I had fun last night cleaning and re-styling my bathroom. I decided to incorporate some brighter objects to work with the yellow tiles.

I made the curtain a while ago with scraps of french fabrics and i thought this gorgeous silk coat-hanger was a great way to tidy some necklaces.

I love my sweet little ceramic dishes that I keep my bobby pins and brooches in.

Flying wall ducks brooch set

Let me introduce you to Shelbyville, she is a graphic designer by day, and moonlights as a designer-maker/artist/photographer for the rest of the time. On any given month she can be found behind a market stall at various zine fairs, writer’s festivals, and design/art markets.

Shelbyville products are pretty much a manifestation of their creator’s fascination with creating new uses for found vintage objects and materials, including game pieces, toys, vintage and found papers, pianola rolls, old-fashioned packaging labels, and such things. 

The Shelbyville range which includes stickers, zines, brooches and pendants is available online through Etsy and Made it

Have a peek at the Shelbyville Blog which Michelle keeps up to date with current crafting projects, independent designers markets and places she likes to shop.

Pretty embroidered doily

Round wooden handles

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I know it’s thursday and another weekend is nearly upon us but this is the first chance I’ve had to sit down and write a post.

I had lots of fun in the shop on saturday hanging out with a lovely friend of mine who is a stylist.

Newspaper Taxi really is the type of store where you can lose track of time. I think my partner Matthew knows my time measurements by now. “Just a quick look” usually means over half an hour. I’m also a chit chatter which seems to exacerbate the problem. So a browse can turn into several hours. I’m also very indecisive, you should see me in the video store. Once I went to get some movies on my own and couldn’t make up my mind. Matt had come home and called me asking where I was, as the last I spoke to him was to say I was going to the video shop.  I was in the video store for 2 hours. 

Last week I popped down to Broadway hoping to be home within a few hours. I was gone the whole day. About an hour was spent talking to a lovely Russian woman at the chemist who insisted on giving me samples of Apivita facial products because I “was so lovely and took the time to listen to her recommendations”. She even took me to another register just so she could serve me herself. I did go back the other day to thank her and let her know which samples I liked best, which she had asked me to do but she wasn’t there. 

My friend Amy even commented that I looked great the day after my birthday dinner. I woke up feeling a wee bit hungover so I applied the Aqua plus face mask with cucumber wile I got ready for work. It worked a treat, I just love them!

I bought a whole bunch of the Apivita express facial range products to give as gifts. I always like to have an emergency gift on hand and these are just perfect. The range includes masks for face, body and hair. They come in a single use “Express”size, which fits quite nicely into a card and envelope that you could post to someone special. The next time you go past your local chemist , pop in and see if the Apivita range is available. My favorite was the honey hair mask, delicious!

We have just been featured in this months Australian Gourmet Traveller.

Have a peek online, the review is in the “March Gourmet News” section under “Extra Extra”.

We are very excited and proud to be included in Australian Gourmet and have had a great response already. 

It’s a great issue, I love the look of the Agrarian Kitchen. The farm is so green and pretty. That’s my dream, I always wanted to live on a farm, have a big garden and grow my own vegetables, wear gumboots and have Geese as pets. Years ago my friend Renee and I were house sitting a gorgeous little house built next to a creek at “Rock Valley” (which is on the way out to Nimbin) and had to look after a gaggle of geese. Even though they honk and hiss, I love the way they waddle! 

This morning Matt and I were post noting the pages of the new issue for recipes to try out, they all look so delicious. I’m going to make the Silverbeet Gratin and I can’t go past the Peach, Raspberry and Almond Crumble. I’ll let you know how they go!