Its Fall, a beautiful time of the year when the leaves turn from green to red, orange and yellow.
Our collection of old bicycles (lovingly saved from the garbage) are perfect for exploring the neighbourhood when friends visit from the city.

Fiery red tree ‘glowing’ on the river near my house…
The crew getting ready for our Sunday ride. My favourite bike is the vintage tandem out front!
Tas and me, whirring and blurry together.
Scott and Morgy, a perfect team on the tandem.

For the latest Harpers Bazaar issue, we flew to a private island in Vanuatu.

Here is me doing my best Vanuatuan postcard girl pose with another giant plant. I spent 4 days barefoot and happy.

This was my home for the week.. a 300 year old javanese hut that had been transported in pieces and rebuilt on site. It was made entirely of wood and the floors were worn soft from years of use. It was a very special experience to be in the historical home of many generations and occupants before me.

This mother duck and her teenage duckling would come visit at dawn every morning and as you can see, they weren’t shy. They just waddled right in the back door.

We went horseriding in the rain and wore helmuts to protect ourselves not just from falling off but from the palms which were heavily loaded with coconuts.

I love having lots of plants in the house. This is my latest and most special pet plant… a stunning tree fern. It’s living in my sunroom which has a vaulted ceiling with plenty of room for it to grow even taller.

This weekend I decided to re-vamp the bathroom so I painted it pink!

I was inspired by the colour of my vintage conch shell lamp (you can see it in the last picture)

I used Benjamin Moore Natura paint which is VOC free and not stinky like most other paints.

Goofing around and ‘reading’ the newspaper on my newspaper-protected loo.

‘Cutting’- which is the second stage of painting. You have to do all the corners and edges with a slanted paint brush before using the roller.

The finished product… very sweet and cottagey, I love it!

Shooting the TVC for Harpers Bazaar Australia on a bright clear morning in Maroubra. You can hear the director instructing me on how and when to move. I loved the 90s swimsuit!

Photographer Chris Colls in his debut as director. Here we are viewing the takes and discussing my moves.
It was the first commercial I have ever shot in which the director and I were left pretty much to our own devices.
Chris and I are good friends and it was wonderful to be able to do this project together.
He ended up being camera man too… this is usually unheard of!

The car scene… you can’t see but they actually removed the front windscreen of the car to get the camera angle perfect. An assistant had to spritz the windows with water to get the rainy-looking effect.

um, Is there something on my head?

One of the nice things about summer is being able to hang out washing to dry in the sun.
In Australia this is how everybody dries their clothes. Secretly, it makes me very happy seeing my little clothes horse of fresh laundry on the back lawn.