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! 

Favorite shots

I thought I'd share with you my 2 favourite shots of the season! I love these shots, taken at the beautiful Abbotsford convent in front of what we believe is an old shop. The wall has stunning texture, and amazing personality, and was a perfect backdrop for our new table linen.

Actually the whole new catalogue is rather special, a lot of team effort went into the creative process and we are all very excited and proud of the outcome, if you would like us to send you one no problem, click here to request our brand new Winter catalogue.

Have a lovely weekend!  

Food styling

The AURA team where pretty excited this season (especially me) to have on board the very talented Claire Flynn - food stylist extraordinaire for our recent shoot. I thought I would share a few behind the scenes shot of Claire's glorious food that was used to prop our brand new Tablelinen collection. I can't wait for the new range to arrive and to share all of the beautiful shots with you, and maybe if Claire is kind enough, a few recipes as well! 

Needless to say we were not hungry this day of the shoot! Claire's advice on roasting veggies is to lay them on baking paper - saves alot of washing up!

Is there such a thing as too much Chocolate Flan? I think there might have been for me - but gosh it was beautiful, imagine it topped with hazelnut's and cream hmmmmm. Below the amazing Chicken Pie that Hubby and I ate for dinner, perfect winter warmer food. I had to try to reinvent the Pastry top after we gave back the stunning copper cookware on loan, so I will definately be asking for the recipe on this as my pastry certainly didnt cut the mustard! 

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 

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

AURA Winter 2011 shoot

See our star Photographer and super Stylist in action on our current Winter 2011 shot. After my recent inspirational trip to Spain we are all feeling the call of Iberia and the theme is of course centered around "Rustic, Modern, Country Spain" - very earthy, more colour and alot of love. Thanks guys it is going to be another wonderful catalogue, the best yet - full of just beautiful shots and new fabulous product!

New Spring Summer 2010 Collection on line now

We are very excited to launch our brand new catalogue and website, the new Spring/Summer 2010 collection is online now! Make sure to check out the website and let me know what you think! 

Dreaming of India

I've been dreaming of India and taking the AURA team to Rajasthan to shoot our next Winter 2011 catalogue in the beautiful pink city of Jaipur. The amazing Haveli's of Jaipur are private homes that used to be owned by Marwaris, they usually feature an internal courtyard and have been very decoratively painted with Frescos. What a perfect backdrop for our next collection. The shots above are from a select few including Umaid Mahal, Samode Haveli, Alsisar Mahal, all wonderful. Fingers Crossed! 

Soho House NYC

Looking at beds for our next shoot and I came across these amazing white painted decorative beds, could be thought of as abit Franco Cozzo, but no they are from the dramatic Soho House, a private members club and hotel in New York. I would love to stay here on my next trip to NYC but it just could be a tad $$ - it does look stunning. 

The One

We are currently busy preparing for our next catalogue photoshoot and working on finalising our new Spring Summer 2010 collection so I have not been able to post for a couple of weeks! We are also working on our international stockists and have our wonderful UK partners here at the moment, they have been to The Middle East and just check out this fabulous super cool store - its called "The One" and being a Bono fan I had to check out the website. Have a look and it is also a great read - the story behind the store is very real and a breath of fresh air to hear the set backs within the story and that they overcame these set backs, normally all we hear is the good things - an interesting read. This is "the One" store that we would definitely love to sell AURA to! 

New AURA Winter 2010 catalogue

Our new AURA Winter 2010 catalogue is now ready! Follow the link to view the catalogue and let me know what you think! We have received some great feedback on the new look and feel and overall theme of the catalogue which uses some cool strong graphics to highlight the new collection of audacious large scale patterns, fabulous textures and unapologetic colours!