Feature Friday: Step inside Shelley Craft's home!

I love peeking inside peoples homes! One home I have always been interested in seeing is The Block host Shelley Craft. A little while ago I had heard that she and her husband had purchased in Byron Bay and were renovating and I was curious. Then, all of a sudden I hear that the newly renovated high-priced property is for sale. All of a sudden I run to the computer, punch her name into google and voil'a, I am transported into Shelley Craft's home. I was so curious to see her style after being a part of hit tv show The Block and most likely herself getting the renovation bug! This home is so me and my style. I feel in love, I mean who wouldn't want to sit on the verandah and enjoy the view towards the most easterly point of Australia and that famous lighthouse? 

So here it is, come and step inside the home and tell me what you think!

It's a luxury five-bedroom, three level house, with an asking price in excess of $1.5 million, is set on a massive landscaped block of land in the posh pocket of Ewingsdale.

It took Shelley and her husband Christian Sergiacomi, a former cameraman on The Block, four years to renovate.

Chunky Caramel Pecan Fudge

Its a wet and rainy day here on the Gold Coast. The forecast is four days of rain. Which means we are going to tackle our kitchen renovation. It's a job that has been 80% complete for too long. This weekend I am on a mission to finish it. You may have seen me posting about it here on Instagram yesterday. There is something about social media, once you make a statement public you have to follow through with it don't you?! Looks like the kitchen will be finished soon then!

But this weekend, if you too are trapped indoors by the rain and feel like indulging in something sweet and getting your bake on, I have the perfect recipe for you.

I think it is one of my favourite sweet dessert treats EVER. It is honestly so damn good! It's from my Nicole Joy Inspire cookbook. 

Feature Friday - Nina Proudman's Offspring Apartment

I am having Offspring withdrawals. I even woke the other night to be singing the theme song...Oh why, oh why, oh why wont you sing, bring your hips to me....If you are laughing right now, I would understand. I mean its only a tv show right? Right! Except that its hard not to connect with Nina, she is gorgeous, her wardrobe is stunning, she is incredibly awkward and all you want is for her to happy after the death of Patrick. 

So to help me with my withdrawals I jumped on Pinterest and typed in the name 'Nina Proudman'. Now I have serious wardrobe envy! Her staple wardrobe items seems to be denim, scarfs and boots and I love it. 

Wednesday's Words

Perfect words! I shared these words yesterday on the Glamour Coastal Living facebook page and thought they were worth sharing here too with you lovelies. Happy Hump Day x

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A few weeks of Wonderlust

Do you ever feel that once the holiday is over, there is just mountains of clothes piled up in the laundry to be done? That's how I am feeling right now.

Last month I spent 8 nights on a small isolated island to the north of Fiji. It was heaven for me, a week full of my favourite things...

♥ Fresh seafood and home grown organic produce (the pineapple was out of this world!)

♥ Swaying coconut palm trees, coconut water, coconut in my food, coconut skincare - everything was coconut and I LOVE coconut. I was in my element!

♥ Time with my Husband to relax and recharge the batteries

♥ Blue water and blue skies and nothing to do but laze at the beach. 8 days with sand on my feet, salt in my hair and sun on my skin was just what I needed to break up the colder winter months back home!

Adding Some Curb Appeal to My Home - Feature Friday

Nearly two years ago when we were house hunting for our first home I disregarded our house. I sat out the front of the house in the car and turned my nose up. I was struggling to see it's potential and visualise how we could transform it. Basically I didn't want to buy our house as it didn't have any curb appeal. It was bland, brick and boring. Now, we have major curb appeal and its a BIG improvement (it took a lot of work and lots of weekends though!)!!

Today I am showing you some of my home renovation as part of my Feature Friday post. The front of our home and transforming it has been a big project that we have tackled in several smaller steps. You may have already seen that we have installed new windows and doors to our home, painted the brick exterior, built a new front deck and done some serious landscaping. but you haven't seen how it has all come together so far. In between these projects we painted the front garage doors and did a feature wall at the front in stacker stone. It really transformed the house and modernised it. 

Here are the photos that tell the story of how we added some serious curb appeal...

The month of July

The month of July through the eyes of Instagram....

This months post is a little late. I have spent the weekend in celebration mode (a graduation and 90th birthday, plus a visit from family all the way from WA). 

The month of July for me was focused on one thing - a week in Fiji. I booked it quite last minute, last month in June. After a busy six months at work and a few really cold winter mornings I decided some island sun was what Hubby & I needed. So we booked and this is where we spent five blissful days on a tropical secluded island...

Falling more in love with palm trees, coconuts, fresh seafood and organic home grown produce. It was a little slice of heaven! Just what we needed...