Garage Sale Day

We're having a huge garage sale on our front lawn today. I have found it so cleansing going through all our bits with the mentality that if I haven't used it in the past two years then it can be sold. With the iminent move I am not relishing packing up so if there is less 'stuff' then that makes my job easier! I invited four neighbours around us to come and sell their wares on our lawn too so it should be a fun day.

Enjoy your weekend and I'll be back on Monday with another post in my colour combinations series.

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Favourite Colour Right Now

I adore this seafoam green - blue colour at the moment. I have it dotted around my house but it is really jumping out at me in these images.

I particulalry love this last one- the cracked plaster on the walls, the ornate windows, spiral iron staircase and extravagant train on the dress all speak to me in the language of perfection. Just Exquisite.

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Light, White and Airy

It's set to be a beautiful and sunny for the next couple of days ...well so the weather man says and we all know that he can sometimes get it oh so very wrong.

But putting my trust behind him here is a beautifully light filled room that matches the lightness of outside.

Isn't this teeny tiny house so serene with an enormous air of tranquility - I'd happily float around here!

Enjoy your day

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Childhood Memories of The Tuck Shop

At boarding school we had a place called the Tuck Shop which was basically a sweet shop or confectionary store as they call it in the USA. As youngsters we would get so excited to go and spend our 50p pocket money on whatever sweets we liked... lemon sherberts, milk bottles and liquorice laces and jelly beans are only a few of what would land in the bottom of my paper bag only to be savoured outside on the grass.

I came across this gorgeous shop based in Seattle and thought straight back to my Tuck Shop days. Admittedly Dean Close School Tuck Shop was by no means anywhere near as fancy as this but in our ten year old eyes it was sweetie heaven. 

Imagine being a child and walking into a store like this - your eyes would be as wide as saucers!

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Dolls Houses

I secretly always wanted girls as my children....and I was very non secretly happy when I did! As you might have probably guessed by now.... I'm a girlie girl - I love pink , I love flowers, I love dresses...I Love prettiness. I don't try and hide - it's just the way I am.

So now I've had my two angels I have all these ideas of what I want to do with them and what I want to be able to give them. One of these things is a dolls house. As a small girl there is nothing more magical than being able to escape into this tiny house with the tiny furniture and the tiny people and let your imagination run wild. Malia and Lani are still far too young but one day I'll get them a dolls house.

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Hint From Nature - Yellow & Green

I'm back with my Colour Combinations series - apologies about not doing last Mondays' but what with Easter and the public holidays I missed it...so here I am now.

With all this footage covering the Wedding in London, I noticed the abundance of flowers all over the City in particular yellow flowers and it got me thinking about the use of yellow and green in interiors. It's not a widely used combination but none the less it is one that works...let's take our cue from nature. If it works outside then its going to work inside.

I love the subtlety of the yellow here with the hint of orange as a little zing. The sofa colour is sublime.

 Daffodils - the flower of spring (in Europe anyway!) These bright greens and yellows here have a real joyful effect in a bright and cheery way.

Doesn't this wallpaper give the bedroom a REAL wow factor. Amazing! The flower is so bold and strong in size but also quite subdued and I believe this is achieved in the tone of the yellow and green - it isn't in your face at all.

This bathroom is so warm and welcoming with the buttercup yellow cabinetry and sage green walls.

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Holiday Feel

Doesn't this house have a lovely holiday feel? It's so fresh and calming. I can just imagine coming from the beach and wandering into a pint sized house like this. The aqua chairs are the perfect injection of colour with a light shade of aqua followed through in the console table and accessories.

Exciting news....we have decided to move back to Sydney! Yay!!! After two years on the Central Coast we feel it's time to head back to the Northern Beaches where most of our family and friends are based. So the house goes on the market in two weeks time...wish us luck. Then it's the long process of packing, moving, renting, buying and unpacking. Even that doesn't worry me too much as I'm so excited to get back to Sydney.

Enjoy your Sunday - we're busy getting the house ready for sale - so much to do, so little time!

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