Sponsored by Godfreys Welcome to my studio, come inside and I’ll show you around as I road test the Vorwerk Kobold VK200 Upright Vacuum Since you’re coming over, I thought I’d better just give the place a quick tidy up! Welcome to Inside Out Style Headquarters Today I thought I’d share with you a…
These Old Feet Try Out Baby Foot As much as I have a largish shoe collection, I actually prefer not to wear shoes at all when I’m home and my feet can get a bit calloused and dry, particularly my heels. Normally I just moisturise with a regular moisturiser, my feet at night and every…
Happy New Year to All You Lovely People! Each year for the past few years I’ve been picking a “word of the year”, a theme, for me to follow. It works as a guiding principle for me and helps to keep me on track. The words I’ve chosen over the past years are words that…
I’ve shared the most popular and most commented on posts this year here, and now I thought I’d share the posts that I like the best and ones that can make a significant difference to your style. I’ve discovered that many of my favourite posts of the years are chats I had with Jill Chivers…
2017 is at a close so I thought I’d look back over the past year and see which blog posts were the most read and most commented upon and share them again – just in case you missed them. Most Read Blog Posts of 2017 How Many Clothes Do You Really Need in Your Wardrobe?…
When I lived in the UK (start of 1999 – end of 2001) I found that I could never believe it was Christmas time as it hadn’t gotten hot yet. Even though we are fed a diet of snow, ice and winter scenes for Christmas, in Australia it comes in summer so it just didn’t…
I’ve always loved reading, in fact, I spent years working in publishing and working with amazing authors, and though I don’t have the time I used to, to read, I still love a good book. These days I “read” more using Audible (listening) than reading as I can listen to books when I’m driving, running…
In my later teenage years, I loved watching the Saturday afternoon black and white movies on the TV. Particular favourites were the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, or anything with Audrey Hepburn in it, plus a Cary Grant or two. One of the reasons I loved these old movies were the clothes, the glamorous…
Only a week ago my lovely assistant Kate and I were chatting, and as rumours have been rumbling around Australian media about who is the Australian Harvey Weinstein, my speculation, from having worked in publicity for Penguin Books back in the 1990s, was the host of a very popular TV show at that time as…
Putting yourself out in public on a blog, like I do here on Inside Out Style makes you a target for internet trolls. Writing a blog and sharing photos of yourself is an act of vulnerability. The internet is a big, big place, and it makes many people anonymous, so they feel it’s quite OK…
What is Frocktober? Throughout October, the Frocktober campaign invites women to band together, don their most darling dresses and have a bit of fun while raising funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation Did you know that there is currently no early detection test for ovarian cancer? Did you know that in Australia alone, one…
How many emails do you receive each day? How many emails do you send each day? I remember when I first started getting emails (back in the 1990s) and it was super exciting (remember that movie You’ve Got Mail). Who was communicating with me? That little ding that my computer made had me interested to…
On my trip to Los Angeles, California, I took a trip to The Broad, a contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. The museum is home to more than 2000 works of art and holds one of the most prominent collections of postwar and contemporary art worldwide. It’s a free museum (though…
I’ve always enjoyed creating things and was taught to knit at the age of 6, sew soon after (with my 10th birthday present a second hand sewing machine), but crochet is something I’d never learned. How I Learned to Crochet That was, until now. I like knitting in winter while watching TV in the evening…
A new and exclusive to the National Gallery of Victoria, an exhibition celebrating 70 Years of the House of Dior opens today in Melbourne and having seen it, in my opinion, it’s the best fashion exhibition they’ve ever curated. Christian Dior was a designer, entrepreneur and visionary who made a lasting impact on mid twentieth-century…
To celebrate my 9th blogging anniversary (that’s a blogiversary in the blogging world), and 9 years in human years is about 42 in internet years (they are kind of like ‘dog years’). I thought I’d say a little thanks and share with you what I love about blogging. 1. Blogging has let me create a…
I’ve recently gone back to the very beginning of my blog to improve on all the old posts. In fact, I realised doing this recently that it was coming up to my 9th Blog Birthday and I thought about how to celebrate it. Now today is my 9th Blogiversary and as I wrote about here,…
Blogging is not something I’d ever thought I’d be doing “when I grew up”. I mean, it didn’t exist as a hobby or a job back when I was growing up. Who invented blogging? I’m really not sure, but back in 2000 I created a website about my travels through Europe which would have been…
Sponsored by Village Roadshow The other day I saw a preview of The Big Sick, a fantastic new comedy based on the true story of the romance between aspiring comedian Kumail and grad student Emily. It’s my kind of movie, funny, awkward in a real life and totally relatable way (which reminds me of an…
I love my navy leather boots, in fact I’ve loved them to death (they have gotten old and tatty looking), so I hunted high and low for a replacement pair of navy leather boots, to find none that fit my requirements. Instead, I found a pair of lovely nude leather boots that I decided to…
One amazing attraction in Mexico City is their Museum of Anthropology. Filled with hall after hall of ancient treasures unearthed from pre-Hispanic Mexico as well as items from more recent indigenous Mexican cultures of today. The museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts including the Aztex calendar stone and finds from Mayan, Aztec, Olmec and…
