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    How To Grow a Lush Garden from Cuttings – for Free

    May 30, 2021June 7, 2021

    There is nothing that chills my husband to the bone more than me than the sound of me screeching, “STOP THE CAR. I SEE PLANTS.” I have gotten so, so many plants for our yard – for free – by finding them on the side of the road, in the wonderful scheme that is green

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    Our Cubbyhouse Makeover

    February 7, 2020February 22, 2020

    Pass me that mother of the year baton, guys. I don’t get to have it too often, but I totally deserve to hold it for a good minute or two. I won a cubbyhouse! I won it late last year through an Instagram competition held by a local Perth cubbyhouse company called Kidzshack. To enter,

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  • Home Projects

    How to Make An Amazing Succulent Bowl

    September 15, 2019June 8, 2021

    If you have ever admired a pretty succulent bowl but thought they looked too tricky to make one at home (or that you’d kill it anyway) I have good news! Succulent bowls are super-easy to put together; and even if you’re a total black thumb with plants, you can keep one alive and thriving, I

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  • Happier Home

    Why Hobbies Are Important (Especially for Parents)

    September 9, 2019October 3, 2019

    Lately there’s a saying that’s been doing the rounds on social media – that to help maintain overall health and wellbeing, you need not just one, but precisely three hobbies. One to keep you fit, one that exercises your creativity, one to make you money. It’s a very neat and clever little idea, and I

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    Rejuvenating Our Garden For Summer (and my Favourite Hardy, Affordable Plants)

    December 23, 2018August 13, 2019

    This story is a paid partnership with Scotts. Thank you for supporting my blog’s sponsors. Ahh – summer. I am going to be honest, I’m not a summer person. In my past life I probably was the Wicked Witch of the West who melted to death. Her rage was an accurate representation of my snippy

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    A Blissful Pool Retreat for a 100-Year-Old Rural Farmhouse

    December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

    Imagine having acres and acres of land around you, no other houses as far as the eye can see. Sounds like heaven – right? But what if it’s so many endless acres of space that every so often you actually end up craving a little more intimacy, a bit more privacy and enclosed space? That’s

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  • Happier Home

    A Mother of Three’s Completely Edible Suburban Garden

    March 8, 2015February 25, 2020

    Can you be self-sufficient from the average-sized suburban garden? I don’t know, but the owner of this one is definitely trying – and she has such an awesome garden that I think half of you will be itching to plant sweet potatoes or peaches this weekend. I was introduced to home owner Kate Reading by

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    A Spooky Old Sea Captain’s Mansion

    October 28, 2014July 4, 2021

    Some people like gardens that are perfectly neat, with not a weed in sight or leaf out of place. But I tend to prefer the messy, crazy, overgrown ones; big and rambling, or small courtyard gardens, I like ones that enshroud their houses in dark jungle-like thickets. To me a crazy overgrown garden is so

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    One of my long-time favourite local MCM houses is One of my long-time favourite local MCM houses is for sale! 😍 I would buy this sweet house if I could. I've loved driving past this house since I was a kid. Imagine curling up with a book in that cosy sunroom while it's raining, or playing board games in the dining room, the lights of the city skyline in the distance 🌃🤩 AND when you wake up the morning after your wine-fuelled Take Two and Dutch Blitz shenanigans, in just two minutes you can walk to some of the best coffee in Perth, @grouchandco! ☕ The interior is so cute - the house been kept in the same family since it was built in 1962, which I think is so special 💛 They have selected the lovely @siobhanmicaleyardproperty to sell their house for them. 
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First pic my stalkery snap, professional pics by Clint Baker @musemediaperth ✨ Someone please, please buy it and invite me over for wine 🙏🏽 I will help you throw a 1960s-themed housewarming party. I'll bring pigs-in-a-blanket and devilled eggs 🍸
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    "No dogs sleeping on the bed next time we get a do "No dogs sleeping on the bed next time we get a dog," Mr Nerd and I vowed to each other before we brought Luka home. As you can see, it's going really well. Our resolve isn't crumbling at all 😶

Also, that big linen blanket is from my friend @bedtonic, and it might be my favourite thing I own. If you invest in one thing for your bed in the next couple of years, make it one of these! We haven't used the heater in our bedroom since we got one a few winters ago. Good time to ask for one with Mother's Day 😉 🌸 Hope you all had a lovely morning ☕
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    A few Sundays ago, we lost Chicken Nugget, our swe A few Sundays ago, we lost Chicken Nugget, our sweet little teenage chook 🐥 "I have two dogs, Nala and Luka, but Chicken Nugget died one night in Mummy's arms and now her be an angel," Miss Nerd has been telling anyone and everyone; including total strangers, who usually tend to look startled. Despite knowing she had a good innings (13), I have now officially cried more over a chicken than over any dog or cat I've owned 😭 Yes, a chicken. (And we eat chicken!)
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We'd had a really busy Sunday. We were out almost all day; the city, playground, river, came home, took the dogs to the park, had a lovely dinner at a friend's place. One of those rare blissful days where parenting just lines up; everything is fun and easy and everyone is happy. We got home, I got the kids down. It was later at night when I went to let the dogs out the back, and saw a fluffy bundle lying by the back door. My heart sank. I thought she was already dead. She was sleeping. I brought her inside and got her warm cuddled her in my lap. She died in my arms around midnight.
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I've had so many pets; experienced so many animal deaths. This one was the hardest 💔 Even though she had a nice chicken life and was SO old! I think what made me feel so broken up with this one was that so many animals go to die somewhere by themselves. In her last hours CN crawled up to the back door, to us. I felt so bad that she might have been suffering and I was too caught up running around all day; too busy with everyone else to notice. I felt so guilty - it took me a while to get over that 😔💔 The kids were gutted and still talk about how they miss her, Miss Nerd the most, as CN was her special (long-suffering, gentle and very patient) little friend. "But now Chicken Nugget is an angel in heaven and she has four wings not just two, and she can FLY with those wings," Miss Nerd says, and that is a pretty good image to keep. 💛🐥
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    WIN ✨ A double pass to the amazing @rooftopmovie WIN ✨ A double pass to the amazing @rooftopmovies and a voucher for a delicious bottle of @madfishwines to share 🥂🍷 One of my favourite Perth things to do is to relax by watching a movie outdoors and with a wine in hand - we definitely have the beautiful evening weather for it! 🌄 @rooftopmovies has become such an icon and what better way to enjoy it than with delicious, local family-owned @madfishwines - the official WA partner of this year's Fringe World Perth and Rooftop Movies. Here's your chance to make it there before the end of the season!
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To enter, all you have to do is: 
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2. Tag a friend below - 1 friend, 1 entry, 4 friends, 4 entries! Good luck! 
Winner drawn 10pm 24/03/22.
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Competition winner drawn by random selector. Promotion is not endorsed, sponsored, administered by or associated with Instagram. There is a complete release of IG by each entrant. 
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    With Easter and Mother's Day not far away, I wante With Easter and Mother's Day not far away, I wanted to share present ideas from two really nice small businesses that kindly sent me the most beautiful things 💛🥺 They are the kinds of special things that feel SO nice I have to keep firmly reminding myself: "USE them! Don't just keep them at the back of the cupboard for 'special occasions'!" (It's so easy to do that isn't it?!)
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The first small business is @_cottoncollective_. Based in Perth, Lisa curates the prettiest 100 percent cotton, block-printed tablecloths and textiles like tea towels, cushions and cot blankets. I lover her videos of block printing being done - it is such an art. This is the Hamptons blue tablecloth, carefully block-printed by hand by artisans in India. I really like her Wildwood design too... well, I like them all 🤷🏽‍♀️ She offers free shipping through Australia 📦
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The second biz is @intheroundhouse, based in Sydney. They sell really fun, colourful plates and placemats; meant to be mix n match and eclectic (I approve) 🌈 I have some plates from their Blue Collection, some from their Italian collection, and a prawn 🦐 (everyone wants the prawn). Impressively they are dishwasher safe, which makes the higher price tag worth it 👌🏽 They are so bold they make setting the table fun - I find myself shouting, "PREGO" like Hilary Duff in The Lizzie McGuire Movie. (An iconic piece of cinema).
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Spot the @madfishwines in there - another giveaway with them soon! 🥂
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    It's little and modest, but this weatherboard cott It's little and modest, but this weatherboard cottage is an icon. Familiar? This is the North Fremantle home famous for belonging to Carmel Mullally, or the ‘lady who lives in the port’ 🏠👵🏻Originally built in 1897, at 28 Bayly Street opposite Port Beach, this worker’s cottage became a symbol of resilience and strength, as the huge Fremantle Port sprung up around it over the years. 
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Ms Mullally moved into her house in the 1950s with her husband James. Despite her neighbours moving, every other nearby house being bulldozed, and the port becoming bigger and noisier, with the ever-constant hum of forklifts, freight trains, oil tankers and shipping containers being stacked - Ms Mullally refused to move. 
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She always said she loved living by the ocean and that her cottage gave her everything she needed. And she liked trains. 
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Ms Mullally endured a five decade-long battle to keep her home, with multiple offers and pressure from government authorities to buy her house starting way back in 1963, five years after she moved in. 
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A loved member of North Freo’s community, she became a symbol of resilience and strength. “I wasn’t keen on letting my house go – I’d worked for it,” she said. While she and the port authorities had some differences over the years – she famously painted slogans on her walls in the 80s telling the authorities to leave her alone - eventually their relationship came to a place of mutual respect. 
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Her little cottage was finally heritage-listed by Fremantle Council in 2007, saving it from ever being bulldozed, and Ms Mullally happily continued to live there amidst the bustle of the port work until her late 80s. 
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Last year, she had to move into aged care, and she sadly passed away earlier this summer at 89. I think she sounds awesome (my novel cont. in comments!)
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