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Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2011

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Spring 2011 pantone colours

Every year at New York Fashion week, designers select pantone colours for their spring collection.

This spring 2011, they have cleverly combined complementary colours, those that are opposite on the colour wheel and have created a striking intensity to the palette.

We all know the Pantone colour of the year is Honeysuckle, but I'm loving the Lavender - Coral Rose combination ...

Have a great Monday!

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Who needs a blanket?

{Image from here}

I want to lie here today, curled up with a book.

HAPPY RELAXING SUNDAY

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Inspirational Friday...

{Image from here}

Don't you love this quote?

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I also want to thank two lovely ladies ... Heather from Concrete Jungle and Anna from Lona De Anna for passing on the Stylish Blogger Award to moi.

I know I'm a bit late posting this, but better late than never.

If you dont know these ladies already then you must visit their very stylish blogs. Heather lives in beautiful Phuket, Thailand and Anna from the gorgeous city of Sydney, Australia (the place where I was born!)

I am delighted to be included for this award by these two wonderful and talented ladies.

We all know the rules:

• Thank my bestowers
• Link back to them
• Share 7 things about myself
• Forward on the award to 10 other stylish bloggers

I am going to cheat a little also by posting 7 images in my home that make me happy ...

Images from me:

1. Lots and lots of books

2. The colours of this painting by my daughter

3. Masks I collect from around the world (i have lots more)

4. Flowers

5. Beautiful candles

6. Chinoiserie

7. Byzantine art

8. Yoga

I pass on this award to the following fabulous blogs:

Arianna Interiors

BEING RUBY

Couture Millinery Atelier

Gems on Glamour

home

Jennifer Nicole

Marie Nouvelle Studio

SAVOIR FAIRE

The Diversion Project

Scrapbook

Please don't feel obliged to participate if you don't want to.

WISHING YOU ALL A FABULOUS WEEKEND!

xx

Graphics ...

I love the way this beveled mirror sits in the centre of the trompe l'oeil fretwork in this dining room.

A wonderful display of graphics!

{Image from A La Carte, The Elements of an Elegant Home By Sherrill Canet}

Happy Monday everyone.

xx

Girly ...

{Image via Bijou and Boheme}

This is such a girly/feminine ... can't wait for spring image.

I am in love with the outfit, especially the polka dot tights and black wedges.

A busy week for me, with many more to follow.

I am hopefully going to see Black Swan this weekend, going to a design workshop,

hanging out with my family

... and celebrating my birthday!

Happy weekend everyone.

xx

Beautiful object ...

Just came across this sea urchin sculpture by Oly while flicking through Elle Decor.

I've always been fascinated by sea urchins and this one seems to have drawn me into its world.

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Loving ...

Linwood - Annecy

Linwood - Annecy

Linwood - Enigma

Continuing on with the fabric theme ...

I am in love with this sumptuous jacquard velvet, geometric design

by Linwood fabrics called Annecy and also the Enigma

from their new collection (they also do a script in natural or charcoal).

Hope you're all having a wonderful Thursday.

xx

Orange accessories ...

I am in love with the new S/S 2011 Smythson of Bond Street Hibiscus passport holder with the turquoise clasp ... perfect detail.

Garance Dorè

StockholmStreetStyle

Jak & and Jil

Orange accessories are just perfect!

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Script

The graphic quality of script has always inspired me and this beautiful script collection from Carolyn Quatermaine is just what the doctor ordered today ... just beautiful.

It's fresh, colourful and reminds me of spring.

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Lamp obsession ...

I've been a little lamp obsessed the past week ...

I have been searching for the perfect lamp for my husbands study (birthday present) and finally decided on La Lampe Gras 206.

It was designed by the frenchman, Bernard-Albin Gras in 1921, and doesn't use neither screws nor welded joints in its basic form.

It was also famously used by Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Emile Jacque Ruhlmann to name a few.

la lampe gras

Here are some more beautiful lamps to tempt you ...

Images 1&2 from Geoffrey Harris

Images 3, 6-16 from KML Design

Images 4 &5 unknown

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Standing on top of the world ...

{Image- Joe Schmelzer via Desire to Inspire} ... Click photo for sharper image

Wouldn't you love to live here?

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Lumière noire ...

Le poète

doit faire

un tableau noir

avec de la lumière.

-Olivier Py.

The poet must compose a black tableau with light. Oliver Py.

'Here light wants us to fall for an absurd story, would even like us to think it is History. A lighted chandelier retreats under a black tulle funereal shroud to make way for the sincere extinguished chandelier Gouthière designed for Queen Marie-Antoinette's guilded study at Versailles. On the back of the Louis XVI canape, two skeletons jokingly spook each other to prove that a good time can be had, be it deep in a tomb or in bygone days at the French court.'

I came across this exquisitely humourous image and text in the magazine Lumière which I picked up at last years Decorex London ... and I had to share it with you.

A little Monday inspiration.

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Windswept ...

{this image from here}

We all know the exquisite de Gournay wallpaper and fabrics sit at the very top end of the decoration market, so I thought I'd start the year off by telling you how much in love I am with the Windswept Blossom wallpaper in blossom colourway on tarnished silver gilded paper with pearlescent antique finish, from their Japanese collection ...

These images definitely don't do the wallpaper justice!

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