I need you Giuseppe Zanotti

I don't know if I can continue to breathe without these shoes. I just think we'd be so good together?

Winter Wonderland

I know I was just recently going on about how beautiful Summer is, but I feel I didn't give Winter quite enough credit. Today I went to the Sydney Winter Festival and it was AMAZE. Nice big Ice Rink set up ON the sand, surrounded by yummy food stalls and the Alpine Ski Hut, where all sorts of delights were being served up. 

Now we booked tickets during the week and I was uber excited for ice skating... until I got there and realised that I hadn't been on the ice for about 5 or 6 years. I started to get more and more freaked out and jealous of all the people that were with kids so were able to push the Bobby Skating Aids...

Eventually our time came to get on the ice... I wish I had a photo of me clinging to the rails for the first few laps!

Nat was acting super confident but he resembled Bambi first learning to walk...

So yucky but there's beach behind us!

In the end, we had loads of fun and I didn't fall over so was very pleased with myself. However, clinging onto Nat saw me get a very jammed up wrist from his "momentum"...

Chai Latte Lodge

Nat in his snow get-up

Alpine Ski Hut

Inside the Alpine Ski Hut where we had mulled wine, pretzels, hot chocolate & apple strudel of course! This is how we finished off our weekend/skating adventure. Check out how big the waves were!

Now it just needs to start snowing so that we can live in a Winter Wonderland all the time!

NB Fashion is a lot better in Winter.

Summer > Pattern > Morocco

Although I will always be fiercely loyal to Winter, I've found myself dreaming of Summer. It may be because I'm stuck in bed with a cold and because I had a beautiful dose of the Sun the other day, or it may be because this Winter started way too early! It also might have something to do with the European Summer that awaits me next year... I guess I should stick to enjoying Winter seeing as this will be my last one for a while!

Moving on, I keep finding myself being pulled towards lots of pattern. All sorts, all mixed up & thrown around to clash against each other. There is something so attractive about clashing; you know you're breaking the rules (good for the rebel inside of me), there is something wild and free about it and it's also reminiscent of days at the beach. You have to be super confident to pull this off, in Interiors & Fashion, so it's definitely something I admire when it's done right. I think I can pinpoint the day this attraction started - I was sitting in class one Friday afternoon and someone pulled out the April/May 2011 Belle.

Now aside from this being one of my favourite editions yet, it also featured the home of Architect Benedetta Tagliabue, an 18th Century former warehouse in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter as well as some AMAZING hotels in Morocco. 

Peacock Pavilions

What an amazing place to dine!!!

A Staircase to die for!!!

Royal Mansour

And some more pretty pattern pictures that I've gathered...