My name is JJ and I have a problem with love of shoes. Just because they spread across two closets, multiple baskets, and a free standing 5-shelf storage unit with a double row of boxes on each level doesn't mean I need help, really... I've been much better in the past few years though - and other than a set of hiking shoes for the Inca Trail and a pair of black bad-ass boots during our last trip I haven't bought any in ages. However my niece is walking now and so it only made … [Read more...]
March 2013 Calendar Printable: Basil & Walnut Pesto
After a lovely response to my February Chocolate Macadamia Spread Calendar Printable I figured I'd do a March one - and almost a week before the month even starts, imagine that! You know the drill, click on the above image, or on the button to the left, or right here to download the free calendar page. File size: 2.2 MB zip, includes pdf and jpg formats. Please note: This pdf calendar printable is free for personal use. If you’d like to share it, please link back to this post with … [Read more...]
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice…
...that's what little girls are made of. And lets be honest, whether we are 6 or 30-something or 70-something we all like sweet, pretty things, you know it's true. Things and Stuff and More Things Thursday is brought to you this week by a couple of sweet links a SABH announcement and a Christmas gift flash-back. Up first the food: I remember years ago being told that you could grow a pineapple from the crown. Turns out it's true, no joke. Check out these step by step instructions from … [Read more...]
Grandma Takes a Trip
Before we left on our little adventure there was, amongst other things, a small matter of what on earth to wear to Blogher '11. There were parties to attend after all, and I needed sparkly items ... and I'm sure there were a multitude of other reasons I made up at the time to justify why I had to go vintage shopping on the last weekend before we flew out ... 'Grandma Takes a Trip' in Surry Hills was recommended to me by a friend as a place to find something fun. I had been meaning to go there … [Read more...]
Hotel Indigo – San Diego
We have been known to go on 'reasonably' well planned trips having booked no accommodation other than perhaps the first city on the itinerary. In America-land this is not too much of a big deal as pretty much any small town you drive into will have a minimum of 4 chain hotels, all only metres apart, all for around $75 per night including free wi-fi ... there is a very good chance that we spent two weeks driving down the west coast in this manner a few years back. In Europe it is feasible to … [Read more...]
Not too sure they are old…
...but still cool. On yet another lunchtime wander though Vinnies I found these little lovelys. $5 later and they were mine - all mine. Now what to cook in them?? Thinking they look good for individual Apple Crumbles.... … [Read more...]
Sunday design
Last weekend I saw these at a market in the city: The company is called Red Dog Design - the rustic look appealed to my love of old things [I am most definitely a stone and wood girl a thousand times before concrete and steel, blame it on growing up in a 100 year old house], and the possibilities to my perpetually itchy travel feet. So my question to you is this, would you have a tower of the places you've been, or the ones you want to go to? And this little place, just a really cute … [Read more...]
