November 20th

Winter cheer

I am sure you all know how partial I am to a good moodboard. Well today I have news of a great competition with The Conran store and Mydeco. I made mine as an example with winter in mind, and the way this season is going I will need all these warm browns and cheery yellows to keep me going through the winter months. I have chosen roomy suede and rattan bags to use as storage for all those magazines I have piled all over the place, and plenty of candles for a cosy glow. The competition will be widely promoted from the 11th October. But as my readers (UK residents only I am afraid) you can enter from today.

If you would like to have a go. All you need to do is follow the link and create a mood board using Conran Shop products over at Mydeco. Your collection can be inspired by winter, the perfect living room or anything you like.

This will run until 31st October, with a member of The Conran Shop selecting a winner on the 1st November. If selected you will win £1,000 to spend at The Conran Shop, full terms and conditions are also available on the link above.


Have fun guys! and fingers crossed one of you will be the winner.

ten leaves at a time

Autumn has arrived blustering in ten leaves at a time. Who better than Snippet and ink to inspire the season ahead with their beautiful mood boards.

Image Snippet and ink

Homemade fun and summer festivities

I find wedding blogs so inspiring. These inspiration boards from snippet and ink are just fabulous! I so love the simple natural colours of the top board, but how summery and fun is the bottom pic?

Have a good day.

All images snippet and ink.

pale and bright

My morning was made better after seeing the latest lovely party colour pallets from 100 Layer cake.

Images 100 Layer cake.

fresh as a daisy after a summer rain storm

I have been lying in bed listening to the beautiful sound of rain since 6 am. It is now 11 and I am still here eating jaffa cakes (how I love annual leave). With all the trees and plants fresh and happy after their morning shower I guess I should get the hell up and do the same. Thought I'd share some images that I recently put together for Artsy mama's other blog 'A year of colour". I have had fun putting together inspiration boards to match the theme each month. Its a great project with loads of tutorials, giveaways interviews and photography. So if you can check it out, do.

Old crockery to smash

Making mood boards is keeping me sane at the moment, the job is still hard to stomach. Monday was my first day back after two weeks training and the pressure combined with pushy (oblivious to human feeling) boss brought me to tears. I didn't want to cry, what a baby! How easily I revert to childish behavior in difficult situations. Can't think what's wrong with me, I get so easily overwhelmed these days. Even the frustration of rage makes me cry. Must find some old crockery to smash. The evil thought that it will be even worse for me to have to come back to this job after the utter joy of spending our honeymoon in New York probably isn't helping.

How long can I really continue with this horror? I feel an awkward conversation on the horizon. I get through my hours but in my heart I knew the day I started that this was not the place for me. Maybe even at the interview, was that the faint ringing of an alarm bell I heard in the back of my head? When they rang to offer me the job did my instinct say no even though the word YES slipped out of my mouth? I was so anxious to leave behind my old job that I just jumped from the frying pan straight into the fire and have now been enveloped in the flames. At least I have the full support of my future husband to jump ship! Hopefully the next jump will be into a placid ocean not a furnace of hideousness! Moaning aside I can see quite a comical side to it all so no need to put me on suicide watch just yet! I shouldn't complain I'm so happy in all other aspects of my life. Happy and excited about being a wife. Lucky to have fabulous family and friends.