Reese

Yesterday I saw Water for Elephants. I don't know about you but i think that Reese looks better now than she did 10 years ago.  35 seems like a good age for her. I know old RPatz was looking pretty hot too but i still just couldn't take my eyes off Reese. She was stunning.

 

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A real life mermaid

 

Well someone thinks she is anyway.

I have no words Wednesday: White House in BoligLiv

 

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Art to love

 

The talented Jen from Made by Girl has opened her new Cocoa and Hearts online store of her original artworks.I can't believe how quickly she has sold out of so many of her pieces, including my favourite above.  Perfect colour combo.  

Check out the rest here.

Also loving this

 A Penelope Umbrico print available at 20X200 a Jen Bekman Project

And if this isn't the coolest Fox ever...

by the Russian Artist Nalogina Lubov via Little Lovely and Handmade Charlotte. 

He has his own clothes and everything!! 

Shame i can't find a link to buy him...he'd definitely be on my Christmas list!

Cosy bar room

I know this is a bar somewhere but what a gorgeous cosy snug. Could be someone's living room!

Image: it followed me home

Dolls House: Before and After

 

Quick paint job and new carpets

 We don't have much furniture as most looks too small but i managed to find a second hand Sindy bed. Just the same as the one i had as a child.

 I can't keep Seb away and the Sylvannian families seem quite content with the gorgeous high ceilings!

Before

Bought for 99p on ebay...a total steal. It was Kitty's Christmas present but we just got around to doing it up. And it's REALLY big.  Like big enough for a small child to hide in, and handmade with wood and mostly i'd like to think indestructible but I guess we'll find out.

The best thing is that it really suits any size of toy being so big. Even Buzz and Woody feel at home here. I'm thinking now it needs some art and maybe some drapes?... More curtain fabric to choose then!

lemon fresh

 

Our  cupboard has had a funny 'whiff' ever since we moved in. Some kind of chemical smell. A good scrub and a lemon left in overnight seems to have done the job. You got any good cleaning tips?

FAVOURITE BLOG FRIDAY: Stella & Henry

Stella & Henry is a blog by Megan at Mimi and Meg. It's just as fabulous and fresh BUT with everything for modern kids and parents. It's delicious.

 

Find out more about them here.

Black table project : Before and after and in between!

 

Before...

Though in truth i should never have let my husband loose on this first. He sprayed it with yucky sticky black spray that ran and we ended up having to sand it all back again and start from scratch. It still has a few sticky bumps that were too hard to sand off. Never again. Though in the future if it gets scratched up too quick a little sand back didn't look as bad as i thought.

It's got a little something about it huh?

I have no words Wednesday: White & wooden touches

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Grey, grey or grey? Or even gray ?

It is so hard to find the perfect grey.

They so often come out with too much blue or look ever so slightly lilac.

Painting onto large squares of lining paper and moving them around the room so you can see what the colour is like in the changing light of your space was the best practical tip i have learnt on my Interior Design course. I'm so over dodgy paint squares plastered onto my walls! I think i'm pretty happy with the colours we've ended up with...so many finishing touches still to do. 

Now to find the perfect 'reasonably priced' curtain fabric! It's not an easy job.