Ready for the weekend?

It's a beautiful spring day - 25 degrees already and it's not even 11am yet! Today will be spent preparing for the bodyshop at home party that my sister and I are throwing at my place tomorrow - there will be cupcakes and champagne {hence the cooking... we've got to make the cupcakes and purchase the champagne}

The party starts at 2:00pm tomorrow so I'm hoping to drop into the Rose Street Market in the morning before we begin setting up {it starts at 9am so there should be time; mainly to check out the cute shoes and to see whether clothcake would fit in there}

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And tonight we'll cheer on our team the crows who are playing in an elimination final - "Carn the Crows!!!"

First real taste of spring

Today was a gorgeous day. We had the french doors open at the office to let spring in. I pulled out a brown, lime green and white summer dress and teamed it with a brown cardi and it got me thinking about spring/summer dresses... I really love this first one {it's oh so bubble-bee} but they're out of my size... probably a good thing otherwise it may have been on a plane to Australia! Dresses I'm dreaming about...

{Mod Cloth}

Green Fitout

A little while back I went to visit a carpet tile manufacturing factory and this is how their tiles have recently been used.

There's quite a bit going on here in this image... various colours appear on the floor and the upholstery on the ottomans and the wall and there's exposed brick and services and an "out-of-character" plant but I still like how it all comes together. I think my main problem is that we see all of these things in the one shot. I think each design feature would have looked spectacular if each was photographed with "breathing space" away from everything else.

Still, I really wanted to post this image because I especially love the white oblong drum pendants with the fabulous internal "park" images.

What do you think?

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peeling {rather cutting} the onion

Paper cuts are gorgeous but imagine if we had the patience

to do this with all of our fruit and vegetables;

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Corrugations

I have to tell you about my family friend Dudley Siviour! My family and I lived across the road from Dudley and his family for around 15 years. Quite a few years ago, Dudley stated making corrugated iron sculptures in the shed in his backyard. Dudley started teaching students to make the sculptures during his technology classes at a local high school and now he has started his own business called Corrugations. You can read more about Dudley and Corrugations here. Incidently, Dudley was MC at our wedding!

Anyway... you may have read (or seen) recently in the news that Australia's Governor-General Quentin Bryce presented two Kangaroos to the President of East Timor during the 10th anniversary celebrations of Timorese Independence - well they were Dudley's sculptures!!! So, Dudley's Kangaroos are now residing in the the Presidential Palace gardens!!!

Here's a few Kangaroos;

Here's the President, the Governor-General and the Corrugations Kangaroos on the 30th of August 2009;

And here are a few more of Dudley's fabulous sculptures;

Well done Dudley!

From Barrington Street to the Presidential Palace in East Timor!

Congratulations!

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Image 4&5

Heads Up for Headbands

Has anyone else noticed all of the lovely headbands?

1. MGMart

2&3.HeartoFlight

4&5.bethanylorelle

Happy Prints

Happy Little Birds,

Happy Little Prints

I am a pear girl not an apple girl but I do like this...

...from another talented Adelaide artist

Naomi Murrell

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Happy Father's Day Dad

{and to the other Dads out there}

{sporadic surprise: Naomi Murrell write up in the Adelaide Matters this week... bet you by 3 days AM - added 8th Sept 2009}

So many things to put in one little post...

Firstly, I want to have these to look at and to eat;

...because they're beautiful, because it's spring time, because there's a good amount of the blue and red combination and because they are so incredibly elaborate.

This is edible art at it's best!!

{Neviepie Cakes here, here and here}

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Secondly... Look what Elizabeth Dye has been up to...

Gorgeous!

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Thirdly... I stumbled upon this...

How fantastic for Adelaide! I've already put it in the calender

{Bowerbird Bazaar}

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Fourth(ly)... Gabrielle over at A Summer Picnic Wedding blogged about Clothcake and Searching for Sporadic Surprises today. Gabrielle is a new addition to our office and is in the midst of planning her January 2010 wedding. Definitely do pop over to her blog; she's always on the hunt for lovely wedding related / event related ideas which she collects and gladly shares with all of her readers. You won't be disappointed.

Thanks for the mention Gabrielle!

{sporadic surprise: Bowerbird Bazaar write up in the Adelaide Matters this week... bet you by 3 days AM - added 8th Sept 2009}

Tomorrow I Would Like To...

...sleep in, walk to the local cafe and have a lovely breakfast & then pop into Knack Studios;

Pity it's on the other side of the world

Two out of Three Ain't Bad!

{images: Flickr, website, blog}

My Sporadic Surprise of the day: A new (and unknown - at least to me) furniture supplier had a small terracotta pot of flat leaf parsley delivered to me as a marketing device today... I think the concept is Italian Furniture = Italian Parsley?

It is a happy little and very welcome addition to my work area.

Hello Yellow

Look at little Ramona...

She's so lovely and yellow!

I love yellow - canary, buttercup, sunshine, citrus...

B tried to fix the cracks in our kitchen wall...

He painted a white undercoat over the existing yellow...

Tonight I bought home yellow paint samples...

The wall will be Mellow Yellow again soon...

Perhaps this weekend?

I do love my yellow kitchen!

My Sporadic Surprise{s} of the Day: No. 1 {around morning tea time} two bags of Haighs Chocolates {South Australian Favourite} delivered unannounced from a lovely supplier & No. 2 {around afternoon tea time} offered corporate box tickets to the Beyonce and Flo Rida Concert incl. dinner. I Love Surprises! Especially Sporadic Surprises!!!

Graphic Paper Flowers to Celebrate Spring!!!

Mondocherry is a mother plus 2 daughter combination who happen to make the most amazing framed artworks. I came across the picture above on their blog today and then dropped in on their website. There are lots of other lovely pieces I would like to blog about but I'll let you have a look and tell me what you think (I really like the Botanic Buttons and Text Blooms)

The flower artwork above is three dimensional and made completely from paper.
Look at it framed below;

{Sidenote: I haven't just featured the above as it conveniently has three marble pears in the foreground... just in case you were wondering...}

How appropriate for the first day of Spring!