I love minature things. And I love jewelry. So when a friend mentioned CuteAbility, I had to check it out. Her store is filled with adorable charms such as cupcakes, teacups, deers, birds, and an assortment of miniature food charms – think miniature eggs, slices of cake, icecream sundaes, and cookies. They come attached to [...]

Today was the first day of the Rosemount Australian Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2010, and these were a few of my favourite outfits from the Womens Ready to Wear 1 show…
By Anaessia:

By Bec & Bridge:

By Annah Stretton:

I will try to write more about Australian Fashion Week as the week goes on!

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As I might have mentioned briefly, my fiance & I are getting married next April. We’ve been engaged since September 2008, but wedding plans have been set aside due to me finishing my Masters, and, well, we just weren’t that excited about making plans. We definitely want to get married, but neither of us wanted [...]

Things I’ve loved this week: New issues of Yen magazine and Frankie magazine; music by Lily Allen and Gregory & The Hawk (the latter is a new discovery &I adore it!); books about humanitarian aid in war zones which are so interesting & thought-provoking (Emergency Sex & Other Desperate Measures and Condemned to Repeat? The [...]

Rain, Rain – by Little Miss Sunshine
It is absolutely pouring outside today, and it sounds amazing. We have been deprived of rain here for months now, so the downpours we have been having the last couple of days are wonderful. I often feel inspired by the sound of rain; I like turning off my music [...]

Blueberry Girl, by Neil Gaiman, is an absolutely delightful poem he wrote for Tori Amos in anticipation of the birth of her daughter many years ago, which has now been turned into a book, illustrated by Charles Vess.
Many of the illustrations appear in this video, with Neil Gaiman reading the poem:

It’s a book for mothers [...]

YUM. MAC’s most recent collection just launched here in Australia this week (today!), and it’s filled with delicious candy-coloured treats that look much too pretty to pass up.

My favourites are the Tricolour Lipglass… MAC’s lipglasses and lustreglasses are amongst my favourite glosses, and I love the mixture of colours in each tube. The collection [...]

A round-up of articles, links & other things I’ve enjoyed this week…

Like a lot of other bloggers, I am really enjoying the Five Rules for Life site – very inspiring!
As someone who consistently needs at least 8 hours sleep a night in order to function like a real person, Tres Lola’s article Why Sleep is [...]

I think these illustrations from the 4th issue of Lula magazine are divine:

See more prettiness under the cut!

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More inspiration from Rhonna Farrer.