On a recent tip from Maryline, and in a bid to actually venture outside our apartment this weekend, Dave and I headed off to the Singapore Botanic Gardens – specifically, the National Orchid Garden.
If you don’t like orchids, look away now.. it’s about to become unbearable for you :)
There’s nothing quite like being home :)
So I’m not really sure how to start this post. I am finding myself a little bit lost for words..
Over the past two weeks, we’ve been glued to the news watching for updates on the floods in Queensland. The devastation is unbelievable and a little bit hard to comprehend from the other side of the world. Unfortunately today it all hit home when we found out that 2 of our close friends in Brisbane (who have 2 beautiful boys, and are 3 weeks away from having baby number 3), have had water 3 feet onto their roof, and have lost everything.
We are feeling completely helpless being so far away right now, and want to be able to help them in any way we can.
For that reason, I will re-open my shop for the next 3 weeks, with 100% of all sales going to the Dodson Family.
I have no idea if anyone really reads this blog, but I’d like to try and raise as much as I can – so please re-post this if you feel so inclined.. I would really appreciate the support.
It may, or may not be a surprise to learn that both Dave and I read a lot of blogs. Like.. hundreds (ok, maybe more like 75. Each.). For this reason, over the past year we’ve wracked up a pretty hefty favourites list of things we want/love.
It may also surprise you to learn that Christmas is coming (42 days people!), and so we thought it might be fun to share our most favourite favourites in the way of some gift guides. And it all starts tomorrow!
While we were walking around the Herbstmesse, I found this leaf (exciting, I know) and couldn’t get over the size! I can only imagine how old the trees must be..
A couple of weeks ago, we bundled ourselves against the cold and headed out on the town with a couple of friends for the Basel Museum Night (the one night a year that all the museums in Basel are open until 2 am, with one entrance fee). In about 5 hours, we only managed to make it to 3 museums (hah!) – our favourite of which was the Basler Papiermühle (paper mill). Contrary to what the name suggests, the mill doesn’t only make paper – it’s also a fully functioning letterpress printery.. they even cast their own lead letters! Totally awesome if you ask me :)
Valentines Day doesn’t mean much to me, but we saw this leaf while we were walking in the forest the other day and I thought it was appropriate – even if I am a day late! I also thought this might be a good time to restart the blog after a rather long holiday, part of which was spent at home in Australia.. but I’ll post more about that later.
If you haven’t heard of Days with my father yet – I would recommend having a look. It’s an incredibly touching collection of photographs by Philip Toledano of his father. It’s definitely worth taking the time to read the text that goes with the images, it gives funny and sometimes sad insight into growing old. The website is also being made into a book that will be available in June next year.
Um.. it seems that I’ve lost my blogging mojo. Any ideas how to get it back? I tried taking some time out to re-focus but instead, i just forgot about it.
It would appear to go hand-in-hand with losing my mobile/garland mojo. A few weeks ago a florist down the road agreed to put some of my mobiles and garlands into her shop, which was exciting news, but when I handed them over a week later, I didn’t get the reaction I’d hoped for and left feeling really discouraged. Mojo = squashed. I know I shouldn’t give up so easily, and I don’t plan to, but maybe I need to back away from it for a while?
I really want to get my motivation back soon.. so please tell me how!! Perhaps a nice long holiday in Australia will do the trick ;)
