Displaying posts from October, 2007

HELP!!!!! The UFOs are taking over. The fact that I have enough of everything is not stopping me from hunting down the bargains. But what bargains!!!!! The credenza was all of $39. There’s a lot of work and a couple of chips to fix and it is only veneer BUT it was only $39. Dining room or office?

The headboard (or bedhead as we like to call them) was a steal at $15 and will grace the master bedroom. Still deciding on a colour. The two cute bedside tables were bought a few weeks apart and were destined for the bedroom as well but now I want to use these……

A glass topped pair also thrifted and in the process of turning red! I’ll have to find a new home somewhere for the others. Or maybe I’ll leave the decision until the room is pulled together a bit more. So this is what I’m doing this weekend. Painting and procrastinating on which pieces where. Oh and praying for rain! We’re in the middle of a severe draught here on level 6 water restrictions with only bucket watering of plants. That’s why my poor little courtyard has only a few sad plants and a couple of blades of grass I’m struggling to keep alive. It better rain soon!!

Empire Vintage

Have you been over to design*sponge yet to check out our latest posts? We’ve covered so many great Australian shops with lots of dreamy photos. Loads of links to fabulous finds.

Kim and I don’t do this much anymore but we were tagged by Erin from Design for Mankind to name 8 things we’re grateful for.

Kim’s 8 are:
1 – loving family and friends and my plethora of cats
2 – the best blog partner EVER
3 – supportive fellow bloggers
4 – Tim Hortons
5 – Starbucks latte
6 – Etsy
7 – “Eating for Life” by Bill Phillips
8 – skinny jeans and ballet flats

Mine are:
1 – my husband’s health is returning after a long and very trying illness 🙂
2 – the best blog partner EVER
3 – good friends
4 – that first cup of tea at 5.00am
5 – that my local thrift store hates everything I like so it’s always dirt cheap
6 – freedom of choice
7 – a good black pen and an empty page to draw on
8 – Irish whiskey after a hard day

The blog is doing so well at the moment thanks to all of you out there and that’s number 9 – you.

It promises to be a hectic week as guest bloggers on design*sponge. Already we have our first couple of posts up and I’d thought I’d give an encore performance of our post on Megan Morton, Australian stylist extraordinaire. Regular dti readers will know Megan’s work. She’s generously shared photos with us before. Take a look at some of the amazing new images she sent from her latest forays overseas to photograph fabulous houses in the UK and Sweden. Too many for just one post on design*sponge! I just had to share some more.

PS Don’t miss the our post on Australian interior designer Brian Hoy either and so many luscious posts still to come!

This might be the coolest hotel I’ve ever seen, and one day, I hope I get a chance to stay here. The Parker Palm Springs, designed by the king of all things modern-eclectic-retro, Jonathan Adler.