It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. This year, I avoided Christmas shopping in the Sydney CBD and ventured up to the new Myer in Westfield Warringah Mall store on the Northern Beaches in collaboration with Myer to shop and stock up on a few items in preparation for family feasts in the festive…
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Stylediaries: Style for the Holiday Season 2016 with THEPEACHBOX
Season Greetings! With the holiday season upon us means I have more time to play with style and makeup. You can thank my Opera Australia singing friend Jenny Liu for the recent beauty and makeup addiction but also my greater awareness for skincare came from travelling where a skincare specialist I saw in…
Travel Diaries: In Dubai, the peak of fine dining: High Tea at the Burj Khalifa
I stepped in the lift and watched the floor number display in the lift rise, rise and rise, 10 …20 …30 …40 …50 …60 ….80…110 …123. High Tea experience at the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world was nothing short of extraordinary. This literally was a (very) High Tea experience, at the At.mosphere…
Christmas and Cakes 2016 in Black Velvet style
I’ve been a little absent from the Blog for a few weeks as I have been travelling the world: Spain and Dubai with Emirates Airlines to be precise and I’ve just landed back in Sydney and recovering from jet lag. All in good time I will tell you about my trip if you haven’t already been following on Instagram and…
See.Taste.Do Weekend Diary: Day Out with Artists in Sydney
I love Sydney. This is my home and there is always so much to see, taste and do. I had a thoroughly enjoyable day yesterday from singing Happy Birthday with our Prime Minister to meeting a gorgeous Mexican perfume and scent maker, Carlos Huber who is here in Sydney launching his new fragrance range. It…
From Northern Italy, Classico Moderno pops up in Darlinghurst
“What’s the difference between Northern Italian cuisine and Southern Italian cuisine?” I asked Chef Bryan Gerlini whom I met yesterday at his new pop up Italian restaurant Classico Moderno Restaurant on 172-174 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst in Sydney. “The food is richer in Northern Italy,” he tells me, “With the use of more dairy products. The south…
Banksii Restaurant in Barangaroo Sydney
“Those dandelions in the snapper are foraged and we ferment our own chillis.” Angelica, our waitstaff told us, pointing towards the rows of jars on the shelf in the Banksii Restaurant, one of a few restaurants that have recently opened in Barangaroo. Barangaroo has become quite a food scene. I’ve seen the development of Barangaroo…
Style Diaries :: What Lounge Suit means
Party season is approaching. When an invitation hits your inbox that says “Attire: Lounge suit” what do you wear? Well after numerous correspondence with my fashion blogging friend Scarlett from Trends VIP, we worked out that lounge suit is a formal dress, that is usually long but you can get away with knee length and…
Sydney Opera House :: Opera Australia: The Eighth Wonder
Photography by See.Taste.Do during Vivid Sydney earlier in the year I properly paid attention to the story of the Sydney Opera House on the opening night of Opera Australia ‘s latest production, Sydney Opera House – The Opera: The Eighth Wonder, which is on for a few days from now until 5 November 2016. Dress: Keepsake The Label…
Travel diaries :: Long Weekend Away: Things to See, Taste and Do on Norfolk Island
As we landed on Norfolk Island on board an Air New Zealand flight from Sydney, I saw the vastness of emerald green pastures, rugged earth, bottle green pines and surrounding turquoise bays meeting the metallic deep seas of the South Pacific Ocean and oh, a local cow, briefly looked up at the plane and then…