friends // sophie @ finders keepers market Posted by Helena

on the weekend, i caught up with my friend sophie (hospitals for ghosts) and we walked along the river to the powerhouse for food nibbles, then drove (we couldn't quite face the walk!) to the finders keepers market at the old museum. we spent too much money on food and brooches, but it was a lovely day! sophie's one of my favourite people to photograph too because... well... i think the photos speak for themselves.

i also used pugly pixel's latest free download, scallop medallions! katrina often posts free clip art to download and i adore them all. you'll probably see me using them a lot in my graphics (when i can be bothered to make them look pretty).


















my new peacock brooch/clip/fascinator

artist // jessica hyde - truth.be.told Posted by Helena

paris i love you by truth be told

jessica hyde is a melbourne friend and she's, well, an artist! she draws and creates all these beautiful designs and then... prints them onto stationary! she runs her own little label, truth be told. i'm a stationary nut and i've been a stationary hoarder my whole life. when i was little i even collected hotel stationery. anyway, jess makes gorgeous, elegant prints, cards, stationery, all while holding down a full time job in graphics in architecture. she's a busy girl!

design // the selby: lyndsay and fitzhugh Posted by Helena

my old housemate alerted me to todd selby's website featuring peoples' houses, the selby, shortly after it started in 2008 and i've been following it avidly ever since. here's some of my favourite shots from brooklyn, new york in the latest post. owners lyndsay and fitzhugh are a jewellery designer and furniture designer respectively, and also work to build and decorate artistic homes with the brooklyn home company.

and a little blurb about todd selby just in case you haven't heard of him before...

Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website, www.theselby.com, where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. The Selby’s website became so popular—with up to 35,000 unique visitors daily—that within months, top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate.

These joint projects have included a large ad campaign and web project with Nike 6.0, a solo show at colette, an international ad campaign for Habitat, work for the New York Times T Magazine, and frequent contributions to Vogue Paris and Architectural Digest France. Todd’s first book, The Selby is In Your Place, will be released in May 2010 by Abrams.

design // 31 rue cambon Posted by Helena

sources: PARK&CUBE, le blog de betty, sea of shoes

i would love to take photos of mademoiselle chanel's apartment! ahh!

photographer // max wanger Posted by Helena

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i adore max wanger's photography. i never really thought about weddings until friends started getting married and talking about photographers and i realised wedding photography can be incredible and not just the standard black and white bridal-party-in-a-line kind of stuff.

mixtape // 4 june 2010 Posted by Helena

 

sources: dreadfuldan & cybele malinowski

here's a bunch of my favourite tracks at the moment. i'm seeing two door cinema club and angus & julia stone in the coming months too! i've posted some extra angus & julia stone stuff since i especially love them at the moment. they're a brother/sister australian band and make such beautiful, sweet (and often times sad) music.

P.S. i love the pugly pixel freebies!

links // a bouquet of links Posted by Helena

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a bouquet of links
sofia coppola in french vogue - my favourite director
in the frame and on the wall - tips for hanging photo frames
which body parts do different musical genres emphasise? - interesting read
christina tonkin - set designer for gossip girl
shake your pom pom - a post from PARK&CUBE about the vamoose and her lovely jewellery
lazy days on the island of tortola - lots of beautiful travel photography (with a side of food)
how to tie a knotted ascot - a gorgeous hand-made present for a boyfriend
bella figura 2010 collection - beautiful embossed invitations
daniel radcliffe aces interview with terrified 11-year-old reporter - just one reason why dan radcliffe is awesome
the most controversial magazine covers of all time - another pages i've had bookmarked

life // lazy sunday afternoon Posted by Helena

after work on sunday i went to see my friend sing with carry nation at the powerhouse. we went to high school with jessie and she's seriously talented and nice. she moved to melbourne at the start of the year and recently supported indie darling lisa mitchell. i think they'd compliment each other well as they have similar style, they're both so sweet and just that little bit awkward on stage (jessie also does a killer cover of teardrops by womack and womack).

so after being delighted by whimiscal girly music for half an hour, we hung out on the balcony overlooking the river and sampled some of the delicious tapas at bar alto. seen here are arancini (risotto balls), zucchini fritters & calamari, and the staple chips & aioli.