Lovely, luxe ladies lunch

The sister restaurant to St Kilda's Cicciolina, has taken up residence in this beautiful modernist building in East St Kilda. Ilona Staller (smarty pantses will know Italian porn star/politician Cicciolina's name is Ilona Staller) is a lovely casual, but classy bistro on Balaclava Rd. The Beaufort 8 Group and I dined there recently. I loved its '70s luxe interior, that balances precariously (for some) on the precipice of good and bad taste. I wanted to move in. 

Food wasn't bad either.

Colour my world

I've started to create, in between doing bits and pieces around the house, such as re-puttying a leaking window (and just before the next few days' rain!).

Looks like this multi-colour feather neckpiece will be first cab off the rank.

A work in progress...not sure about the clear polyurethane plastic tubing?

A meritorious highschool piece of art by my sister. Talented!

I picked up these wooden blocks from a garage sale last week (along with the cute footstool below), the blocks are for jewellery.

I'll reupholster this one...in good time. I'm thinking a pale yellow velvet or maybe even pale sea green or jade?

Sharing the love

Some lovely looks from emmas designblogg post on Swedish fashion blogger Elin King (and a bottle of Tassie water snapped by moi).



Me thinks The Beaufort 8 Group will dig on this nest of tables.

While I think daisyblue will find something to like here.

Polished good looks

The floorboard polishers arrived this morning.
They are sanding back the raw and paint-splattered floorboards of the Triple Cee studio and my home's entrance way.
As The Beaufort 8 Group said: "Schweet".

Loving this studio from the fabulously inspirational emmas designblogg

This old post shows how my studio used to look. After the polishers are done, I'll post new photos, then, after I've moved in and made it conducive to creativity(!), I'll post yet more photos.
Then, once I've started creating again, I'll post those photos.
Everything will be available to buy.
Yay!

Dog in (cool) space

Rexy rockin' a nonchalant pose on the couch in front of one of a pair of Danish desk lamps from The Vintage Yard Sale, a photograph of New York's Chrysler Building from my talented and beautiful sister, and a print from Tasmanian/Czechoslovakian artist Tom Samek.


Rexy is next to my heart all the time.

The eyes have it over at The Beaufort 8 Group

View from the top at The Beaufort 8 Group.

Hmmm...what's happening over at The Beaufort 8 Group? Tiles!