Grab your hat and favourite book. Roll up your jeans and come sit down next to me on the sand. Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and listen. Enjoy…

Nearly two weeks has passed since I returned from my brief, unanticipated trip back to Sydney.

And it’s only now I’ve had a moment to look at my photos, soundscapes, and diary notes from my time there. Over the next coming days I will be sharing these with you, with the hope to be able to communicate a little of my quietly chaotic sydney life through a series of moments - both silent and sounded. Next week I will continue with my regular posts about current things I am loving, things I’ve been up to while back in Amsterdam (it’s been a very busy couple of weeks!), plus getting the guest quarters ready for our next guest. And I’ll also be letting you know where we are at with the much anticipated My Heart Wanders.

But for now, let’s get geared up for our third series of soundscapes by first taking a road trip to our sound-filled destination…

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Hmm, I just spotted the words ‘pea’ and sea’ - did you? I only just noticed! and they call me a stylist, pfff, sometimes I wonder as I seriously did NOT style those words, they styled themselves. And now they are my favourite words for the day: “I am a little pea, who lives by the sea…” (look, I’ve already told you my strength is not poetry.)

Coming Up Next Week: Soundscapes!! I can’t wait. Have a fabulous weekend everyone!!

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Anna from Absolutely Beautiful Things invited me to participate in her new blog series called ‘Absolutely Favourite Things’. I was rather inspired by her request for me to photograph a vignette of my latest faves, and ended up doing an entire photo shoot the other morning when it was so sunny. I decided to push the light and make the shots as polaroidy as possible, making it a little visual ode to some of my favourite polaroid photographers. This is what I created, what do you think?

To find out more about my favourite things du jour, go and check out Anna’s full post about them by clicking here. I had so much fun doing this, thank you Anna!

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PS I took quite a few photographs actually and if I’m brave enough I might show you a few more.

I had so much fun yesterday, wandering the streets of Amsterdam and finding so many great scapes to photograph. Above is one of my favourites from the day, but there is plenty for show & tell which I plan to separate into wanders for you, with my favourite eateries, boutiques and shopping streets of Amsterdam. Perhaps next week I can get to this, but for this week, I have a few other treats up my sleeve. So lets get to it!

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PS Josyln and her daughter Audrey continue to inspire me so: Check out Audrey’s fabulous Woodland Fairy Party, complete with woodland wings, woodland fairy crowns and fairy huts. And her list of things to learn before I turn 6 is remarkable. If only I’d thought of writing a list back then, perhaps if I had, I would be able to whistle and play checkers today.

PPS And Joanna from A Cup of Jo interviewed me recently on the topic of how to create a sexy + romantic bed for her fabo new sex and relationships blog called Smitten for Glamour Magazine. Click here to read my bed-making tips, thanks Joanna!

Some of you may be wondering (or more worried) right about now, that I have done nothing all day but blogged. But I’m here to tell you that is simply not true. I also did the washing up.

images courtesy of The Style Files.

C’mon, what better way is there to recover from jet lag than to blog one’s little heart out? And although I have not left the boat in over 48 hours (yes I am now suffering from a wee bit of cabin fever, in case you did not already notice), I assure you that the above pic is proof that tonight I shall head out on the town. Yes that’s right, I’ve arrived back from Sydney just in time for Holly’s blogging get together right here in Amsterdam, ce soir, at De Kroon, Rembrandtplein 17, 8pm. Read more about the evening here and here, it looks to be a fun night. So if you are in Amsterdam, come along, I’d love to meet you!

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Fashion confession: I’ll be wearing the exact same outfit I wore to last Friday’s studio launch soirée (which I have yet to tell you about) in Sydney. And no one will ever be the wiser. Except I just told.

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If you do come along, I’m just warning you that pia + jetlag + cabin fever + champagne = anything can happen and probably will.