View fullsize So much more than just a bunch of garlic. A palette worth adopting. #colourpalette #garlic @owlfarmbraidwood @nthsydmkts #victoriaalexander_books
View fullsize One of those times when I’m not being driven by time but what’s important and in front of me. Once, long ago, I would happily skip breakfast. Not any more. So simple It might even be my favourite meal.
View fullsize A lovely surprise yesterday at the opening of the new wing of the @artgalleryofnsw to discover the exhibition ‘Dreamhome - Stories of Art and Shelter’. It may be coincidental but felt all the more meaningful given Home is a book that prob
View fullsize That final coat of @Resenecolour paint happening at @thevillagepreschool and the height consultant testing the stairs. #thevillagepreschool #education Thank you for the 📷 phoebemcevoy
View fullsize This is Ed. He has crafted much of @thevillagepreschool. Most beautifully. He’s had many bespoke challenges and we’re yet to discover something he can’t do. Here he’s being the brackets for what will be the hand painted sig
View fullsize Home. Somewhere safe and comfortable. #Home #victoriaalexander_books #flowers #floral #blueandwhite #ceramics #books
View fullsize Reason enough to go to Rome. This reminder by @mark_anthony_fox
View fullsize He who has a why can endure any how. Nietzsche.
View fullsize Meaning belonging @ngununggula is a beautiful regional gallery space to visit. An old heritage listed dairy it has been given a calm yet strong redesign by @tzgarchitects. The kind of design that makes you wish you had a home they could help you rema
View fullsize When you work truely collaboratively it can be magic. At its best it feels like I see you, you feel me. You get it! is surely the greatest feeling you can have creativity. That feeling then shows in the work. In this case Home. And when it r e a l l
View fullsize Discovered yesterday - the source of a long term love of polo necks revealed. My architect brother’s haircut a precursor to the bob I wore for decades. #family #imagesfromthepast #longtermlove #victoriaalexander_books #haircuts #knit
View fullsize Collaboration when it works is a wonderful thing. Aura’s worked. Being a publisher with her own books out in the world means I understand the anticipation in the days before you hold your baby. Yesterday @laurareidphoto held hers for the first
View fullsize That feeling of happening upon something fun that’s a match made in heaven. From next week onwards you too will be able to fall in love with Aura your very self. Rather than seeing @laurareidphoto’s book here you can turn its enticing pa
View fullsize This is @thevillagepreschool looking almost complete. The painters begin the final coat next week, the garden has been planted. We’re at the pointy end of the construction with a month or so to go before applying for a completion certificate. T
View fullsize Greenhouses have their own certain type of appeal. This one chanced upon on Saturday got me thinking about their beginnings. In The Netherlands and England of course and in the 17th century. Then I remembered the Chelsea Physic Gardens greenhouses a
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View fullsize From the garden: it’s the not simple things. @pureandgeneral #Windsor #cottagegarden #garden #letthegardengrow #sweetpeas
View fullsize When it feels like Sunday on a Saturday with Linda @pureandgeneral. #Windsor #thehawksbury #verandah #country #countryside #countrystyle #countrylife #victoriaalexander_books #grapes #grapevine #heritagelisted
View fullsize Taking nothing for granted.
View fullsize We’re totally thrilled here at Home headquarters. You could even say unexpectedly excited and certainly proud. Home (my gentle book published by @lovebooks_publisher), six years in the thinking and making, has been nominated as a finalist for