House love

Houses- such special places and such lovely shapes. Here are some house shaped treasures...

House shaped wall display units.

Sticky notes, made from recycled wood pulp.

House pillow. So sweet!

Gingerbread softie

Dollhouse delight

The dollhouse- such a powerful childhood memory!

Is there anything better than creating a whole world, a life and a story for all of the dolls (real and imaginary) in their own house...

Here is a wonderful reworked vintage dollhouse, with colourful wallpapered rooms and a shingle roof.

All this house needs is a garden... Imagine the adorable miniatures and bonsais that could work.

What a wonderful butterfly corner! I always loved an attic space the best...

Images

There is definitely a dollhouse renovation in the planning stages around here. We will be sure to post some before and after photos of the fun!

Muji love

How I love you Muji. Why won't you come to Australia? We need your simple, affordable, gorgeous Japanese everything.

Simple homewares

I cant get enough of the neutral colours and minimalist design. It's a little like Ikea, with homewares, furniture, storage as well as travel goods, clothing and food. But much more stylish and zen!

New York in a box toy set

Muji products are streamlined, have very little packaging, are often recyclable and are unbranded. In fact, I'm told that Muji means 'without brand'!

Music box

Have you shopped at Muji? Do you feel the way I do?

Garden makeover

The garden today, and when first planted.

When we moved in to our house, the garden was in a terrible state. Full of weeds, grass, rubbish and inappropriate plants (rubber trees, ficus). There were also two enormous trees dominating the small space and destroying the garden wall.

Over the months we pulled every single thing out of the garden, cleaned up the soil, added brick edges to the beds, laid down turf, had the giant trees removed, and planted out an Australian native garden and a herb garden.

And it grew and grew!

Click here if you'd like to see some before shots of the garden.

Tree houses

Remembering and re-imagining childhood seems to be the best place to start when making things for little people.

These beautiful illustrations by Jill Barklem are powerfully evocative. Just imagine exploring these incredible tree cities and wondrous landscapes with the mice of Brambly Hedge!

Just as amazing are these stunning little works of art inspired by Jill Barklem's imaginary worlds.

(Nest images from Mind and Language)