Jikana Damaru: 01/26/10

Party Planning

Preparations have begun for Sofia's 4th birthday party - her birthday is not for 8 weeks but you can never be too organised!!

She has requested a princess party.

The lovely Sharnel at My Life My Loves has inspired me with her beautiful dessert table she did for Williams 4th Birthday Party and has encouraged me to bite the bullet and do my very own.

I found some great jars for the lollies at House to Home (one of the $2 shops) - $2.95 each for the jar and $2.50 for the scoop

Then it was on to finding pink lollies to fill them up - I started with Mushroom Bites and it turns out that 600 grams is the correct amount for each jar.

Here is jar number one - now to find 5 different pink lollies to fill up the remaining jars.

Stay tuned for further updates as this party and the dessert table comes together.

Cool, calm, serene... helllllp!

I know I was supposed to be focused this week on creating an amazing play area for Fern, but I've had one of those sort of blah weeks... and have absolutely nothing to share with you. :(

Whilst I've been achieving nothing for Fern's space, I've also been pondering my own. Space, that is. Because of course, once you have children you value your own little space more than ever.

I am, of course, talking about my (well, 'our' I guess - the husband likes to sleep/ shower in there too) bedroom. Here's what it looks like at the moment (wardrobes painted gloss white on opposite side of room; ensuite to the right):

I am slowly emerging from a long obsession with the colour pink. I have a lot of pink in my house; everything from a KitchenAid mixer to my beloved Eames rocking chair. I still love these items... but I'm ready to add some other colour to the mix! When we bought our house a couple of years back I painted the bedroom quarter strength Dulux Hogs Bristle and a feature wall in a sort of plum shade of pink. Trendy at the time, but its now screaming at me!

What I long for is a bedroom that oozes serenity, calm, and peace. I don't hate the furniture in the room, and I love my current bedlinen I purchased from the Aura range:

But I need a new colour scheme! And this is where I need your help. Would it be totally daggy to go to Dulux with my pillowslip to try to get a complementary colour for a new feature wall? I know feature walls are soooo 2007 or whatever, but I still like the idea of one in my bedroom! I'm also thinking about ditching the big wedding photo, at least from where it currently lives above the bed, and painting the wall a metallic blue/grey similar to this:

Porters Explorer Blue

Then, I thought I might find a few different sized ornate frames and paint them gloss white, filling them with art like this:

Or perhaps I could bite the bullet and wallpaper behind the bed:

Helllllp! If there are any budding or would-be interior designers out there reading my blog could you please give me your advice? You can see I am in desperate need of a bedroom colour-makeover!

Sorry, will try to (at least appear) a little less frazzled next week. Have a great weekend.

Lisbeth Dahl Spring 2010

Another Danish brand I featured last year was Lisbeth Dahl. The new Spring collection is just as pretty!

Check out my Copenhagen Interior shops map for stockists.

Have a sweet day!

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