Give a frock Friday

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Today’s Frock Friday is a tribute to the original disco diva, Donna Summer.  Her sexy style, her incredibly diverse talent and just a gorgeous lady whose music will live on.

Donna performing at a Unicef concert at the UN in 1979.

Donna in disco sequins, 1978.

Donna belting it out on stage, looking fabulous in leopard print, 1978.

Stunning in red, Donna in 1985.

I was just a child when I first heard your voice, but as I grew I also loved how your music has influenced other artists. Thank you for the music.

Creative Space

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We are hosting a Moroccan themed birthday dinner for a friend this weekend.  This image inspires many ways to decorate our home for the evening.  The best part of dinner parties is that because they’re held at night, I get to have fun with lighting!  Tea lights, lamps, candles, all of these add such ambience, and with the Moroccan theme, I don’t think it’s possible to go over the top with the tea lights, do you?

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Happy Mother’s Day

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Meryl Streep with daughter Louisa in 1991 by Brigitte Lacombe.

Princess Grace of Monaco holds her 5 day old son Prince Albert, 1958.

Elizabeth Taylor with her daughter Maria Burton, by Jim McHugh for September 1967 issue of Vogue.

Cate Blanchett with her son with her son Dashiell John in 2005.

Barbra Streisand with her son, Jason Gould, in 1968. Picture by David Bailey.

Audrey Hepburn with her son Luca by Henry Clarke, 1971.

Gwyneth Paltrow with daughter Apple, 2005.

Angelina Jolie with son Maddox photographed by Annie Leibovitz at the Ritz, 2005.

My girls and me.

Here’s to breakfast in bed, no chores for the entire day, lots of extra cuddles and maybe even a foot rub, if I’m really lucky!

Happy Mother’s Day.

Give a frock Friday

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As seen in the April issue Vogue Russia, stylist Veronique Didry shows the casual side of haute couture by pairing this incredible Elie Saab gown with a Levi’s denim jacket. Model Melissa Stasiuk her mussed-up hair to perfection for photographer Richard Bush.  Isn’t fashion is fun?

Have a great weekend!

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Creative Space

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Something about the deep teal coloured walls with the floral quilt as a bead head is just so inviting.  I never thought about using a quilt as a bed head before, but I’m loving the idea.  I have this dream that one day I will have the most amazing carved bed head and then upholster it with Florence Broadhurst’s Horses Stampede fabric. You gotta dream, right?

Source: Apartment Therapy via Decor Whore.

Casually Fine, Well Dressed Men

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Recently a reader left me a comment that mentioned how difficult it is to dress casually fine when the weather is a constant and balmy 36 degrees celsius.  For women, we can put on a cool dress or skirt, but for a man, it’s not so easy to maintain a relaxed but stylish approach to dressing.  I can appreciate the difficulty because during our summers here my hubby often has to change his shirt during the day and he’s just walking from the car to the house!  Here are a few selections that might just provide some inspiration for you or your man’s summer wardrobe.

Classic white button-down with coloured trousers and brogues.

Simple elegance and that aubergine coloured loafer, yes!

Linen and light-weight fabrics work beautifully in summer, as does cool wool.

I want these seersucker shorts for myself please!

Ryan Gosling working a white tee.

I love men in shorts, especially tailored like this.

All one colour, all casual but the scarf and the rolled sleeves add personality.

I remember when everyone wore Polo shirts. Lacoste ruled.

The Louis Vuitton folio dresses up his drill shorts and favourite tee.

Tee and chinos.

Laid back and casually fine.

Short-sleeved button-down shirts can be more stylin' than an ordinary tee.

Plaid and denim. Cool combination.

Comfy long shorts (or short longs?) and a simple tee.

Ryan Reynolds does preppy and his chest seems to be almost bursting out of his shirt!

Robert Downey Jr, comfortable in his skin. Love his cute hat too.

Ewan McGregor, always casually fine.

It’s about mixing your favourites with something classic or even edgy.

It always takes me a while to put these types of posts together, I find myself spending way too much time looking for the perfect image because there are so many gorgeous pictures of handsome and well-dressed men to browse. :)

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Sources: meninthistown.tumblr.com, streetfsn.blogspot.com, thesartorialist.com, debonairthreads.tumblr.com, goodle.com.

Give a frock Friday

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Lovely and ethereal, Abbey Lee Kershaw wears Rodarte floral dress for the May  2012 issue of Vogue China. Photographed by Lachlan Bailey and styled by Clare Richardson, for more of the editorial, click here.

I have been in love with this dress ever since I saw it on the runway at NY Fashion Week, of course which I blogged about immediately!  I am such a fan of Van Gogh and to see his work interpreted into fashion is just my idea of inspired genius. Those Rodarte girls are so clever.

By the way, it has recently been brought to my attention that some of you may not be receiving your subscribed rss feed from this blog. You will have to update your subscription in order to continue to receive I like, I wish, I heart’s feed since I moved from Blogger to self-hosted. It seems that technology is not yet able to update this automatically, and I apologise for the inconvenience.

I’m looking forward to disconnecting from the internet this weekend and catching up on some reading – of the hardcover book kind that is :)

Wishing you a lovely weekend.

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Wednesday Tumblr Delight

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A beautiful theme of green for a place to relax outdoors.

Take a road trip with Don Draper, now that would be nice...

Time to go through my wardrobe and pack away my summer clothes and unearth my winter wardrobe...

The pleasure of wearing a simple black dress

I just love tales of true love.

At first glimpse, she looks tough, look again and I see vulnerability in her eyes, her soft touches wearing pearls, pretty heels and her up-do.

Tropical style drinks bar... that's what I'm talkin' about!

Dreaming of the magic that is this pool and its view.

Mother's Day is coming up...

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Frankie loves Gadgets (and so do I)

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So I’m supposed to be sorting through receipts for my tax, but that quickly got boring so I thought I would do a quick post about something I read about in the latest Frankie magazine this morning.

Here’s a way you can recycle (or is it up-cycle?) an old school clunky and chunky typewriter and use the keyboard for your computer, laptop or even your iPad.  It’s called USB Typewriter and basically it’s a gadget that connects old-fashioned manual typewriters to modern-day tech.  It’s available as a DIY kit or you can buy them ready-made if you’re not too savvy with that sort of thing. Click here for a short video on how it works.

By the way, Frankie magazine is my new love, its writers are clever, switched-on, cheeky and very quirky. The latest issue is jam-packed with funny and interesting stories about people and things from Australia and around the world.

Make sure you check out page 119 for a trip through good-old fashioned made-for-tv costume dramas. From Brideshead Revisited through to Downton Abbey, writer Jo Walker nails her reviews beautifully, I laughed my ass off!

Appealing Things

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Does your bedside table/night stand look anything like this one? Books piled on top of one another, just waiting to be read.

I have so many books and magazines crowding my bedside table, I don’t know how I am ever going to get through them all. I have another side table next to the sofa in the living room which is also piled high with books and magazines. Lately I can only manage a few pages before I fall asleep!  I used to read a few books at a time, but then I decided I wasn’t getting any of them finished, so I stuck to just one book at a time. Guess what? That approach hasn’t helped either.

I think the solutions is another internet-free weekend so that I can make a dent in some of these books. I don’t usually blog on the weekend, but I do surf and catch up on my RSS feeds and it’s incredible how much time I waste!

Ok, it’s decided. No internet this weekend!  Happy Monday to you all :)

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