So, G'day out there, a sunny slightly cooler day here Down Under, I am checking in with a teaser & a giveaway post, all rolled into one. Gotta love it when your fave blog does that huh?
I don't know if I've said on this here broadcast to white beach vintage lovers that I have been de-cluttering like crazy in this old cottage. It started with the garage, moved to my wardrobe, carried over to china and on Saturday we started on furniture.
There is nothing that can be done to keep some of these pieces round here, I just simply and utterly have to accept that it is getting too packed coupled with the fact that a leggy teenager needs some space to sprawl out and trip over…so out has gone a good few things down to the garage ready to be put up for sale (I'll let you know when and where).
On Saturday then, I spent a good few hours directing males on furniture placment and we moved in a new desk I have been working on for the kiddo's computer (yes it is Beachy White, but there is a leetle twist)...a desk found on a recent Beach Cottage Treasure Hunting foray and one that has turned out much better than I had hoped.
Oh-so-artfully put together (ahem) above it is this little double layer frame vignette…you already know I am having a love affair with empty frames and I had been looking out for a rustic woody sorta one, with the grain showing, that I could remove the pic from, here's how I found it, actually more green than it shows in this photo
This one I thought might well be just right for what I was after…it was just waiting to get the Beach Cottage treatment don't you think?
… it wasn't until the last minute though, white paint on the brush that I decided to go for the pebble grey instead.
So glad I did.
I am pleased with how it turned out, I'm loving the grey with the rustic, with the layering, with the starfish (from Gail McCormack here), with the white. There is something gratifying about wall art like this, one that costs you next to nothing, minimum fuss, tiny effort, pretty good impact.
Whaddya think, is it a keeper?
Now less of empty frames and more of this week's giveaway, it will be featuring, the Beach Cottage and ummm me (yikes) in an Australian magazine, a very good Australian magazine that came here a few months ago to do a shoot.
To celebrate I thought well how about I giveaway the magazine featuring the Beach Cottage *and an Anthropologie gift card for a double candy whammy (not of course that I was training for the gold in Anthropologie Stalking over the weekend when I was meant to be working, no not at all).
So to win leave a comment asking me anything you want (I'm following Cindy and Kate's lead and the blogland trend in Q & A)
Sound good to you?
Looking forward to it, please no favours questions
* through 19/03/10, all comments, all week, all posts, twitter/facebook=double-up *
thanks for entering the Lisa Leonard last week, c.500 entries
winner is Jeannie the Cosmic Cowgirl (she prayed to the Junk God!)
Wow How ever are you going to answer all these questions..Love your frame… The colour is perfect and really works well.. I am running out of wall space but I too was looking at an empty frame but the idea of putting the picture in the middle is a great idea..
My question. How did you decide where you were going to settle in Australia?
love, love, love this idea. so simple, so architectural. one of the reasons i love your blog is because you’re doing something i dream of doing. buying an old fixer upper on a beach somewhere. SO IF YOU HAD IT TO DO ALL OVER AGAIN, WOULD YOU STILL HAVE BOUGHT THE FIXER UPPER IN AUSTRALIA?
Love the frame. I’m on the hunt for some chunky frames myself to put around smaller ones to give them more of an impact.
I see you enjoy the occasional beer What is your beer of preference? Myself, I like a Corona with a lime.
Hi Sarah, just found your blog, it’s really inspiring me to finish my own little beach cottage. I live not too far away from you, so hopefully I’ll make it to your garage sale. My question is : What is your background pre-Australia, as far as your creative gifting goes? Did you work in interior design in the Uk?
Are you planning a trip home any year soon? If so, would you visit Devon? If so, I’d try to get home to see you! Of course I may just pop over to Sydney in the next year or so…….would be such fun to have a treasure hunting day in your neighborhood!
Would love a chance to see the magazine article…and find a beachy treat at Anthro. Add my name please Sarah.
I LOVE your blog! Can’t afford my own beach getaway, but I’m living vicariously through your experience. Thanks!
The starfish in frames is a winner, a true keeper. The texture and color of the outer frame so beautifully complement the starfish.
Your decorating efforts always come across so successfully on your blog. Are you a natural, or do you occasionally end up with a “dud” for all of your efforts?
LOVE the frame with the starfish…love starfish! Ok here is my question…I’m new to your blog as well as to refinishing pieces and I’m wondering if you ever get burned out? If so, how do you refuel and regain your motivation?
OK…a question that my husband has asked for years of me…& maybe i just need a new answer to give him! & i think yours would work- or at least buy me a few more ‘junk hauling’ off the side of the road years!! hee hee….
‘why do we need all these chairs, tables, this china…and linen when we already have all of it, and it’s all working very well as it is?’..
my question is- ‘what sarah do you answer to this question’ & i gather you may get it like me, when you are sctreeching ‘stop stop ‘ at a passing skip whilst on an outing with the family!
Love your blog and your house. Do you have a favorite internet resource you can share? Texas is a long way from Australia but I would love to find some similar things. Thanks!
Sarah! Tha is definitely a keeper! It is lovely, great color choice. My question is, How is it to live by the shore and whatch the seasons go by keeping your cottage surround by love and warmth?
I do have a dream of living by the shore… hopefully it will come true! Hugs, Vanessa
I’ve been thinking about painting my old wooden patio furniture before summer rolls around here in Southern California and now considering that beautiful shade of gray!!!
Several people have already asked this, but I’d love to know how you keep your regularly-used white linens white? I have a fairly new white pintuck duvet that I’ve love to keep crisp-looking.
Any future plans for a Beach Cottage Shop? You have such a keen eye for treasures and a wonderful way of refurbishing them. I would make a trip visit it! I’m on the next plane.
I would love to ask – what is your favorite travel destination? What other countries or places have you been to? I just read Eat, Pray, Love and it is making me want to visit so many places.
I think decluttering is great – keep doing it, and maybe have some more giveaways of the stuff you get rid of! I imagine all of your things – even the ones you no longer want around – would be welcome gifts to any of us, given your delectable taste!
First of all, LOVE the double frame…my wheels are now turning on some ideas for my own castle. Secondly, Anthropology is my addiction…always dreamy. And now for the question…when I was in Melbourne several years back, I became quite hooked on some yummy chocolate/mint cookies that were an Australian original. Any idea of what these are called? I’d love to try and order some online!
Your picture looks great! I am also trying to clear out a few things around my house these days which leads me to my question for you: What do you do about sentimental items? Those are the hardest for me to part with…even when I have no place or use for them!
I looove the grey and white! And the starfish are wonderful. I think someone already asked my question, do you have pictures of your last house (England)?
love the frames!
my question is how do you keep all the white furniture clean? i can’t keep my tan couch clean to save my life. i have a beautiful antique white cover for it waiting in the wings, but i’m terrified to use it because of the dirt factor. lame, i know.
Do you still own your home in England? Will you ever show us pics of it? I’d love to see your life there, as well.
The starfish surrounded by frames looks great. The Grey newer frame really completes it. But I wanna see the new desk!!!! And what magazine is A Beach Cottage featured in? Cause if I don’t win, I want to buy it!
Hmm – just zipped over. Getting homesick for Aussie so your blog is the best second best I can get. Questions … yep – WHERE do you go for your treasures. When I left Aussie it was pretty hard to find em already. Must have a better look around next time I’m on the Sunshine Coast
G'day! I'm Sarah, I live in a tatty old cottage, near the sea in Australia with a battered old deck & a big old fig tree out the back...stripped wooden floors, old sash windows & a jumble of vintage furniture. [Read More …]
Beach Cottage ladies, we have some vintage linen and some wood/twig washed up on the beach today here in Beach Cottage Land….don’t say I don’t keep you entertained now will you . Come on in. So, yep I have posted about colanders on this blog, about things sourced from the side of the road, about [...]
G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
1. beat the cream cheese until it is soft
2. whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Oh yeah. Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
Wow How ever are you going to answer all these questions..Love your frame… The colour is perfect and really works well.. I am running out of wall space but I too was looking at an empty frame but the idea of putting the picture in the middle is a great idea..
My question. How did you decide where you were going to settle in Australia?
love, love, love this idea. so simple, so architectural. one of the reasons i love your blog is because you’re doing something i dream of doing. buying an old fixer upper on a beach somewhere. SO IF YOU HAD IT TO DO ALL OVER AGAIN, WOULD YOU STILL HAVE BOUGHT THE FIXER UPPER IN AUSTRALIA?
Gorgeous!
Love the frame. I’m on the hunt for some chunky frames myself to put around smaller ones to give them more of an impact.
What is your beer of preference? Myself, I like a Corona with a lime.
I see you enjoy the occasional beer
Hi Sarah, just found your blog, it’s really inspiring me to finish my own little beach cottage. I live not too far away from you, so hopefully I’ll make it to your garage sale. My question is : What is your background pre-Australia, as far as your creative gifting goes? Did you work in interior design in the Uk?
Are you planning a trip home any year soon? If so, would you visit Devon? If so, I’d try to get home to see you! Of course I may just pop over to Sydney in the next year or so…….would be such fun to have a treasure hunting day in your neighborhood!
Would love a chance to see the magazine article…and find a beachy treat at Anthro. Add my name please Sarah.
I LOVE your blog! Can’t afford my own beach getaway, but I’m living vicariously through your experience. Thanks!
The starfish in frames is a winner, a true keeper. The texture and color of the outer frame so beautifully complement the starfish.
Your decorating efforts always come across so successfully on your blog. Are you a natural, or do you occasionally end up with a “dud” for all of your efforts?
LOVE the frame with the starfish…love starfish! Ok here is my question…I’m new to your blog as well as to refinishing pieces and I’m wondering if you ever get burned out? If so, how do you refuel and regain your motivation?
I just recently found your blog. So beautiful! My question is Where do you find a majority of your treasures? Thanks!
Love the frame within a frame idea!
What kind of a camera do you use?
I LOVE your style. How do you have time to do all you do??
OK…a question that my husband has asked for years of me…& maybe i just need a new answer to give him! & i think yours would work- or at least buy me a few more ‘junk hauling’ off the side of the road years!! hee hee….
‘why do we need all these chairs, tables, this china…and linen when we already have all of it, and it’s all working very well as it is?’..
my question is- ‘what sarah do you answer to this question’ & i gather you may get it like me, when you are sctreeching ‘stop stop ‘ at a passing skip whilst on an outing with the family!
thanks!
Melissa- Miss Sew & So.
Love your blog and your house. Do you have a favorite internet resource you can share? Texas is a long way from Australia but I would love to find some similar things. Thanks!
Yes, the frame looks great! Q – how did you decide/dare to use so much white in your home? I love it, but I am too scared to do it.
Did you ever have pink, blue, orange, etc. in your home?
I come to your blog daily for peace, quiet, tranquility. I am making my studio beachy and you give such inspiration! Pamie G.
I’ve dreamed of going to Australia for the past 15 years. Any drawbacks to living there or to life on the beach or do you just love it?
Sarah! Tha is definitely a keeper! It is lovely, great color choice. My question is, How is it to live by the shore and whatch the seasons go by keeping your cottage surround by love and warmth?
I do have a dream of living by the shore… hopefully it will come true! Hugs, Vanessa
I’ve been thinking about painting my old wooden patio furniture before summer rolls around here in Southern California and now considering that beautiful shade of gray!!!
Hey, Sarah, I love the framed starfish & the empty frame around it. In fact, I just did this on a salon wall I’ve been working on. Yours is perfect!
Thanks for joining the party. Which magazine were you in, did I miss it??
Several people have already asked this, but I’d love to know how you keep your regularly-used white linens white? I have a fairly new white pintuck duvet that I’ve love to keep crisp-looking.
Hey! Everybody already asked my questions…so I will just ask..How are you doing?
OMG! I just discovered your blog yesterday and am so glad I did – what a ton of fabulous ideas! My question for you:
Were you lucky enough to have a husband who already loved this decorating style or did you have to win him over?
My own hubby thinks I’m quite insane but tolerates my bringing “junk” into the house.
I have a question for you- a while ago you had a glassed in cabinet in a hallway, and I would love to see a picture of what you have in it!
Love it! Leave it!
My little cottage is very colourful. My question is: Do you ever miss being surrounded by colour?
Any future plans for a Beach Cottage Shop? You have such a keen eye for treasures and a wonderful way of refurbishing them. I would make a trip visit it! I’m on the next plane.
Love how the wood grain shows on the pebble gray!
How did you and Mr. BC meet?
I would love to ask – what is your favorite travel destination? What other countries or places have you been to? I just read Eat, Pray, Love and it is making me want to visit so many places.
Thanks for a chance at this lovely giveaway.
I think decluttering is great – keep doing it, and maybe have some more giveaways of the stuff you get rid of! I imagine all of your things – even the ones you no longer want around – would be welcome gifts to any of us, given your delectable taste!
My question for you is: How many “projects” do you typically do in a week?
First of all, LOVE the double frame…my wheels are now turning on some ideas for my own castle. Secondly, Anthropology is my addiction…always dreamy. And now for the question…when I was in Melbourne several years back, I became quite hooked on some yummy chocolate/mint cookies that were an Australian original. Any idea of what these are called? I’d love to try and order some online!
I love the frame within a frame and the pebble gray is perfect. What paint is that? I’d like to look it up and how I can utilize it.
Here’s my question, how’d you learn to take pictures like that? I love them!
Did you ever dream that following your heart would open so many doors for you?
Well Kim beat me to the question, so I’ll ask this instead- Can we buy the magazine here in the US?
If not then can it be ordered?
The frame looks great!
Your photos always looks so lovely and fresh, but do you ever miss lots of colour in your home?
Your picture looks great! I am also trying to clear out a few things around my house these days which leads me to my question for you: What do you do about sentimental items? Those are the hardest for me to part with…even when I have no place or use for them!
Do you finf something good every time you treasure hunt? I never find good stuff. Especially at flea markets-they seem to be pure junk.
Ooh, what a great giveaway, so sweet of you! My question-
What’s your favorite thing to bake?
Tweeted!
http://twitter.com/Songberries/status/10526243804
I looove the grey and white! And the starfish are wonderful. I think someone already asked my question, do you have pictures of your last house (England)?
Your blog is my absolute favorite! I don’t know how you’ll find time to answer all of these questions. What did you eat for breakfast?
Where do you get most of your inspiration?
Love the blog!
love the frames!
my question is how do you keep all the white furniture clean? i can’t keep my tan couch clean to save my life. i have a beautiful antique white cover for it waiting in the wings, but i’m terrified to use it because of the dirt factor. lame, i know.
What do you miss the most from your Homeland? Really enjoying your blog!
DEFINITELY A KEEPER!!. LOVE IT…
question: do u have any sand dollars in your home? if so, have u put those in frames as well??
Do you still own your home in England? Will you ever show us pics of it? I’d love to see your life there, as well.
The starfish surrounded by frames looks great. The Grey newer frame really completes it. But I wanna see the new desk!!!! And what magazine is A Beach Cottage featured in? Cause if I don’t win, I want to buy it!
ox~ Fairmaiden of Sea Cottage
Love the beach cottage! Where does most of your inspiration come from? Your favorite websites?
Ooh, I wanna win! Love you decluttering post…I am doing that here too…just too much junk!
Blessings, Grace
Hmm – just zipped over. Getting homesick for Aussie so your blog is the best second best I can get. Questions … yep – WHERE do you go for your treasures. When I left Aussie it was pretty hard to find em already. Must have a better look around next time I’m on the Sunshine Coast
Love these colors!
My question – Where do you get inspiration from? Do you come up with projects mainly from your own ideas or do you get inspiration elsewhere?
Gorgeous as always!