Garden Party

Looking at this picture makes me wish my house backed onto forest so I could hold a party like this!

 BUT, I would not like my house to back onto forest whilst living alone... 

My other favourite Jonathan

If you haven't heard of Jonathan Adler you are seriously missing out! When I get my ass over to America his store is one of the first on my list to see. (Australia seriously misses out on so many great stores! - Not Cool!)

Everything he does just puts a smile on my face!

He even designed this life sized Barbie house!

He is not only a super talented interior designer but he designs the most adorable and fun homewares and furniture (I waste HOURS on this site)

WOW

I know I have already posted 2 posts today but looking though the blogs I follow, I found this bedroom done up by Amber Interiors. She does amazing things! Check out her blog - you will be hooked like I am!

Work Shop

Jonny has told me that once we have a new carport built (part of our renovation plans) that the garage will be mine to turn into a work shop. 

This is exactly how a work shop should look. Don't you agree?

Tea.

I LOVE TEA CUPS.

I started collecting second hand tea cups when Belinda and I had our mad hatters party and since then I'm always on the look out. I went out today to check out a few life line stores and second hand stores as well as Woolloongabba Antiques.

While I was out I found a 2 tiered Royal Albert (Old Country Roses) cake stand. It was the cheapest I have EVER seen one. I pretty much pee'd my pants with excitement over this purchase!

Other purchases for today

I would love to have a heap of tea cups and vintage dinner sets (all miss matched) so I could hold high teas like these.

New items and an auction!

So I finish tafe for the semester in 1 week! Im so excited to get a whole month off and plan to do up a few more pieces over the holidays. BUT in all my assignment procrastination I have managed to finish off a view items that have been half done! (YAY!!)

So, here are a few more items for sale:

Bubblegum Pink Bentwood Chair - $90

White & Chalkboard Side Table - $130

Pink Bunting - $25

I have also donated the black and white lamp that was for sale to a charity fundraiser being held tonight for Cystic Fibrosis. Fingers crossed someone (or more then one) likes it and buys it!

Flowers

Back in high school (and even soon after I left) I was contemplating getting into floristry. I have always loved flowers and thought it would be so amazing working with them everyday. For some reason though I never did do the floristry course I had my eye on. 

I went through a stage (a good 2 or 3 year stage) of buying fresh flowers from the markets every week. It was the main reason I went to the markets. I always bought them just before leaving so I could spend the whole time deciding on what I wanted to get. 

I have been day dreaming lately about the flowers I want in our garden when we finish our renovations. Ranunculus and Hydrangea are my favourites and on top of my list of flowers to plant. I can't wait - no more having to go to the markets to buy them!

 

Kitchen Love

So, Jonny and I are currently getting plans drawn up to renovate our house and extend it. Im so excited that I don't let myself look at anything house related before bed because otherwise I can't get to sleep because I have way too  many idea's in my head!

The new kitchen it the thing I am most excited about. It will be moved to the front of our house and open up onto our deck. There are so many beautiful kitchen designs out there but I'm going to stick with a classic white - much like the below pics.

Once this kitchen goes in I think I will be having plenty of high tea's and dinner parties!

History Lesson

So I am currently researching Queen Anne furniture for a TAFE assignment. In particular Queen Anne wingback chairs. I have always been a fan of Queen Anne furniture. Its all about the legs - they are just so beautifully shaped!

I have a wingback that I'm wanting to do up but need to wait until I think I can tackle it with good results. They look good in just about any fabric too, and I'm too indecisive as to what I want to cover it in. Im thinking something funky like below - in a velvet!

In other news I went to an Auction just up the road. It was a BEAUTIFUL house that was built in the late 1800's! I would do anything to have that house - it went for 1.3 million!

(Living / Dining)

(Master Bedroom) 

Isn't it beautiful!

A bit of nothing-ness

Im super slack and haven't put up a post in a while. I have been flat out with assignments for Tafe (its not even the end of semester and I'm already flat out!). I have no idea how I managed to do it when I was working full time. No wonder I was loosing my mind back then!

Yesterday Jonny bought me a beautiful Wedgewood tea cup. Im in love!

Jonny has always wanted to open a bar with his brother and while looking at tea cups we decided it would be an awesome idea to open a bar that did high teas! There is nothing better then a good high tea!

In other news I recently joined Pinterest - Im hooked. It is way too easy to loose track of time on that site!

Easter

I hope everyone had a lovely easter. Mine was filled with assignments and hanging out with the family.

Mum made this beautiful chocolate cake for Easter Sunday with the family.

I unfortunately can't eat chocolate (which is stink - especially at Easter) but it was so good to have a week off TAFE to catch up on all my assignments.

Ombre

So I really love the Ombre look at the moment - whether it is on hair or on fabric. I have been wanting to try doing it to a table cloth but I'm scared of doing a crud job (found a DIY here). I would also like this for my hair but don't know how it would look with the 80's curl... I am yet to see it on someone with the same fluff as mine.

Thoughts...?? 

Must Have

If I ever got my hands on this picture I think I would pee my pants with excitement!

Its featured in the current issue of Lonny. I have loved it and admired it for a long time now. 

For those who know me and Jonny will know we love pop art - Its pretty much the only art we have. PLUS I love Liz Taylor  so this picture is pretty much a win win in my eyes!

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In other news its my baby girl Penny Lanes 5th Birthday today! I cannot believe we have had her this long - it feels like yesterday we picked her up from the breeder!

Bathroom Inspiration

We currently have the ugliest bathroom ever. Im pretty sure this song was written for it! 

I'm loving the subway tiles at the moment so here are a few inspiration pics that I'm using for when we have the coin to do it up....

LOVE the mosaics!

Looking at these pictures makes me want to start tearing out our shitty bathroom today!.... but we all know this won't happen.

(Not too sure where these pictures are from as I have way too many saved and in the excitement of saving them haven't noted where they were from... sorry)

Lazy

Once again I have been lazy with this blog. I have gone back to work and TAFE and have slackened off on most other things.

So here are a few updates:

We finally got an art work for our hall way! (hooray!)

We found this smoking' hot art in the back of a clothing store - when we asked the girl working there where they got it she said it was a promotional art for one of their brands and we could buy it off them! This made our day! AND its perfect for the hall!

Secondly - Valentines day was last week BUT Jonny does not believe in this day so we have "Love Day" on the 15th. We generally just eat burritos on Love Day for dinner. BUT I thought I would do something a bit better then just burritos so I baked heart shaped Jaffa Friands - holy moly they were delicious!

But wait there is more - I made Jonny 2 big multicoloured love heart crayons! (he is a big kid at heart!) I found these babies here. They were super fun to make too! 

On a side note - I have not yet sold anything :(. BUT am thinking of getting a bunch of items together and going to one of the many markets.

Items for sale

So I have finally completed a few items and put them on my Facebook page to sell:

I still have 4 more bentwood chairs to do up - One is in the process of being painted magenta, I also have one to be painted a baby pink. Still deciding on what colours the others should be at this stage.