I’m in awe of the talent of leading stylists. A room or photo shoot is pulled together with apparent ease. It looks so good, it looks so easy but as we all know from our own attempts there’s a great deal of talent, call it a good eye or god given ability, involved. Here are some of my favourites from the portfolio of Tim Ebneth.
Whatever happened to the house plant as major decorating feature? Only a couple of decades ago a living room wasn’t complete without its own jungle or forty year old bonsai fig in the corner. Light weakly forced its way through a forest of african violets which had colonised kitchen window sills around the world and spider plants brooded sinisterly in macramé slings in every second bathroom. And those pom pom grandma flower arrangements? Are they now as dead as dodos? This week’s retro revelation comes from Decorating with Plants and Flowers, Creative Home Library, Meredith Corporation, Des Moines, 1972. Perhaps we don’t have to go to the extremes of years past but is there a little room in your house for our leafy friends?
It’s Sunday afternoon in Australia as I write this and my whole weekend has flown by. I could not honestly tell you what I have done but it involved lots of running around and not much achievement. I managed to finish the new covers for my rattan chairs but forgot to pick up the new foam cushions. I’m making do with the old foam base and a ticking cushion from another chair. I’ve tried them with a book and a cup of tea and they are surprisingly comfortable. I also spray painted my cane plant stand and entertained ideas of a jungle of ferns inside my living room. I chickened out (thoughts of water spills) and it now has a home on my patio with my other plants. I have heard a little rumor that Kim is busy painting her dressing room. Glad she is getting something constructive done this weekend. As for me, it’s time for a nana nap. I’m exhausted!
WINKS – weekend links. Here we list what has come in during the week, things we’ve found and things we think you’ll want to see. If you’d like to see your blog or website featured email us and if we think it fits with our readers we’ll link you. (It’s been a quiet week in blogland. Wish I could say the same thing about the “real” world.) So what’s in this week?