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23/06/2013

Tin cans

My sister & her husband has recently left us after five weeks visit. They moved to Los Angeles six years ago & it’s now time to move back home to Sweden again. You have to show your favorite spots, which means a lot of different locations across New South Wales. There’s a plethora of farms, villages, communities with diverse range of markets & shops, to hyper-modern shopping centres. We were not looking to shop, I’ll have to admit. Especially because they already had done their shopping before they left LA & sent these with remaining household possessions.

In all cases, when visiting small cute communities, with sunshine & comfortable warmth, then everything looks appealing, somehow. Even things that you usually don’t look at. Believe me, you feel inspired, influenced & charmed by the attractive surroundings & the nice weather. You are never so keen on coffee as when you’re traveling around like that. Coffee & a small cookie or something sweet to nibble on, or an icecream or two. After a number of visits to different markets, second hand stores & retro decorated cafes, I have almost had enough of old cans of different kinds. It becomes so when you blazes through all these different places. Some things have a tendency to recur.

Cute / tumblr.com

Cute & tasty / fancy.com

Nice collection / bloodandchampagne

Good use in the kitchen / pinterest.com

Romantic / fancy.com

Still life / smileandwave.typepad.com

Character / ariele alaskosstudio

Rustic & worn / wabi-sabi.blogspot.com

Decorative recycling / rootinteriors.blogspot.com

Beautiful old fashioned style / rebeckarybergskott

For the small ones / google.com

Classic / pinterest.com

Stylish serving bowl / homebliss

Decorative collection / camillatange.blogspot.uk

Recycle & reuse / charmingspaces

Nice on the kitchen bench / bemz.com

Take care / Marie

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Tagged cans, collecting, small storage, storage, stuff, Tin, tin cans, Vintage

20/06/2013

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Homes / Interiors, Outdoor

Succulents

Succulents – sometimes also called fat plants, fascinates me, for some reason. It’s plants that have parts that are a bit thicker, probably to enable water to be stored during dry periods. I like their unusual appearance. Each one looks different & they can survive anything, which is a good thing for someone like me, that hasn’t the talent for required green thumbs! Their green shades, from dark to the brightest green, makes those plants interesting. Especially in combination with white or black pots. But the best thing is that they look nice & are suitable everywhere. Useful in concrete pots, transparent glass, clay pots, or a mix of all – they have the ability to blend in & harmonize in the environment. I prefer toned-down versions where the plants are to their best advantage. Succulents can be quite colorful but like I said, the simple green variants with their fat leafs, in pots which don’t take too much of the impact. That’s what I like!

1. Like small pastries on the tray / polkadotbride.com

2. Moderate in volume & fine to black matloboes.tumblr.com

3. White & green / feelinspiredblog.com

4. Stylish still life / weekdaycarnival.blogspot.com

5. Fiery colours / myparadissi.com

6. nice & simple design / driedfruits.tumblr.com

7. Blends in pleasantly / remainsimple.tumblr.com

8. Nice & simple / habituallychic.blogspot.com

9. Nice styling / susannavento.fi

10. White on white / scandinaviandeko

11. Fat plants / kendall-hubbard

12. Stylish / oldbrandnewblog.com

13. Like an old still life / daniellawitte

14. Amongst other plants / interiorguiden

15. Miniature planting / birchandbird.com

Take care / Marie

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Tagged fat plants, green, green thumbs, Houseplant, Plants, potted plants, succulent, Succulent plant, succulents

15/06/2013

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Homes / Interiors

Clothes rack

I’m reluctant to have clothes laying around, especially when it’s easy to hang everything neat & organized in the closet – easy to find, pick up or put away, everything at will. To make it work for my sons who don’t have time to hang up their clothes in a wardrobe or like to have any structure – you have to find a workable solution. Their “bedrobe” solution isn’t working, meaning havingall their things on the bed. I refuse to leave things as they are just because my young ones seems to think that they have more important things on their mind. I am a mother, after all. To allow them to have all their clothes in the bed or on the floor – no thank you!

We have to sit down & discuss this together. Which in turn means that I get an instant response, where they are quite willing to come up with a solution. You don’t want to take a discussion with a mother, if you can avoid it. So a clothes rack is in this situation a perfect option AND it works, for all of us 🙂

White, fresh & coordinated in black & white / morningslight

Minimalistic black clothes rack with wooden bottom / yellowtrace

Styling in grey & white / vtwonen.nl

Corner detail / interiorguiden

White with decorative wood details / sanctuary

white, thin model for minimal visibility / pinterest.com

Romantic touch with white / keroiam.tumblr.com

Untreated timber for children’s clothing / sukha-amsterdam.nl

Simple, just to lean against the wall, also a plus with storage / trendsnow.net

Well, what can I say, just great! / thesuperordinary.com

Industrial style / bodieandfou.com

Black simple base model / emmasdesignblogg

Design based on gravity / bloesem.blogs.com

Two solutions in one / livethemma

Simple solution in metal / honeypielivingetc.blogspot.com.es

Take care / Marie

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Tagged Clothes hanger, clothes rack, coat rack, design, Laundry, organised, Self storage, wardrobe, wardrobes

10/06/2013

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Design, Homes / Interiors

Dark blue

I had a period when I used the dark blue colour almost as much as I use black today, that is to say, always. I felt a hint of that old feeling the other day when I bought two pairs of boots in suede, one black & the other in dark blue. On the way to work last week, I arrived a bit earlier & decided to take a stroll around the shopping centre. I saw a jacket in dark, dark blue. An instant love & from there to todays post, the way is rather short. Since then I have had time to be off couple of weeks to spend time with my sister & her husband, who is on a visit. There has been a lot of traveling to various favorite spots & with it, a lot of stops for shopping. One would think that the dark blue colour would be rather common. But no, not where I was, at least.

Anyway, I found a scarf in thin material but still with rough texture. Very soft in really dark blue shade & a couple of fine-knitted jumpers with stylish fit. One was striped of course. AND with that, I have now completed my shopping need in that blue colour.

Navy blue with accents / projectnursery.com

Make up to suit the dress / annstreetstudio via tumblr

Wonderful sofa design / stylebyemilyhenderson.com

Beautiful handicraft / aquiterstorm.tumblr.com

Lovely bedlinen / fancy.com

Updated classic style / matchbookmag via tumblr

Shifting blue tint / erzandco.tumblr.com

Simple yet so cute / tinkerbell2477.tumblr.com

Beautiful & unusual facade colour / vintagerosebrocante.tumblr.com

Renew the inside of old boxes / frenchbydesign

Fashionable again / mokkasin

Mix & match your table setting / skonahem

Boyish & simple with space for play / designinspirationsk.com

Still life in blue shades / google.com

Take care/ Marie

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Tagged blue, blue colour, Color, colours, dark blue, design, Fashion, kids room, navy blue, shoes

04/06/2013

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Homes / Interiors

Something in rattan

I was looking around for a laundry basket the other day. We have a stylish thing in black & white at home, with good handles that’s roomy inside. It has now become a bit flimsy & worn so it’s about time to trade up. Rattan wasn’t top of mind & probably not the type of material I generally would look for, although a chair or chairs,would suit me fine. I’ve always liked rattan in the summer, in the garden.

My mother in law had period when she painted baskets in a typical blue colour from her childhood. She then decorated them in a white pattern that became her signum. I had these baskets everywhere, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, garage, playroom & the backyard. I was quite tired of the blue colour & rattan, for quite a while to come, after that. Natural materials are nice in general & rattan has the advantage to age neat & becomes more beautiful with time. I am hereby healed from past experience & ready for this beautiful material … colorless, white, black or with some color of some sort.

Fancy shapes / cez via pinterest