Country Style Christmas Issue

The Country Style Christmas 2012 Issue has hit the shelves and inside is the most gorgeous story on "Seasonal flower arranging"styled by our friends of AURA, Caris and Vanessa from Prunella, the masters of floral art in Kyneton, Victoria and photographed by the legend herself Sharyn Cairns. The photography & styling is just stunning!

Amazing Green....

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

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!  

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 Heart Wanders

I struggle to read, I want to read, but I just struggle in my day to day life to put the time aside for reading. But being ill this week (and through the long weekend- not great!) has given me time to read Pia Jane Bijkerk's lovely book "My Heart Wanders" - I was actually visiting a bike shop a couple of weeks ago and it happened to be across the road from the very lovely Scarlet Jones, where I managed to buy a Matta dupatta scarf that I have always admired and this lovely signed copy of Pia's book.

Pia's book was very easy to read, I loved the opening of the book in which she described being at a fork in the road, one way lead to her normal everyday life, the other to a new exciting but somewhat scary adventure. An adventure that we should all at least consider for ourselves one day. A very honest rendition of her life moving around with her family and then by herself, a pleasure to read and admire the lovely shots all taken by Pia.

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 

AURA on The Design Files

We are very excited to have been working with Lucy Feagins from The Design Files on a guest blog which has started today! On our latest trip to London, Paris, Copenhagen and Frankfurt Jaine and I where busy taking snaps along the way for our inspiration and also in anticipation of our guest blog feature. Take a look here, and I hope you enjoy our shots which are all colour themed - a different theme each day. x

Our stunning new Summer 2010 collection has started to arrive!

I am very excited that our beautiful new Summer collection has started to arrive, - the above shots are from our new Spring/Summer catalogue that will be available very soon! Shown from the top, effortless eleganance Spot in Vanilla, a journey to Morocco with Bazaar in Caviar and a Fiery Indian red  Spot in Chilli Pepper. I hope you enjoy the new collection! 

Beautiful Kate Spade images

Beautiful behind the scenes shots from Kate Spades new Home Collection. I love the simplicity of the last one - very monotone and super stylish - but also really appreciate the mood and saturated colour in the other simple shots. 

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! 

This took my breath away

These amazing photos by Natalie Kucken had me lost for words over the weekend, Natalie has done a beautiful job giving this bed a personality of its own, the movement in the sheets is stunning, just lovely - well done Natalie, strange I know but as a sheet designer I am overcome! And thankyou Lilac for sharing this - what a wonderful find.