Happy Easter

picture from www.flickr.com/birdtoes

To All I May Have Offended - New Thoughts for TODAY

LET'S PRETEND IT'S SATURDAY!!!

THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Commitment doesn't mean that the job,

the relationship,or the friendship has to last forever.

But while you are there,commit 100 percent.

By doing so,the quality of you life

will also improve 100 percent.

Mothers Day and flowers i'm wanting!!!!

I would love to make a gift for my Mother on Mother's Day but what with work,Home life and a week away in north Norfolk( yummy!) I just know I will run out of time!!!

So here are a selection of just GORGEOUS flowers to have delivered to her door.

These pink roses are devine and my 1st choice

What are your favourite flowers?

Pictures 1,2,& 3 are from what I think are just a fantastic florist they have such a good eye for colour and mix flowers so tastefully.

Lovely idea to put flowers or gifts in hatboxes

Scented hatbox approx £32.99 http://www.interflora.com/

Great admirer of David Linley furniture

This is a gift my Mother would love.......

then at £235.00 who would not?

http://www.davidlinley.com/

Good reliable favourite form http://www.marksandspencer.com/
Prices range for £35.00 and the Tulips come with the jug for £35.00

It's all about Bunting -Trend for this summer.

I just love this picture Chelsea Pensioners Garden

http://www.mooseycountrygarden.com/

Bunting just creates a great atmosphere and is a visual delight

The orgin of the word is uncertain.

Bunting was originally a lightweight Worsted wool (yarn) fabric used for making flags of the Royal Navy.

Nowadays bunting is a term for any festive decoration and can be made of fabric,paper,plastic and even cardboard..

So from a celebration to a BBQ or just to lift a room it's great fun and it's even easy to make.

HOPE YOU ENJOY THESE PICTURES

Makes any garden look fun.

http://www.livingcountry.com/

Love this idea of vintage french postcards made in to bunting/garland
http://www.lobsterandswan.blogspot.com/


The above bunting from
http://www.isca-flags.co.uk/


Vintage bunting above.
www.etsy.com

Now that's the way to travel

Spent 3 days in Havana last year what an amazing mixed up place.

I love old cars and this is the place to see them -there everywhere.

Most of them are taxis and in order to keep the cab fare as low as possible the locals all hop in and share the cost.

Sadly tourists are not allowed to take them and if the driver is caught a very heavy fine is issued.

Below are two cars used at a great family wedding

in Wales
True starsky and hutch style this you got into via the windows!!!

Roll on those Lazy Hazy Summer Days

photo credit to http://www.countryliving.com/

Perfect tables to sit at....all afternoon

and then early evening seems to easy to roll into!!!!!!!

the perfect evening.

He just makes me smile!!!

Penthorpe Park-Norfolk-pic taken by Simon.

Buy of the month --Part 1

Lip stool Fomasetti

So just want this stool but with a price tag of £475!

Wallpaper mania

The Spring is Here!

and it's time to spruce up the place without a huge re- decoration project

and if new cushions are just not going to be enough then

one of the easiest ways to transform a room is to pick a wall and turn it into a feature by using wallpaper

It's amazing how one feature wall completely lifts the room and makes it feel brand new.

JUST LOVING THESE WALLPAPERS!

The Bird wallpaper above is by Mirabel 52cm wide and £49.95 per roll.

Some papers particularly Hand Screened papers can be quite expensive,but if you are just doing one feature wall that makes it a bit easier to afford!

http://www.cole-and-son.com/
Two examples below. They just do the most fantastic range of wallpaper and looking at the website is a great way to get inspired.


The ladies are hand screen printed paper

Love this for a kids bedroom

Funky Floral £25.00 per roll

http://www.grahamandbrown.com/

Made in the UK part 2

Came across this book and just loved it. By John Timpson, Photographs by Neil McAllister and Val Corbert
about the red box

In 1924 leading architects were invited to take part in a competition to design a cast iron kiosk to house the public telephone.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was the winner (he also designed Battersea Power House)

By judges his telephone box was hailed as a masterpiece

'A distillation of the essence of Classicism'

Yet when the red box was launched there was uproar from the public---

'a blight on the countryside'

' An eye sore'

Once installed however the British public took it to thier hearts and now

as each one is removed we protest and even have preservation orders on some to remain in situ!!!!!

Model K6 makes a fab cocktail cabinet!!

would love to own one so will put it on my wish list!!!

Reading the book remined me of how much i lke to see the red box around so over the next month when ever i see a well located phone box i will take a picture and put it on the blog

Here are two pictures of great design/conversions by Gilbert Scott

Bankside Power House (now Tate Modern) and Battersea Power Station

to read more about Giles gilbert Scott go to

www.designmuseum.org

1st weekend in March and sunny!!!!!

In Dorset visiting family this weekend

What a lovely part of England

cream tea's and quaint villages

We went to Stonehenge

an amazingly mystical and strange place

we found a £1 when we parked the car now if thats not a sign!!!!

Simon took this great pic--moody sky and he kept the £1!!!!!!!

Made in the UK

pics of the North Norfolk Coast

Holkham beach

Cley Beach

So pack your mac and your bright wellies as there are just so

many fantastic places to visit in the uk......

and if the sun comes out I can't think of
a better place to be......

For me the bug is with the North Norfolk Coast--

if the skies are not blue, they are moody and immense---the beaches go on forever--

I can't decide if I like the sandy or pebble ones the best--

--O but i love the beach huts--

Sky Blue Days

I have a thing about Blue sky

Its only round the corner so here's

a taste of the Spring to come....