As regular readers will know Paris is my very favourite city to visit. My husband even worked there commuting back and forth for three years. It is now like a second home to us. I first visited Paris in the Wintertime when […]
The Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) is hosting a series of events so that readers can get up close and personal with their favourite romance authors. The first one kicked off here in Brisbane over the weekend at the Broncos Leagues Club. […]
New Luxe Brisbane Label- article: Premiere Collection One of the joys of writing about fashion is being able to focus on new designers and emerging labels. Recently Brisbane Designer – Elizabeth O’Connor- Cowley launched her new luxe range of handbags and accessories. […]
Growing up with an English Mum, I was fed a steady diet of English literary classics and it was the great British novelists who inhabited my early years. Writers, to my young mind, were either from the United Kingdom or great Americans […]
You would be forgiven for thinking you were in Paris if you visited the Palace Barracks on Thursday night. It was the launch of the 30th French Film Festival and over 750 people arrived to walk the vivid blue carpet and view […]
Autumn is arriving here in Australia after a long , hot and sizzling summer. We’ve all been swimming, had our hair tied back to keep cool on the scorching days and battled with taming the frizz as the humidity just kept on […]
Jilly Marsden designs bespoke jewellery for the modern woman. Following on from a successful career as a hair stylist, Jill has turned her passion for art and jewellery into a successful jewellery design business which is now generating buzz around the world. […]
One of the great things about visiting Paris for Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week is catching up with fashion friends and making new friends from all over the world. Last year I was invited to Maria Aristidou’s show Serendipity and after the […]
Director James Marsh has assembled a stellar cast in new drama- King of Thieves. Led by the always debonair Michael Caine this movie also features Michael Gambon, Charlie Cox, Kelli Shirley and Jim Broadbent.This cast of British acting royalty have obviously had […]
#SheSociety’s Michelle Beesley takes us to Paris in this episode of Buzzing About Books. Michelle BeesleyMichelle Beesley is a Brisbane born and bred former primary school teacher. A wife, proud grandma and mother of three grown sons, Michelle is thrilled to have […]
I first became aware of fashion designer Tracey Watkins early in her design career. You see one of my friends bought a piece from White Label Noba at Hummingbird the shop even before Tracey had the stand alone stores in Hawthorne and […]
Willy, Biff, Happy, Linda, Uncle Ben…. These names resonate with many, because for 70 years ‘ Death of a Salesman’ has been delighting audiences, been deconstructed by school students and has caused us all to question our place in this crazy world. […]
I have seen many runway shows but this year I was invited to my first Salon show. It was showing in the beautiful Hotel Plaza Athenee on Avenue Montaigne, one of Paris’ premiere fashion streets. I did not know what to expect […]
It was the perfect segue from Paris Fashion Week to my Brisbane life when I was invited by Queensland Theatre for a sneak peek ‘Behind the Seams’ to view the costumes for their first play of the season ‘Death of a Salesman’. […]
It was with sadness that I attended my last Paris Fashion show in the Salon at the exquisite Plaza Athenee. The fashion shows and designs that I’d seen for Spring/Summer 2019 had me very excited. Perhaps it was because I’m Australian and […]
When I began researching the designers I was going to see at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week I was very surprised to see an Australian designer included. I suddenly realised that I was already familiar with his work. You see Alin Le’ […]
By the time you read this I’ll be in Paris for Haute Couture Fashion Week. I have a suitcase filled with fabulous winter outfits from Brisbane designer – Tracey Watkins. Tracey is the designer of luxe lifestyle label – White Label Noba. […]
After some exhaustive research in the latter part of 2018, I began to wonder what new trends we could expect from wines in 2019. For me it has been the summer of Pinot Gris and Riesling but for many friends Rose’ has […]
When you think of Haute Couture, Perth in Western Australia is probably not the first place that springs to mind. Yet Perth is the home of African Australian designer – Azulant Akora. Azulant is a millennial designer who creates beautiful Haute Couture […]
Ah, Provence…. Warm and welcoming , with beaches, history, rolling vineyards, gastronomic experiences, sensational chocolate and healing lavender. Provence is a beautiful region in South Eastern France known for its diverse landscapes.Think Alps, plains, the French Riviera and calanques (rocky inlets perfect […]
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