Just thought I would share these two beautiful pages! The above from Country Style Magazine, love the layout and the swing and below from the Herald Sun Newspaper Home Magazine last weekend! Love the eco products by Bird Textile, the fabulous designs and shop ( Red is gorgeous and love the jars!!! Check it out here!!!
A celebration today! This is my two hundredth post on typepad!!! It came along so fast and I wanted to say thankyou to all who have stopped by to visit me and send me wonderful comments during this time! I think I may have a little wander down memory lane today and check out my archives from many months ago and have a little afternoon tea to celebrate!!! I'd love you to join me for something delicious to eat and a lovely cup of english style tea (in a beautiful cup with saucer of course!) Here's one of my most favorite images in my art diary ( from Vogue Living!) to get you in the mood and those gorgeous blue 40's shoes just get me everytime! Swoon!!!
A few images to inspire from my scrapbook / art diary for this weekend! I just love this cabinet, (note to self ... must buy something like this for myself one day!!!!) gorgeous colour palette in this one too! The image is from Country Style Magazine. Below is my new motto ... (we are having a huge house clean out at the moment!) This one is from Elle Decoration (... note to self I buy way to many magazines!!!) 
and the lovely anastasia sent me a link to this amazing and inspiring online Zine and a its maker's blog ... design for mankind! Thanks for the inspiration and all the gorgeous mood boards!!!! ... I could just indulge in this all day, if only I had the time! Happy and creative Weekend to all!
I've been tagged by my sister to name my five favourite places to eat, and have discovered just like her that it is hard to pick only five! So in celebration of all my fave places to eat in the beach towns near where I live I've created a mini dining tour down and around the Bellarine Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road... take a scenic ride with me ...
Fave Places in Geelong ... Stop in for morniing Tea and a plate of homemade apple pie at the Wintergarden, or a bowl of fabulous fries and mayo and chilli sauce at the Wharfshed on the Waterfront and if you need to warm up a Cinnamon Chai Latte from Gobble in the East Geelong Village is a real treat!
Head down the coast to these wonderful eateries ...
Portarlington ...the Woodfire Bakery for fresh baked loafs of bread, lamingtons and traditional Vanilla Slices
Barwon Heads ... the Starfish Bakery do a fabulous cuppacino and At The Heads overlooking the water on the Pier have a beautiful fine Dining room with delicious Seafood on the Menu. I've celebrated a few wedding anniversaries in this spot!
Queenscliff ... a must stop for lunch is the Panache Creperie, with sweet and savory crepes and pancakes and lovely old fashioned service to match the town's gorgeous old buildinds and hotels.
Travelling along Great Ocean Road ... Stop in at the Tearooms at the Airey's Inlet Lighthouse for Tea and Scones, or Skinny Legs Cafe for a mean Chocolate Milkshake and once you reach Apollo Bay, the Bay Leaf Cafe is a must for Roasted Chicken, Dill and Mayonaise Sandwiches.
Thanks for coming on a scrumptious trip, I'm Hungry, hope you can make it for a real one some day soon!
ART DIARY ... A new Collage...
Introducing Duchess a la Chocolat presenting her new Parfume, the irresistable and exquisite Le Cinnamon Latte Eau De Toilette. A delicious blend of notes to tease every coffee bean and spice loving man in the known universe, they'll fall over each other just to get closer to you, especially around mid morning!
I just love the smell of coffee, we don't make it at home ( tea is the speciality here!), but see it as a treat to go out and order from a local cafe and indulge in something naughty to eat at the same time. Little Drew is already a Bubbacino boy and gets upset if his doesn't come with a marshmellow!I wonder what would happen if there really was a Cinnamon Latte Perfume, I loved to smell it, it would make a lovely candle smell, don't you think?
A page from my art diary and a sort of poem ? It's a long and lazy weekend and we are spending some of it at my husband's family beach house on the other side of the bay. I'm quite looking forward to it, even though we are lucky enough to go to the beach whenever we like as there are so many beautiful ones so close by, its nice to be in a different enviroment and explore another spot. 
And it's so different in Winter and being able to curl up in front of a roaring fire is divine. I dream of my own home by the sea and collect pictures of my dream home, here's a few that inspired me ! Have a wonderful weekend!
P.S. If you love white, light, beautiful beachy homes, you must visit here! It was a breathtaking visual feast for the eyes!
It rained and rained last night! But beautiful Blue Skies today filled with thousands of white fluffy clouds! An Inspiration Art Diary entry to celebrate ... beautiful soft blues and pastels. We've been to the park at the beach, made a turtle out of sand and now it's afternoon Tea and Chocolate time! Have a beautiful Blue Weekend all!
A few more pages from my art diary, fresh and bright today with milkwood and creamy hues and some lovely bright limes, blues and pinks thrown in!...
I love big bright white rooms and white furniture that you can add to and change into all kinds of moods, colours and scenery!
It must be why I chosse the house we are living in now! With its big white rooms, varnished floorboards and big windows you can see the whole garden through! 
And tomorrow I can't wait to show off some new artworks ... a fabulous peacock lady and a new watercolour too! ... staytuned !!!
Happy lazy SundDAY aFTERNOON, my flutterby's until tomorrow!!!!
Run, Run, as fast as you can you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread man!
Yesterday we had a family cooking session and made some delicious Gingerbread Men! Drew had lots of fun mixing the dough and cutting out cookies! Here's my favorite one, he got eaten quite quicky after this photo was taken!
I have been inspired today to share some of my art scrapbook pages too! I love to make Visual Diaries all the time from pages and pictures in magazines. I love to keep images that inspire my artwork, the colours I use, a pose of a model or the feel of a room! I love to create colour schemes on paper and adding interesting bits and pieces to them! Today is a bit of a hot pink and dusty velvet blue theme! Oh and I just adore paint charts too! I'm the Girl in the hardware store picking out charts to take home and not buying any paint, Although British Paints In Colour Sample Pots are fabulous for Canvas's. I might continue to share some more pages here more regularly! And I love clicking over to Treats and Treasures to be inspired by the ongoing art diary /blog being created there by Marieke! 
I also wanted to share a link to one of my favorite Melbourne Stores who have finally got themselves a website and I am hoping that eventually I may be able to shop from it too! Douglas and Hope stock gorgeous handmade things and the most beautiful patchwork quilts I have ever seen! Click on their Gallery to view the essence of their stores!
