Three years ago today...

...I got the keys to my house.
7 is a special number to me, and the fact that it was also a new moon on that day in 2008, wasn't lost on me.
Along with this "nook" in the kitchen, here are a few reasons why I fell for my home.

Seeing the afternoon sun's beautiful colours from my house.

Looking at the moon on the water (one of my favourite ever things to look at).

Watching the sunrise from my bed.

These round windows.



And I can walk to work.

Triple Cee studio: the wheel deal

I bought this table, from the Bondi Market, about 8 years ago when I lived in Bondi. It's been my jewellery making table in that time. It was never quite high enough, and I always planned to put it on castors. Yesterday I did just that. It is now the perfect height. Aaah.
Before: ready to be operated on, before the drilling commenced.

After. Yay.

Another Sydney buy. This time from a very cool furniture shop in Darlinghurst. I paid way too much for it, but I loved it. And its many drawers are perfect storage for lots of jewellery making bits and pieces (some of the drawers are even divided again into smaller compartments).

I've changed the pulls and handles over the years. I like that they don't all match (the red ones were an eBay score, while four of the decorative bone ones I found in the homewares section of a Zara store in San Sebastian, back in 2005).

In the key of Cee

While I was overjoyed to stumble across this gem of a collection recently, it kinda made me sad: someone's much-loved (not to mention extensive) keyring collection no longer in their possession. But what a find!

Sorting through these keyrings (destined to be quirky jewellery bits) was like entering some kind of pop-culture time machine!

Stu, stu, studio...

I had plans for a drive today, but the wind has kept me inside.
I'm working on the studio and thinking about some more tiling.
The bathroom tiling is just not grabbing me yet, so I'll follow my instincts and head into the Triple Cee studio and decorate/set it up.
My head's in style mode, not practicalities as these two photos attest.

A model inside London's famed Biba store.

Anita Pallenberg, photographed by Michael Cooper, during a jaunt into the Joshua Tree national park with Keith Richards and Gram Parsons.

Fleur de Lisa

Yes, it's a real flower. It's my friend Lisa's. Loving its jewel-like good looks.

Open the door to a heavenly stairway

A few colour ideas for my front door and the most fantastic stripey colour treatment on stairs ever!
Such great carpet!

An electrical tape work by artist Mark Khaisman. Do I have the patience (let alone skill) to do this?


I like this Tiffany-box blue colour for a front door.

And this pale pink is rather serene. Both photos from Sf Girl By Bay.

Persimmon?

Pale jade?

Yellow or blue?

Could I go pink?

Glossing over

The floors are polished and look fabulous. While that's all well and good, the stairs now look even more shabby and painting my front door has suddenly become more inportant.


I can see my face in the floor!