A Melbourne Gem harnesses Feng Shui

Shot by the incredibly talented Sharyn Cairns and Styled by the Guru himself Glen Proebstel - Houzz has featured my very own house on their website titled "A Melbourne Gem harnesses Feng Shui" 
loving the title!

Ellis and her husband met with a feng shui expert before they moved into their house. "She told us that the place had a great feeling, that it was a happy place. But she also pointed out the changes we needed to make, like changing door-opening directions and moving doors, so that we could keep the good energy," says Ellis. 

Head over to their website if you would like to see more. Thank you Houzz!

Win a $1000 shopping spree with AURA

To celebrate the release of our new Spring Summer collection we are offering one lucky winner a $1000 Shopping Spree with AURA! Thats right $1000 to spend on your favourite AURA products! For your chance to win head over and "like" us on Facebook and click the "WIN" box.  Then visit www.aurahome.com.au and "like" your favourite product. Good luck everyone! 

Our brand new Maison Ruffle Bedlinen has just arrived!!

Our new Aura Maison Ruffle bedding has just arrived! "The Sky is not too much to ask. Why let your bed be earthbound when you could sleep on clouds? Maison is the cumulus of slumber, a soporific whisper of cotton and linen gently drawing you ever closer to the land of nod. Clouds it seems are no longer the preserve of angels.
Available now - Queen Bed Quilt Cover $219.

My new love of Terrariums

After reading a lovely inspiring post on The Design Files this week we got in contact with Clea from Miniscapes and had two beautiful Terrariums delivered for a rather important meeting in the AURA showroom tomorrow. Thank you Clea for being so helpful and amazingly quick. We love them!

Emporium Magazine

A lovely shot of our new Maxwell in Artichoke in the latest Myer Emporium - Spring magazine, and below some new range cushions and coverlets. Its great to see new products arriving in the stores as the weather starts to shine!

Say hello to Spring with Sienna Caribbean!

Isnt she lovely! Our Sienna in Caribbean has just arrived - The Breathtaking Blue of tropical lagoons, Sienna in Caribbean is an island hopping adventure. A Sultry, dreamy Peacock Blue meets the florid overgrowth of ancient jungles, entwining to create a quite bedroom oasis lapped gently by exotic tides.
See more here.

Office Makeover - Lonny Magazine

I'm very inspired to take some time to turn our AURA office space into a haven of creation after reading the latest Lonny Magazine article on their fabulous office makeover. These shots are of their office in Manhattan which they turned from "unslightly" to a beautiful place to work. I love the front office (top) and the use of the narrow desks to turn a small space into a fabulously good looking work area - good tip for home where you usually have less room or have to share with a loved one. And then the Back office with the use of the "theme - mood" wall in a deep shade is a great look and the multi space desk which makes good use of a small space and gives room for more than one creative mind to work.

Then Michelle's (co-founder and editor in chief) office - this is great - gone is the conventional desk for a round table/desk and what a lovely space full of her favourite things - a way to make going to work each day a lovely experience. I have to get the thinking cap on with the team to see what we can come up with to make our office a vision of AURA design - first things first our daggy office chairs just have to go!!

Real living July issue

The Real Living July issue is out now and I was pretty excited to see this gorgeous shot of our Inka bedlinen in Smoke! I have been tossing up whether to get Inka for home and its a done deal now I think this looks great - and Im loving the Mustard wall back with it. Thanks Real Living! 

Home Beautiful June issue

Shopping for dinner last night I came across the latest June Issue of Home Beautiful that has just hit the shelves and look what I found - a Design Profile on little old me! Thank you Anna Koorey that made my night! 

And what a good week it was!

It's been a busy couple of weeks in the AURA office organising our next shoot and last week we had a fantastic time shooting our new Spring/Summer 2011 collection - I love our photoshoots, the pleasure of working with a team of very talented people to make our new designs come to life! Lots of love and emotion goes into the designing of our ranges and it is wonderful to have a team of people that understand that passion and feel it too!

 

The hours of work that goes into a photoshoot before the shoot and during the shoot is amazing. The most exciting part for me is when each shot is being set up and then that final look through the camera and the sigh of wonder at the beautiful creation that has been made. And I promised I wouldn't put the team photo :( but you know who you all are - thanks for such a wonderful job team - you rock x x 

A fabulous start to a Friday!

Do you ever wake up feeling abit tired (especially after a fabulous and relaxing long Easter break) and wonder why do we work so hard all of our lives?? Well this morning I woke up to a little shot that was emailed through from our lovely Canadian distributor and all of those dreary Friday thoughts went straight out the window! I've always dreamed of AURA being up there with the Donna Karan's and the Calvin Klein's of the world and here we are in all our glory sitting pride of place next to Mr Klein in The Bay in Toronto. Take a bow team AURA - this definately out does the royal wedding for me this weekend!

Spring Summer 2011 range release!

A Sneak Peek behind the curtain at Spring/Summer's range release!

Its been a long week of range showings for our new Spring/Summer 2011 collection to buyers, with great feedback it has been worth the effort we have all put in! Every 6 months for 2 weeks we dress the showroom with new and exciting products to show to our Australian buyers and international distributors. Luckily this season we have Easter in the middle for a well deserved break. I'm looking forward to heading off to Beechworth for 5 days of rest and relaxation, shopping and eating! Looking forward to sharing some fabulous finds with you next week! 

Chevron love

Seems to be abit of a mad craze for zig zags or "chevron's" at the moment. This fabulous shot above is from Brita Sweden, as seen on our friend Natalie's Hiccupings blogspot today! Go Nat for spotting this one and below a stunning shot of a very relaxed puss on some rather lovely emerald green Moroccan tiles from here. 

Could our very own Inka Fig bedding be included in this lovely trend at the moment, I think so!

Velvet and Linen what a perfect combination!

Perfect timing, with the weather cooling down I have been thinking about abit more layering needed for the bed and our stunning new Velvet coverlets have just arrived! These are beautiful, a lush black luxurious Cotton Velvet on the front with a large pure Linen border, hand stitched with a natural top stitch. I know im sounding like a sales pitch but i just love them and have to take one home this weekend to survive our cold Melbourne weather! Have a lovely weekend everyone and hope you like the new shots x

New Winter Catalogue online now

Heres a sneak peak at our brand new Autumn/Winter 2011 catalogue that we have just added online - you can check it out here. I hope you enjoy it - we are very proud of once again producing a beautiful masterpiece of a catalogue, and yes I am biased. Thank you to all of the wonderful creative people who where involved - well done to all and I would love to hear your feedback, leave me a comment to let me know what you think, Tracie x

Atelier Abigail Ahern

The legendary and incredibly inspirational Abigail Ahern featured our new Inka bedlinen on her beautiful blog today! What an absolute honor to be featured by one of the worlds "coolest" interior designers! Thank you Abigail!!! 

Sydney Gift Fair

This week we have been setting up our AURA stand at the Sydney Reed Gift and Homewares fair, Jess did a top job with the drill! We have welcomed in our Winter 2011 collection with a gorgeous "Mustard" wall, one of our feature colours this season - which was a great success so look out for some lovely Honey products in the stores. For those of you who dropped by to visit us at Darling Harbour thank you very much it was lovely to see everyone! 

Our beautiful new Maison has arrived

Our beautiful Maison bedding and tablelinen has arrived! In stunning Aubergine and Honey I already have my order in for a King Bed Aubergine quilt cover and Honey napkins. I am in love with our new shots, the moody rich blue on the wall behind the Honey tablecloth shot is stunning and just dreamy. I cant wait I adore these new colours - but yes I am biased...x

Happy 10th Birthday AURA!

 Aimee Marshall, Jessica Davidson and I.

 Julie Lewis and Mary Mumby.

The AURA glamour girls, Jaine Fulcher and I with Richard Waller.

Beth and Kathee, from 360 Degrees.

Tanya Buchanan and David Novak-Piper. 

Lesiele Hailame, Kathee Gunn, Lisa Thomas, Claire Patience.

The AURA ladies.....

"Time flys when your having fun" and so it goes that AURA has turned 10! and we celebrated in style at The Bite Club in Sydney to thank our wonderful Media friends for their generous support over the last 10 years and to also launch our new Winter 2011 collection.  The new collection has been inspired by a journey into the Andalusian countryside thanks to my recent trip to Spain and what a perfect venue. Thank you everyone who attended it was a wonderful night, and a very special thank you to the fabulous AURA team, Jaine and Jess, we are a very passionate team and we have all worked so hard on AURA to enable it to grow into the wonderful brand that it has become. Here's to the next 10 years!!