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For your viewing pleasure, what I imagine is a bedroom by the sea … lots of white, a splash of gorgeous blue, some timber to warm the room up.
Things to love … a beautiful white floor, simple white bedspread, touches of blue through the room that add elegance and tie it together, timber stool and chair to add texture and warmth, unusual way to display lovely jewellery, a fun window to add light and interest, and just enough room by the bed to pile some reading material.
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Journaling - last week, a wild storm, this week, heavy fog on the lake | charli snuggling on a cold winter night | rda training in sydney and a train trip | the girl has been baking! | study patrol | skyping her man | date night with the man at panarotti’s … [june 8-15]
[Credits: Epic, by One Little Bird. Font: Acoustic Light. Scraplift of 'Christmas Eve', by Lynnette.]
[Credits: paper from Torquay Papers, by Kaye Winiecki. Flower and stamp from Click, by One Little Bird. Fonts: DJB Angel Baby and DJB FanGirl.]
[Credits: Click, by One Little Bird. Font: DJB I Love Me Some Brook.]
Here’s a pretty corner for you to enjoy with me today … it is found in Anna’s home; she is an interior stylist, who loves photography.
Things to love … the simply, unfussy lines of the white sideboard, the fact that it is off the floor, which makes cleaning so easy, the two large pieces of minimalist art on the wall, the lovely grey chair which adds interest to the table setting, the touches of greenery in the pots, the beautiful textured brown pot, the simple but beautifully placed bowls and candlesticks, the woven basket next to the sideboard filled with striped quilts, and of course, the white, white, white everywhere.
This is a beautiful room, and after wandering through Anna’s blog, I can see that the rest of her house is just as beautiful. I like!
So this is the fun part for me … taking out the card templates and admiring the quilt top. The quilting process? Not so much fun … I’ll send this over to my fantastic quiltier, Fiona, who will work her magic on it.
Here is the quilt top on our front lawn …
This was constructed using 56 flowers constructed from the ‘Good Morning’ range of designs, and it is the second quilt from a jelly roll. Remember the first quilt?
It’s a slightly different pattern, if you look closely. So done and dusted … now, I just have to prepare them for quilting, which is my least favourite part of the process.
Now I may have started hexagon quilt #6 … ok, I have started it.
It will be a different design again this time put together in a diamond pattern, using a jelly roll called Noteworthy, by Sweetwater for Moda. [You can find it here at the Fat Quarter Shop.]
I really love these fabrics! I first saw them on Red Pepper Quilts here, and have had this jelly roll waiting patiently for a while, until I had finished the two Good Morning! quilts, and could begin working with these fabrics. The ‘filler’ hexagons will be cream, using Snow by Moda.
So I’ve made a start … there are 140 ‘diamonds’ to sew. Happy times!!!
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Journaling – pretty corner at work | something yummy at gloria jeans | sunshine on the front lawn | sunshine on a dreary day | stella visited us on the weekend | george is visiting, flowers from her man | granny and the girl … [june 2-9]
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Journaling – apparently it’s not always sunny on our deck | white flower in the rain | sewing the last three (very long) rows | the boy, busy coding | coles won’t deliver to our new house, so it’s back to walking the aisles | the girl, wrapped up warmly as she studies | the boy and i … [may 26 - june 1]
I want to share some amazing photography with you today … these images are created by a 14 year old called Zev and his 17 year old sister called Nellie. I think they are an amazingly talented duo.
Here are some of my favourites …
You can find more of their creative work in their Flickr photostream here …
There’s a lot to be said for getting your ducks in a road, internet-wise speaking … I often schedule posts on my blog. Over the weekend when things are a little more relaxed than the weekly rush, I will often scrap some layouts, plan out and write up some posts, then set them to magically appear on my blog each day. I like being organized, I like having time to plan what I will post.
This week, this planning worked in my favour, as we lost the ‘world wide web’ this week for a day or so, due to no fault of our own. It was nice to see my blog posts still popping up here on simple things.
Today, I wandered outside the back door at work to clear my head, and found this beautiful photo op right in front of me, ripe for the taking, photographically speaking. Don’t I work in a pretty little spot?
[Credits: paper from So Major, journaling lines from Suncatcher, photo tab, yellow mist and card from Going Places, by One Little Bird. Font: DJB Tara's Heart.]
[Credits: papers from Grey Skies 'n' Mudpies, by Kaye Winiecki. Chevron paper from Down the Lane, by Sahlin Studio. Mini Miss Mess alpha, by CD Muckosky. Journaling lines from Suncatcher, by One Little Bird. Scraplift of a paper layout by Shay Tibbs called 'Summer'.]
[Credits: cream paper from more + less, by Paislee Press. Elements and striped paper from iSD's That's Life. Font: American Typewriter.]
[Credits: Suncatcher, by One Little Bird. Font: DJB Tara's Heart.]
[Credits: border from Doddles-A-Fancy, by CD Muckosky. Font: Handwriting Dakota.]
This is a page for the ‘one word challenge’, which, strangely enough, is two words this month … carpe diem.
[Credits: template by Amy Martin. Cards from Presscards No. 23, by Paislee Press. Font: Courier New.]
This challenge is to use the free May template by Amy Martin at The Lily Pad, which you can find here …
I am drawn to this way of storing essentials (that could quickly become clutter) in a simple but visually beautiful way. I found this image on a blog called madebygirl. The home that is photographed in this blog post is that of Nina Bergsten, who lives in Sweden.
Things to love … the deep white tray, the mixture of the beautiful and the utilitarian – perfume in beautiful bottles, a candle in a black candle holder, jeweller, a white bottle of lotion. I like that it sits on a timber set of drawers which contrasts nicely with the black and white, and adds a little warm to the overall picture. I like that there isn’t too much else around the tray, just a framed image and pot … gorgeous stuff here.
[Credits: paper from For the Record, Friday stamp from Writersb2, arrow from Hello There, by Paislee Press. Coffee stain from Storyteller, tape from La Belle Vie, by One Little Bird. Font: Acoustic Light. Scraplift of 'Love' by MlleTerraMoka.]
I’m working on my May The Lily Pad challenges, hoping to finish all six of them before the end of the month. You can read about them here … this is the Scraplift challenge.
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Journaling – sunrise + swans = magic | ahhh! friday night here at last | a sleepy charli | outside my door at work | a new game for the weekend | sharing a smoothie | the girl and i … [may 19-25]
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