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HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY

Everywhere is turning green today in celebration of St Patrick's Day!! 

So we thought we would celebrate here on the blog with some green inspired interiors!

Feel free to share your favourite green space with us on our Facebook Page.

All images for this post were sourced on Pinterest.

{Review} Be Natural

Yum, yum, yum for my tum, tum, tum!!

I recently received another gorgeous box of cereal in the letterbox from Be Natural, you may recall my post earlier in the year on Be Natural's latest releases HERE, and this box was just as tasty. 

My absolute favourite part of the cereal are the clusters... they are DELICIOUS! I have been known to sneak into the pantry in the afternoon and snack on them, so when poor ol' hubby goes to get breakfast in the morning he is left with only crumbs. Why are they so good? Because they are created using Be Natural's signature spice blend, which includes cassia, nutmeg, cloves, white pepper, cinnamon and cardamom... delicious.

This morning hubby and I had our muesli with kiwifruit and raspberries on top... YUMMY!!!

I absolutely recommend getting this in your next grocery shop!! ENJOY! 

{Things I love Tuesday} Aqua & turquoise

This week I am loving the colour aqua (I've been talking about it non-stop on my Facebook page) and the sister colour turquoise! So I thought for 'Things I love Tuesday' I would celebrate these two colours and how they look in fashion! I'd love to know what you think of these colours!

Every Tuesday I will be posting my favourite find or finds from the week and I would LOVE to know about the things that YOU love! So I have created a linky list for you to share them with me. 

The only rules are that you need to follow me (and why wouldn't you want to!!) and you need to link to a post of yours about things that you love. It doesn't need to be a new post, just a good post!

Enjoy find out about all the things bloggers love!

Feel free to take the badge to add to your post, the more love we can share.. the better!

 

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All images from HERE

{Places to see} The Maldives

This week on my Facebook page I am focussing on the colour aqua, so when I decided to do this post, this image seemed perfect, I have often dreamt of visiting the Maldives, and with the images coming from the Maldives frequently looking like this... who hasn't dreamt of visiting this locale?

The Maldives

So how do you introduce the colour aqua into your home? It is easily used as an accent colour within the home, usually surrounded by whites and timbers, as shown in this image...

A gorgeous kitchen using aqua, especially love the SMEG fridge

Oh, so romantic!

I love Mid Century furniture at the moment!

I also love to see aqua mixed in amongst other colours, it is such a modern and eclectic method of decorating, although I do believe you need to be quite talented to pull the look off effectively.

A mix of gorgeous colours and prints

I also love the colour combo of aqua and orange! Stunning!

Love the symmetry and love the colours!

What is your favourite way to use aqua in the home? Share your ideas and links on my Facebook Page.

For when you are feeling under the weather

Well, this week, in terms of food, things remained that same. I came down with a bizarre cold and couldn't smell anything. Hot trash and freshly baked bread were in the same category and that should never happen. Therefore, I spent most of the week sipping on soup and nibbling on toast. However I do have a fantastic recipe for when you feeling under the weather or just need something to warm you up from the inside out.

Mushroom Broth:

2 cups of dried mushrooms (I used shiitake, they provide a much more meatier flavour)
3 cloves of garlic
1 tsp of olive oil
1 small onion
1 vegetable bouillon to get everything going
10 cups of water

Saute your onion and garlic in the olive oil until nice and translucent. Be careful not to burn your garlic--not good. Add your water, bouillon and dried mushrooms and allow to simmer for 45 minutes to and hour. And you're done! This recipe is really easy and great to use in a number of ways, but I love to just pour it into a cup and dip fresh bread in it. Enjoy!

Find Your Shape and Match Your Animal Instinct

Nursery Love...

When researching what I wanted to do for Jellybean's nursery I came across a number of really great DIY ideas (mostly sourced here) so I thought today I would share them with you...

Love the colours used in this room

Honestly the room above is completely fabulous, the bravery to use charcoal on the walls, the bright contrasting colours, the adornments on the walls! I wish I were this creative!!

A collage of a years worth of kindy art

I absolutely love the idea of creating a collage using kindy art, the idea above is great, but you could also do the same with butterflies like below!

Who doesn't love butterflies?

Scrapbooking paper and baby's favourite animal

YAY! Buttons!

Which idea do you like the best?

WHITE ASHES...

I really have discovered that it is the little things in life that count the most. A few months ago now I was just filling in some time at the local Salvation Army thrift shop… I try to pop in every now and again because you just never know what you may find.

I came across this book – it looked kinda old from the cover and when I pulled it out from the shelves it had this little charm about it.  

You see what I mean?  All ratty and tattered and discoloured. So anyway, I opened up to the very first page and look what I saw…

Yes, that’s right! A hand written personalised note from 1913! My heart almost did a flip flop right there in the Salvos shed on the concrete floor.

And right there – on that very first page – to the right of that hand written note was the price. . .

Yup!!   Yipee skipee !!  Bargain price of … you guessed it … just one dollar.  

Oh, was I one very happy girl that day. I was like a kid in a candy store, and not because of the ridiculous price on a tatty old book. It was because at one point – ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO – this book was written, published in 1912, and given as a cherished gift from M someone… I can’t quite make out the name on the signature… and I wonder who it was for, who read it.

I have a love of old, unusual items that tell a story of their past. 

So yes, White Ashes, you are now cherished by me and can sit pride of place on my little table of pretty things in my entry nook.

That way I can look at you every time I walk past and wonder who it was that you were intended for and how it came to be that you lasted one hundred years in what is now this modern throw away world.

Donna   x 

Latest and greatest....

I have something I am pretty excited about to share with you....

Bunny Spotlight

As you know, I LOVE Gallop Lifestyle and I always get excited when they have a new product out, so when I saw their latest products, I got super duper excited (who wouldn't!) because Gallop Lifestyle is now stocking Anika Cook's work.  Anika likes small touches of absurdity, vintage illustrations, old paper and books, bright colours, and stripes, but even more than that, she like putting all those things into her printed artworks.

Argumento

This gorgeous 'Argumento' is from a limited edition series of only 25 and is printed onto raw canvas.

Owlies Spotlight

'Owlies Spotlight' This beautiful piece is hand-cut and assembled, and comes in a limited edition of 100, with each piece numbered on the back. Framed in a black 23cm square frame, handmade from plantation-grown 

Gallop Lifestyle are stocking eight different pieces, each handmade in Melbourne, so make sure you pop across and check them out!


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