Shower frills

image via Anthropologie

How pretty is this?  The colours are amazing.

Bison

Gorgeous... have you been to Bison in Canberra?  Such beautiful colours in the ceramics.  I wanted to buy the whole lot and display on mass at home.  A lovely, lovely friend of mine bought be a stunning raspberry coloured piece years ago as a present and I have been meaning to get there ever since.  Their products are stocked all over the world, but there is nothing like seeing them like this.  The colours are divine and I had a lovely time just soaking it in.

Worth a mention also is the National Gallery of Australia.  My sweet Canberran friend describes it passionately as "a gift to all Australians".  Perfectly said.  I love how much we as Australians love our home towns and sell them and their assets to all that will listen.  I know I am guilty of this too.  Perhaps if you don't like where you are, get out and speak to others and find out exactly what it is they love about it that you might not have discovered yet.

The National Gallery is such a stunning place.  Not just the art within it but also the building design.  Canberra is certainly not short of stunning gifts for all Australians.  It is well worth a visit and remember if you haven't been, don't knock it!

Green - the good ones

images via House and Garden

I hope you are all settling into early 2011 with a relaxing mini-break.  We have been laying pretty low and it's been very nice to be at home all together.  Lots of quiet catch ups with friends and family.  The indulgent eating has to stop at some point surely?

Do you have any resolutions?  Apart from the obvious health related ones that pepper my list every year, I intend to keep on blogging, go to the cinema more often and revert back to the one I made in 2009, which was to see more live music.  It was about the only one I didn't break! And not only that but I saw some great live acts. 

Now onto to the green above.  It's quite refreshing to see a 'pop' of green (instead of that yellow that I'm always banging on about).  Green just makes me feel good and I think it is because it is so intrinsically linked with nature that it blends beautifully from outside to inside.  Especially the bright green in the last shot. And not just any green, all greens - olive, emerald, jade, mint, lime, moss, chartreuse, army green, British racing green.  Whoops, hang on... perhaps not bottle green as it reminds me too much of my school uniform which was especially ugly when teamed with red and grey.  What were they thinking when that one was devised?  Yuck, dispose of those hideous thoughts or memories from your mind with the following picture because it certainly didn't look like this!

image via here via The Sartorialist

Prettiness all in a row

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Colour blocking works well in certain spaces especially with lots of white to frame it.  To me it's like another form of artwork in a room.  I think it's done particularly nicely in this room.