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Kenzie Poo: Featured Nursery: Fern Lucinda's Nursery

Ferny's nursery was featured by Rachelle of Kenzie Poo today, so sweet of her. I love her blog and have been inspired by lots of nurseries she has featured in the past, so was very flattered to be included today!

View more photos of Fern's nursery here and a post about her nursery I wrote a little while back here.

Competition at Chantelle's Place..

I couldn't resist sending some hair pretties over to Lacey - Chantelle's daughter, she is so cute. You see Chantelle, for the few that might not know, is the author of the fabulous blog fat mum slim.You must see her photos they are always wonderful. She is also hosting a competition for me - so if you want in, pop over to her blog and join.

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend - we did! Look at this cake, isn't it wonderful? I can't take the credit though. My fabulous mother's group had a little party at the park for our 2 year olds and soon to be 2 year olds. It was so nice to have everyone there - including three tiny new additions. They have all become such sweet little friends. Here's a pic of Louise enjoying that cake..

(just ignore the giant bags under the eyes - she was exhusted)

New clips have been listed in my Made it store too!

~ House Update - Garage Door ~

Our lovely new garage door was installed at the house last Friday. Yay - one step closer to completion.

Who ever would have thought that I would be excited by a garage door but I really am. It is lovely and lets lots of light into the garage!! Not normally something of great concern but amazing how it is nice to have a light garage without having to have the door up!

Taking The Time

Today my hubby and I caught up for lunch with some good friends of ours - we spent a few hours, eating, talking, joking and watching the wind, waves and rain out of the windows of the restaurant. We were lucky enough to be at a restaurant right on the beach.

It is so easy when you work as hard as we do, to not take the time to just do something as relaxing as sharing some time with friends.

Normally Sunday is my washing day - and today was no different, but I hung it up (under the patio) and just left it there to dry - tomorrow is soon enough to bring it in, today was about enjoyment and friendship.

I encourage you to make a point of not getting so busy just doing that you forget to enjoy the life you live. I need to remind myself of this more often as well. Time is fleeting.

Periwinkle blue

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you a periwinkle blue colour palette, 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):

The gorgeous looking White shelf with lusterware and periwinkle items by Sunshine Syrie
The pretty flowers in Blue Hydrangea by bluekdesign
The soft hazy Petals #1. by Blue Perez
The delicate leaf in Periwinkle Spearmint Necklace by Stokes Galleries

Have a great day! x

Busy Busy Busy...

I dropped these pretties off at yet another beautiful stockist today. I am so thrilled to have my gorgeous Fabric yoyo button hair pretties stocked at the Enchanted Closet, located in High Street, Armadale and at their Woodend store. They stock so many of my favourite kiddie brands - ani & trio quilts, Cloth Poppy, Heavenly Creatures and for the mummys - drool worthy items like Luxe accessories. Its such a pretty store, with a pink and white striped feature wall and lots of white vintage furniture - It took all my strength not to make a purchase.

A few of the lovely blogs I read are posting beautiful pictures of these tissue paper pom poms and I am huge fan. I saw these a while back searching through etsy and they have obviously become a definite trend. As Louise's 2nd Birthday Party is just around the corner it has reminded me to orgainise the decorations - this is always my favourite part of party planning.
So being the handy, hand make girl that I am - I dare say I going to attempt to make them. Martha Stewart has provided us with what seems easy to do instructions here, so how hard could they be....
Mind you I'm sure they aren't going to look half as good these beautiful pom poms from PomLove .

Stay tuned for updates and in the meantime have a lovely weekend. Ciao!

~ Switching Off ~

It has been a busy week - lots of decisions being made at "the house" and lots of running around with "the kids" - time to switch off for the evening and relax for a change - have a great weekend everyone! Hope you are able to switch off for a few days.