Spare room paint job

Here are the before and after photos of the spare room, newly painted! The colour is Dulux “Plume”, which is a lovely deep turquoise. There is still lots to do in the room, including a second coat of white on the cupboard doors, so this is not a whole room reveal, just the wall colour [...]

New Juno Earring Photos

Getting ready to stock the mikaela handmade store with Juno Jewellery! See my flickr for bigger photos and details =)

Birthday and farewell bbq dinner

To celebrate Sophie’s (Chloé’s mum) birthday and also wish Clo and Scott Bon Voyage (for their big trip to Europe, exciting!), we had a lovely gathering of friends and family this evening at Sophie’s house (Soph is a gardener and it shows, I am so envious of her beautiful garden). JA and I were so [...]

Juno photoshoot, Athena #1

First photograph edited from the Juno jewellery photoshoot =) Sonja wears Athena Black Oval earrings

Photo Feature – Canberra Sunset

One of many beautiful autumn sunsets in Canberra, taken on William Hovell Drive

Impromptu DIY paint job

I finished painting the front trellis the other day, and decided to then paint the front door… Many of my DIY projects are started on a whim, so I don’t always have good (if any) “before photos”. For this one I’ve used a crop of a really old photo of the front of the house, [...]

Axis of Awesome comedy song

A day photographing beautiful girls

But for now I show you the sunset from the drive home =) I’ll be editing the Juno shoot photos this week!

Front Garden Landscaping

The landscaping of my gardens are always a work in progress… We have such a large block, that there is just so much ground to take care of! I’ve broken it down into areas and am working on them one by one, but that means there are other areas that look horrible until I can [...]

An inspirational story

I came across a link to the ACT Government initiative, Brilliant Idea via