Thursday, August 6, 2009

wee sized chairs for little peeps



images above from the ever so cute Three Potato Four
Home of Emma Cassi via Knock Knock

I visited my friend Moni's house recently and gushed over the wee sized chairs that she had used as a child, which has now been past down to her boys. We were tossing up whether she should paint them red or white... Or at all? Perhaps I'll pester her for a pic to get a verdict..
Which reminds me I have to snap my little chairs from Phillip Island, which currently makes a great magazine stack holder.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

cute stitching


image via katie cupcake found via black eiffel

So cute. This kinda reminds me of my grade 6 handwriting. So yes, I use to heart my i's.. I know, what a dork.

My mum opened a bank account for me when I was 11.
Years later I had to go into the bank to collect a new card. I had to sign for it but couldn't recall my signature, so the bank teller was trying to describe it 'Um, it's very curly' She gave up and just showed it to me to forge. I blushed, it was so incredibly cheesy.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

work spaces

Domino via Automatism


via Emma Cassi

via Bespoke Press

image via The Brick House found via Visual Notes

kikki.k - staying in


image via Kikki.K

My gorgeous friend Juz sent me the latest Kikki.K catalogue, her timing was quite fitting given my recent home office revamp. Thank you sweets!

My retail shopping fixes have been limited to Bunnings and Ikea recently.. In fact I'm such a Ikea pro now I know all the short cuts! No messin' about, no dilly dawdling down the designated paths for me!

Note to Ms Law, I too love the project on page 10 - if only going through all my digital photo's and getting them printed wasn't such an arduous process!

Sunday, August 2, 2009

cute office supplies

Cityscape Stamp Set - via The Curiousity Shoppe

Atypyk Mustache Pencils via Rose & Radish

Pencil Sharpener Desk Organizer - via The Curiousity Shoppe
Found via Oh Joy

Saturday, August 1, 2009

can o' worms!

Yup opened another can of worms!
I diverted my short attention span off the kitchen and started working on our spare room/office. Given there's only certain things we can do to the kitchen during the week after work hours - eg. we can't drill into brick walls or re-wire so we've been stripping back and re-painting the spare room for the last week.

So before there was one long dark stained floating desk from one wall to another along the window. Whilst it was really nice to have a big work space, with my sewing machine down one end and JD's computer down the other, it limited the furniture layout. It became a storage nightmare and eventually became a junk dumping room.

Sanding on the balcony!

Stripping back paint off the windows & skirting

JD attaching the timber boxes onto runners for handy drawers

My trash n treasure stool

I love timber boxes

I know, it looks 'very Ikea' but the dark table top was looking too heavy against the new floors, repainting it white has opened the space up and makes the room look much bigger.

More pics to come - I'll be adding my collectables and set everything else soonish.. Well, maybe after the kitchen is done!