CHANGE OF HEART – HOME OFFICE DESIGN
So repairs, garden maintenance, the husbands absence (he’s back now), and foul weather (still), have halted our decorating plans. We are having fun just settling in to our new home, trying to relax and get to know our new space. What we do know is that we love it here already, but there is so [...]
SOMETHING FOR YOU FROM PLUMO AND ME!
Hooray! My picks from the new Plümo Spring Summer Home Collection are now online over here at the Plümo blog. See the things I fell in love with and choose your favourites, then get a discount if you decide to buy something! The code is JESKA and will get you 10% off the SS13 collection [...]
HOME TELEPHONE DESIGN ROUND UP
Today I am sharing our quest to find a good looking home phone for our landline. With barely any mobile signal here, it just became top priority. No joy locally so we started looking online and found these six beauties. We wanted something old fashioned looking but some of the converted ones go for serious [...]
STYLE NOTES WITH 91 MAGAZINE
As you know I’m all about the home office/workroom at the moment, so I just thought I would share my favourite feature from the lovely new issue of 91 Magazine. It gives some great tips on organising a creative space at home, with lovely images of Ingrid Aune Westrum and Paula Mills’s work spaces. All [...]
CORAL HOME OFFICE MAKEOVER
Let the decorating commence, with a coral home office makeover! I have been pouring over all these images on Pinterest, of dark greys and shades of white for the main rooms in our new home and then suddenly this image came up in my feed.I just felt instantly happy and inspired all at once, (with [...]
WINTER TONES
Just lately I’ve gone mad for cushions in wintery colours, frosty, sparkling, knitted, cosy and velvet. I managed to narrow my favourites down to these 10. Charcoal velvet and Ikat – Sparrow and Co, Lace Lino Lavado – Zara Home, Dip Dye and Big Ted- John Lewis, Sequinned Baroque – Anthropologie, Silver Sequins and [...]
BLOG OF THE WEEK-PRETTY GINGHAM
Pale colours and subtle surroundings, some pages from the beautiful blog Pretty Gingham by Tanja in Helsinki-Finland. The cosy images and simple pleasures are inspiring me to fall back in love with my long neglected camera. Realising I rarely take pictures these days, unless I happen to see something and snap it on my phone! This [...]
CHARCOAL PAINT AND VINTAGE LACE
Still wondering what I will make with all that beautiful vintage lace I was given last year. I will show you in detail some more of the amazing pieces, soon. But I thought while I am thinking on it, the best thing to do was to repaint my favourite pin board with charcoal paint and [...]
THE SNUGGLE SEASON
Only a month or so away, my favourite season will begin, a light breeze will whip at the trees pulling down the leaves, leaves that seem like they only just opened, due to the crazy weather this year, Summer is passing in a wave of torrential downpours with grey skies and every now and then [...]
THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Ha! Wrote this a while ago, but in all the mayhem didn’t finish it and just discovered it in my drafts. So, some more pictures from around the house, a winter mood board makes way for a carnival of colours over my mantlepiece to celebrate the return of sunshine, a new (old) pen pot for [...]
THE OPPOSITE OF RAIN
I found something beautiful in my email today, these sunny bright flowers and some interior details to go with them. Solid rain on all days except the marathon since we arrived here last Monday, booo. So these charming yellow freesias and late daffodils are giving me the morning boost I need today x All images [...]
TWELVE THINGS COX AND COX
Hello Monday people, I hope you had a lovely weekend? We had home cooked food, coffee at the De La Warr, bought lots of new Kilner jars and tidied the larder (no more peg topped bags for us!), some sunny Sunday morning walking, picture taking, a movie and and a huge bowl of honey and [...]
A GIRL LIVES HERE
I know I go on about a simple rustic interior, that is really what I dream of, but all around me, silk flowers bloom, cakes are baked and pretty things just happen. Maybe we need two houses side by side one for each taste and then we can dip in and out of each home [...]
SPACE AND LIGHT
Love love this bedroom from the Shepherdess apartment over at Shoot Factory. The light, the space, the floors, the bricks. One for the husbands scrap book I think? All image Shoot Factory.
SPARSELY SPARKLING
Yesterday, excited but a little shaky after my tooth was taken out, we went to choose our tree at a lovely family owned farm out in the freezing cold. Usually a drawn out affair with too many contenders or none quite right, but yesterday was quiet, a world away from the weekend choosers, clutching to [...]
RUFFLED GOODNESS MIXED WITH RUSTIC CHARM
A great day for me and all Rachel Ashwell-Shabby chic lovers, I have been waiting patiently for The Prairie to be finished and oh my goodness, when can I leave Blighty and move on in? I love all the ruffled goodness mixed with rustic charm and the odd sparkle here and there. Go see go [...]
