I’m doing a detox at the moment, re-booting the system and all that. It’s something I do once or twice a year, planning it around an often packed calendar to minimise impact on any planned …
Wise words from author Candace Bushnell
I’ve been having a few pinch-me moments of late. This particular one will be pretty difficult to top. Let me paint the picture … a couple of weeks ago the lovely Lauren Palmer from CBA’s Women …
Weekend recipe: rocket pesto with activated nuts
If you’re still with me even though I’m confessing up to being a lover of activated nuts, thank-you. Yes, I too, laughed along with the rest of Australia when chef and TV personality Peter Evans …
Things I’m loving plus shopping and fashion newsy bits
I must say it’s so, SO good to have energy. Funny how we take it for granted until it’s whisked away from us. In my case it was in the form of a nasty winter …
Weekend recipe: gluten-free apple crumble
We’ve been embracing all things winter around here … putting lamps on and lighting candles at 5pm … making and enjoying mulled wine … and cooking up hearty food. Come the weekend, we’re also just …
Weekend recipe: garlic and rosemary baked kipflers
Being of the gluten-free persuasion, I’m not one for a whole lot of carbohydrate consumption. Don’t get me wrong, I love carbs. It’s just that whenever I cook up pasta or pizza for the rest …
11 things I’m loving right now
We’re well and truly into the bowels of winter now, aren’t we? MY birthday month is over but it’s a big birthday month here for my boys. My eldest baby turns 18 on Thursday (I …
Weekend recipe: Choc Philly Choc Chunk Cookies
During school holidays it seems almost impossible to keep up with the food demands of a house filled with kids and teens. Baking is definitely something that stretches that food budget further and usually I’ve …
How do you follow Styling You?
Do you follow a lot of blogs? I do. I have to say that blog reading often takes over time I previously would have devoted to magazines, newspapers or books. I go to bed with …
Back to 1973: the food and the fashion
The reason for my embracing winter in Australia and taking a trip to New South Wales’ Southern Highlands? An invitation too good to refuse, that’s what. My good friend Mrs Woog is turning 40 next …
Weekend recipe: chicken and vegetable sausage rolls
As with most of the recipes I feature here on the blog, they first get a showing on Instagram. I don’t know what it is with the people who follow Styling You on Instagram. They …
Can you love your bank?
Sponsored by Bank of Queensland I’ve been in business for almost five years. Did I know squat about what I was getting myself into five years ago? No. I. Did. Not. Thankfully I had people …