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Laura of See Hear Say (one of my absolute favourite blogs) sent me her Christmas Wish List.
Todays Christmas Gift Guide is from interior stylist Kate @ the fabric of my life.

I grew up in a home full of floral, or more specifically roses. My mum had every inch of the house filled with rose patterns. Our couches, pillows, the wallpaper, the carpet..yes the carpet!! I was so invaded by rose floral that I promised myself I would never own a single floral thing. It was an impossible promise to keep though, I didn't appreciate the beauty and charm of it when I was younger.

Melbourne street artist MISO is having a solo show at Gorker Gallery, opening next week. The gallery is going to be filled with floor to ceiling paste-ups representing her home town Kharkov, Ukraine. Portraits of strangers in the street, of friends, folk stories and things otherwise forgotten, turned into a city built from paper, material and decaying wood. It will be her most ambitious installation & gallery show yet!

Bon Bon Kakku is a pioneering net store where you can design your own fabrics. Every fabric designed on the site is published for viewers to see and vote for. The designs with the most votes are then turned into fabric you can buy in-store. Sounds like Threadless but for fabric designs. (via STYiSTi)




I opened the latest issue of Antler Magazine and was very excited to see Melbourne photographer Briony Ridley featured. I've been following Briony's work for awhile now and its great to watch her go from strength to strength. Briony first burst onto the photography scene when she won the Peoples Choice Award in Australia's largest open entry photography competition 2008 Kodak Salon, for her photo "Cyclone Isobel".


I've only recently come across the photography of Gabrielle Kai, via one of FluerAvenue's inspiration posts. And I must say I feel in love with her work straight away. I was even more excited to find out that Gabrielle has been collaborating with one of my other favourtie photographers Yuvette Inufio.
Both photographers love the simple beauty in details so they have joined together to bring you the blog One Inspiration, Two Perspectives. Each week they post their interpretation of a different topic, my favourtie is this one with the pearls and tea cup.
This weeks giveaway is a beautiful Sweet William 2010 illustration calendar. The calendar features 12 cards with a different illustration from the Sweet William range on each. Each card measures 15 x 10 cm (6 x 4 inches) ready for you to display as you wish - on a pin board or with a small bull dog clip as seen in the photo's.
Upcoming Australian artist Elise Maree Trickey is in her final year at the School Of Creative Arts Oxford Falls and recently had her first solo show in Sydney. Elisa mostly works with paper, watercolour and ink, making whimsical collages that remind us of childhood wonder, visits to the circus and making cubby houses in the garden. Visit her blog to see more!

Sometimes I wonder if anything is truly original anymore or are we past original thought? Are we now living in a time where everything is influenced or inspired by something else? I don't feel like doing anything today. And I wish people would stop wasting my time with spam or newsletters I didn't subscribe too. that is all. I will be cheerier tomorrow.
I was intending to put together this long Christmas wish list, but I only manged to pick out four things. But if anyone would like to put together their own Christmas wish list, using polyvore, mosaic maker or photoshop if you have that...then I will do a series of guest post from my readers.Thanks everyone who responded, I have picked a few for guest posts now :)



Courtney Brims is having a solo show opening in Brisbane tonight at Nine Lives Gallery, running until the 21st of November. Thanks Bec for letting me know about this one, now I just wish I was in Brisbane to see it.
To celebrate the launch of their latest collection "Untamed Youth", Every Little Counts is giving one lucky reader the chance to win one of their Heartbreaker tees (pictured below).



I've fallen in love with the home of Dottie Angel, all the little detailings are just so perfect, especially the little doilies. I hope to have my house as pretty as this one day. I'm starting with my first vintage couch. I've found a white vinyl vintage couch...I'm picking it up later tonight...yay! (well that's if the boy agrees....I'll talk him into it)