Archive for April, 2009

Happy Camping

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Take a look at this months issue of Inside Out Magazine. Newspaper Taxi has products featured in the Homewares Trend – Camping shoot. Most of the items have sold already but we do have lots of similar stock available in store.

Oh I want to go camping, We’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t really had time to get away but when we do Matt and I like to go up to the Bluemountains. We pack up the car and spend the weekend bushwalking, sightseeing and as always- shopping. There are some quaint little treasures up in those mountain towns! 

We camp down in the Megalong Valley or in Blackheath. The last time we were up there I was chasing fresh water crayfish on a bushwalk through the Grand Canyon and fell in a creek. I had soggy shoes and walked the rest of the track barefoot.  

I remember when Matt and my sister and I stayed in a cabin for the long weekend. It was freezing FREEZING cold. In the morning my sister Emilee and I went for a walk to the pond and fed the ducks and swans. It was all misty and still, there were dew drops dangling from spider webs in the bare branches of the trees. A pretty sight indeed! It’s just like a magical fairy land in winter.

Tag Questionnaire

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I was tagged by the lovely Concrete and Honey…So, here are the rules:
Step 1: Respond & Rework – Answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, add one more question of your own.
Step 2: Tag-eight other un-tagged people.
What are you wearing now? Vintage skirt as a dress, woven leather belt, and a long cream linen vest with a pompom trim.
What is the title of the best book you’ve ever read? The Heart Garden by  Janine Burke
Who was the last person you hugged? My fiancee as he left for work this morning, happy I had cut his hair!
Which item from your closet are you wearing most lately? A gorgeous vintage indian cotton Kaftan I bought from a market for $6.00
What’s for dinner? Leftover Italian Meatballs and Couscous I made last night.
What was the last thing you bought? Pretty postage stamps to send out some of my handmade cards.
What are you listening to right now? Mamie Minch the album Razorburn Blues
What would be your “Money is no object” Art purchase? Tracey Emin quilt or “Riding with death” by Jean Michel Basquiat
What is your favorite weather, and why? Hot summer afternoons. I love being able to go for a swim at the beach after work.
What time do you usually get up? It varies, generally by 8.30 a.m I’m downstairs feeding the cat and drinking coffee.
What is your most challenging goal right now? Running my own business.
Say something to the person who tagged you: It was really lovely to meet you in my shop! I knew that I would know you through some round-about connection… Sydney can be a small city.
If you could have a house-totally paid for, fully furnished-anywhere in the world, where you want it to be? Up in the hills on the far north coast of NSW. It would be a rickety old farmhouse that I would fill with depression era furniture and my collection of Hilary Herrmann paintings, the breeze would blow in the windows through tattered lace curtains, In the morning I would collect eggs from my chickens and I would spend the day tending to my big vegetable garden and painting in my studio behind the house and as the sun went down I would relax and have a long soak in an old claw-foot bath.
Favorite vacation spot? Hat Head, it’s like the old Byron Bay.
Name the things you cannot live without: Matt and the cat, my creative and inspiring friends and family, my local news agent and bookstore, sweet treats, a journal and a black pen, handmade soap, my green bags at the supermarket, and a good kitchen sponge.
What movies can you watch over and over? 200 Cigarettes, Basquiat, Betty Blue.
What scent do you wear? Coco Mademoiselle by Chanel and Patchouli
What is your favorite tea flavor? Chamomile with milk and sugar.
What are your daily rituals? Cleanse and moisturize, coffee and computer, I sweep the footpath at the front of the shop and brush the cat with the broom- he loves it and waits for me to open the shop every morning! Oh and a Green tea after dinner.

Splish Splash

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Mirror and books

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

Coat-hanger and curtain

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.

hair pins

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

books and brush

Hey Mr Postman

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cheers-card

We have a great range of gift cards in store at Newspaper Taxi. This Gocco print range comes all the way from Portland Oregon.

They are really lovely and quite simple in their design which is what makes them so stylish. The Cheers card featured above is perfect as a thank you card or great as a wine lovers birthday card it really is such a good all-rounder.  

hello-bike-card

Oh this is such a super cute card. I should really send one to my Auntie just to say hello and thank her for all the lovely cards she has sent me.

its-your-birthday card

The outside of this slick little card has “It’s Your Birthday” printed in green and a record player in black. Inside is printed “Tune in, Turn on, & Rock out”

Perfect Presents

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In store display

Pop in store and have a peek at our new stock. We have some lovely oriental inspired early ceramic pieces, framed floral prints, glass fronted medicine cabinets and hand painted Italian serving trays.

Mexican shop display

We also have a vibrant selection of Mexican handcrafts including mirrors and ornate tin decorations. The little tin decorations we sold out of late last year are now back in stock with a few new designs available. (The peacock is my favorite!)

In store you will  find a new range of mexican style gift cards and ceramic candle sticks which are really bright and very sweetly adorned with handmade ceramic birds and fruit. I think they would make a lovely house warming present, in fact any of the Mexican handcrafts would be perfect for a gift. We just sold another one of the rainbow winged heart mirrors with a Frida Khalo gift card as a present for a young lady.

Mexican candle sticks