I’ve been eagerly awaiting the latest fashion exhibition at the NGV International, The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture. After seeing last year’s Viktor & Rolf: Fashion Artists exhibition, which was stunning, I couldn’t wait to see what the NGV had in store to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of The House of Dior’s debut spring-summer 1947 collection. I…
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For years Brunswick was one of Melbourne’s fashion and knitwear manufacturing hubs, but over the last few decades the industry has moved off-shore and most of the factories and workshops have slowly closed. That’s why I was so excited when I discovered Otto & Spike, a family run knitwear label that has been proudly manufacturing knitwear in Melbourne for over…
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We are officially in week 4 of our bathroom renovation, but it feels like it’s been going for months. The first couple of weeks were really stressful. Lots of unbearably loud noise and so much dust! Jackhammers and power saws at 7am is not my idea of a good way to wake up. Poor Emma has had a hard time…
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I can’t scroll through my Instagram feed lately without coming across the latest food trend – Rainbow food. There are a few variations including Unicorn food and Galaxy food, but essentially it all comes down to taking perfectly normal beige food and dressing it up with a cacophony of colour! When will it end? Rainbows belong in the sky, not…
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We’re officially two weeks into the bathroom renovation so I thought it was a good time to reveal the design and plans. I’ll pop a progress post up soon, a lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. It took a really long time to lock down these plans. The structural limitations of what we could and couldn’t do…
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Getting kids to eat what’s good for them isn’t always the easiest job in the world. There’s been times when this mum has had to get creative and ‘hide’ some extra veggies in the spag bol, or call everything ‘chicken’ (when the kid went through the only eating chicken phase). We’ve all been there. If you are having trouble getting…
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I’m an avid podcast listener, most of them are just people chatting about the stuff they’ve been up to lately, movies they’ve seen, that kind of thing. That’s how the new movie THE BIG SICK, first got on my radar. Everyone was talking about how great this movie was so I couldn’t wait to see it for myself. THE BIG…
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The day has finally arrived! Our bathroom renovation is well and truly underway. Today the demolition crew arrived and have swiftly ripped out all of the old fixtures, chiselled off most of the tiles and are currently jack hammering out the concrete screed floor. I’m actually outside typing this because the noise in the house is so loud from the…
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It’s well and truly soup season, and nothing is more comforting than a big bowl of French Onion Soup with lots of crusty bread to soak up all the goodness. Today I have a special treat, Agathé Kerr, Melbourne-based Parisian croissant queen and pastry chef, has kindly shared her favourite recipe for Traditional French Onion soup. Agathé is a mother…
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Have you ever missed a flight? I have and it’s the worst feeling. It happened to us last year with an early flight to Tasmania, I thought we’d left plenty of time to get to the airport, I mean, there should hardly be any traffic at 5am right? Wrong! We were stuck in a mega traffic jam not even halfway…
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