Category Archives: Inspired By

Inspired By: Maira Kalman

We’ll be posting some wedding stories in the next few weeks but until then, I thought it was high time I revived the Inspired By series. Have you seen Maira Kalman’s illustrated blog on the New York Times website? As my dear mother would say, it is a thing of great and glorious beauty. It’s…

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Inspired By: Todd Selby

Lately, I am loving the pictures taken by the photographer Todd Selby of creative people in their spaces. Check out the website The Selby to see them. As a homage to The Selby, I took my own shot of myself in my office: I love jumping shots – they are sometimes hard to get right,…

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Looking out my back door

Ten points to anyone who can name the song the title of this post is taken from! I am now back in Auckland and was so happy to discover these surprise miniature roses that have sprouted outside the back door. There’s nothing like New Zealand in the springtime – the grass is so green and…

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Happy trails

I’m off to London this week for the wedding of my dearest friend. She and I have known each other for 27 years. She was my ‘best lady’ at my wedding, and in a few days I will be hers when she marries her own ‘Gilbert Blythe’ (we are both huge Anne of Green Gables…

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