The Home Journal - Giveaway

Today & for the rest of this week you have the opportunity to win a gorgeous handmade scarf by Australian brand Once Was Lost. I've interviewed Laura of Once Was Lost over at The Home Journal where you can enter the giveaway. Do it!

Beach Towel Giveaway

The Home Journal has a gorgeous giveaway this week... and since I'm a contributor and not allowed to enter the competition myself, I thought I should share so one of you could possibly win it!

Up for grabs is a Beach Candy cotton turkish towel in mandarin. It's so lovely!

The competition is open until midnight on Friday (24.1.14), so hop across here to enter.

Peter Jensen SS2014

If you know me at all you will know I like big t-shirt style dresses. I just like sleeves... And these designs by Peter Jensen are so so great. The Diana SS2014 collection is full of desirables...

Photos by Paul Bliss

Alpha Cruxis

Alpha Cruxis is a Berlin-based design project by Australian designer Rebecca Martin. Working with leather, Alpha Cruxis creates sculptural, minimal design objects celebrating material, technique and form.

Using traditional leatherworking techniques, each Alpha Cruxis piece is cut, sewn and finished by hand in our Berlin studio from the highest quality Italian vegetable tanned leather.

The debut 2013 bag collection from Alpha Cruxis ‘GEOMETRY’ takes shape in five striking, minimal designs using 3mm thick black leather and silver hardware.

Orla Kiely

The always stylish and desirable Orla Kiely has released her SS14 Resort Collection and boy its cute!

Weylandts

South African Furniture and Lifestyle retailer Weylandts is coming to Australia. The family run store started in 1964 in Nambia and has for the past 25 years been under the care of Chris Weylandt. Known internationally for its curation of a mix of products sources from around the world that features raw materials, modern designs and sustainable techniques. 

CEO Chris Weylandt says of the new Melbourne store, due to open November 15,  'I have always known that Australia and South Africa share a similar appreciation for the home and good living, and in particular, Melbourne with its culture centred on design and the arts. I knew that it was the perfect location for the first Australian Weylandts store.' The Melbourne store will feature furniture, homewares, fashion and food. So keen to do a trip down and check it out!!

Marion Cotillard

My favourite actress, Marion Cotillard is the epitome of beauty.

Zakka Mart

I'm not normally one to care about Halloween and i'll admit I had to look up specifically what date Halloween actually falls (it's today)... but this year I stumbled across a few cute ideas for costumes. We don't really do Halloween parties here but where I go rock climbing at The Edge, there is an opportunity to dress up tonight to get free entry for climbing. Tempting... but I think i'd end up spending more on a costume then the actual entry fee!

Anyway, this little store Zakka Mart has the cutest collection of mugs to disguise your face and transform you into a pig, cat or moustached man. And they're so affordable!

The Home-Journal

So not much action has been happening by me over at The Home-Journal recently but this week I talk about dressing your home like you dress yourself. It's an interesting concept, but works...

Read it here.

Malene Birger's Spanish farmhouse

I recently stumbled across this house on Est and instantly fell head over heels in love. It belongs to Danish fashion designer Malene Birger but is actually on the market at the moment for a small sum of 1,295,000 Euros (if you're interested)!! 

The renovated farmhouse is located in the valley of S’Arracó in Andratx in south-west Mallorca, Spain. Tempted?

Lyn Devon

New York Fashion Week is still ongoing, and the amount of incredible designs on show are gorgeous! These designs are by New York designer Lyn Devon who was recently married. Her Spring 2014 collection is inspired by her pre-wedding honeymoon in the Sahara Desert and Marrakech. I love the lines, colours and classic look it invokes...

Rogan Square Chair

Recently found on Pinterest,  the Rogan Square Chair has actually been around forever... like so far back as 2006... but this is the first I have seen of it. NYC based fashion designer Rogan Gregory created the chair along with some lighting designs. The combination of materials: vegetable tanned leather and raw steel, creates this mid-century style of chair in a very modern and sleek form. I don't think it's available now, however to stumble upon an original would be quite the score.

Nina Ricci Resort 2014

Nina Ricci's Resort 2014 just makes me long for Spring to come. It's so close and we are getting a bit of that summery blue skies and sun but the cold air is such a put-off. Anyway, this collection says it all...

(ps - that third image of the beautiful yellow dress just makes me scream 'posture!!' Classic models...)

Photos found here