Melbourne, with Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling and I *ahem* I mean Richard and I, spent a weekend in Melbourne together a few weeks ago. I've been many times for work but usually that includes the airport, hotel, office and a carefully planned power shop to a few select stores. Exploring a place like Melbourne is the BEST. I could so easily be convinced to move to this town. It inspires me so much and there is such a wonderful culture of art, creatives and community. She is the Solange to Sydney's Beyonce. I'm plotting my return ;-)

See? Ryan Gosling! 

Maybe these magical doors reflect your spirit animal or something ;-)

Belinda x

14/52

"A portrait of my husband and our marriage, once a week, every week, in 2013."

Richard: there's alot of talk about learning to surf this Winter.

We: are daydream believers.

Last week, I loved Preeti's radiant portrait of her son celebrating the new season.

Participating in the 52 Portraits series led by Jodi at Che & Fidel. You can view all of my weekly portraits by clicking on the button in the sidebar.

Belinda x

House of Maryanne Vintage

Maryanne Moodie is someone I really admire. In addition to being a wife and mum, and just a straight up sweet and lovely person, Maryanne has a great eye for all things beautiful and well made. And luckily for us, puts her talents to great use.

Maryanne is the owner and curator of House of Maryanne Vintage, one of my favourite online boutiques. And she has some mad crafting skills, including her latest venture into weaving. This captured the attention of Lucy Feagins recently who featured Maryanne's work on The Design Files! You can read the interview here.

Lately, I've been particularly interested in hand woven fabrics and tapestries, I'm aiming to try and teach myself to weave one of these days.

So when I saw that Maryanne was creating these amazing pieces, I had to commission a HoM woven tapestry to call my own. I gave Maryanne a rough size and 'neutral palate' guideline. And after a few days at the loom, this is the final result. It is truly beautiful. I absolutely love the detail and texture from the reclaimed silk sari yarn and gold metallic thread Maryanne's used. A local and lovingly made, gorgeous piece of art now perfectly at home, in my home. Happiness!




Recently Maryanne moved her HoM Vintage store from Facebook to Etsy. You can find her here. Otherwise on her website, you'll find all the relevant social media links and contact details, you can check out her beautifully styled lookbooks and sign up to a newsletter to stay up to date on what this lovely and talented lady does next.

Belinda x

Inspiration

A week after the BHB Conference and today, just about everywhere I looked the universe was speaking to me.

Pip Lincolne was one of the amazing speakers last week. I took so much away from her talk but the thing that has really resonated today, was her suggestion that we need to look for the clues. To notice the happy moments around us. As creative people, we need to train our eyes to really look and see the things in our daily life. All the things that are already there to inspire us.

I'm so grateful that for me, this Easter weekend has been all about rest, spending time with my kinfolk and lots of quiet moments by the sea. This I've learned, is my knockout combination. Now to stay connected and mindful as the daily grind fights for that headspace! 

I hope you're feeling renewed and inspired too. 

Need a little spark? Check this out.

Belinda x