and I also managed to squeeze in a super fast look at the Bowerbird Bazaar on Sunday before I started to wilt. I will take some pictures of the things I bought at the design market and post them later this week. Right now, I am going to drag myself back to bed for a wee snooze...

(P.S. Thank you to the lovely Kerry from The Seventy Tree - I feel so very honoured to be mentioned on your beautiful blog!)

admiring

1. In awe of this beautiful home. From Freunde von Freunden, found via The Seventy Tree.

2. Silver lanterns from the very cute Israel's 1st birthday party (stylishly decorated by his very cool mum Jennifer from A Merry Mishap. You can see more pics from the birthday party here.)

3. Owls from Sharon Muir. LOVE.

4. This lovely Big Raindrop print in pink from the talented Kerry of The Seventy Tree. (I couldn't help myself and bought it immediately!) Go peek at her shop and Etsy shop.