SIMPLE EVERYDAY PART 3

I did a couple of "Simple Everyday" posts here and here a while back and I thought it was time for another, I got very inspired scrolling through this beautiful blog .... plus a few others , the photographs pretty much speak for themselves ...

Enjoy.

 

Shots 1,3,5,12  via here 2 via 4,9 via 6 via 7 via 8 via 10 via
11,13 via 

LITTLE VISITORS

I had some little visitors stay over on Friday night ....

I'm kind of in the middle of a furniture rearrange / de-clutter at the moment (I have even made progress in this room) .... but we did find space and a mattress to make a tent to accommodate them for the night.

 We even got out all the little kitchen things .... they are my daughters from when she was little, her and her friends used to play restaurants for hours and hours, it was so adorable, they had a chalkboard  that they would write the daily menu on (borrowing my cookbooks for inspiration), they would take reservations (via the toy phone) in their little reservation book ... it was quite the happening place !!!

(I'm so glad we have hung on to all our special toys)

 So the tent was very well equipped and comfortable ....

... even Elvis thought so !!! 

They slept very well, woke to Saturday morning cartoons ....

 .... and headed home before lunch, leaving me with a very cute dinosaur display on the windowsill  ....

.... and Malcom with a very nice doggie bed !!!
There are a few more cute photos here from their last visit.

FRIDAY FAVORITES

This creative space  .... so great !!!

 via here

I love this photo of Greer from "Fall into the River"(doesn't she look amazing) so much so I asked her if I could use it on this blog. Greer also thought of me and took this great photo for "What Made Me Happy Today".... thanks Greer !!!
Actually a big thank you all the lovely folk who sent in happy pics from all over the world ... I love receiving them .... they make me very happy indeed !!! 

So true don't you think?

via here

We really need to get a ladder in our household, would it be too much to ask that it look like this?

via here

Red Pesto Cheese Ravioli with Crumbled Goat Cheese, Oven-Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, and Baby Spinach ....
Yum, looks good to me ....
via here

.... and while we're on the subject of food, this Arabic dinner looks
fun !!!

These lunch bags are pretty clever ....

 via here

.... and I'm really liking this photo series.

via here

I was asked by the lovely Siobhan of "Cooking from The Heart" to name some of my favorite cookbooks for a post on her blog .... have a peek !!!

Hope you have a great weekend
XXX

LINDEN POSTCARD SHOW

Wish I could get to Melbourne for "The Linden Postcard Show" ....
 The show is in it's 20th year and is the largest of it's kind in Australia,
all works are for sale and the small format means the works are reasonably priced, works by established as well as emerging artists from all mediums are welcome to submit their work.
Kim from "Shipbuilding" blog took these photos and found the period features of the building as interesting as the works ... I think I would have to agree, the space looks amazing !!!

The show goes until the 26th March ... fingers crossed I can do a Melbourne trip before then !!!

I LAY MY HAT .....

I'm so not a fan of the over-styled, just for the photo, kind of spaces .....that's why I love these shots of "real" spaces lived in by "real" people.

They are from this wonderfully named blog " I Lay My Hat and I Wish to Stay" .... It's the creation of Emma Persson Lagerberg and Linda Berlin, an interior styling team working out of Stockholm and Malmö, Sweden .... 

 I love it .....

 and these girls even manage to make a sponge on a windowsill look amazing !!!

Thanks for the inspiration Emma and Linda

XXX