After so many of you visited yesterday for my adoption post (phew – a lot!) I guess an update is required. However, I am still digesting some of the contents of my file, plus a major discovery just by looking in the phonebook (!!) well I am still deciding what to do. So, please bear with me whilst I ruminate on my next step.
In the meantime, I wanted to show you a few pictures of our newly decorated living room. So excited to (nearly) have it finished – just the new sideboard and a couple of new cushions to come. Ignore the empty fish tank, it will be filled once the sideboard is in as it weighs a ton!
We had the flat painted whilst we were away on holiday and thanks to B’s dad we have a new leather sofa, so we all we had to do was put up the pictures (Bob in particular) and buy a new sofa (Sater from Ikea – £200 – bargain) as well as a new cat armchair (also from ikea – £80 – spoilt brats) as well as install new lights.
Our pictures are mostly from Etsy. The Edinburgh print is a commission from BirdAve, although this is a similar one, the Bob card is from Weisenheimers (we just framed it) and the big Bob is from Art.com (I think). We also have another Bob print in the post from Modprintables – the lyrics of our favourite Bob Dylan song and what I think will be either a reading at our wedding, or even the first dance! I think as a couple we need to curb our Bob obsession – quickly – before it gets out of hand!
The new sideboard is currently being refurbished by Trash Furnishings. It’s from Morris of Glasgow (1950s) and it is being updated. Hopefully I shall have it in the next few weeks.
I may put up some other flat photos soon…people love having a nosy don’t they…
Back soon with an adoption update!
Miss S x
I left home on Thursday evening with my head all of a flutter, full of ticker tape, confetti, cotton wool.
I was tired and slightly broken, in need of a long holiday from many things. I still had four weeks to go until I could finally let loose and get on with all of the things I wanted to do, rather than be sat eyes glued to this laptop, writing, writing, writing.
I arrived home this evening with some of my projects started, a lot more hope in my heart and half of my Dad’s vegetable and herb garden in the boot. A change of scene for four days is a good as a rest and a trip to my parents is often better than a holiday. A weekend of walking, talking, drinking and eating, visiting country pubs and 10 miles on the clock.
I have come back invigorated and ready to challenge myself with my 10k, my bento box-ing, my cooking and sorting out my little home…and B, I am more in love with B than ever before.
….but enough mushy stuff it isn’t Monday without this weekend’s photos:
It may be Monday, but life is starting to feel like everyday is a Saturday. Lets go!
How was your weekend?
Miss S x
Home is where the heart is
I’d like to leave the country, for a month of Sundays, burn the town where I was born
I went to Manchester this weekend to see one of my favourite bloggers, the fabulous fashionable Helen. Chick flicks and red wine, feeling serious fear on the Manchester Eye, lusting over Markus Lupfer in Selfridges, drinks in Sandbar, shots on Canal Street (my first visit, oh such an eye opener!)
It was just what I needed.
As I travelled back north yesterday, the sun streaming down on my first class seat, I plugged into a continuous stream of music and closed my eyes.
Happy.
Sometimes all you need is to come home to your home city.
We didn’t get tp go to Cloud 23, but then i think i’d be scared being up that high!
I certainly was up here..
Feel the fear!
Ah bliss, sunshine.
Back soon x
Home is where the heart is
In these 4 walls that hold me, keep me safe under sound and bare within its grip
So, Last week I mentioned that B and I are starting to decorate our flat and that we’d found the perfect sideboard at Trash Furnishing in Edinburgh. Excitingly the designer, Caroline, has now sent me pictures to show you….
How fraking cool is it?
Enough 50s style for me with a masculine twist for B.
More photos below… clickable
I just have to sell – or give away – my current sideboard before I can move it in – anyone want a 10 year old ikea sideboard in classic 1990s birch wood? No? Scrap heap it might be then, shame, as I loved that sideboard as well (notice a running theme?)
Anyways, next on the shopping list is an overhanging reading lamp, kind of like this one on Mydeco.com but 50s/60s again.
This one is a bit art deco for me and i’m looking for a much bigger shade, but it is along the right lines.
… btw, I am always looking for decorating inspiration, so if you have a favourite interiors site then please let me know!
As before Caroline can be found at:
Web: Trash Furnishing
Twitter: @Trashfurnishing
P.S I have not received any compensation for this post again – I just love her stuff!
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