how is the view?

My 'last meal' would be...

Prosciutto (preferably a hunk, Jamon would do too)
Brie (preferably a gooey triple cream wheel)
Figs (depending on the season- quince paste would suffice out of season)
A baguette
And a perfectly ripe and blushing Clingstone Peach.

What's yours?

Note: Sorry for the posting onslaught. It's new policy. Blog Heaps. As is eating any of the above (heaps). The figs are nearly ready!

My friend Aaron's sister is getting married this June in Melbourne and I've been helping her out as she is new to Melbourne having been in London for a few years. Most of the sites for this wedding business are ridiculously lavish and OTT but in trawling through some I found this dinner party that I would be pretty happy to go to. Sure its kitsch, and perhaps a little twee,
(shh! don't tell Jack, it'll be evidence in my teasing, annoying, 'you are so twee sarah' 'I AM NOT' argument) but I'd definitely have a good time with a hand-made owl and some marshmallows!

I have an exciting new project coming up in the next few weeks!
I'll give you a hint:

trotski & ash

whoop!

x

I may have posted about this site before. But geez its good. I know its a bit 'hot right now'. But The Selby is really excellent to browse if you feel like escaping to stay at someone else's house. Sometimes I imagine that I'm just hanging out at these houses. Especially the lady with the pink room & mirror. Awesome. (click on the pics to go to that shoot in The Selby)
x

Saipua is one of my favourite blogs.
A florist in NYC with arrangements that make my heart melt.
Not just flowers either. Art and food too.

A friend lost her parents in the fires. Another lost her house I think but I can't get a hold of her. I'll just stare at her beautiful paintings and hope that they can get through this ridiculous atrocious disaster...

update: Camilla in St. Andrews is alive, but was in amongst a property that was devastated whilst defending her partner's house.

Things are happening on the Northcote project.
The small changes to the rear stable at the back of
the house are under construction and they look gooooood.
It's so so exciting to see them underway!
These are my amazing clients during our site meeting
on Friday inspecting the new stair to the proposed studio space.
The bottom image is the timber stair to the garden
which is being protected from the sun,
before it gets its coating, by some card.

x S

I'm back and working on a new manifesto for 'how is the view'
ATP Buller - Tathra - ATP Sydney were all amazing.
Be back tomorrow with updates and some pretty pictures.
x

Christmas 2008

every year we have a pretend christmas dinner
there's pass the parcel phase of the evening...
a delicious dinner
and when all of the chocolate panettone runs out there
is nothing left to do but...

get stuck into the pinata.

orphans christmas breakfast.
note the very large jug of excellent bloody mary's to quell the hangovers!

Just before Christmas a neighbour came over and asked if I could mind the family fish while they were on holiday in NZ. I said yes of course, and he mentioned that it was quite 'ugly' and beige grey and little. When he returned he was holding a bowl with a hard-to-see fish in it. It's name is Sausage Roll.

He's actually doing fine, and quite cute, I'll have to stop myself from buying him a friend though.

x S

I've been collecting old abandoned photos ever since I wandered into a stuffed closet kind of second hand shop on the top of Paddington Hill in Brisbane, 2001. I don't know why they intrigue me, some of them I buy to say "Ha! You didn't invent the wheel! They've been doing windows like that since 1840!", or for the inscriptions on the back (I often buy books for amazing inscriptions/dedications too- but thats another project), or just for a little snippet of some kind of beautiful history that I know nothing of.

I'm starting to collate them, here are the first few.

x S

from a collection of photos by John Rawlings at foto_decadent.

Good Morning!
Happy New Year!
I'm back!
I pledge I'll blog my socks off (handmade crochet vintage socks of course) this year.
I had a brilliant celebration on NYE. Apart from the fact that my love had to go to Qld at the last minute to help his ill father with the bees. Out in Western Qld Jack is collecting hives slowly and calmly (so as not to get stung) and extracting honey. Bees are smart amazing little insects, I'll be excited to hear some stories and taste the creamy deliciousness of fresh GOOD honey.
Next week we head to ATP and then on to the beach AND THEN to Sydney ATP. I am so in need of a holiday, I'm most looking forward to sitting by the beach in Tathra and eating delicious food and swimming heaps!

Well happy new year everyone. There is something to be said about early morning dappled light playing on my curtains, distant train horns sounding at the corssings and Gold 104 with my cup of tea this Saturday morning but I'll save that for another time.

x S

kuwaii A/W09 'shadows in paradise'
styled by me!

hope you like. x

Sometimes I get confused about what it is I love about Architecture. Every now and then something reminds me. This is one of those things.
via materialicious