HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

 New Years Eve .... 

I can't quite believe 2011 is drawing to an end, we are planning on having a very quite night in ...

last night we had friends over for a catch up dinner on

the deck, the sunset was so beautiful ....

 we ate pasta and fresh salad leaves from the garden ..... 

  and talked and drank well into the night, actually we ended up drinking a little too much and today I'm feeling the effects .....

  so I'm really not feeling like the New Year thing, and really we're not that big on New Year anyway ....

I was planning on wearing my new dress if we ended up doing something, but I'm quite happy to leave it hanging for now, I do love it though (I got it for next to nothing on ebay).

What I am looking forward to seeing are the Sydney New Year fireworks, normally fireworks don't really interest me but designer Marc Newson is in charge this year so it should be really interesting.

 

So here's wishing you a very, very Happy New Year and a wonderful 2012

XXX

HAPPY HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!

 Well the Christmas season is well and truly here ...

we have family staying and plan on spending Christmas day like our early Christmas last year, on the deck with lots of good food and wine, I plan on making my baked cranberry chicken (so yummy and very pretty too) and my father-in-law has arrived with lots of amazing looking vegetables from his garden including some purple carrots (can't wait to try them) .... and there will be a big bread and butter pudding made with Bourke St  prune and almond bread and a flourless chocolate cake for dessert .... I think there will be some very happy tummies ....

It will be so lovely being home this year, no packing or driving long distances ....

I like spending the holidays at home.

Thanks so much for reading this blog and all your lovely comments throughout the year ....

Hope you have a wonderful and safe Christmas 

XXX 

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SCARY SANTA

When I was a kid I loved seeing Santa and sitting on his lap but that's not the case for every child .....

.... nice to see he can still make some boys happy !!!

photos found here

GREAT (BROOKLYN) SPACE

Really liking this Brooklyn space featured on 

Freunde von Freunden .....

 

 

 

.... especially the amazing windows overlooking the East River and Downtown Manhattan

.... very nice indeed.

SCENES OF LIFE

So loving this photo series entitled Scenes of Life

by Lucie & Simon ....

" Lucie & Simon’s projects are conceived as a series of photographs which all outsmart our perception of reality by staging a quirky view of daily life from urban or family solitude to existential wanderings, their compositions capture different moods of man’s silent melancholy, focusing on the narrow chink between our existence and the world of dreams. In an enigmatic universe rekindling the memory of Edward Hopper’s paintings, each character seems totally absorbed by the timelessness of dreams "......

..... found via Miss Moss. 

FRIDAY FAVORITES (ON SATURDAY)

These stars ....

via here

these little houses ....

 via here

these garlands ....

via here

these lights ....

 via here

.... and this tree.

via here

 This bulb lamp .....

 via here

these star stamps ....

via here

 this Marni for H&M dress ....

via here

  this book, so enjoying it .....

roasted cherry tomatoes .... in season at the moment and my favorite way to eat them, especially with eggs for breakfast, yum ....

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.... and this art loving cat

(just because !!!)

 via here

Some late "Friday Favorites" this week ....

can you believe Christmas is almost here ?

It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating last Christmas here and here ... 

Hope you have a lovely pre- Christmas weekend

XXX

VERY NICE SPACES

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