Oh my, I am quite excited about today’s post – I’m in love with how bright and cheerful is it! I’m so very honoured to be featuring the beautiful Style Tail of Brisbane’s Eastern Suburbs featured in the impossible gorgeous new issue of Adore Home Magazine - where if you flick to page 70 you can read all about Leesa Curtain’s lovely morning of Christmas shopping at Espial, Coming up Roses and Green Grass! Each shop is just as wonderful as the next and fill to the brim of stunning gift ideas for that someone special (hehe or yourself) this Christmas! x
| Source: Adore Home Magazine | Shops: Espial, Coming up Roses and Green Grass | Photography: Life in Bloom Photography |
Happy Monday everyone, I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend! We had a very lovely weekend, I hosted a lovely petal decorating class (photos to come!) and then spent some much needed time potting around the house, it was bliss! A couple of weekends ago I was honoured enough to host a lovely Rosette Baking Class at our home, it was also beautifully photographed by my lovely friend Coralee from Coralee and Alex Photography – you simply must scoot over and have a look at their work, it’s to die for! I love rosette cakes, they’re just so pretty, they’re like a bouquet of edible flowers – be sure to click here if you’d like to see more photos from the class. x
Since becoming a home owner last year, one thing that Ben and I have learnt pretty quickly is that along with all the hard work that goes into making a house a home – there also comes another side that you didn’t expect. Where you almost wish you were able to change the overall style of your house if the mood struck but without too many headaches. Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore everything about our home, we are both naturally drawn to clean white surfaces with a shocking pop of color. But over the last few weeks, and it could just be because of winter, my eye has been caught more earthy, rustic and slightly rough around the edges style for home decor so much so that we have been dreaming of it for our ‘next’ house. I personally love the idea of exposed brick with lashings of color, it brings so much character and warmth to a room. I’d love to know how many different dream home styles you have. x
~ bookcase ~ bedding ~ decor ~
Happy Friday everyone, gosh what a weird and full on week it has been I’m very happy to be nearing another long weekend! For those who have been lovely enough to follow Made From Scratch for a while, you’ll know that I love neutral palettes with bright pops of color which is just how we set up our house. Now that we’ve settled into our home I want to start really decorating with more color and wonderful objects and art, the first thing that we really do need is a bookcase {how incredible is the on above?} to display our books, art and crazy little objects we have collected over the years. I’m also crazy about bed linen, if I could I would probably have a new duvet cover ever other week, there are just too many beautiful ones out there! I’d love to know what your next project around the house is and what your plans are over the long weekend are I think were going to get Kora a kennel… I hope you have a wonderful weekend and it isn’t too soggy. xx
Hello everyone, its so lovely to be back from our little break away up north. We went to a very tiny fishing town called Tinopai, it is the perfect place to go and catch up on reading, sleeping, a spot of fishing and doing nothing really. It also gave me some time to think about what I want to do this year with the blog, I’ve some idea’s tucked away that I will hopefully be able show you through out the year.
One that I’m going to start right away is trying a new recipe every week, I’ve so many recipe books and food magazines so I thought I should put them to good use. So starting this week I will be trying something new and different to share with you all, no doubt some will probably fail and some will be a wild success… but isn’t that what cooking and baking is all about, pushing your limit and trying something new? I would love to know what you’ve been up to over the summer holidays, we haven’t been able to do nearly as much around the house as we’d hoped due the the terrible rain – but we were able to start a little corner garden! x
When Ben and I bought our first home in April 2011, it was by far the biggest financial decision we have ever made together the whole journey of renovating, painting and so many sleepless nights has been one of the most rewarding things we have done. After six full months of renovating while living at my amazing parents house we moved into our home in October 2011 and have loved every minute since. Naturally with any home, your to-do list is pages and pages long but there is honestly nothing more exciting than knowing that there is always something to do, something to improve or completely redo and of course creating a gorgeous garden! We are so proud of our home, we hope that you like what we have done – I promise there will be a lot more before and after photos to come!
click read more for all the before and after photos!
~ pinwheel ~ lemonade ~ peonies ~
We’ve only been in our lovely new house for a couple nights now but it really does already feel like our home, I love how quickly it transformed from a chaotic messy building site into a calm, clean and wonderful place to sit and be amazed at what we’ve achieved in a year. I hope everyone has been having a lovely week so far, I really would love to hear what you’ve been up to. I hope your all ready for Ash’s delicious gluten free baking tomorrow, as always its oh so delicious. xx
Oh my what an insane four days we’ve had, I’m so terribly sorry for the lack of posts lately, but this is the first time I’ve turned my computer on since Thursday night… We have been flat out all day moving, cleaning, packing, unpacking {yep I have a whole draw just for baking!} and doing this around our amazing builders and tilers. I can’t wait to show you some better pictures, everything is unpacked and sparkly, but I want to show you our new home with some beautiful photos, not just taken from my iphone. Last night was our first night in our new home and it was as though a huge weight had been lifted from our shoulders. We realised that this is the first time in 2 1/2 years that we dont have to run around planning things, and its total bliss! We can’t wait for our house warming party this weekend and just to sit back and enjoy our beautiful new home. Thank you all so so much for your lovely comments and support this year, it means the world to us. xx
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