• Five Minutes with Rhoeo spathacea – Regular Random

    Five Minutes with Rhoeo spathacea – Regular Random

    Last week, I spent five minutes with Clarry, who is my best friend Moana’s Border Collie. While I was in the backyard, I also spent 5 minutes (4 actually) with this lovely “Stripe Me Pink” plant, also known as Rhoeo spathacea. I used to have many of these in my garden when I lived in…

  • Five Minutes with Clarry – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes with Clarry – RegularRandom

    I am currently in Brisbane, staying with my best friend Moana. Moana’s dog Clarry, is a gorgeous 15 month old Border Collie. He is the sweetest, gentlest little (big) guy who is so very loyal to his mama. Moana wanted a few new photos for her wall and so I spent some time – 5…

  • Best Wishes for 2019

    Best Wishes for 2019

    Happy New Year everyone. It was a wonderful 2018 in many ways, with some not great parts. For me, it was the year that kikki.K found me on Instagram and asked me to collaborate with them on an amazing project and I’m so happy with how it turned out. In 2018, I started the year…

  • Melbourne Skies

    Melbourne Skies

    If you’ve known me for a while, you know I love the skies. The may not be evident of late, with my posts of cakes and flowers and planners dominating my feed, but it’s true. I don’t travel anymore (hardly at all) but I used to travel almost every week, sometimes multiple times each week,…

  • Birthday Chocolate Tart – RegularRandom

    Birthday Chocolate Tart – RegularRandom

    It must be tough having a birthday in the days leading up to Christmas. One of my friends at work, Anna, has her birthday on the 19th, and so we had a little morning tea to celebrate. I brought along a chocolate tart from my favourite bakery and we all enjoyed it on her day.…

  • Five Minutes with Five Meringues – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes with Five Meringues – RegularRandom

    Last week, I featured some photos of some meringues that my friend Jing Jing at work made. She brought some more in the next day and I selected these five to set up another shoot. I had an idea in mind, using some of the items on my desk at work but I simply didn’t…

  • Five Minutes with a Raspberry & Malteser Cronut – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes with a Raspberry & Malteser Cronut – RegularRandom

    Another visit to The Village Bakery for sourdough bread and I just happened to see this spectacular thing. Of course it’s time for the RegularRandom treatment. Would you like to join in the RegularRandom crew? Here’s how: choose a subject or a scene spend five minutes photographing it – no more! try to not interfere…

  • The Sweetest Things

    The Sweetest Things

    One of the girls I work with shares my love of all things stationery, but she also bakes! And you all know how I love to photograph sweet things. Today, she (Jing Jing) brought in these tiny little meringues in the softest of colours and I spent ten minutes photographing them. Poor Jing Jing had…

  • kikki.K B6 Planner – Pink Shoot

    kikki.K B6 Planner – Pink Shoot

    Following on from my “natural shoot” with this planner that I helped kikki.K create, along with 5 other PlannerInsiders from around the world, this is the second setup that I shot. That last photo shows the gorgeous pink planner that I moved out of to move into this lovely B6 – it’s a slightly larger…

  • The Planner Revealed – Natural Shoot

    The Planner Revealed – Natural Shoot

    If you remember, I was selected, among 5 other kikki.K fans from around the world, to collaborate with kikki.K on the development of a new planner, the ultimate planner, putting together a planner for planner lovers. Well, the planner was released last month and it’s stunning, so I wanted to share it with you here.…

  • Five (actually six) Minutes with this Doughnut – RegularRandom

    Five (actually six) Minutes with this Doughnut – RegularRandom

    I’m not usually one for doughnuts. Unless they’re spectacular, and that’s the only way I can explain this one. It’s from my usual bakery. I went in to get some bread but this caught my eye – I’m always looking for something that has some height or texture or some other kind of interest, and…

  • Five Minutes up close with a Pretty Pink Peony – RegularRandom

    Five Minutes up close with a Pretty Pink Peony – RegularRandom

    So how could you not expect me to do five minutes with one of the peonies from the festival. There was a mason jar with a peony in it on the table, so while the girls and I were chatting, I spent five minutes getting my macro on 💕 So here is my five minutes…

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