Mar 1, 2014 | Browse and chat, Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
I love collecting arty bits and pieces .. well within my limited budget that is. I also enjoy renovating and landscaping our mid-century home with Ray. Over the past few weeks we have added a few bits to everything … renovations, art collection and landscaping...
Jul 20, 2013 | Browse and chat, Our Mid-century modern home, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
This morning I had the 1am waking moment and didn’t fall back to sleep, so why not browse for 30 minutes until my eyes droop again. Having been in Sydney for work during the week it was a quiet moment to look through some of the blogs I subscribe to including...
Apr 20, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
Finally its Saturday morning and two long weeks at work after our wonderful holiday felt like a lifetime. The kids have moved out [yet again] and we have the whole house to ourselves which a lovely feeling. My first ever diet This week also marks the start of my...
Mar 31, 2013 | Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
I am not really sure why but for a long time we are taught not to use black. As children wearing black wasn’t the norm, as an artist we are taught not to use black as it sucks the color out of its surroundings, in decorating black is oppressive, black homes are...
Mar 29, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
Its Easter yay and we are preparing to head off on holidays. The kids have found a new apartment and plan to move in another week, so we get the house back to ourselves on our return. It was an interesting challenging climbing on top of their mountains of clothes in...
Mar 23, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
There is a terrific commercial on Melbourne tv at the moment, the teenage son finally moves out of home and guess what .. he returns! Surprise surprise on the parents face as he storms off to his bedroom only to find .. even more surprise, the parents had converted...
Feb 27, 2013 | Creative inspiration, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
So I have enjoyed collecting dead bits since I was a kid. Dad gradually added to my eerie collection of rabbits feet, ducks feet where you would pull the tendon so it opened, fox furs and all types of found feathers and bits. As a youngster I then pinned beetles and...
Feb 23, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
In my last post we looked at how to design your garden lights. In my yard I had come up with the following design and was now armed with a shopping list to take to the light store. I required: 5 garden lights, one pillar light for the driveway, 2 house lights...
Feb 15, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
Being an amateur gardener I had to draw on my creative skills to design not only the landscape, but also the garden and the garden lights. Nil experience, nil knowledge, so armed with google I was ready to give it a go. I knew I didn’t want to repeat the...
Jan 5, 2013 | Browse and chat, That Creative blog
An artist friend Trevor Platt wrote on my facebook after releasing my new site .. “Welcome back, an artist has no choice”. And that is sooo true .. whilst I sadly closed my business the ArTTable and have happily rebuilt my life here in Melbourne, I never...