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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
From something broken or tiny or perfect or simple, Sarah has a special gift of spotting & capturing the unique beauty things that some of us may never notice. Today Sarah shares with us some of her favourite things in nature and how they inspire her flamework. - Jenny x
My dear mother bought me a very old butterfly collection a few years back, MY WORD, I think I should study insects a whole lot more, take a leaf out of their book. Colour and texture in nature: SO exciting.
Anyhow! This is flameworked dichroic glass, it is deliciously, outrageously shiny. And intriguing, I think.
Meanwhile! Check out these little guys.
I'm rather excited about these colours, and how inspiration is waiting just outdoors.
Some sweeeeet colours in nature, and in glass.
And here's my little flameworking corner in the shed.
And again, with the process of flameworking, glass can be used as a solution for displaying fragile findings. (And maybe even wearing them?)
Alrighty, tomorrow I'm going to one of my FAVOURITE places ever. See you there!
Sarah x
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