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Monday shop post - The Society Inc.

I usually feature a Melbourne shop on my blog every Monday, but this week I'm heading north to Sydney because I'm so excited that the absolutely gorgeous shop The Society Inc. finally has an online presence.

For those of us that can't make it to Sydney to explore the amazing store The Society Inc, the fabulous interior stylist Sibella Court is now tempting us with an online version of her store. It still looks like the site is still pretty much in its formative stages with many of the tabs yet to be populated, but one lovely part of her site that's already up and running is the 'themes' page. Four times each year The Society Inc. changes its look completely and a theme is chosen for the shop - each theme is designed to transport the customer to a different society. Not only that, each 'theme' is also accompanied by a seasonal paint range that the very clever and creative Sibella has designed for Murobond Paints (you can check the paint range out on Murobond's site). Obviously she's very busy too!

And the societies that The Society Inc. has transported its customers to thus far are...

Indigo blues...

Travellers and magicians...

Atelier...

Tradewinds...

Paperwhites...

Foundations...

I'll be popping back over to The Society Inc. site every now and again just to see what fabulousness has been uploaded. And if you're ever in Paddington, Sydney, it's well worth a trip to Ms Court's secret society (18 Stewart Street, Paddington).

(Images: The Society Inc.)

Get the knack

It's raining here in Melbourne and really I should be studying or working, but instead I'm surfing blogs and websites and by and large procrastinating. Anway, to the point of this post...

Reading yesterday's wonderful post over at Cafe Cartolina, I followed the link to Knack Studios...and now I don't know whether to be happy or sad?!? Happy - because I found such a beautiful source of inspiration, or sad - because it's located in Greenville in the U.S. and there's no way I can have any of the pretties on their site. I love absolutely everything on their site, but if I had to choose, I'd want to take these three things home with me...

1. This group of mirrors for my hallway...

2. These canvas cushions with great printed numbers on them. Are they repurposed sails?

3. This chest of drawers. I just love the colour of the drawers and the very unusual black and white knobs...

It's seriously worth checking out their gorgeous site (and particularly their flickr photos). I am sure they can make anything look good! Take the following picture - singularly these plates would look pretty shabby, but stacked like this with a couple of interesting knick knacks and a sign on top and don't they look lovely...

(Images: Knack Studios)

Very pale and very interesting

Atlanta Bartlett's newish online homewares boutique, Pale and Interesting, is full of beautiful objects very artfully displayed. These are just a few of my favourites pictures from the site...

(Images: Pale and Interesting)

Papermash

The very savvy blogger Lynn over at Tea for Joy has launched her very own online stationery shop, Papermash. It's filled with delectable paper goods. My favourite being this lace tape - using this would make it pretty easy to wrap a stylish present...

And, to celebrate the launch of Lynn's shop, she's giving one lucky blogger the chance to win a year's supply of stationery. Head on over to her blog to read the competition details and hear more about her new venture Papermash. Her lovely shop sells beautiful tapes (just like the one above), note cards...

Notebooks...

Gift tags (I love this one because I have a thing for bees)...

Twine...

And much, much more!

(Images: Papermash)

Flea market finds from Posh

Not much to say today, other than my new love is the 'Flea market finds' section of Posh Chicago - all their wares are beautifully photographed and I find myself thinking "Mmmm, I wonder how often they upload new stock? I wonder if they freight to Australia? I wonder..."

Check it out...

Shoe lasts made to last

Colourful vintage tins

Old books - I love the one with the floral cover

Mexican yoyos

Apothecary bottles

Not sure what these are or what you'd use them for, but they look gorgeous anyway

Watch faces

(All images from Posh Chicago)

Brown Button Trading - Wish List

The very gorgeous, stylish and entrepreneurial Kimberlee of Brown Button blog fame has finally opened her online store Brown Button Trading. I have to say that it was well worth the wait. It's chock full of Brown Button goodness and loveliness.

These are some of the things that are on my wish list...

A chalkboard wall sticker for inside my pantry door - my son would absolutely love this...

A pewter tea caddy so that I can retire the crappy old ceramic one that I have sitting on my kitchen bench...

I figure that if the camellias in my front garden won't flower then I should at least treat myself to a camellia ginger jar so that I have camellias in the house...

A Grain De Coleur table runner. This one reminds me of one of the paintings by my favourite artist, Thornton Walker. I would love to frame this one...

A set of red bangles to brighten up my winter wardrobe...

A set of Les Papiers Jean Rouget cards and envelopes so that I could send my snail mail in style...

Now I'll just have to get my PayPal sorted and make the tough decision about which of the above beauties are going to be mine. I think it's going to the chalkboard sticker & red bangles.

All images in this post are from Brown Button Trading. Make sure you go check it out and support this stylish new online endeavour.

Brisbane list

I'm heading up to Brisbane for a few days at the end of next week and in preparation I've put together a list of some of the shops I'd like to visit - if I have the time that is. I'd really appreciate any other tips on shops, cafes, hotspots etc. that you think would be worth a visit.

Jean and Joyce, Latrobe Terrace, Paddington (thank you Mondocherry for this recommendation):