Glimpses of beauty and simplicity around the world.
cute lamps shown by Vintage.
Happy Friday to you! What are your plans?
I'm in a wedding tomorrow which means between now and Saturday night will be: decorating, rehearsing, eating, sleeping, hair styling, makeup-ing (rhymes with hiccuping), dressing, posing, standing (in the wedding party), partying, farewelling (ha! made that up) and finally…collapsing!
Sunday will be a relaxing day for church, a nap, then some household chores.
Am still in the middle of the Closet – nah – whole Apartment Purge and these items from the IKEA 2011 sneak peek may be just the thing to corral the items that need storage.
Apartment Therapy posted these photos today after they had a big ol' sneak peek at IKEA's new products.
Was at a golf outing for work all day today. Am relaxed (thanks to the many mikes hard lemonades I consumed), sunburned ("What do you mean I'll be OUTSIDE at a golf outing?!"), and tired. Am going to read Dietgirl's book until I fall asleep. Meanwhile, here's an adorable photo posted by haeshu.
click the image to visit haeshu's flickr page
Malin Elmlid (head of sales at Wood Wood) was interviewed for the website of Freunde von Freunden. She's from Sweden, lived in the States, but now lives in Berlin. I love her house and especially her kitchen. It is a well-used, utilitarian but pretty kitchen!
some colorful eye candy just for you! I'm so sorry. I don't know where the above photos came from, but the following photos are from "Where We Blog From".
Was with family this weekend "up north" (Wisconsin code for "north of anywhere you are now"). The fam had a lemonade stand to raise money for a child they sponsor who lives on the Gaza Strip.
images: sunnygirlsf
"after" – linen closet shelf, originally uploaded by sunnygirlwi.
Decluttered, sorted and organized the contents of two shelves in my linen closet*. There's more to organize – and I"ll post photos as things progress.
Meanwhile, I sorted objects, put like with like and then pulled from a "box o' pretty" that held empty, available IKEA containers and baskets. Arranged them and voila! A new shelf that's fun to use and easy on the eyes.
Left to right: basket (q-tips & cotton squares), bag (hair products), orange tin (nail polishes), silver tin 1 (eyeglasses from zenni optical – $24 for two pair includes shipping – can you believe it?! Am wearing the magenta/purple ones today), silver tin 2 (nail products), and yellow tin (medicines, peroxide, band-aids, and the like).
*At the top are baskets that do not belong in the linen closet. Those will be moved or repurposed as the closet re-do continues.
BEFORE: The items from two shelves were dumped onto the coffee table to be sorted.
Loving this photo. Gorgeous hooks!
Dropping in for a few minutes in this heat. Trying to stay cool. Also going for a streamlined summer look with a simple orange dress, hair pulled back in a braid, a slick of lip gloss, sunglasses and a smile.
How are you doing if you're in the midst of a heat wave also?
image via hello tiger!
These photos are most likely zipping around Blogland even as I type this out….but I had to post them as well! Benita of Chez Larsson and her family have redone the desk that she is famous for into something even more beautiful.
After reading the post, I created a "note to self":
Morning's Light 