Minggu, 04 Agustus 2013

Sabor a mar / Taste of sea

Buenos días y feliz domingo!!  Con estas altas temperaturas que os parece una cena o comida con una mesa ambientada en colores marineros?
Agua y sal, playa y arena, Mediterráneo y verano. Tres conceptos que van de la mano y que podemos sentir desde esta maravillosa terraza de la Costa Brava, suspendida sobre el mar.









Jumat, 02 Agustus 2013

The bohemian home of a Swedish clothes designer

Hello Friday! And what a beautiful sunny day it is here in Sweden too (what about where you are?). This is the lovely home of Lisa Marie Andersson the designer behind clothing label Up The Wooden Hills. Based in Gothernburg, Sweden, Lisa's design philosophy is clothes should be a way of feeling happy, beautiful and comfortable (I'm with are you?!) and as a result her label is dreamy, pretty and playful, just like her home.










Photography: Sofia Byström. Styling: Lisa Marie Andersson, Up The Wooden Hills with kind permission.

Lisa's clothes line is made from Liberty print which takes me back to my own childhood - My Mum often used to sew us dresses using Liberty print and my own little girls still wear them today! The pretty origami items you see in these pictures are also available in her shop. You might want to check out The Up The Wooden Hills blog too!

So any plans for the weekend? Here it's looking super sunny and warm so I'm planning on spending as much time outside as possible starting with some beach time: sand castles and ice lollys anyone?  I'm also getting my home ready for an (exciting) photo shoot next week so lots of decorating to do!! Lots of pictures and details to follow soon!

What about you?

Have a wonderful weekend and see you Monday!

Kamis, 01 Agustus 2013

Estilo cottage / Cottage style

Piezas antiguas naturales y simples, detalles cuidados   y con un aire de campiña inglesa predominan en el estilo cottage, un estilo que se caracteriza por crear espacios acogedores y relajados con sabor a campo











Gracias por tu visita ¡  Vicky

Office Updates // Inspiration Board and Rattan Chair

Ever since switching up the paint in my home office from light yellow to white (Divine White by Sherwin Williams), I've been making changes to the room and it's finally coming together.  I decided on a color palette of black, gold, pink, blush, and white -- which I am also considering for a blog redesign.








I put together an inspiration board filled with these colors and added it to a nook in my office, just to the right of my desk. You can see how I made the inspiration board HERE with the black and white polka dot fabric.














The inspiration board if full of colors, quotes, photos, and illustrations that are meaningful to me.  










Some of the prints are pins I pinned on Pinterest and printed at Walgreens.  










I like the white font on black background and can always be reminded to "be still."  I'm still looking for "Thy will be done."










The chair was a random find at Ikea.  I'd been looking online for something similar forever, but finally found this one day while browsing the store with my son.  When we took it to the car, he noticed me struggling and kept saying, "The chair won't fit in the car Mama."  Yes, I know.  We had to be rescued from the store:) Oops.  Has that happened to you?










The chair is called the Storsele and is made of rattan, but they aren't selling it online.  The shape and height is just right for this corner of the room.  It would also be nice to layer a throw blanket in the seat- need to see what I have around the house.










I'm using my silver HomeGoods table here too with some books and gold urchin.  










You can see how I covered that second book with fabric HERE.











I hope y'all have a great weekend!  I'll be announcing the winner of the $100 gift certificate to Festive Home Decor on Monday.  Go HERE to enter. :)





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UPDATE: I just made these images with Recite website.  It's so easy (and free!), you just type in your quote and scroll through a list of backgrounds to choose the one you want. 




















Cool, huh?!





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A lovely 'lived in' apartment

My love affair with monochrome is no secret, even more so if it includes white floors or at least beautiful aged light wood floorboards (cue: The Reclaimed Flooring Co). Which is why I like this apartment currently for sale through Stadshem.. The space has been heavily staged but you can still see the personality of the owners shining through (they love music, monochrome, minalism and marmalade and orange juice for breakfast (perhaps)! All in all it has a lovely 'lived in' feel, just as a home should.








Stadshem
For more images check out the home here.

My mind is still on the lovely desk fan. Our bedroom us baking hot at night and we're in need of a fan, which has to not only keep me cool but look cool too naturally! I found some fab ones on Etsy here, here and here.

PS I received two prints in the post from Elina Dahl yesterday (remember her lovely home?). Not only were the prints (here and here) beautiful but the way they were packaged was too - thank you Elina!

Amor por el crochet / Love the crochet

Estoy aprendiendo hacer crochet o ganchillo hace poco y me tiene entusiasmada, de momento con un ganchillo muy grande, trapillo y un punto sencillo, en pocos días he terminado una alfombra redonda y el resultado es bastante aceptable, es un primer paso, porque ahora lo que quiero aprender es hacer una colcha de cuadrados, dicen que es relajante, así que ahora que en dos días empiezo mis vacaciones quizás sea el momento ideal para probarlo.










Gracias por tu visita ¡  Vicky