We Made a Paper City

Paper City

Another rainy day kids activity, this time we printed off  some great cut out and colour sheets from Made by Joel. Great fun!

To print these off and a whole lot more head over to his site Made by Joel

Farrow and Ball Colour Inspiration 2012

Some of the rooms ( actually all of them!) are in need of a fresh coat of paint so I’ve been browsing through Farrow and Ball’s 2012 colours for some insipration. Here is a selection of the 2012 colours… I love the pigeon and the incardine combination.

And here is a selection of other colour combinations which I’m liking a lot at the moment:

Babouche

Brassica

Calluna

Dove Tale

Source: Farrow and Ball

Hat

Peerie Flooers Hat by Kate Davies

I needed a quick project and found a great hat pattern by Kate Davies called ‘Peerie Flooers’ I loved the bright cheery colours and fresh pattern but I fancied a bold star top to my hat so I combined two patterns together and this is the end result:

To buy the pattern for Kate Davies Peerie Flooers Hat head over to her website Kate Davies Designs.

Gorgeous Grey Walls

I’m really liking the bold use of grey on the walls of this townhouse in Tonsenhagen, Norway.

Source: Klikk

We Made Play Dough

Today was an indoor activities kind of day, our youngest and I decided it would be fun to make play dough.We found a great recipe from How Does She? Blog. It was easy to make, and amused the boy for ages….success!

For full instructions how to make your own Play Dough head over to How Does She?

Gosh I had a blogging break over the summer months last year and never returned! Family and work life took up a lot of my time (in a good way, lots of  fun things were going on) So now i’ve decided it’s time to start blogging again…I’ve got lots of ideas and inspirations to share with you

A big thank you to anyone who is still following me and hello to any new followers since last year, it’s great that you visited!

S

Beautiful Outoor Seating and Twinkly Lights

We are still waiting for summer to arrive here….it was so bad last week we had to dig out the winter woolies. Hats and scarves in July!? So I’m being drawn to images of warm sunny places and outdoor living. The beautiful pic below I found via Style me Pretty, some outdoor seating at a wedding reception in Nashville…..

Source: Style me Pretty