We all have our own special ways of marking the change to cooler weather.  Adjustments to our routine, the introduction of special recipes back into our kitchens (which reminds me, I need to get some bacon hocks or a nice bit of smoked ham for this year’s baked beans), fishing those ugg boots out of…

What is not to love about a good chocolate cake?  Especially when you’ve made it and its frosting at home from scratch? Preschooler SSG wanted to bake ‘a chocolate cake with icing on top, please’ this weekend.  It was all the excuse I needed to hit the world wide web and find a recipe that…

You know how it is with trips to Ikea.  If you’re planning to take one in the company of small children, you hold out for as long as you can and hope that Ikea online becomes a thing soon  planning for your trip doesn’t only require writing a list of the things you need. To…

On Thursday afternoons, we sweep. It’s become a thing for Preschooler SSG and I this autumn.  Somehow the weather always turns around by around 4pm to allow us a half hour in the late afternoon daylight to attack the week’s fallen leaves with gusto.  The broom scratches across the courtyard as it shapes crinkly heaps…

Readers, you can say what you like about Twitter but to me?  It’s the Shazam of handbags. If trying to establish the brand, style and availability of a particular handbag has ever kept you awake at night; put it to Twitter.  Because someone in your twitterverse is bound to have all the intel you’re looking…

What else can you do on a rainy day off but cocoon? The tumble dryer is dealing with the laundry.  Thanks to the power of the weekend’s batch soup making; dinner’s already sorted.  And thanks to preschool, there’s silence and stillness in every corner of the house.  The kind of silent stillness during which one…

If you’re a closet fan of train wreck opinion pieces from the fashion pages of the paper like me, there’s a high chance that you’ve already read journalist Rachel Wells’ piece on her feeling that the release of ASOS and H&M’s fast fashion wedding ranges cheapen marriage.  At last count , the article generated 365 comments…

This week I’m lovin’ the boring, work horse weeks of life.  The ones that get you between holidays and big events.  The ones that take you further away (in time, at least) from times you’d rather forget.  It’s weeks like this that free your mind and eyes to notice the little things around you.  Like…

I am coming from a place of love and respect when I bring you what I wore today. Striped T – Mix Apparel, puffer vest – Polo Ralph Lauren via the Premium Outlets in Hawaii. But wasn’t today’s brisk start the perfect reason to get in touch with your inner North Shore mum?  A puffer…

Here at Sydney Shop Girl, we’ve been endorsing laid back Friday nights and a good neck arrangement since at least 2010.  And when the two come together?  Well.  It’s obviously a bloggable moment. Today’s has been inspired by our fearless leader in this domain, Faux Fuchsia.  What I love most about this outfit is the happy…