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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.
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.
Tamara Maynes' crafting prowess has been well documented here - if you have been reading for a super long time you may remember this interview way back in 2009! From her studio in the Southern Highlands of NSW, Tamara creates all kinds of unique handcrafted gorgeous things – she's made custom props to grace the pages of Inside Out Magazine, she's developed soft-furnishings and ceramics for well known Sydney retailer Orson and Blake, and she's collaborated on countless handmade creations for bespoke interiors, events and installation. Tamara also sells limited edition crafty creations through her online store, the Six Week Boutique, gives craft workshops when the fancy takes her, and is the Craft Editor for Indie quarterly publication SOHI!
SOMEHOW inbetween all these varied projects, Tamara has found time to share a week with us on the Guest Blog! You'll be super excited to know that she's also offering a DAILY GIVEAWAY for Guest Blog readers! To coincide with her Guest Blog this week, Tamara has launched a new range of cross-stitch kits entitled 'Well Crafted Threats!'. The first in this quirky series - 'USE IT OR LOSE IT' - is up for grabs today! Pop over to the Guest Blog and leave your comment to win!
Visit the Guest Blog each day and leave Tamara a comment to be in the running to win one of her 'Well Crafted Threat' cross stitch kits - every day this week!
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