Our home in The (Sydney) Magazine

Our kitchen, and the cover of The Crafty Minx

Our kitchen, and the cover of The Crafty Minx

A few months ago the lovely Andrea Millar, homes writer for The (Sydney) Magazine visited, along with inspiring lifestyle photographer Prue Ruscoe. I’ve often admired Prue’s pictures in Inside Out and various other magazines and books, so was thrilled to have her in our home to take these shots, which appeared in the magazine last Thursday. If you follow the blog you will have seen all this before, but Prue has done a far better job than me at capturing our home in its best light.

For the full article, click here.

My crafts cupboard & me

My crafts cupboard & me

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The living room (redecorated for summer since this shot was taken)

The living room, with handmade cushion and throw

A peek inside Olive's room

A peek inside Olive's room - artwork and monkey from the book

Our bedroom

Our bedroom, and the 'Just Married' duvet cover from The Crafty Minx

Craft feature in this month’s AWW

Heart, bow and speckled hen egg cosies

Heart, bow and speckled hen egg cosies

This is the latest craft feature I worked on with Australian Women’s Weekly, out now in the March 2010 issue. Grab a copy for the instructions on some fun Easter craft, and a little taste of what’s to come in The Crafty Kid: projects for and with children (out this June).

The gorgeous snaps are by my friend and ACP photographer, Dean Wilmot. Love your work, Dean.

Five-year-old Enzo and me

Five-year-old Enzo and me

Easter Bunny and Chicken Little finger puppets

Easter Bunny and Chicken Little finger puppets

Bowled over by ceramics

Mud Australia

Mud Australia

I’ve become quite obsessed with handcrafted ceramics of late, acquiring a small collection to dot about the house with feathers, bits of driftwood, sea glass, pebbles, shells and other found objects. These are fine art objects anyone can collect.

I’ve also started using ceramics every day in the kitchen, purchased from Mud Australia at one of their legendary sales in the Marrickville studio. You can be assured of its pedigree – Mud’s stocked at MoMA, as well as Pentimento in Sydney’s Newtown.

More from Mud

More from Mud

And here’s another beautiful bowl by Brisbane’s Kylie Johnson – aka Paper Boat Press. Well worth a look also.

Paper Boat Press ceramic bowl

Paper Boat Press ceramic bowl