introducing… one good thing.

Hello hello. And goodbye. This is my last post here at wabiblog, so I want to say thank you to everybody who has read my writing and subscribed and commented and tweeted and e-mailed over the last...

start again.

why I’m jumping ship: no through road.

I should stop using Playschool as a reference for, well, everything, but it had — and probably continues to have — so many valuable life lessons wrapped up into its little songs and segments. When...

I have been so flat out this week that I feel as if I have been going backwards. I didn’t get any work done yesterday. I baked five pies and three cakes. I visited my grandma in order to deflect...

what I learnt at/from Q and A.

Wow. Something cool came to Toowoomba and it wasn’t the circus in Queen’s Park. I attended Q and A yesterday evening with two of my best friends and approximately 1300 of my fellow Toowoomba-region...

currently reading.

These are the books haphazardly stacked on my bed at the moment (in between my many writing notebooks, a magazine, and a copy of The Watchtower helpfully given to me by some visiting JWs — I didn’t...

sweet archives: part two.

Left to right, top to bottom: // raspberry friands // sunny golden lemon butter // thick chewy ANZAC biscuits // espresso sour cream cake // chocolate buttermilk layer cake // rosie’s retro cocoa...

diamond buds.

winter essentials.

It seems fitting that I woke on the first official day of winter to a ghost-white panorama through the bedroom window. Toowoomba is like the Melbourne of the north (well, Queensland anyway), not so...

best of the blogs: may.

>> ART & DESIGN > This German brand, löffle mich (spoon me/eat me with a spoon), uses a fabulous suite of designed packaging. > I love the colours in these paintings by Jennifer Sanchez that...

to love at all.

{photograph by paper and cloud}

you’re missing out.

I’ve been thinking about it — for a long time, actually — and I’ve decided that it’s you. You’re the one who’s missing out. {image source, which I love: massimo dotti}

sweet archives: part one.

As I begin to put wabiblog to bed, I want to have a little skate through my archives as an exercise in Seeing How Far I Have Come. The emotional outcome of this exercise is both positive and...

tried & tested: vitarium flavoured drink powders.

Can I tell you something? There’s a little part of me that still loves flavoured milk. But there’s another bigger part of me that doesn’t want to consume gratuitous quantities of sugar, and the...

autumn.

circles.

You know on Playschool how you could look through the square window, the round window, or the arch window? As a kid, I think I would have preferred the arch window, but the 28-year-old me would go...

thinking, thinking…

There is no better place to be in the autumn than on our side landing soaking up the morning sun. I like to sit out there with a cup of tea to warm my bare legs and to coax the cats to leave...

moo cards.

I had a bit of a marketing disaster a couple of months back. I ordered 500 business cards from a semi-local printer in March, and due to my own frustration at the convoluted process and also my...

eggs benedict with potato cakes.

A couple of weekends ago, when we were at the Sunshine Coast for my birthday, my sister and friends and I meandered down to a lovely café at Cotton tree for brunch. If I ever go out for breakfast,...

better things can fall together.

crow’s nest falls: rock your body.

On Saturday afternoon, because my sister was visiting and the weather was divine, we decided to go bushwalking at Crow’s Nest Falls — some twenty minutes from where I live. We all donned our daggy...

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On Saturday afternoon, because my sister was visiting and the weather was divine, we decided to go bushwalking at Crow’s Nest Falls — some twenty minutes from where I live. We all donned our daggy...

the daily mood.

You may remember fred and friends from such brilliant inventions as their russian nesting doll measuring cups and cakewich sandwich-shaped cake mold. I’m smitten with this daily mood flipchart,...

florence + the machine: breath of life.

This song is huge. This song is amazing. Of course, I didn’t happen upon it by accident; it was recommended to me by my friend with unwaveringly exceptional taste in music. I’m already a great...

taking a moment.

While catching up on blogs on the weekend, I read one of Joy Cho’s recent Happy Friday posts (here on oh joy!) titled “The Pause”. Although the focus was on parenting à la Français (citing a book...

homemade nutella.

Things in jars. I like things that come in jars: jams, pickles, olives, anchovies, morello cherries. And I like Nutella. But I’m not too sure how Nutella gets into the jar. How do they make...

happy mother’s day, mum.

you light up my life.

Yeah, I sing that to my dogs. What of it? They make me happy. They really do. My dogs are always super excited to see me. They’re always up for a cuddle. They never let me down. OK — that’s not...

i’m tired of trying.

Sometimes I don’t know what to say. Or what to do. Or which way to go. My head tells me to do that thing: to cross the street and leave all this behind. And then my stupid heart just lingers,...

my klimt cups.

While we were at the coast on the weekend, we dropped into a delightful little tea shop called the silva spoon, which was full of speciality teas and the most beautiful range of cups, saucers, and...