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00:06Some people are so talented that they can actually design and execute a magnificent
00:11goat tower like that one. I mean, seriously, how cute are they? But the person responsible
00:16for this is actually known for working with much smaller and finer things. But this gives
00:21you an idea that her creativity is off the scale. It's just a taste of what's to come.
00:26In fact, loads of whimsical inspiration is coming your way tonight on Better Homes
00:30and Gardens. Tonight, this midweek marvel really hits the meatball out of a park.
00:37This is an autumn salad. We love meatballs, so you're going to want all year round, trust me.
00:44Hardest part of making this chair is deciding what to call it.
00:48This type of chair is known as the Kentucky stick chair, Kentucky folding chair, or as I prefer, KFC.
00:55Juliet's making some outdoor table weights that really rock.
00:59Not only do these keep my table looking picture perfect, but the added accent also makes my
01:04table theme look even better.
01:07And if you've got that sinking feeling, we might know a guy.
01:11There are plenty of reasons why your pavers might be sinking.
01:15So much better.
01:18All right, autumn has just creeped in. It's still hot, but there's that little bit of chill coming in.
01:23So what better way to celebrate autumn than with some beautiful lamb meatballs and the best autumn vegetables.
01:33All right, a little bit of olive oil.
01:37So I've got carrots, beautiful baby carrots.
01:40Nowadays you can get many different colours.
01:44Take the green off, just cut them in half.
01:48There's nothing better than seeing the shape of the carrot.
01:51Don't bother chopping it up.
01:56All right, so we've got our carrots.
01:58Leave a little bit of green on.
01:59You can eat that green, don't waste it.
02:01Into the hot pan.
02:04Beetroots.
02:05Now I love beetroots.
02:07Trim up your beets.
02:09Keep the leaves for later, you'll see why.
02:12Cut them in quarters.
02:14So roughly about the same size as the carrots, so they're all going to cook together.
02:22And roast it, it sort of releases the sugar.
02:25So when they caramelise, you get a beautiful vegetable.
02:28You want to hear that sizzle.
02:34So it only needs really three to four minutes in the hot pan, gently stirring.
02:39To start, you want a little bit of bite.
02:41Not too hard, not too soft.
02:42A little bit of the Goldilocks going on there.
02:44We're going to glaze with a little bit of red wine vinegar.
02:51All right.
02:54Oh yeah, smells good.
02:58So that's what we're looking at.
03:00Beautiful roast, caramelised beets, carrots.
03:04A little bit of vinegar on there.
03:05So we'll keep them to the side.
03:08All right, meatballs.
03:09So I've got 500 grams of lamb mince.
03:13About 150 grams of breadcrumbs, which will help soak up all the flavour and the fat.
03:21So the lamb's a great conveyor of flavour.
03:24So to go with the veg, we're sort of going a little bit Middle Eastern on this one.
03:29So, tablespoon of onion powder.
03:35Tablespoon of coriander.
03:40Coriander and lamb, match made in heaven.
03:42Coriander, cumin and lamb, even better.
03:45So we've got a tablespoon of cumin.
03:50And I've got one of garlic powder as well.
03:55So you've got the spices that go with lamb.
03:57Now you need the herbs that go with lamb.
03:59So what goes with lamb?
04:01Mint.
04:02I like it quite chunky.
04:07So your mint goes in.
04:10All right, can I fit anything else in a lamb meatball?
04:14Yes, I can.
04:15What would go better?
04:16Cheese.
04:17So halloumi goes really well when it's cooked.
04:19So we're going to cut some halloumi nice and small dice so it warms up inside the lamb.
04:26All right, our halloumi goes in.
04:31And now it's a case of just getting messy.
04:34So you want to incorporate all those flavors into the lamb mints.
04:43And now meatballs to whatever size you want.
04:46So because we're doing them in a pan, you don't want to go too big because you want them to
04:49cook all the way.
04:57So I mean, 500 grams.
05:00So you're going to feed six people with that.
05:02All right, the oil is smoking hot.
05:05Get your meatballs straight in.
05:06You want to hear that sizzle because you want that caramelization.
05:15Give them a little turn.
05:18You can smell the lamb.
05:19You can smell the spice.
05:21Have a look at that.
05:22You've got beautiful caramelization, but inside it's still raw.
05:26So what I'm going to do now is to the hot pan, I'm going to add a little splash of
05:32water, which is going to steam.
05:33I'm going to put the lid on and then we'll finish cooking the meatballs.
05:37And that water will turn into sort of a little bit of a stock because all the fat will leach
05:41into it and it will become part of the dressing.
05:44That's a top tip right there.
05:53All right.
05:56So what happens is the fat has sort of leached out of the lamb, the spices, and it's sort of
06:00giving you a little bit of a sauce with that water.
06:03So very gently into our tray.
06:08What sings autumn to me as well is mushrooms.
06:12So I've still got a little bit of that lamb fat in there, so why not utilize it?
06:27All right, our mushrooms are half cooked.
06:30I told you, keep the beetroot leaves.
06:32In on top of your mushrooms.
06:38Our mushrooms, our leaves are wilted down.
06:43A little deglaze with the vinegar again.
06:47In on top of our vegetables.
06:50Give that a little mix around.
06:56Going to add some pine nuts.
07:00Two tablespoons of capers.
07:03All we need now is a dressing to bring the whole thing together.
07:08Two tablespoons of mustard powder.
07:11So into our jar.
07:14150 mils of red wine.
07:16Vinegar that is.
07:17So equal olive oil to red wine.
07:26And the reason you put it in a jar is, when it's ready for use, it emulsifies your oil, your
07:35vinegar, and your mustard.
07:43All right, all we've got to do is build this beautiful salad.
07:46I'm going to add a little bit of fresh mint at the end just to make it a bit more
07:49vibrant.
07:50But you want to get a good contrast of colours and vegetables on the plate.
07:56Just to show off the autumnal vegetables.
08:03Look at that.
08:04What I do is I'll toss the meatballs in that juice that came out in the pan.
08:09Just give them a little shine up there.
08:12Take on all that flavour.
08:14Then what you do is you just dot them around.
08:27A little bit of fresh mint.
08:38And now you just christen that salad with the sauce.
08:51All right, give me a go.
08:58This is an autumnal salad with lamb meatballs that you're going to want all year round.
09:03Trust me.
09:14Basic tools, simple techniques, and cheap material.
09:18This is a chair for everyone.
09:20Everyone knows it's a long road to achieve global success.
09:24Tonight you're going to meet the driving force behind one of the best stories in Australian design.
09:35They say there is more than one way to skin a cat.
09:37However, I'm not sure who said that or why.
09:39Probably someone who doesn't like cats.
09:41But to use a phrase, there's also more than one way to build a chair.
09:45Now, whether you're a master craftsman or a first-timer, anyone can build something to sit on.
09:50However, the hard part is, if you're a beginner, how do you make it look nice?
09:55Well, this chair over here not only has the good looks, but its simplicity is amazing.
10:02And it will make you look like an expert, even if you've got your L-plakes on.
10:15This type of chair is known as the Kentucky stick chair, Kentucky folding chair, or as I prefer, KFC.
10:22And it's the stick part of the build that is key, because it's made up of a series of different
10:27lengths of timber.
10:28And for that, I'm using some 40 by 32 dressed pine.
10:32And it's this assembly that makes the carpentry part super easy.
10:36To start off with, I'm going to cut all my pieces to make up the chair.
10:51All up, I need to cut nine pieces at 230mm long.
10:56Six at 370mm, two at 750mm, four at 780mm, two at 875mm, and two at 1m50mm.
11:07The next step is to get rid of these sharp edges.
11:11So I'll be doing a bit of a chamfer.
11:12For that, I'm using my battery planer now.
11:15If you don't have one of these, you can use a hand plane, or you can even use some sandpaper,
11:19just to soften the edges.
11:20My love, pushing me far away.
11:25No more, you make me feel like a hammer.
11:29Jump, ease in your heart when it's over.
11:33Down and over.
11:35With all my pieces prepared, the next step is to drill all my holes, which will allow this threaded rod
11:43to go through the chair and hold it together.
11:46Now, the tip is, this is a 6mm rod, you want to use a 7mm drill bit, because that allows
11:52a little bit of clearance and makes it a lot easier when it comes to assembling the chair.
11:56I'll drill the first piece, and then I'm going to use this as my template to mark out all the
12:01other holes.
12:39I'm just going over all the pieces with a coat of clear.
12:52And now we are ready to put the seat together.
12:56So, I've got my 6mm threaded rod.
12:58I'm just starting with a nut and a washer.
13:00And basically, I'm going to be putting together the seat first, then the backrest, and then we're going to add
13:06the two together.
13:08So, to start off, it's these shorter pieces.
13:35And you'll notice that I have this long piece here, and now I'm about to put the other one on.
13:40And that actually creates the back legs.
13:43If you look here, these continue through, and that's what supports this chair.
13:47So, stop me up.
13:49I'm getting steep.
13:51I'm all alone.
13:52I'm going to sleep with me.
13:54I'm screaming late.
13:55I guarantee.
13:57I've been control.
14:00I've got machine.
14:01I've got machine.
14:04And that is the seat done, so now I can get on to the backrest.
14:08So, what do you want from me?
14:10What do you need?
14:12Can you say something?
14:16Say something.
14:19No, no, no, no, no.
14:24No, no, no, no, no.
14:26No, no, no, no.
14:26No, no, no, no, no.
14:29The threaded rod through all our holes.
14:32Now, I'm going to stand the chair up and do the final adjustments to get these beautiful curves on the
14:37bottom and top.
14:43look at that all right so you can see i've got a fair bit of tension in today in these
14:48two spots
15:17i'll tell you what this would not look out of place in a furniture store i absolutely love this style
15:22of build and assembly because you just can't get it wrong so it's perfect for someone just starting
15:27out and you can use it outside or inside there's one thing left for me to do and that's to
15:32test it
15:33out oh i'll tell you what i just need a refreshing beverage
15:46from fitzroy to london to new york beat millie savage and her wonderfully creative life
15:51oh thanks joe not only do these keep my table looking picture perfect but the added accent
15:59also makes my table theme look even better
16:09what began in a humble garden shed is now a massively successful global business
16:14millie savage is an australian jewelry designer known for her colorful wonderfully wonky creations that
16:21are turning heads all over the globe she has stores in london la and new york and a huge celebrity
16:28following but millie's favorite place to create is away from it all in her home in country victoria
16:34which is just as amazing and eclectic as her jewelry is
16:40hey babe oh my god look at you oh my god this is i don't know where to look first
16:46don't don't don't come to my studio okay okay all right you did the tour so isn't this your old
16:51logo
16:52yep so it's my logo from when i first started making jewelry 12 years ago wow i'd be happy to
16:58stop here but i have a feeling that what's behind it isn't yeah come on through thank you
17:02oh it's juicy welcome i'm sorry but just look at this little picture here
17:06this is miss princess sparkles hello darling just propped there perfectly hey ah so this is it
17:13your story is like stratospheric the way that you've gone up through the rest of the jewelry
17:17design but tell me about it because 12 years ago you just said that when you started
17:21you said that you've got artworks in here you've got sculptures in here like where did it begin for
17:25you um so i painted at uni and i was doing fine arts i found out i wasn't very good
17:30at painting
17:30so you actually are very good just filing uh so i took up a silversmithing elective and i did that
17:36for six weeks and then i dropped out and then i just rocked up at every jeweler's house in melbourne
17:42with two pieces of cheesecake and a cup of coffee and was like can i watch you today and was
17:47the most
17:47annoying girl in the world until um i learned something i remember my first market i sold out and
17:53i had like three or four grand i was over the moon every cent i put back in and i
17:57did the next one
17:58and just kind of popped off from there so when did you know that you had your signature style
18:03because you would have tried a few different things i'm imagining to be honest my first ring
18:07that i ever made kind of looks like my jewelry now like it's really funny if you go back and
18:12look at
18:12my first instagram post like it's definitely not as refined i wasn't very good technically and i've
18:17like learned a lot but it's the same kind of idea you talk about that and you now have stores
18:22around
18:22the world i mean like does it blow your mind that you're in new york and that you're in england
18:27and so we
18:28did new york pop-up first it did really well went to do london pop-up and i was like
18:32oh my god it's
18:33so much work doing a pop-up it's basically the same as opening a new store let's just open it
18:37and
18:37risk it risk it to get the biscuit just open it so we just opened that and then a year
18:42later we went
18:43and opened new york wow it's really cool where does that gutsiness come from like you're backing
18:48yourself a whole way so where does that come from it's probably my parents like but yeah i've always
18:52been told if you can't do it you're gonna get pushed so you better jump you know and what about
18:59the celebrities that now literally you know line up to wear your extraordinary pieces have you had
19:05pinch me moments along the way yeah miley cyrus held up a sign once that said i love millie savage
19:10so that was cool um chapel roan where's my jewelry i just made customs for addison ray
19:17millie before we go and explore the rest of the house i've just clocked that light out there
19:20that was actually meant to be in the kitchen but i thought it was a bit too girly and frilly
19:24so now
19:25i have the world's most extravagant outdoor light it's absolutely ridiculous that that's outside but
19:30it's uh lisa warrington who's a friend of mine and a glass blower and she actually did the ones
19:35inside above the drop down and the bedroom which you'll see soon
19:52and this is my kitchen look at the color in your home there is so much going on but it
19:59works
19:59yeah it's pink green rainbow in here everyone's like oh my god your house is so crazy it's so
20:06rainbow and it is but if you look at each space separately it's actually only two colors and a
20:10few little accented bits you know so so is that the key to making that work i think so yeah
20:15i think
20:15they're complimentary contrasting colors um they look so good together this is amazing but of course
20:20your eyes do get drawn to that incredible feature wall that you have going on there that's the crystal wall
20:26and a bit of taxidermy these days but yeah um so i went to the natural history museum in new
20:33york and
20:33i was walking around and i saw all the crystals there and i was like oh my god it's so
20:37amazing
20:37how do i put that in my house um speaking of something that you know is unique can we go
20:42have
20:42a look at this open lounge room so millie i'm literally looking around and i think there's
20:52about 10 things that i would list as my favorite so i want to know what your favorite food oh
20:56um
20:58probably these lights by lisa warrington they are amazing yeah they're really weird and spiky
21:03the couch honestly looks like it's the comfiest thing in the world but there's actually a bit of
21:08thought that's gone in into that as well the sunken lounge isn't there yeah so i wanted like
21:12the floppiest squishiest comfiest room ever um so this couch when i got it custom made i was like
21:20oh how do we make it like really floppy and so i designed like a doona that velcro's on so
21:25it's
21:25actually a leather doona over the top of the couch so that's why it's so soft and floppy oh that's
21:30amazing and the stairs they're a work of art coming down in here yeah i probably drew the
21:35location of them about 50 times they were originally there and there and anyway upstairs the bedroom
21:42and that bathroom area yeah um i am obsessed with baths i bath twice a day i love having a
21:50bath in
21:50the middle of my room got that bath custom made it's beautiful purple color and then i got the green
21:55contrasting um it's green onyx so sourced that too and then got all that put in i love everything
22:02in the inside of your home i mean there's not a lot of people who could pull off as much
22:06as you've
22:06got in it but do it so well which obviously listen to how your collaborations with all your mates
22:11obviously everyone who's involved in your life is is creative on some level as well does that extend
22:16to the gardens as well yeah so one of my best friends colin hyatt designed the gardens and i think
22:22he's coming over today so maybe get to meet him a lot let's go and that's coming up later in
22:27the show
22:30coming up entertaining outdoors you'll be blown away by this clever project i'm going to show you
22:37how to create gorgeous table weights and if you thought her home was beautiful wait till you see
22:43millie savage's gem of a garden the pitch was wizard of oz so we planted thousands of bulbs
22:57picture this you have all of your favorite people coming over for a gathering you've set the table
23:03beautifully and then all of a sudden the wind picks up and everything's on the floor but wait a minute
23:08there is a stylish solution to that problem i'm going to show you how to create gorgeous table weights
23:19what i love about creating your own table weights is that you can customize them to your own personal
23:24style the look i'm going for today is a relaxed coastal boho vibe so i'm using these natural tones
23:31and textures these are beautiful these stones and i've got this cream twine here the end result will be
23:37a lot like macramé but a lot less complicated i promise no tricky knots the first thing you need
23:43to do is get one of these curtain clips and you'll just remove this ring here so you're left with
23:48the
23:49hook so once you've removed that ring you just make a hole again so that you can put some of
23:58this
23:58twine through and what you want to do is get four pieces i've pre-cut these to about just under
24:04a meter
24:04each then you fold it in half and thread that loop at the top through the hole at the base
24:12of your clip
24:13just like that then you just want to take the two tails and bring them through pull it nice and
24:20tight
24:21then it's just a very simple left over right right over left knot and it makes it a lot easier
24:29if you
24:30take your clip and place it on something just to give you some stability
24:44once the four pieces of string are tied onto the hook you can then start to separate out the strands
24:50the most important ones are these two end pieces and then you want to tie each two together along and
25:00you the knot is very simple you just want to take it up over your fingers and bring it through
25:06and
25:08depending on the size of your pebbles about one and a half to two centimeters down
25:30to create the net to hold the pebble you want to just keep repeating the process and just make
25:35sure each time you separate out those end strands and then tie together each pair in between
25:49you want to wind the tape fairly tightly around the end so that you can thread it through one of
25:55these little wooden beads for a bit of decorative detail then you thread it on and wind it all the
26:04way up to the base of the pebble and then just another simple knot at the bottom of the pebble
26:12once
26:12you've done that you can decide how long you want the tussle to be cut it off there and then
26:18use a comb
26:19comb to comb it out and that is it how cute do these look so boho and chic and of
26:32course you'll need
26:32one for each corner of your tablecloth so I have another three here for one that's even simpler you
26:39can take some beautiful smooth dark stones like this and wrap them with some leather to tie around the
26:46center same idea you want to start with one of these curtain clips and then take your leather you can
26:54use a tiny bit of hot glue if you want to to start just to hold it in place and
26:58start by threading the
27:01leather through your clip then you'll want to just tie it off at the back trim the ends and that
27:22one is
27:22done so simple and so so sweet
27:28for this final idea I am going to get the paint brushes out and get creative it's a great one
27:33to get the kids involved with
27:35because you can paint whatever you want onto them these little flowers are sweet swirls you can do little waves
27:41and the
27:41great thing is they don't have to be perfect if you're really not confident you can even just do dots
27:46with the end of your paint brush and that is what I'm going to do today to start you want
27:51to paint your rocky
27:52using an undercoat I've used an all-in-one primer and then you can use whatever colored acrylic paint you
27:57have at home I'm using this really beautiful blue tone
28:03for the best results with this dot technique you want to just go straight in and out and onto the
28:11rock and back again don't swirl it round
28:20once the paint is dry you can take some wire and attaching it you know the drill now to one
28:26of these clips
28:30at the back you want to twist the wire around and tighten it using the pliers once you've got enough
28:37to thread through the hook on your clip you can snip it
28:43and thread it through and then just fold it over to tighten it that's it how cute kids would absolutely
28:57love this so pretty
29:04not only do these keep my table looking picture perfect but the added accent also makes my table theme look
29:11even better so I'd say these weights really rock
29:24the common brush turkey is a familiar site from southern New South Wales all the way to Cape York even
29:31in the suburban areas of Sydney and Brisbane
29:34now love them or hate them they can pose a problem around the home and garden creating damage and mess
29:41to try and keep brushed turkeys out of your backyard you need to keep the backyard neat and clean so
29:47something
29:47like that your compost heap you've got to cover it so they can't access it right and things like this
29:52really want piling up somewhere they can move those fairly easy sticks like that because they've got big
29:58strong feet when it comes to fruit trees right they tend to ring bark them something like this to protect
30:03the
30:03root zone is an ideal situation if you use just fibre mulch the birds will rake that out of the
30:09way in no time at all
30:10if you've got an area where you want to mosh a large surface then why not use something a lot
30:15heavier like big rocks
30:17they work far better and not only that even a strong brush turkey can't move rocks around
30:31bamboos might make a great screen but they also drop a stack of leaves and the male brush turkey would
30:37absolutely
30:37love this here because he would use these leaves to build his mound and that's how they incubate their eggs
30:43inside an earth mound so what do you do rack all this stuff up compost it and cover it once
30:50you cover it you're in charge
30:57a common problem is sinking pavers just like this and i'll show you how to fix it
31:02hang on we need to talk about the gate i made the gate what so you actually welded the gate
31:06yeah it was really fun
31:15now there are plenty of reasons why your pavers might be sinking
31:18it might be poor drainage poor compaction poor prep it might even be ants
31:22this is a classic case so let's lift this up and take a look at what's going on
31:35i just needed to remove a few pavers to work out exactly what was going on and you can see
31:39here
31:39the sand that is the base for the pavers is simply washing out of these holes so i'm going to
31:43lift them
31:44all up i'm going to block those holes up check for any more i can relay the sand get the
31:48pavers back
32:00so you can see there's a hole down there and when the water comes through it just washes the sand
32:04out
32:04now you could just block that up but instead i'm going to try and prevent it from happening again
32:08so i'm going to take the two runs out i'm going to stand them on edge to create that little
32:12garden bed
32:12and that's going to catch the water and direct it down the side of the house where it can get
32:16out
32:25i'm not going to claim that i did this edge because i didn't but miraculously it's here which is wonderful
32:30and it creates a garden bed it also creates a stop point for the water so the sand can't escape
32:35anymore
32:35what we need to do now is screed out our sand and relay our pavement
32:43we're using river sand which is much coarser and locks together and doesn't wash out as easily
32:53i'm just mixing a little bit of gray cement through our river sand
32:58this isn't going to set solid but it is going to give it a bit of strength
33:02which is what we need being at the bottom of the slope that way it's never going to wash out
33:06anywhere
33:29to finish off our paving i'm just using some pave lock if you didn't have that you could just use
33:34a fine washed sand
33:35it gets in between the gaps and just helps to lock everything together the tip though
33:39is it has to be bone dry when you do it otherwise it turns to a complete mess
33:44the thing i love about this job is we fixed a problem it looks much better we've added plants
33:49it's good weekend's work
34:06earlier jewelry designer millie savage showed us around her spectacular house in country victoria
34:12and her unique style and wonderful art
34:15now she's about to show us her gardens
34:18so joe this is my friend colin
34:20hi joe how are you
34:23colin hyatt garden landscaper designer extraordinaire hey
34:27so how do you two know each other
34:29this is my dad's best friend but i've pinched him and now he's my best friend
34:33and i think mick's a little bit jealous
34:34he is sometimes he's like is colin coming
34:37well if colin's coming where's my invite
34:40that's hilarious
34:41so obviously walking in here i feel like we've kind of walked into some kind of fairy tale book
34:46the glass house and the mushrooms where did they come from first
34:49i designed them and got them shipped over about two years ago
34:52so they've all been sitting waiting for the rest of colin's garden to erupt around it
34:57well there was sort of a garden here already similar sort of layout but it was
35:02not like this no it didn't work did it no it didn't work
35:05it didn't work it needed to be sort of segmented into rooms
35:09so colors and textures and sort of moods as well
35:13with this beautiful glass house garden to make this into the australian native garden
35:18grasses that moved around
35:20billy buttons going everyone
35:21yeah a little bit crazy
35:23yeah okay and then where did that lead you to
35:25then that led us to the kitchen garden
35:27right
35:27um millie's bathtub garden
35:29hang on colin hang on you can't just talk about that
35:31we need to see that up close
35:43this was room number two tell me about it
35:45this was room number two and this was probably
35:48millie's garden that she had worked on herself
35:51yeah quite a lot so i sort of had to be very cautious not to stand on
35:55millie's toes
35:56creative uh yeah
35:57my vision versus your vision
36:00yeah so i i had to uh blend this garden back into
36:04the other rooms that we had planned on moving into
36:07um and then feathering through some other bits and pieces
36:11to pull it all together and um you know have that sort of mass planted
36:15floral sort of bouquet
36:16the pitch was wizard of oz so we planted thousands of bulbs
36:20i think one thing that you said is like let's group things rather than i'm just like
36:37whoa there's vomited everywhere rainbows and tom's like okay this is the area where the sunflowers are gonna go and
36:43they will stay in this area
36:44can we have a look at the gardens at the front of the home
36:46let's go
36:52so i feel like we've saved like one massive garden to last we probably should have started that given that
37:01this is like the front of the house
37:03but tell me about this
37:04this is the entrance to millie's gorgeous property um we enter through these main gates
37:11um through these
37:12hang on we need to talk about the gate
37:13the gate is epic
37:15i made the gate
37:16what
37:16with dave allison who's from rosebud engineering and i went down for two days and he taught me how to
37:21weld
37:22so you actually welded the gate
37:23yeah it was really fun because there's bits of leftover green onyx which i used in the house and i
37:28smashed it up and i realized
37:29it's like making a giant ring like you have to bend and make the bezel for the bead of stone
37:33so the fact you've got all these mounded gardens and the use of your big rocks like you've just created
37:38so many
37:38little pockets of interest for your eyes to get drawn to
37:41yeah we needed to collect um a rock that was indigenous to this area to become sustainable
37:47well that's your signature isn't it you put indigenous rocks indigenous plants in
37:50yeah we don't want to we don't want to track things
37:52yeah further than we really do need to
37:55yeah and we really like to have the gums and the grasses to be indigenous to the area if we
38:01can
38:01so it brings the native wildlife back through wildlife corridor
38:05it brings the right bird the right bee um and the right bug
38:08tell me about the trout that's also indigenous i got that from winchelsea which is ten minutes down the road
38:14so i love it on facebook marketplace i'm like cole let's get that one
38:18i love that because even from inside the house you see that it's still playing you're still connecting your eyes
38:22to the colors and the patina on it
38:24we really did need something that was orange and blue
38:27and then i like the fact that you've added some sculpture in here with your plants with the cacti as
38:31well
38:31yeah well the cacti are my thing
38:33that's very color
38:34i do love those big sort of sculptural forms you know you travel throughout the world and you see these
38:40gorgeous specimens
38:42we're at the place where the weather's ever changing
38:49neely just when i thought there was nothing else to discover about your incredible story about your home or garden
38:55we hadn't even touched the menagerie of animals that you have
38:57yeah so i'm very lucky i have mostly ornamental animals they're paddock ornaments the goats the alpacas the peacock the
39:05horses are ridden
39:07and it's i've been riding since i was three and these stables i wanted to do the stables before i
39:12did the house
39:13this is like my seven year old childhood dream to have this these are custom this is my horse martini
39:18yeah and this is my friend's horse torah
39:20oscar's in the paddock you can hear him
39:23that's oscar in the background
39:24yeah doing a tantrum
39:25where did the love of horses come from
39:27uh my granddad yeah he was um best friends with bobby skeleton so he taught me how to ride and
39:33then
39:34i've just been riding ever since
39:35honestly i mean we came here to do a story on your phenomenal ride
39:39you know onto this incredibly successful global business with your jewellery
39:43i didn't expect that that would carry through that creativity into every part of your home which is
39:48it's colourful it's whimsical and it's explorative like you actually want to look around every corner because you know there's
39:54going to be something beautiful
39:54yeah yeah cool
39:56well i've got to say i have a feeling that uh everyone in our country is going to be talking
39:59about you for many more decades to come
40:01so i feel really lucky that we've come here early years in your stage of your career it's been a
40:05real joy
40:06thank you
40:06yeah well you have to come back and see us again
40:08at some stage we will it's amazing we'll see you next time with more better home to garden
40:12thanks guys bye
40:13bye
40:15it all comes back to you
40:21next time we're hunting for australia's hottest suburb
40:25but have joanna and dr chris gone a bridge too far
40:28with fresh eyes something you thought you knew can be entirely different
40:33if you're looking for an easy meal for busy nights colin really knows his stuffing
40:39it's got all the essence of stuffing but with the chunks of chicken
40:44even the most easy going plans have their diva moments
40:48citrus will survive on neglect but show them a bit of love and they'll flourish
40:54plus we've got a living room makeover that's more than just all white
40:59a neutral colour scheme does not have to be a boring one
41:04and greyhams certainly got no beef with wellington
41:08as we continue our incredible cruise around new zealand
41:11we've got some great gardens to show you
41:13including this beauty here in wellington
41:16that's next time on better homes and gardens
41:18you
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