Friday, 19 August 2011

The Joys of Moving House



When people told me that moving house is one of the most stressful things to do in life, I would laugh. Until now, I have adored moving. It's always been so exciting. New people to meet, places to explore. A new kitchen to hang out in. Paint colours to choose. This time however, stress wise, I can totally see why it's up there with 'divorce, bereavement and having a baby'. I am completely at the end of my tether and want to crawl under a bush and hide until it's all over. We are meant to be moving a week today. If that happens, I'll eat my shoes. Possibly even the new ones that I'm going to buy today. It's not called retail therapy for nothing.
Anyway, instead of getting even more distressed about it all I'm going to think about are paint colours today. When I went back to Wales this weekend we went to see some friends who have the most incredible house. Decor wise, it's quite minimal, but each room is painted a gorgeous, very bold Farrow and Ball colour. I'd been wanting to see these colours in action for a while but of course have now gone totally off track and am leaning more towards the dark greys and greens than the neutrals.


The two photos above are from the painted house in Wales

Below is more inspiration















Thursday, 18 August 2011

Hippie Living



Loving this 'Hippie Living' shoot in this month's French Vogue.














Anja Rubik
Vogue Paris September 2011

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

French Farm House Inspiration


This time in two weeks, hopefully, fingers crossed, we'll be in the new house. I still have no idea what we're going to do decor wise. But I do know that there'll be a lot of old, painted bits and pieces.










www.campagne-decoration.dekio.fr

Monday, 15 August 2011

DIY painted votives


I found this idea for gorgeous painted votives on one of my favourite websites 'Once Wed'. They are inspired by the water artist Michele Armas's uses to clean her brushes in. So simple to make yourself; Get some glass votives and then in a very slapdash way, paint their insides and out. It's meant to look quite messy and impressionistic so if you're a perfectionist, this might be quite testing for you.








www.michellearmas.bigcartel.com
www.oncewed.com

Sunday, 14 August 2011

Wholesome Welsh Weekend

I've spent the last few days in Wales being wholesome. The Cub liked to spend most waking hours in the kitchen garden helping himself to as many raspberries, tomatoes and plums he could possibly cram into his tiny mouth.
I'm completely mesmerised by the rainbow chard which wouldn't look out of place in a sweet shop.












The rainbow chard




Yes Please Mr Lim







The very divine Pashli satchel made by Mr Phillip Lim