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. So what’s in this week?

• Swoon! I’m in love with just about everything at Ochre. And now they are releasing a new range, canvas (below). If only I lived in New York… I’d be stalking this store.

• Hip, cool, rad and fab. Venice Beach and Surfing Cowboys. It’s vintage with soul. If you can’t drool in person you can rummage through the treasure online.



• Amanda Talbot has been Homes Editor for Livingetc magazine and Associate Homes Editor for British ELLE Decoration. Now she’s blogging. Only new to it all Welcome Home promises to be a portal into stylish homes around the world. Think of her contacts, think of the people she has worked with. Keep an eye on this one.



• A little late but Cardboard Safari have released the Astro Rocket to commemorate the Apollo 11 moon landing. (I’m old enough to remember…eeek!) Imagine one of these in a kid’s room. Too much fun.



• Images of French cafes, coffee and croissant, a Pernod, the passing parade. Pretend that all of Paris is before with a bistro chair or two. Howard Kaplan Designs will provide the inspiration.

Timeless rooms that are a beautiful expression of the families that live there, classic spaces that reflect today’s values. Casual elegance and simple luxury. Napanee Design aim to create environments that uplift the human spirit at the same time without leaving the obvious “designer footprint”. A room shouldn’t scream the name of the designer but more so the personality of the client. Beautiful family homes.

Too good for product promotion and, come on if you were honest, too good for the little ones. These irresistible dollhouses (or is that Bauhaus models…wink, wink… too good for the little ones remember) are the styling work of New Zealander Katie Lockhart. Originally created as a promotion for Resene, showcasing their Karen Walker paint range, they reference the Bauhaus School of the 1920s. See you can tell the kids they’re models, then close the door and play with them yourself. If only they were in production!

But Katie’s talents don’t end there. Take a look at these clever paint collages she did for Inside Out magazine. I remember sticking post-it notes on the magazine pages to bookmark these when I first saw them.

And the best for last. I’ve seen these rooms before but never knew they were Katie’s work. Now I want to paint my floors!

Dear Mr Franco,

You don’t know me but I am the woman who will be stalking your website from now on. Jim… may I call you “Jim”?… it was love at first sight when I found your portfolio. All my friends know that I have a thing for talented photographers and have stalked many over the past couple of years but now I only have eyes for your work. Don’t worry I won’t bother you. Just silently stroke my monitor whenever I see one of your photos.

Kind regards,

Jo

P.S. My blog partner Kim loves you too because I just realised she has already posted about you last year. But I love you more 🙂

It only takes one dog on a chair photo to unleash more beasts. Yes we have a dog on a bed, a dog who is almost on the bed and on a chair and a dog doing its best to absorb a chair.

Kelly Planer sent in this gorgeous photo of a dog on a bed (she swears a bed is as legitimate as a chair for the sake of these posts). Is it yours Kelly? You never said. I hope he/she is because that is one sweet puppy!

Linda from Lime in the Coconut was inspired enough to send in this quaint portrait of Bo the great Dane trying out her newly revamped garage sale find. A perfectly big chair suddenly disappears! See more here.

And in the original post Jeannine from Small and chic in Cville left a comment linking to her flickr photos of Baxter at work and at play (that’s his hotel room!). Such sweet dogs and complete hams!