In the Middle of Our Street

I've been hooked on Home Sweet Home of late and it inspired me to finally take pictures of these two houses I must have passed a hundred times on my way to town.


I love all the different lines of this house and the dark roof/bright paint contrast. Not to mention those lovely roof adornments - if there's a proper word for these, let me know!


The blue house on the left has the cutest shutters, no?

Let's Decorate

In January I started to decorating my bedroom at home for the first time in about ten years. It's not quite finished but here are some of the bits that are.

The paper - I looked everywhere for deep red that I liked but none tickled my fancy so I went with this gorgeous purple and silver number. I can't for the life of me find the name of the designer. Anyway, it was a joy to put up - not like the cream colour that covers the three other walls, grr.


The photo collage. The tree silhouette is a wall sticker from Tiger, as are two of the frames . The rest of the frames are from charity shops and car boot sales. None cost over £2. The contents are photographs, postcards and prints. Below are my shelves. They look cluttered but you should've seen them before!

So that's the complete corner. As the rest is finished I'll post more photos.

Edit: Now seen on one of my favourite blogs, Home Sweet Home! 767 notes, I'm so pleased! Lots of love for Totoro too.

Are you... Bluish?

I took these photos a couple of years ago in the woods near my house when the bluebells were out. I still really like them. (Quite unusual.)

Past Presents

One snow day last week my folks and I opened a dusty box. This box came from my late Grandfather's attic and it contained photos and memorabilia from generations of my family. It was a joy to look through!

As you can see, a lot of it is Navy related - journals, souvenirs, logbooks and postcards.


And much of it is personal photographs, letters and sentimental items. Unfortunately not all of the photos were inscribed so unless we recognised the people in them, we were at a loss as to who they were. That didn't detract from the experience. Wondering was half the fun!

I leafed through this Navy Week Souvenir Guide from the 30s and found some great old school advertisements.


Typographically I don't think the fonts are that dated. I wonder if they come around full circle like fashions do.

A colour ad! Carlsberg must have been flush in the thirties.

Late for a Very Important Date

A happy new year to you! I must apologise for my absence. My only excuse is my terrible affliction - laziness. I hope to post more often this year but I make no promises. This week my inspiration has come from snow! Not only is it a beauty to behold...

... but with such an abundance of free building material it brought out my creative side, as well as my mittens.

Nessie

Waiting for a date...

Tea time in the igloo.

Farewell from the rabbit hole!

Colour Me In

I bought myself a new camera for Christmas, since my old one was getting on in years! It's a simple slinky Sony W110 and I've been playing around with it. I wanted to go out and about but it was so miserable outside I stayed in and made colour grids.

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