I am loving these gorgeous Mano ceramic jars with their bamboo lids by Danish designer Jeanette List Amstrup. The organic shapes, the pale gelato colour palette and the contrasting materials are perfect.
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| Image: Jeanette List Amstrap All other images via Horne |
There's nothing like a blank white canvas with splashes of vivid colour to create a sunny, bright and happy looking home. And nobody seems to do it quite so well as the Scandinavians.
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| All images: Bjarni B Jacobsen for Bolig Pluss |
I first went to Design Festa in 2008 and I was blown away, and couple of weeks ago when I was in Tokyo I went for the third time. You can read my previous posts here. Design Festa is so full of fabulous energy and thousands of exhibitors (I think there were 7,000 this time). I walked around for 6 hours non stop and still didn't get to see any installation art or performances. It's huge! I didn't take any close ups of people's work this time, but you can see some on previous posts, and I'll show you what I bought soon. It's not all as outlandish as these photos might lead you to believe!
On the weekend we went to Palm Beach (just over an hour north of central Sydney) and had the most glorious, relaxed, fun day celebrating a friend's birthday. Although it's almost winter, the day was pretty warm and perfect and the kids spent the entire day running on the sand, splashing in the water and climbing on the rocks. With only a short break for lunch.
My bedroom is a work in progress. When I showed it to you the other week it was pretty much all white, but I needed more colour. I have a plan to make a quilt - all the fabric is cut, but I have to get in and actually make it. It will have lots of white in it with splashes of colour, which is pretty much how I like my entire home to be.
So until the quilt is made I have injected some colour with, you guessed it, cushions.
Well, if you know me you'll know that really this is far from my first blog post about cushions, but it's the first one for today.
When my friend Steph recently blogged about Curio & Curio I discovered their hand screen printed, limited edition Dot Cushions. I knew that I just had to have one. It's totally fab, and positively glows, particularly on dull days. Here it is on my new totally sensible and extremely comfy linen sofa. It's cosying up to another fave, the Ribbons cushion from Pony Rider.
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| Image: Curio & Curio |
I found this note from Roxy placed prominently on my desk early last week.
I love all Ellen Giggenbach's work, but these paper craft kits are especially fab. They are a wonderful and very affordable way to add some colour and style to a spare little space. Grab some from Ellen's Etsy shop.
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| Images: Ellen G . |
I bought this tea towel recently (yes, another tea towel!), and I'm going to hang it on the wall. The colours are so joyous - makes me smile every time I look at it.
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| Image: Beneath the Sun |
Steph and I were very excited to host our recent abcd Saturday Soirée, and even more so to see everyone there enjoying the afternoon. We had lots of fun putting it all together including making decorations and styling the event in our pastels and sparkles theme. There was a lot of behind the scenes organising and crafting going on!
The Ruby L'otel venue was perfect for our get together: light and bright, and relaxed. Anni from Milk & Honey Photography took lots of gorgeous photos which do the soirée more justice than my words can...
I took Roxy to the movies yesterday and we saw Mirror Mirror. It was a great movie and for the first time ever I actually liked Julia Roberts... she wasn't playing herself for once. The script was clever and very funny in parts, the casting was spot on, and visually it was fantastic.
The highlight for me was the costume design by the late Eiko Ishioka. The architectural structure of a lot of the garments was truly amazing (but hard to find photos that really show it off), and the saturated colour and incredible detail left me wanting more.
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| Image source: Mirror Mirror |
