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What a dream come true! My living room/kitchen has been featured on The Room Illuminated blog. The lovely and talented Kate found Homely Creatures through the Pedestrian TV Blogster awards when we both came up as finalists. Kate got in touch when she saw that I lived and Melbourne and asked if I would like to have my living room photographed for her awesome blog which is all about taking a peak into the favourite rooms of every day people. Naturally I said yes.

What a treat to have a visit from Kate! Within minutes I felt like I had known her for years which is a neat quality to have when you make a habit of going around and photographing the inside of stranger's homes.

Kate has found a creative way to quench her curiosity for the stranger's abode at the same time as improving her photography skills. We can all benefit from this by following her blog which is fulling up with heart warming stories of rooms, furniture and families.

Here are some of Kate's lovely shots of my open plan lounge/kitchen and you can check out the whole story here on The Room Illuminated.

 







If you live in Melbourne and know someone who has an interesting room full of memories and stories, get in touch with Kate.

I found this sneaky spider hiding underneath a rose petal in a pretty garden in London. I love the peach and fire-like colours and how delicate the spider and the petal seems. That's another great thing about living in London and surrounds is the pretty English gardens and perfect rose bushes on each street. It would take all of my self control not to pinch them to brighten up a gloomy bedroom. Compared to some parts of Australia, there is also a lack of creepy-crawlies in England, so I felt quite special meeting tiny mister spider.

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!!

This Friday's Folly includes my awesome friend Christine. Christine is the kind of girl who always looks good, and has the most amazing clothes, accessories and hair. She is loads of fun and, like her pretty kitty is very photogenic. Look at their lovely blue eyes! I took this pic of her at her old house in Milton. Happy Friday!!!

Went for a dip at the local swimming pool today and got to use these awesome green retro recliners. Chilling poolside in the sun eating a rainbow ice block is my cure for any summertime blues.

I took this photo in Malaysia of a beautiful pale pink flamingo. Its neck bends so perfectly it almost looks like origami!

Admittedly I've been a bit quiet for the last week. I have no real excuse! The temperatures have been soaring lately so time to hit the beach - a visit to Stradbroke Island, where I have been going ever since I was a kid for family holidays. This trip also coincided with me finally joining Instagram, so these are just a small sample of the many snaps I took!

The first is of Main Beach where we took a long drive. Main Beach is 32km long! The little blue shed under a mango tree used to be the outdoor dunny at a beach cottage has been owned by family for generations. The last three shots I took from the Dunwich ferry station where things look much the same as they did when I was a child.

Oh well, back to reality!

 

Visited this Mexican place in Southbank (Brisbane) the other night. The décor was sweet but the tacos were crap. True story. HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

When travelling through Turin, Italy I had the pleasure of staying in my cousin's gorgeous apartment. Complete with chandeliers and delightfully retro kitchen I couldn't resist but to take some photos. This one's my fav! So romantic...

When you live somewhere, its easy to ignore the great sights and and experiences within your reach. I live in Brisbane, Australia and I have never seen the Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock or even visited our next door neighbour New Zealand. In the same vein, its also hard to find inspiration in your own home town. (Well that is unless you were brought up in Paris or similar).

But recently I have had a paradigm shift. I'm changing the way I see my city and my country. It's too easy to just decide that there is nothing worth urgently discovering out there, no beauty that can compare to that I found in cities like London, Amsterdam and San Francisco. Each city, even the one I take for granted, has its hidden treasures to be discovered, and I can be inspired - I just have to change the lens that I am looking through.

One of my favourite homely creatures is the fox. So this week's perfect pin is "Fox cubs after sunset" photographed by Lise De Serres. Cute eh?

Speaking of pins you can now follow me on Pinterest.

Think that is nifty? - I have been getting so organised lately you can also now subscribe to Homely Creatures email updates (top right of this web page). Who wouldn't want daily email updates like this one about cute fox cubs?? Someone with no heart, that's who.

Along with flamingos and pineapples, parrots are getting some well deserved attention lately as cool creatures. I took this photo of a very friendly macaw in Malaysia, as it was the next best thing to taking him home with me. Aren't his colours just stunning?

Santa Cruz Boardwalk at sunset? A wanna-be photographers dream!! I wish I could close my eyes and be back on that 100 year old wooden roller coaster... that I'm pretty sure is going to maim many people some day soon. Actually scratch that, I wish I was back playing glow-in-the-dark mini golf! Happy Friday y'all!

I look this photo a long time ago, but I still like it.

I look this photo a long time ago, but I still like it.

First Photo Folly Friday is here! (Say that three times fast.) I took these shots in New York while visiting my brother and messed with them in Photoshop. Hope you like! Oh and HAVE A HAPPY FRIDAY!