Lining our verge are three big olive trees. I’ve watched the small green fruit get bigger and darker, until the branches started drooping with the…
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Konmari – A Few Thoughts
It’s been over a month since I began the big, once-and-for-all cleanup of my house using the Konmari Method described in Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying…
Konmari: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
You may have heard people raving online about how many bags they’ve thrown out, posessions that “spark joy”, or the quiet pleasure of folding a piece of clothing…
One Thing: home office makeover
I am not naturally a neat person. As much as I idealise minimalism, my personal ‘decorating’ style definitely tends more towards the chaotic than the…
Harvest
This weekend’s harvest: Fourteen grape tomatoes, of various ripeness levels. I’ve found that they tend to split or get attacked by bugs if I let…
Snapshots
Just a few random photos that didn’t seem to fit anywhere else – some little snapshots of my life. 1. Simple salads are my go-to…
Instax Love
I have finally gotten around to organising all my Instax photos, including ones from my wedding and our Eurotrip, into cute little albums. I had…
Feeling like Summer
After almost two months of ‘spring’ that feels like it keeps backsliding towards winter, this weekend it really feels like summer. Perfect blue skies, searing…
In the Garden
Spring has finally decided to show up here in Perth, and after a lot of rainy weekends conditions were right to do a bit of…
Easy DIY Cushion Cover Tutorial
Took me a little while, but here is the cushion tutorial which I promised earlier! I would like to admit here that I am not…
New (old) Sewing Cabinet!
Lately I’ve been trying my best to source things that I want secondhand wherever possible. Normally I’m not very good at it – op-shopping takes…
Minor Adjustments
We have now been our place for almost six months now, and I’m still tweaking things here and there now that I have a better…