Hello

What a beautiful day! I'm so happy to see blue skies, yellow fields and little pink rose buds. I wonder if summer is finally raising it's weary head and shaking off the wet and miserable April showers?

On the flip side of our glorious weather, you know the sun is shining in England when you see the boys whipping off their shirts and revealing pale winter chests. It's a little bit of lukewarm sunshine lads not the beach in the height of summer! Cover it up, no one wants to see that!

The Tortoise

Well now Mr Tortoise, what the devil are you doing up there?!

Blue

Sea and sky...

...to hearth and home.

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I think blue is good for the soul.



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Layer up different shades for a striking effect.



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And don't be afraid of deeper, darker hues.



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Perhaps more delicate accents are more to your liking?



Or maybe you just want to bring the outside inside?





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So many different ways it's enough to make your mind boggle.

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N.B. As wonderful as Pinterest is I'm sad to have discovered today that those dastardly internet spammers have made their way into the website. Two of the images above do not have links back to their original source as the link provided on Pinterest will take you to one of those awful internet scams. I apologise for not attributing the pictures to the rightful place and always remember to never share your details!

Have a lovely weekend!



Bathroom

Oh what I would give to take a bath here!

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Forgotten Buildings

Hello there friends. It's been so long since I have posted anything as recently my head has been full of all sorts of other things keeping me busy. For one, there is a lot of building work going on around my home that leaves a thick layer of dust on absolutely everything and leaves me perpetually dirty! For another, my friend's wedding is fast approaching and myself and the other bridesmaids have been occupying ourselves with the all important hen weekend and dress shopping. I have decided to make my own dress but at the moment any thought of getting the silk from the shopping bag to the sewing machine has been diminished by that pesky brick dust!

Anyway, I wanted to share with you a blog that one of my very close friends has started. Charlotte is a Building Archaeologist currently working with English Heritage who has recently decided to sing praise to all those wonderful Forgotten Buildings that often pass us by.

I wonder how many treasures line our streets that we know nothing about?

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Go ahead and take a peek. I'm sure Charlotte will be happy to have you.

Have a lovely weekend!

Bowled Over

I spied this genius idea for lighting on Pinterest and a few clicky clicks and linky links later, traced it back to Graham and Green. I definitely think these lamp hats are a fantastic alternative to your more conventional lampshade.

If you are feeling particularly creative, you could always give it a go yourself and why stop at bowlers and top hats?! You could go completely wild and create a millinery masterpiece suspended from your eaves! Alternatively, you could just swing by Graham and Green and pick up a ready made set. I personally would make interchangeable lamp hats so that my light bulbs would always be wearing the most suitable attire. I'm thinking feathers and frills for Ladies Day, straw hats for summer and a good old sturdy top hat for austere winter days. What say you?



Boys About Town

{Luang Prabang, Laos}

Are these not just the coolest kids?