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Merry (snowy cottage) Christmas
I adore this petite snowy cottage in Vermont, USA. I think if I had a white Christmas I’d want it to be here. The first image in particular is gorgeous – like something from The Snow Goose or The Mitten. *Images courtesy of Country Living via Apartment Therapy.
John and Jackie Kennedy’s Christmas tree
December 21, 2010
I love this picture of the (very large) Kennedy family tree at the White House: Christmas 1961. In true American Christmas style Jackie O is wearing festive crimson. More Christmas cheer right here! *Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via Apartment Therapy.
Hallmarks of an Australian (and very festive) Christmas
December 20, 2010
I heard a British person remark that it did not feel like the festive season in Australia, believing, most probably, that without snow and icicles and mulled wine, Christmas cannot truly exist. Of course I wholeheartedly disagreed. Yet for many of us Summer Christmasites – myself included – do dream, deep down, of a classic […]
(pink) Christmas beauty
December 5, 2010
I am still a child when it comes to Christmas: I love putting up the tree (with Bing Crosby playing on the record player), selecting presents and carefully wrapping them, writing cards, tying ribbons and preparing special food. I also love dressing up for Christmas day and a month of parties and dinners. For me, […]
All I want for Christmas: Aesop & Of Two Minds
September 24, 2010
The world’s beautiful intelligentsia have long admired Aesop – the Melbourne company purveying cultural nous and perfect skin via a collection of evocatively scented lotions and potions in chic amber glass. Now, I am not especially beautiful or especially intelligent but I do love a little Aesop in my bathroom. In fact at the moment […]
How to have a holiday: 10 precious small things
January 19, 2011
Good evening beauties, I know the Christmas break has passed and indeed that many of us are dumfounded by the natural disaster engulfing the east side of this continent; whether we are there in the midst of it, trying to cope and rebuild, or somewhere else, watching and listening with a sense of hopelessness. But […]
Beautiful French dinner in a beautiful French cathedral
January 10, 2011
Recently I posted about my Christmas Eve and Christmas morning breakfasts. I was quite chuffed about my table settings and the little pink roses which I lovingly picked from my very own, balcony-grown rose plants and arranged in crystal glasses along the table. Then I came across this absolutely exquisite table setting in France, which […]
Beauty favourites in 2010
January 9, 2011
Fellow beauty aficionados Beautifully Glossy and Miss Prissy Pants recently posted about their top beauty products in 2010 – new finds and old favourites. So of course I had to blindly follow and do the same . Thanks for the inspiration ladies! I will start with my favourite beauty discoveries from 2010. Stay tuned for […]
What do Country Road and True Blood have in common?
November 28, 2010
Good evening beauties, Two things have come together in a beautiful symbiosis and contributed to today’s excited post by yours truly. The first is that I have finally begun watching cult HBO television series True Blood and am now smitten. I love the dense atmospherics of this program: from the lush, humid, sinful setting of […]
Beautiful People #4: Katherine Stark, Queensland
April 16, 2010
I apologise: I have been tardy (that word always reminds me of the film Clueless – I was a child of the 90s after all) with my posts lately, let alone my Beautiful People interviews. But here at long last is another Beautiful People interview, with the funny and intelligent Katherine Stark. Read on; it […]
December 22, 2010
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