Inspiration {Pretty} Kitchens

As you know my favourite colour is pink - team it with a beautiful kitchen and this is what you get - just lovely!







Images courtesy of We Heart It and Virginia McDonald


Leanne
At my house...




Today is a busy day. Birthday party planning and crafting is on the top of my "to do list"
I am feeling excited and inspired with what I have laid out before me so far. The party has a very...little boy carnival... theme to it.
My husband and I have had fun coming up with some vintage style games such as: Knock em down tins (I have been saving tins for weeks now)! Spoon and ball races (I have painted some wooden spoons and found little coloured balls to be placed on top) Tug of war (this one is on my husbands to do list) Bean bag toss (I found this at Spotlight - they carry a lovely range called Amscan) you can see it in the image above and it is made of wood which I just love! The funny thing is this is a family party...there will only be 3 little boys and 13 adults. So the adults are in for lots of running about and laughs and not a lot of sitting about eating cake...not that they would I know they will all get in and have a laugh with the kids and each other. Over the next couple of days I will post some of the crafty preparations and some of the delicious (I hope) food recipes that I have planned for Sunday. Happy Monday...I am off to start some crafty chaos!
Pop over to buttons by loulou to join in the fun.

Strange moments in word verification

I've been jotting down some of my finer 'word verification' (WV) moments as I pop about commenting on my favourite blogs. Strange past time, I know, but you'd be amazed just how... er... psychic the WV tool is.

Hear me out.

It all started a month or so ago when I commented on my sister's blog. She was writing something about the skirt in her younger-self photo being too short. I wrote a standard reply about "nothing is too short when you're 24" and hit send. But when it came to the WV, the word I had to type was 'crach'. So I ended up writing a PS to amend my comment to 'at least nothing is too short when you're 24 unless you can see your crach'.

You see where I'm going with this?
 
Other highlights have been:
 
Emma at Frog Goose Bear posted a Wordless Wednesday shot involving a dining room table and a spilled bowl of cereal. Cereal everywhere. WV response: mesymes
 
And Brenda at Mira Narnie posted a lovely idea for kids using coloured water to investigate cause and effect. WM response: kydfarn
 
My favourite, though, was when Fat Mum Slim posted about being at your most beautiful at 31. I  posted my comment, something about being happy to work on the 'beauty on the inside' bit and not so worried about the 'beauty on the outside' bit and then looked down at my WV: lyerar
 
You see? Word verification is either psychic or a psychotherapist. Either way, hours of enjoyment is ours for the taking!

[Image: my 'lil sis Coo at 24 years. Isn't she pretty!]

Point + Shoot : 25



Sunday 8th August 12ish




A retro train ride calls for a retro photo treatment ...



Hope you had a lovely fun filled weekend.

It will be a few busy weeks here leading up to another market, so that means lots of new pretty pretties...



Don't forget to see what everyone else has been doing too.







Print Love

Hope you had a lovely weekend! Can't believe its Monday already, I had barely gotten started bossing my hubby around on stuff that NEEDS to be done immediately if not sooner!... The count-down is on; I now have less than three weeks to finish feathering my nest in preparation for my new baby and this week's obsession is... wall prints! You might remember I already painted a stripey wall which I then decorated with some fabric screens (will reveal the finished wall and the room for that matter soon, promise!) I'm really happy with that particular wall, so now I'm considering how to decorate the one adjacent to it, which is a little...well... dull, at present. I'm picturing a little grouping of cute prints, possibly mixed with some painted wooden alphabet letters. But I'm considering waiting to see what I have so I don't change my mind about my choice of colours!

In the meantime, I've been conducting a little research - you know, to save time once the baby is born! Here are a few of the faves on my shortlist I thought I'd share with you. There would have been more, but these ones took 47 years to load as it was.

Available here from Aussie designer and bloggy friend Janette from My Sweet Prints for US $22

By Barking Bird Art. Available here for US$18

By Sugar Fresh. Available here for US $20
By Dazey Chic. Available here for $23

By Trafalgar Square. Available here for $7
By Evie the Elephant. Available here for $27

What do you think? Have you seen any gorgeous prints lately floating about that would be perfect in a nursery? What adorns YOUR nursery/ child's bedroom walls?

Day Three & Four- 31 in 31

Puppy in the window
Day Three Photo - 31 in 31
This is how Roxy likes to sit and look out the window.

Day Four Photo
Kabobs on the Grill
This was our first time cooking kabobs on the grill.  They turned out soo good!
Strawberry daiquiri's were also part the evening. Yum!

Pretty Birthday

Pretty Birthday
This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you a Pretty Birthday theme with these gorgeous pics. Check back soon for some more of the most inspirational photographers on Flickr.

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites (clockwise from top left):

Have a sweet day!
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