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Design Inspiration: Art Deco
Keeping the theme in line with our holiday destination, we whipped up this little moodboard for you:
Picture from Etsy seller matouenpeluche
Riedel Vivant vase from Target
Doors from Flickr
Wallpaper from Flickr
TRANBY mirror from IKEA
Art Deco Table Lamp in red from Target
Design Inspiration: Peach and Grey
We’re having another gorgeous spring day here. I can hear the birds chirping and the sky is bluer than blue. Today’s inspiration board reflects my spring mood:
Donut peaches from A Table for Two
Outfit from Tory Burch’s Spring 2009 Ready-to-wear collection from www.style.com
Sunglasses from Forever 21
Bowl from Anthropologie
Gladiator sandals from Anthropologie
Wood from Cornish Woodland
Kitchen from [...]
Away on holiday
We will be away on holiday for the next 2 weeks, so posting will be very light. We’re off for some much needed sun and relaxation. Can you guess where we will be going?
Avalon from Flickr
Cuban sandwiches from Married with Dinner
Key Lime Pie from My Recipes
Beach from Morada Bay Restaurant
Fireworks from Flickr
That wasn’t too [...]
New Sofa!
We are so so thrilled and could not wait to share the news with you: We got a new couch today! OMG!
Look at her:
What a beauty! It is the Savoy from Natuzzi in white leather. Having a white couch in our living room with the dark brown wall makes so much more sense.
What do you [...]
Design Inspiration: Plum and Grey
As is evident in our bedroom, we love the colour grey. Not only is it calm and sophisticated, but it is also very versatile and can look lovely together with lots of other colours. Here it is in combination with an intriguing shade of purple:
Grey chair with purple pillow from Impressionen
Blossoms print from Etsy seller [...]
Wrapping presents on the cheap
We love giving presents, and really appreciate a neatly wrapped one. However, good wrapping paper and other necessities can be expensive. Here’s one way to beautifully wrap presents without breaking the bank:
We used only stuff we had lying around: brown paper that was used to safely get some IKEA purchases back home, leftover Palmkätzchen, some [...]
Easter in Salzburg II
We have a few very curious shops in Salzburg. One of them is an Easter shop, which sells only Easter eggs. This is the part of the shop window:
They have some of the most amazing handpainted eggs we’ve ever seen:
But the highlight were these beauties:
Easter in Salzburg
Wow, spring has suddenly come out of nowhere in our neck of the woods. Here’s what we found on a recent stroll through the city of Salzburg:
This is a traditional Palmbuschen. Palmbuschen are commonly put together the weekend before Easter, and taken to church the Sunday before Easter Sunday. They are similar to the Osterstrauss [...]
More uses for Palmkaetzchen
We’ve really been getting good use out of the bunch of Palmkaetzchen we have around. We already put them in an Osterstrauss, and now we used them as an embellishment on top of a girly birthday present:
Both the grey wrapping paper and pink ribbon are from IKEA, the card is from a little shop in [...]
Decorating for Easter
Easter decorations have been going up around here, so we thought it was about time to introduce you to some Austrian traditions. What you can find in most homes around here is this:
It’s an Osterstrauss. It is fairly simple to make if you have the components on hand. You take some greenery and combine ti [...]
