Ideas

Ideas is the ultimate guide to fresh, modern living for women with creative flair and a passion for life. These women care for their families and the people around them and cherish them by expressing their own individuality in everything they do. They love to entertain and decorate their home with their unique style. The magazine provides an outlet for creativity and offers readers practical, creative content that transforms the mundane into the extraordinary. It’s a source of inspiration for craft, decor, entertainment and food. Ideas readers are stylish, sophisticated, modern, educated, balanced, creative, warm, caring and passionate.

FROM THE EDITOR

Words to live by

Ideas

WHAT’S NEW • HERE IS OURLINE-UP OF WHAT’S NEW ON THE BLOCK AND ON THE SHELF.

WHITE BY DESIGN • Lynda Gardener is passionate about all things vintage. In a former mattress factory in an inner suburb of Melbourne, she has turned ‘dank and dirty’ into a glorious light, bright and white space for living, filled with furniture and objets trouvés that reveal the personality and skilled eye of their owner.

MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL • Put your creative stamp on every room in your house – it’s something you can enjoy doing and feel proud about when everyone sees the end result.

LIVE BLUE • Do you want to grow very old while still being healthy and having a full, rewarding life? Go and live in a zone. A blue zone.

SHOPPING LIST for my Mediterranean basics

NATURE’S BOUNTY • A Mediterranean diet rich in fresh, seasonal ingredients and whole foods will help you feel good and stay healthy this year.

GROW IT YOURSELF • Lots of Mediterranean vegetables are fairly easy to grow in your backyard.

GORGEOUS GARDEN! • Make your garden pretty, it’s good for the soul. We show you how to age and gild ordinary pots, craft ‘houses’ for plants and make name labels for your herbs.

BOTANICAL BEAUTIES • So you’ve spotted an unusual flower at the roadside? Turn it into a beautiful keepsake by using it to make a one-off botanical plaster relief.

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MARKET YOUR MAKES • Markets worldwide are becoming the new ‘shops’ for entrepreneurs. This is where their quality products sell like, well, hot cakes. If you’re creative and driven, you can certainly supplement your income this way. A few market owners offer advice.

SELLING HEALTH • Start your year the healthier way with these recipes for snacks and treats. We replace sugar with alternative ingredients and add healthy seeds and nuts for extra flavour and crunch. Package them prettily and sell them at your local market.

Made with love • When a creative person finds out she’s pregnant, there is only one thing to do – MAKE a happy place for baby.

Trunks full of fun • Crochet these cute little amigurumi elephants and add hats and other fun details.

Flower blanket • Make this happy, colourful blanket for someone special.

STORIES IN STITCHES • Slow stitching is the modern sister of formal embroidery. It helps you to ‘write’ the healing stories of your life with needle and thread, says Martie Swanepoel.

Stitch by stitch • Find inspiration in the stories of your year and build a story quilt block by block using easy slow stitches. These were the team’s stories from 2022.

CAPTURE YOUR YEAR • If there’s one resolution that can add value to your year, it is to keep a journal – no matter what type. Here are a few options.

NOTE TO SELF • Kick the year off the right way by making a set of personalised notebooks for yourself.

BOOKS TO READ in January/February

A WORLD OF IDEAS • BE SURE TO SUBSCRIBE SO YOU NEVER MISS YOUR ISSUE OF IDEAS!

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