Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

This is no ordinary vintage shop.  The newest boutique to find itself accommodation in Melbourne’s quirky Royal Arcade sits under Hunter Gatherer, a niche brand of the Brotherhood of St Laurence. But you’re still wondering why this is significant, right?  Well it means their stock is sourced from nearly 30 ’Op Shops’ from across Victoria, so they’ve already done all [...]

Craft once belonged to Nanna.  Crocheted paddington bears, twee little doileys, patchwork quilts that induced epileptic fits at a fifty paces. Well move over Nanna, cos Craft’s just got sexy.  And the best place to check it out is not too far from Melbourne Short Stay Apartment Alkira, on Flinders Lane.  Flinders Lane is part [...]

A terrific resource for any visitor to Melbourne – be it for a “short-stay” or “long”, www.threethousand.com is a fab website profiling off-beat and slightly obscure Melbourne happenings. They don’t do advertorials so you can be sure what’s recommended hasn’t been tainted by the lure of advertising pennies. For a good guide to what’s on [...]

Aren’t these fluorescent green gnomes just something else? You gotta have them, right?   Well everything in this wee little boutique of curios is just the same. Delightful, whimsical and quite often just gorgeous. The gnomes are at the zanier end of the collection – the small porcelain butterflies would suit a brader range of [...]

Very cute name, huh?   Ok, well maybe it’s just my childhood associations with the word ‘dispensary’ that’s got me addicted to this place (lolly dispensary, chocolate dispensary, shall I go on?), but this place gets into your veins.  Sure it’s full of gorgeousness of the mostly ‘non-critical’ variety, but really, who could walk out [...]

e.g.etal deals in seriously groovy designer jewellery.   I fell upon it a few years ago when it was located in Little Collins Street and neither my wallet nor my neckline have been the same since. You know it’s going to be a few notches above what you’ll find on rotating department store racks when their [...]

Collins Street to Little Collins For a chocoholic like me, the highlight of the 19th century Block Arcade is not the intricate etched glass roof.  Nor is it the magnificent decorative wrought iron and timber supports cupping the glass.  Or, in fact the elaborate mosaic floors - apparently the largest in Australia.  For me – and many a chocoholic, the thrill [...]

185 Little Collins Street Melbourne e.g.etal deals in seriously groovy designer jewellery.   I fell upon it a few years ago and neither my wallet nor my neckline have been the same since. You know it’s going to be a few notches above what you’ll find on rotating department store racks when their website refers to [...]