Tea party

Miss A recently turned 7 and to celebrate I am inviting a number of her friends and their mothers to a tea party. There's nothing like playing ladies for the afternoon!

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Bunting will definitely be involved...

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as will the colour pink, flowers and pretty tea cups.

image via Absolutely Beautiful Things

On the menu, bite-sized treats like these

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and these

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and absolutely some of these

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Linda Roberston

Following a recent morning sojourn to have an amused perusal of the Bald Archies, I dropped into a local gallery on my way home. After viewing the current pieces on display, my heart leapt when I spied this tucked away in a corner. Entitled Dancer 2, it is one in a series of three by Melbourne artist Linda Roberts.

I just LOVE the movement and energy in this image, not to mention the ochre and brown tones - in person these are much more vibrant and clear.

I like to think that if we hadn't unexpectedly replaced our hot water system the previous day, this lovely lady might have been mine :-)

One for the Mums

"The most important thing she'd learned
over the years was that there was no way
to be a perfect mother and a million
ways to be a good one." (Jill Churchill)

So true.

My Christmas snapshot

Wonderful friends from out of town. Rainy and cool weather. Lego. Naps. Laid back and lazy. Perfect.

A bit of front-door Australiana.

Placecards for the Christmas table.

Shannon Fricke's Sense of style; colour + space, a Christmas present from my wonderful husband - a lovely surprise! Thank you Mr T xxx

Christmas princess-beauty No.1

Christmas princess-beauty No.2

Fresh

During these dry, hot, inland summer days, I'm drawn to a refreshing, soothing palette of white, shades of turquoise and touches of silver such as the one used by Leslie Shewring in her latest Colour Me Pretty posting. I love those ribbons and wrapping paper in the third image down (and, of course, Miss A thinks the birds are just adorable).

I had wanted to use this colour theme in my Christmas decorating this year, but ended up going with naturals, red and silver as this suits my lounge room decor and I could mostly use what I already have. Ok, I did purchase a linen tablecloth and matching serviettes and some silver baubles, but I figure these are a great base, totally practical etc (insert cheeky smile). Hoping that I may get to post some pics of my Christmas efforts....we'll see!

Really liking the sweetness and simplicity of that little paper wrapped vase (above). These blue-turquoise tones were my favourite colours during my mid-late primary school years and seem to be appealing all over again. They made an appearance in a fave skirt, swimmers, jewellry, hairbrushes, dreams and drawings. Perhaps it's the dusty season, where the heat rises in shimmering waves, perhaps it's the influence of Miss A's preference for these cool tones over pinks (check this post for great ideas), or perhaps it's a shifting within....maybe it's all of the above. Whichever...turquoise is my new-again friend.

All images: Leslie Shewring