Melbourne's white night extravaganza...a city transformed...

Melbourne's inaugural all night cultural festival White Night last Saturday was spectacular...the city was transformed...more than 300,000 people attended and it was a wonderful evening/morning from 7pm to 7 am...

The night opened with mirror balls suspended over the Federation Square site as instructors taught members of the public how to zumba...

Flinders Street Station became a theatre and the very popular RockWiz Orkestra transformed the station steps into a grand open air stage.  The clocks above showed the next train times for Sandringham and St Albans, as RockWiz opened with a great version of "Show Me The Way To St Louis"... Flinders Street Station suddenly became a huge outdoor concert venue....

There were so many beautiful buildings with innovative lighting ideas...and there were a series of art exhibitions and concerts.  Venues open all night included ACMI, NGV, the Arts Centre and Hamer Hall.. so many fantastic arts events with most of them free entry...over 300 artists performed in 47 locations

The laneways with lights erupting from the ground in all different colours...with performers on every corner

Did you go to the event?  I would love to hear what you thought about it and what was your favourite, if any....

However, if you missed it, put it in your diary for next year....

This is a must do Australian event...Wendy

Images - The Age, Brisbane Times

Panache Flowers .... flowers like fragrance are hard not to love...

Last week I wrote about candles and diffuser fragrances and yet again, this week I am writing about another fragrance...flowers...which are also hard not to love...

Brothers David and Richard started  Panache Flowers at 749 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn some 20 plus years ago and have become an icon in the area.  They provide a wonderful service and their attitude of attention to detail as their commitment, is for the highest quality designed to meet the customers needs...us.

I have found their online site here to be filled with a great variety of over 124 products for all occasions...not just flowers, but hampers, gifts for a new baby, and of course, all those wonderful Valentine flowers would have been just flying out the door last week...

I have been using Panache Flowers for many years now and can highly recommend them...and like so many small Australian businesses they strive to please...online can make this a little hard...however, I have found David and Richard have a personalised service which extends beyond the online anonymity...

The one thing that I can never fault, is the fact that the flowers, no matter what the style, the flowers are the freshest you will be able to buy....they last such a long time...so worth it...Panache Flowers....

Go ahead...treat yourself..or someone else...just because...Wendy

Images - Panache Flowers & Milieu

Fragrance...Glasshouse Candles

"Fragrance is life enhancing and hard not to love".

Aren't these words so true?  I was speaking with a representative from Glasshouse Candles who was explaining to me the history of this company and afterwards decided to go on to their website and these were the first words I read on their website and it struck me that that is so true...fragrance is hard not to love...if you have a special occasion...perhaps feeling a little down, or just wanting a quick, lovely uplift...or just because... then fragrance has that ability... and the Glasshouse Candles with their wonderful fragrances have that ability... and particularly as they are Made in Australia...here

The company of Glasshouse Fragrances was founded by an American woman who had moved to Sydney in 2006...yes, only six years ago the company started and it started with only candles and what a lovely success story.  All the products are Australian Made...the candles are hand made and the company believes that they capture the beauty and mystery of Australia.  The candles are triple scented with they are apparently designed to release just the right amount of perfume to fill rooms.  The limited edition latest candle is the Kyoto and that is wonderful...I found that in David Jones this week and would highly recommend it...here

Glasshouse diffusers I never tire of...of course I love the usual tuberoses, jasmine and so on...however, recently I have become very fond of the Petra diffuser...it has the base of dried fig, smoky black pepper and creamy Tonka Bean...a beautiful, quite different peppery fragrance...just lovely...try it for something different for your rooms...here

There are also the hand & body creams and the body soap bars which are relatively new to the range...beautifully presented, but synonymous with their destination in mind...I love this idea of naming the product aligned with a destination...just makes it that little bit more special don't you think?  Of course, once again, all Australian Made...here

Enjoy these wonderful fragrances...

remembering they are all Australian Made...Wendy

Images - Glasshouse Fragrances