New Spring Summer Catalogue online now!

What a weekend it was in Melbourne, yesterday was a glorious sunny day spent in the garden. To launch the start of Spring our brand new AURA Spring Summer 2013 catalogue is online now. We are all very proud of the latest catalogue, and loving our new look over the top shots!

Our stunning new Peony Saffron bedlinen, below, as featured on the front cover is selling fast! Shows us that people really do update for Spring!

Peony Saffron with Maison Ruffle in Rose above, and Maison Indigo with Sari in Mango below!

Maison Ruffle in Beetroot, Spots in Beetroot and our new pure cotton Ticking Sheets in Smoke (my favourite that I have already been sleeping on at home) - they are so soft I am loving them!

I hope you enjoy the new collection, full of of exciting new ideas, discovered on our latest creative journey through India and Rajasthan. So many colours, so many new patterns. As we watched this beautiful new collection emerge from the very skilled fingers of the artisans we're so lucky to work with in India - the gifted printers and weavers and embroiderers - we realised mix and match as has always been abit of an ethos at AURA. Contemporary design matched with age-old hand-crafting techniques. Modern ideas matched with old-fashion passion.

We hope you find something you love with this new collection - As I am writing this Blog post I realise just how lucky I am to love what I do everyday....Tracie x x

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! 

Celebrations

This is gorgeous - makes me think of so many amazing ideas we could have done on our wedding day - but our day was perfect - this can be for someone else's special day :)

Amazing Green....

Not sure I need to say much except "wow" - beautiful shots by Johnny Miller from here. A new respect of Green today....

My first purchase for Ellis House!

Mum and I headed up to Olinda in Mount Dandenong today, I used to live in Olinda years ago and I remember how beautiful it was going home to the country (I forgot about the rain and fog, gosh it was cold). After many hours of internet searching I have made my first purchase for the new Country house. Here are my beautiful "Coral" (the now colour!) Louis arm chairs, gorgeous oversized wicker basket and cool old style original print. I'm thinking Coral and Linen with soft French Grey and a beautiful Chandelier for Bedroom 3. We are heading up to the house tomorrow for a couple of hours of measuring - fun times ahead :)

Ceramics - will I be any good?

Sometimes you just need to do something creative that's out of your usual day to day life. So for me it was Ceramics. Will I be any good? Or will I be as bad as I was at high school? I don't know I do still have the emotional scars of the clay jumping off my wheel and flying across the room in year 10! I like the idea of 3 hours of concentrating on this lovely piece of clay, with the thought that I may indeed create something gorgeous. Whether I do or not is yet to be decided but I am enjoying trying so far. So thank you in advance to the lovely Ilona at Cone 11 for her patience! If you are keen to learn the art of "throwing" check out her available courses at the Abbotsford convent here.