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All those years of dreading teenage-hood... and it turns out it’s (so far) not so bad after all. 💛 I’ve been a huge fan of the @sansceuticals natural skin and hair care products since I first discovered the brand when I was pregnant with Wilkie. (The Body+Hair+Face oil is one of my favourite-ever beauty products on my bathroom shelf!) This Christmas, Sans is offering a collection of festive Furoshiki gift sets, wrapped up in a pretty linen cloth and ready to be set under the tree. I love that all of the packaging is sustainable down to the reusable linen wrapping.
@sansceuticals is now offering followers a super generous $15 off the gift sets and any other full-size products with code COURTNEY15. Treat yourself or any of your friends or family (but mostly yourself - you deserve it!)! 🎄 #sponsored Post-surf Sunday smiles 🥰🥰 Our little home is featured in this month’s issue of @dominomag, and up on their website as of yesterday! When asked what it’s like having five kids in a small house, this was my answer: “I love that at any given time in our house, there is a tower being built, food being cooked, tutus being twirled, art being crafted, music on, people laughing, someone crying, and sometimes all of it at once. A busy home is all I’ve ever known.” 💓 Thanks for the feature, Domino, and thanks for the photos @natmccomas. For the last year, Easton has been working on his big year 8 school project. They got to choose something to create, and he chose to make a coffee table photobook on the surfers of Byron. He interviewed more than 20 iconic Byron surfers (young, old, men, women, short boarders and long boarders and everything in between!). He took their photos both in the surf and out and he wrote down their stories. He also took photos of Byron, the waves and the surf culture here. The book turned out so well! 💛They presented their projects last week and as I stood there in the hall listening to him speaking on stage my mama heart was bursting with pride. He was so nervous to give his speech, but then he walked up onto stage and spoke so confidently and effortlessly. He’s grown a lot through this project and it has been such a joy to witness. 💛 The live tree we bought last year for our Christmas tree sadly didn’t survive the scorching hot summer.  So this year we searched for another sustainable tree option and found @demelzahilldesign (who I met through my e-course this year!) and her beautiful wooden trees made from sustainably sourced maple. It won’t drop needles, it won’t dry out, and we’ll be able to reuse it year after year. 🎄 Now I just need to train a puppy not to bite and yank the Christmas stockings from the mantle! 🤪

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Australia  10 Comments

October 9, 2018February 8, 2019

Byron Bay — an updated list of our favourite spots

The last time I wrote a guide to Byron Bay, we weren’t even locals. We had just spent a month

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Australia, Family  11 Comments

March 1, 2018

The family that surfs together…

It’s no secret that we have fallen hard for the surfing bug. Who would have thought this family of London

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Australia  8 Comments

July 11, 2017July 13, 2017

A Weekend in Noosa

     If Marlow had her way, we’d all be moving to Noosa. She was on the verge of tears yesterday

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Australia, Tips  6 Comments

March 3, 2017June 21, 2017

Our favourite Byron Bay brands

There are roughly 9,000 people who live here in Byron Bay — just over 30,000 if you include all the surrounding

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Australia, Crafting, Cooking & Learning  11 Comments

January 20, 2017January 19, 2017

A picnic under the macadamia trees (and Ivy’s fruit tart recipe)

Ivy has been on a fruit tart baking spree since last July when we spent time with friends in Provence.

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Australia, Crafting, Cooking & Learning, Family  9 Comments

January 8, 2017May 9, 2017

Christmas in Australia

The days (and weeks!) leading up to Christmas were hot and sunny here. It really didn’t feel a bit like

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Notes  21 Comments

September 7, 2016September 7, 2016

Highlights from an Unforgettable Year

We had so many amazing experiences over the past year that it was almost impossible to distil them down to

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Australia, Family  5 Comments

April 23, 2016May 9, 2017

Quin’s 9th birthday and a walk up to the lighthouse in Byron Bay

Quin turned nine last week on one of our last days in Australia. We had been talking about his special

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Australia  7 Comments

April 18, 2016April 18, 2016

Surfing The Pass, Byron Bay

Last year at this time none of us had ever been on a surfboard apart from Michael (12 years prior

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April 12, 2016April 18, 2016

A weekend with friends and a visit to the Tea Tree lakes, Byron Bay

This weekend we were visited by our friends from Sydney, the Wheelers. Chloe, Charlie and their three kids had taken

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