paolo ventura

i always end up in kinokuniya whenever in sydney. i always spend a lot of time looking at stationary i'm not going to buy and japanese pattern books i can't read. this time i discovered the work of paolo ventura.

6am: melbourne airport

superfuture/pit stop sydney

do you know about these maps? the rayman and i found them invaluable in new york. you can save them to your (i)phone or print them out small and you don't look like a dorky tourist (and risk potential mugging). we're off to sydney again tomorrow and heading to fratelli fresh for lunch.

something nice to start saturday

selvedge drygoods

Portobello Lane

so, you may know that my friends wendy and christof have a beautiful shop

but you may not know what is behind the scenes

it's little things like this that make my day

beautiful yarn samples

that come out of the folder so you can play around with them

inspired by etc.

after looking at my new book i got out some pieces of my old flotsam and jetsam. i love how putting anything in glass makes it looks scientific (the written word piece behind is by my friend nik hills).

isson

i've just discovered this sunglasses range by australian company isson. my quick sprint up the road to get cat food turned into a half hour session trying on every pair they had in the shop. ahhh! look at them - how cute are they? excuse me now while i go and spend a huge amount of energy plotting how to make oscar in crystal brown mine.

etc.

a new book. a MUST if you love dishevelled, bowerbird interiors. this is no half baked shabby chic styling. the author worked for bergdorf goodman's, jo malone and us vogue amongst others and it shows. her website is here.




and a cheeky one. doing his best to distract me from reading.

scarves update

my scarves have sold out at craft victoria (thank you to anyone who bought one and reads my blog!) so i will be dropping a new lot of square snaps and (summer weight) fine net scarves down there this week. and just to let you know, there aren't any scarves left at bahamonde now.

fine net scarf

square snap scarf

some of the colours

keeping it in the family

the rayman's parents were spring cleaning the other day and stumbled across this; it's the rayman's grandfather's business card. would it be a strange twist of fate if i started calling myself

L. (liz) RAYMAN
MANUFACTURER OF HIGH-CLASS LADIES' KNITWEAR & COSTUMES

and got myself a studio in askew house in lonsdale street?

anOther

haven't looked after my blog very well lately because i've been busy sampling for my next collection. but i picked up a copy of anOther magazine and it's got heaps of great things in it...

like some of my favourite women in film

great hair!

(i seriously want to cut my hair like this)

and i never wanted to wear leopard print leggings until i saw this

more great leggings. these are from from diesel

and again

and a fascinating in depth interview with the co founder of butoh, dancer kazuo ohno