Farewell WA #1

As I mentioned earlier, we are moving to Sydney at the end of this month. We are going to miss a lot in Western Australia, so I am doing a series of posts about my favourite aspects to living in Perth. One of those things is the flora! WA is famous for it's beautiful native flowers which spring out of the sandy soil. These are some beauties I haven't yet shown on my blog. We photographed them on our trip to Kalbarri last year. If you like these, there are more flowers in my flickr set. The pink ones were absolutely gorgeous with their fluffy petals! The white ones with orange centres are tiny tiny!



Lovely windows

I've always loved window seats, and long draping curtains. Somewhere to catch some sun, read a book and dream. One day maybe in my dream home...




I can just imagine Peter Pan flying in this window... or something like that.

Sydney bound...

Ethan is starting to perk up from his sore throat and cold. The teddy blanket behind him was made by his aunt Louise.


We will be moving back to Sydney in a months time. Our 6 years in Perth have been great! Over the next few weeks I'll be posting some favourite aspects of our time living in Western Australia.

the nursery


Here are some pictures of the nursery. Steve painted the feature wall in "Romaine" by Dulux paints. The curtains were sewn in a weekend with a good deal of help from Steve's Mum. I made the tie backs using some leftover fabric from the quilt. I painted the seahorse and fish pictures. The quilt I made using 50's style fabrics. It hasn't been quilted yet. The canopy is from IKEA. I made the banner and my sister-in-law Louise made the teddy blanket.


Doors

For a while now I have wanted to scan these photos and post them on my blog. They are photos I took in Newtown, Sydney when I was studying Design. We were studying the relationship between the urban landscape and design. Newtown has changed a lot recently, but it used to be dirty, colourful and interesting.

The well travelled Rabbit

I've had a great week with Ethan, having a baby is amazing. He has just started to giggle, it is so cute! Here are some pics of him in his suit and with his well travelled rabbit, gifts both from his aunt Frances - who hasn't met him yet.




This rabbit was born in China, went to America, was shipped to the Czech Republic, lived in a store in Prague, hitched a ride all the way to Scotland (via Germany) with Frances and Kristian, and arrived in Australia in a yellow box.

Unwrapped!

The unwrapped Designer market was on Sunday. Here are some hasty photos I took at the event (Ethan didn't like the loud dance music, so I didn't have time to have a good look around). I miss a good market, when I was living in Sydney I visited Glebe market once a month. Less frequently I visited the Balmain, Rozelle and Bondi markets. Now I live in Perth and sadly this city doesn't seem to have so many quality markets to showcase arts, crafts and textiles. Maybe events like these will change that?