What I've been up to

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With time having snatched me off my backside and challenging my energy supplies, this poor little blog has suffered a lack of love.  Here's a little of what I've been up to (ok, I'm justifying my absence...)

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1.  Final ballet rehearsals and presentations have not only ripped my feet to pieces, they've had me battling every urge to sleep through any available morning hour. Thank goodness a no-pain-no-gain attitude (towards ballet) makes me happier than a kid with cake!

2.  I have been head-down-bum-up focusing on my latest work assignment...until I started questioning everything when I came across the book How to Find Fulfilling Work via this blog.

3.  Whistling Christmas carols.

4.  Not the sort who enjoys dodging Christmas shopping crowds, I decided to be organised and get the pressies sorted damn quick. If I had London's top 10 shops at my doorstep, I imagine I'd be a touch more inclined to drag the process out.

Jacaranda

5.  Time with my boy has been low on availability so when we've snatched a minute from our schedules, we've ditched the predictable and taken to lying side-by-side under the Jacarandas of the North Adelaide parklands, chatting the minutes away watching the evening light fade. Bliss.

Hope you're spending your time doing most, if not all, things you love!

To a merry one

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Wishing a wonderful Christmas and a happy and healthy start to the New Year.
Back in 2012 x

Put the love in the coconut

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1 of 15 hand screen printed acrylic paint prints

tea towel print Via

Combine the success story of Melbourne born fashion label Gorman with typographic artist/superstar Rachel Castle and you get one awesome stocking filler (hint)! High summer 2011/12 has just been upped a notch with the Gorman & Castle collaboration bringing a high colour, tropical flavoured pop of brilliant styling and fun design. The collection features beautiful artwork, bedlinen, home-wear and of course some gorgeous threads. And yup, in case you're left wondering, I'd be nothing less than smitten with a stocking filled with the stuff.

Deck the halls

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Christmas is only 3 weeks away... and I've been missing in action...hopeless with blogging as life has recently grabbed me by the...er...baubles, and spun me 'round (all positive) till it dropped me head-on with the most wonderful of X-mas decorations. Safe landing, I reckon. Available in 10 shades, these Pantone glass Christmas Balls by Seletti are quite possibly the best things goin' round!