Tretchikoff Treats

I am so excited to have found some original vintage Tretchikoff prints that are in very good condition, these two lovelies are winging there way to me today and I cant wait!

Magnolia:

The Balinese Girl:

I also love the wotk of J.H. Lynch, my Grandfather had Tina in pride of place in his Billiards Room and I was always so intrigued by her. Many hints have been dropped that I would love to babysit her for him for an extended period of time, however, it seems that she is as loved by my grandparents as by me. If I find one that is in as good condition as my Grandparents one is, I might just have to add it to my wee collection of gorgeous retro art.

images via here and here

Happy Valentines Day Beautiful Boy….

Image: My own, Inspiration for valentine bulb: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/02/diy-project-valentine-lightbulb.html

Fridays Fancy

Happy Valentines Mr. Owen and Readers! ♥

Inspiration Aplenty

I LOVE discovering great new blogs. I always need more to distract me from my proper daytime desk job duties, to cheer me up, to inspire me, to stay up until 2am reading and bookmarking, to envy and to share with others.

Thanks to the clever Jen over at Made By Girl, I have discovered the absolutely delightful blog of dottie angel. She is a genius of handcrafted goodness in a way that I envy bitterly but am so so so inspired by. I have a list a mile long now of little projects I want to either start, finish or completely re-do because of what I have seen of hers.

Tif (the dottie angel herself) has the most adorable way with words and storytelling, you cant help but 'goofy grin' your way through all her lovely posts.

I recently acquired a great little retro display cabinet, not too dissimilar to the one below, I had planned on using it in my sewing/craft studio to display all my fabrics, I hope it looks as great as this one does full of lovely balls of yarn!

I dont think I will ever stop loving and wanting this wallpaper of Orla's..

As it goes in the great world of Blogland, one great blog always leads to more. Tif led me to another clever lady from Belgium. Yvonne Eijkenduijn. Check out her blog here.

I just love this print above the toilet!

Just had to share those with you, I must now get back to discovering more and more loveliness to feed my soul ♥

Fridays Fancy

Quite possibly, THE hottie of the century....

Have a dreamy weekend ♥

On Yer Bike!

Ever since my last visit to Europe, in particular Belgium, where EVERYONE cycles around their cities, to the shops, out for coffee (and waffles!), meeting friends for a drink, to school, to work, to church.... EVERYWHERE, I have loved the idea. Despite having finally procured a drivers license only two years ago, I now dream of nipping around town in one of these beauties....

Fendi:

Gucci:

Hermès:

Chanel:

A little prohibitive perhaps. There must be more obtainable versions out there... Where did all these glamourous looking cyclists get their lovelies?

I dont know where they got theirs, but I am picking up MY little lovely from the cycle shop over the road from work today!! Yep, Boy person and I spied some fabulous Schwinn Cruisers a while ago and set about selling our old crappy 'modern' looking bikes in order to replace them with these.

Here's my 'Cream' Schwinn:

She will look even lovlier when the man has fitted her little cane basket on the front....

And here is the Boy Persons Schwinn, named (rather aptly I think) 'Willy'....

Of course, it does not go un noticed that all those gorgeous persons above are not wearing the dreaded old Australian enforced Bicyce Helmet. However, I have discovered that there are better options out there, so next on the list is one of these, or something similar at least....

Oh, and of course, apart from all the looking cool and chicness of it all, our main reason for purchasing these was to help reduce the size of our nasty ole carbon footprint. Honest!

Pictures found here: (1-4. found in my file, credit unknown sorry) 5. Marie Claire 6. porhomme.com 7. cycleisio.us 8. porhomme.com 9. cyclechic.be 10. porhomme.com 11. velocummuter.com 12-14. thesartorialist.com 15. ridingpretty.com 16. kidlazy.wordpress.com 17-18. cyclestyleshow.com 19. bikehugger.com 20. (my file, credit unknown sorry) 21-24. Bikes from Schwinn 25-29. Helmets by Yakkay.

Look Look

I love my Mac book. I hate that it took me so long to discover her. But now that have I want to look after her and love her and enjoy her for as long as she is still one of the newer models at least and then I shall cast her aside without a thought and get a better, funkier, shinier new one to love.....

Anyway, until then, I want to buy her one of these. The Book Book has done the rounds a bit on the blogosphere already, but I am so taken by it that I felt the need to express my admiration.

I love old books too, so I think the idea is genius, to protect and disguise your prized macbook in a lovely old leather Book Book!

Book Books are from here. ♥