Chipped China Jewelry

Now this is a fabulous idea I haven't seen before. Gorgeous jewelry from Shop Yarborough made from chipped china plates. Amazing!

Via Paper n Stitch

Collecting vintage

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What a fabulous thing to collect - vintage patterns! Goodness, it makes me want to have a little girl so bad!!

I have started a couple of collections in my lifetime, but my current obsession is vintage plateware and teacups and old house-wife guides and cooking books. I just picked up a new batch of books today from the 1920s! One of the cooking books describes such things as -

pineapple pie

rhubarb fool

passion fruit butter

It even lists pages and pages of cleaning tips involving borax (I don't even know what that is). There's instructions on how to make a bath mat out of sugar bags and a recipe to "Make us happy and also agreeable to other people"

1 lb. of good temper

2 lbs. of forebearance

1 lb. of patience

1 1/2 lbs. of contentment

3 lbs. of unselfishness

1 lb. of fun

2 lbs. of cheerfulness

Mix well with 2 quarts of milk of human kindness.

Dose: 1 wine glassful first thing in the morning; to be repeated as soon as effect wears off.

Hilarious! Do you have any collections hiding in somewhere?

Exercise the french way

Ok. If I owned this delight of a bike, I would actually want to exercise. I can see it now, little basket on the back with my goodies from the farmer's market, white sandshoes, navy and white stripe singlet, some cute shorts,  maybe a scarf. I'd be getting fit and feeling parisian all at once. Perfect!

Pic from the cherry blossom girl

5 things that make me happy!

 mini trends and co. Not sure where originally from.

1. Bright and happy interiors

2. My husband

3. Slipping into bed with crispy clean white sheets

elle decor

4. A clean house all week long! (I wish)

 5. My puppies, Harry and Buster

Harry pictured on my new bedroom chair (which was picked up for only $100 from my fave vintage store and which my clever mother-in-law recovered).

What makes you happy?

Take a seat...

I could happily live with any of these rooms, but especially the second one!

All photo's from Living Etc.

A little corner of my home..

I need to take more 'before' pictures! This is our dining/breakfast part of our lounge room. We've put in a new windows, I painted the chairs white and recovered the cushions (they were dark timber with a tartan cover..), painted the walls very white and have started to put together a little art wall. It's very relaxing and I'm very excited to have one part of the house (albeit just a small part) somewhat finished. We've been renovating for five years on a budget, so it's nice to finally get to the decorating phase in some rooms!

Sunroom heaven

There's so much to love here. The white, the crochet, the twig art, the wallpapered wall, the lightshade..

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PS. The wedding was fabulous. Congratulations Amber and Pete!