creativity – Ideal Husband

Doors and bags and rice and closing a shoe chapter in Southeast Asia….

It was my last day in Bali, and I was enjoying a reasonably quiet moment tucked away in a cafe in the little village of Nyuhkuning. Situated on the other…

August 25, 2019

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Avoiding Fashion but winning in the Style department…an Octopus explains.

We have teamed up with a delightful smallish octopus who favors the colour ORANGE in order to explain the difference between FASHION (argh, ewww…not that into it….) and STYLE (timeless,…

June 14, 2018

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Krewe du Vieux amongst other catastrophes in New Orleans…

It it all started with lost cheese purchased in Santa Fe and an absent water bottle from Australia. While walking through St Roch on my first day in Louisiana certainly gave…

January 29, 2018

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Why making ART/SHOES in the face of worldwideweirdness(www) is still THE THING TO DO…more than ever, really!

It’s December and this world has been somewhat extra crazy this year – for pretty much everyone on the planet considering how much we are connected in this ever shrinking…

December 14, 2017

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On Perfection. Tomatoes. And the drama around it…

It is 3:25am and a VERY early start for me – simply couldn’t sleep as contemplating the logistics of moving house in two weeks with nothing less than half a…

October 12, 2017

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Why MONSTERS are good for you…

Good morning from the Australian Tropics…where I have spent my time after coming back from my fascinating and partly disturbing Japanese sojourn. I have been busy – and managed to…

September 29, 2017

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Traveling politely amongst foxes…stripes and even more stripes…

It’s my fifth time at ‘Cafe Bibliotic Hello’ which must be one of my favourite cafes in Kyoto by now as it can be crowded with people and dare I…

May 11, 2017

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Pussy galore Japanese style…

Early morning in my little Kyoto Inn and I am enjoying a nice HOT cup of tea on this last day of the month. I am sitting on the floor…

April 30, 2017

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The importance of being appropriately garnished…

Limes. More limes. Even MORE limes. LIMES EVERYWHERE. Citrus Latifolia indeed. This is this years’ first blog and ALREADY 2017 has made a significant dent…two months down the track we’ve…

March 2, 2017

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Let there be bras…more shoes and lesser morons…

While living in the tropics has many advantages such as great weather (cyclones, monsoonal rain, relentless heat, egalitarian mold everywhere) and fabulous neighbors (crocodiles, sharks, rather big insects happy to…

December 31, 2016

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