Archive | March, 2011

We love Style Collective

Our beautiful Hawaiian ‘Pin-up’ Girls were shakin it in Style Collective’s Urban Living editorial today. Made and designed in Australia, this is our most popular wall decor collection, designed to delight in your coastal home. http://www.stylecollective.com.au/livingstyle.asp?idcontent=1733 Long Island Iced Tea..anyone? Our most popular piece ….. Hawaiian ‘Pin-Up’ Girls in horizontal distressed frame. Shaken or stirred??? [...]

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Ciao Daylight Savings :(

It’s been getting harder and harder to get up in the mornings, it’s getting darker, cooler and a little rainy, so us southerners are looking forward to the end of daylight savings. It means another summer has gone, warm nights, bright sunny days, prawns and avocado skewers and the smell of sunscreen on your skin. [...]

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Spring time in the Netherlands!

For those that missed it, I have to share yet again these amazing pictures of the tulip farms in the Netherlands in April. It’s like a feast for my eyes, I even have it as a screen saver, it’s just so beautiful, I want to run through them!! Happy Spring to our Northern Hemisphere folk, whilst [...]

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Coastal Obsession of the Month – Lobsters!

I’ll be honest…. Lobster is my number 1 favourite seafood, covered with a mornay sauce and melted cheese, it’s debaucherously good. Washed down with a crisp champagne it should be illegal! Eating aside, adding a touch of lobster to your soft furnishings and tabletop brings a casual sense of fun and leaves us salivating for cracking [...]

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Rattan – Chic Tropic Style

I love Rattan, it has that relaxed tropical feel, whilst also being quite elegant when displayed with beautiful candles, shells or magazines. Go for a darker shade for the cooler months and during spring/summer the white wash creates that faded ‘left in the sun’ look. Our new range includes Vintage Rattan Butlers Trays, Rattan Cutlery [...]

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Turtle Island – Fiji only $275K for 7 nights!!

Have you ever imagined having an island all to yourself? Well dream no more, Turtle Island in Fiji can be all yours …..for $275,000 for 7 nights! Brilliant, thats roughly $39,000 a day! Bargain. You’ve got to admit, it is paradise. Plenty of room to move and get lost on this island, especially if it’s just [...]

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Welcome to our new home…..

A new blog design, so cool and exciting, like squeezing into that dress that didn’t fit last summer because you resisted the Cinnabons:) There will be much fun and frivolity here, we shall look at gorgeous places to stay around the globe (if only to dream), the latest trends in home wares, making your house [...]

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