I haven’t written here for a while. Much of the summer I’ve been away on holiday, plus I’ve changed jobs (the 9-6ish kind that pays the bills), moved house, started dogsitting little miss Winnie (the pug), AND am about to move my lovely fella into the house too – eep! not 100% about that last bit as he sits beside me singing along to TV ads as I write – !!!

One of the most pleasurable parts of the above is the furnishing of our lovely new home – on my meager (but thankfully existent) public service wage!

So here’s how it’s looking now – obviously much more to be done, and crap iPhone photos… but you get the idea.

The stairway (pictured) and bathroom are what I have my sights set on now. I’m thinking some kind of messy display of pictures hung in the stairs; a mixture of photos, art, fabric patterns and random bits. Any sugguestions/inspiration? send them my way!

I’ve bought a sofa from Ikea that I plan to replace the covers with some gorgeous Designers Guild slipcovers from Bemz, some Eames chair knock-offs from bluesuntree, the new table from made.com I wrote about a while ago – which I’ve promptly fallen in love with!

I can’t help but be inspired by my previous home, the Garden Flat (designed by the one and only miss Dinon). But now that I’m hooked on interior design, the design blogs out there have been amazing inspiration – especially these ones out of the U.S. – and most especially this one Copy Cat Chic. Perfect for resourceful, penniless public service worker bees like me.

This bathroom is going to be my starting point – love the grey, dark wood and white towels. Fresh!

15 minute LORN mix on the Brainfeeder website from Mary Anne Hobbs show on BBC Radio 1.

DOWNLOAD MIX HERE

Street Art - The Graffiti Revolution

CultureLabel.com is a new web shop that brings together all of the shop products from over 60 galleries, artists, museums and so forth. That’s pretty wonderful, considering how many times I’ve made an effort to visit the V&A or Tate just to get birthday presents, postcards and lovely things for my home.

So, just to make my lazy weekends at home even more expensive, this great website is on my radar (anyone else thought staying in over the weekend would be a good idea because you’d save money? these days I always end up spending way more on Amazon & eBay… eek!).

And they have a blog. And they seem like nice people, in their team photo. So go forth my friends, and spend!

will make the hipsters go away?

this shit is funny, though I’m a bit disturbed by the latfh g-string available in their ‘fucking hipstore’.

“Be honest. If you were a little kid, would you let me touch your privates?”

This came to me as an email link from someone at work – usually I don’t bother clicking through to the supposedly funny things people have found to waste time at work, but this one came with the message “Normally, I wouldn’t. But too good. Just too damn good.” He was right! Golden, in all possible ways…

Double your pleasure. Double your built-in chaps.

Quite a few years ago my mate Rae Begley and I used to put on a party, named The Party (yes, the Peter Sellers movie… it’s in my all time Top 5) at a little bar in Melbourne, Loop. We wore vintage dresses, played 80s pop alongside new indie-electro-rock and then always some soul/disco/beats. I always got really drunk and never mixed the records! We also did the graveyard shift at RRR once in a while and generally had a great time about town. Good Times! Then Rae moved to London. Then I moved to L.A.. Then Rae moved to Sydney. Then I moved to London!

These days Rae still calls Sydney home and she is headmistress extraordinaire at the lovely little PR Agency, Little Hero. They’re the home to many a great fashion label, do pop up shops with brands like Cheap Monday and her blog is cooler than Kanyes’! Such deserved success for a truly talented lady. Checkit!