Month: December 2014
Frosty Mornings
This year the Winter is treating us to most sophisticated display of frozen art. The morning frost on the grass is so enchanting… I took willow for a walk to a local park, with the Sun shinning brightly, you could hardly recognize the shapes in front of you. You just saw the long shadows on the crispy froze grass. Winter can be truly magical, even everyday objects, like recycling bags left outdoors look like covered with a silver fairy dust, I start liking this time of year!
Christmas Present Ideas – Wrap with Twine!
Twine is a fantastic product. It is deliciously rustic and raw, and it is perfect to add a vintage coastal style at home. But did you know that you can use it to wrap your Christmas gifts too? When I first heard about it, i thought, no, it’s not festive enough to be used for Christmas presents. But I was wrong. It adds so much character and fresh quirky look to your wrapping, either if you use printed paper, or a plain one. You can wrap the twine few times around the gift, creating one thick decorative panel, or use a single strand but add some vintage paper doily underneath!
Time to enjoy driving!
I love it how cheap the petrol is these days, it’s so much cheaper than last year, when I compare how much I used to pay. It was a challenge to find a petrol costing £1.25 per littre, as most garages had a price mark in the £1.30 region. But now, every day the prices drop and drop. Anything from £1.13 to £1.15 is a standard. And that’s in Cornwall, the remote part, which means there’s less garages around, so they don’t need to keep their prices dead low to stay competitive. If you go to Plymouth or Exeter, the prices drop even more. And surprisingly even London tends to have cheaper petrol than Cornwall (not fair I know), but that’s how it is. All I can say, I can finally test my engine and see what my baby is capable of on the roads, not worrying about burning the money in petrol. Happy Days!
NEW: Retro Nested Tables Mid Century Nest of Tables
Set of Two Retro Nested Tables
Danish Mid Century Nest of Tables
Beautifully shaped legs, curved edges
Stunning set of two side tables
Add Retro touch to your living room!
Price: £45
Large Handbag Confessions…
I love large handbags. When anything and everything can fit in, and you don’t have to carry your stuff in plastic bags. That’s a fantastic invention, a wonderful place where you store your life, notebooks, money, diary, make up, memory stick, tablet, gloves, hat, umbrella and a lunch box. I cannot imagine my life with a small handbag, it seems so unnatural, I mean, how can you leave the house with anything that can honestly only keep your house key? No, that’s just wrong.
But I have to say, with so many wonderful attributes, large handbags have got nasty side too… It is a place where the lipsticks and pens disappear… I cannot count the number of lipsticks I got missing throughout the years, they just dissolve into thin air… It is specially annoying when you find really nice lipstick! Also finding your phone / keys / anything really takes ages in a large handbag. So yes, there is a price to pay when introducing a large handbag to your life!
DIY Christmas Gift Tags
I really love the process of wrapping Christmas presents. Coming up with some unusual ways to put a ribbon or a bow, and things to write on the gift tag. Few years ago i discovered how impressive a simple brown paper and bit of twine look like when used to wrap the Christmas gift, so vintage and rustic, and very sophisticated.
If you are giving vintage home decor as a Christmas present this year, the vintage style packaging will be the most fitting! The simpler the better, just an ivory or grey paper, either plain or with a delicate geometric print would look very impressive.
SHOP: Novelty Industrial Rooster Wine Bottle Holder
Novelty Farmhouse Rooster Wine Bottle Holder
Metal & Copper Rooster with a tail and a head cover
Industrial style rooster wine bottle stand
Add interest to your table with this Rooster Wine Holder!
Perfect way to display your home made wine at Christmas!
Price: £15
Mirror Art
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I often take photos of mirrors, to put online. It is really tricky to take decent photos, because you have to bear in mind what’s in the reflection! If you tilt yourself and extend your arm, you’ll end up seeing your fingers in the mirror. Or see some mess on the floor that you didn’t spot earlier. I suppose when you have got a Photoshop you can delete these unwanted details from the photo, but I don’t have access to this program. So I need to try my best to control what’s goping to end up in the mirror reflection.
Garden is a very good spot for taking photos of mirrors, the green trees and shrubs are quite decorative and can compliment the picture.
I know that some photographers love working with the mirrors. My friend back in Plymouth was working in fashion photography and she often used mirror shine sunglasses to reflect the geometric fabric she stretched on the set. The effect was stunning, such a simple thing, yet added so much to the final shot.
Today I found the website where people work with mirrors and take stunning photos implementing the reflections. Either outdoors where the reflection shows the horizon in front of the person holding the mirror, which blends in with what’s behind the person, so the effect is as if the person’s middle part disappears into the horizon. Or this simple yet stunning idea above, where the mirror creates the effect of freakish legs. The red hair and the striped tights really add a spooky sinister character, and I absolutely love it 🙂
23 Sleeps Till Christmas (Is Over)…
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…Maybe I’m becoming less prone to the festive cheer each year, but I suppose you do it when you get older. I think I’m one of those people who count sleeps till the Christmas is over, but shhh… Don’t tell anyone…
Read full article ’23 sleeps till Christmas (is over)’ here!
Add French Country Charm To Your Home
French Country style is a mix of rustic and splendour in home decor, which I absolutely adore. It’s the elegant take on the farmhouse decor, still good enough for the country cottage, but even better in the manor house! From lavender tin pots standing by the grey door, natural stone flooring, to burlap cushions and wrought iron door handles. What do you think of this trend?
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