Woman in Business

Thankyou to my lovely Cousin Katherine for finding this for me on the Woman in Business Blog recently, they have posted a link to The interview on The Design Files, a big thank you to Lucy for her generous article on me and AURA. 

Lovely Media - thank you

Here is our Velvet Striped Coverlet in the new July issue of Real Living - looking gorgeously layered in this shot! 

Our Shaded cushion in Chilli looking pretty funky here in this "born free" editorial ode to hippydom in the July/August issue of Vogue Living. 

And thank you Canberry Weekly - fantastic coverage of our Purple Spot bed linen in their Inside & Out section, featuring a Purple theme this week! Everyone does seem to be adoring purple at the moment! 

The Beautiful Macrame work of Small Town

White Suede boutique in Chapel St Prahran, VIC.

Deep Sea lamp shade

Knotted Egg light - just beautiful

Large Macrame necklace 

The revamp of Fur Hairdressing Salon in Fitzroy Vic, featuring stunning large white & purple Macrame Pot hangers in the front windows. 

I am in the middle of trying to think up creative ideas for our stand at the up and coming Melbourne Gift Fair in August, we haven't ventured into Gift Fair land for a while so I want to make sure we make an impact amongst the masses of stands displaying their wares! Well I came across the beautiful work of Small Town, who specialise in making Macrame pieces of Art, each piece is hand knotted and finished to create timeless individual work. I love it they are all stunning, as well as wanting a piece for home they would be perfect in our showroom and for the gift fair - just one more reason to have our own AURA store, that I keep dreaming about, I could just imagine these beautiful works of art hanging filled with sparkly cushions in all their glory. 

Behind the scenes of our new AURA Summer 2010 catalogue shoot

Simply beautiful table linen styling. 

Our Maison collection is part of a brand new AURA tablelinen range for our Spring/Summer collection. 

Wonderful exciting props ready for action! 

And more props! 

It never ceases to amaze me the fabulous shots we get in less then ideal spaces - Thanks Issey for the use of your car park again! 

I thought I would share some behind the scenes shots with you from our recent Spring Summer 2010/11 shoot - a new era for us at Aura as this is our 10 year anniversary collection! And for 10 years we have been shooting still life so this was a pretty fun shoot with us trying our hand at fashion photography! This season we are launching a brand new range of Kaftans and scarves so we let our fabulous photographer loose with a model! The shots all look beautiful, I cant think of a better word to describe them - I would like to thank our amazing team - Photographer Isamu Sawa, Stylist Glen Proebstel and the wonderful Jessica from AURA! 

Our new Ena table linen has started!

Our new Ena napkins and tapas Napkins being printed - just like we did at uni - although on a bigger scale and these fellows have amazing skills to match up the repeat on this one! 

Hanging out to dry

Ena Olive - Tablerunners drying - soon to go to new homes! 

 Placemats drying - ready to be cut up and stitched into individual mats. 

I thought I would share with you a sneak peak at our Ena tablelinen being hand screen-printed - it is great to see each product being made and I am getting images daily from the factory - I am very excited as the tablelinen is a special range for us to celebrate our anniversary collection for our 10th birthday! 

The Story Hotel Stockholm

If you are lucky enough to be looking for a hotel to stay in Stockholm, look no further than The Story Hotel, this is one super cool and unpretensious hotel that was actually affordable! "The hotel philosophy is to combine design and innovation with an attractive location in downtown Stockholm" This was my first (and I hope not only) trip to Stockholm and I loved the hotel, it was in a great spot, walking distance to some great shops and beautiful scenery.  And dont miss the cool little restaurant/bar next door PA & Co - where i had a lovely sweedish dinner at the bar and drank some stunning Austrian Vino! 

Inside Out - July/August

I've just arrived home and very excited that the latest July/August issue of Inside Out has come out and look whos in it! Our beautiful and well loved dog Maxx is famous and he doesnt even know it! Thankyou Inside Out, Sharyn Cairns and Glen Proebstel for such a brilliant job making us all look wonderful!