Just some nice things to look at on this lovely Thursday!
Corinne Malvern’s illustrations from ‘The Happy Family’.
Some pages from the Cath Kidston catalogues.
Ari’s drawings.
All is trucking along with Mikes 2… yesterday I couldn’t help myself and started painting the boys room upstairs… RED and GREEN! I am tired of peaceful, gentle, sensible neutral colours! It looks a bit like a Christmassy Beach holiday at this point.. I am planning those colourful strips hanging in the doorway – the ones that keep the flies out – in green and orange and white…. and gauzey white curtains with strips of green and red ribbon around the bottom… it should look adorable!
This weekend, we are hosing down the front of the building (with carefully collected bath water) – staining and putting up shelving along the right wall from front to back – and working out what signage we are going to put up. We have an old round light box from a previous shop – i think we’ll use that. And we are taking out the ugly old airconditioner next week and replacing it with a panel of red glass. And we need to clean the black and white stripey blind that hangs over the window.
It’s all slowly coming together! Today I am making owl softies! Gotta keep myself busy, ya know!
xx mikes
wow…that book brought the memories flooding back…thanks for the nostalgia trip!
omg! this was my fav lgb when i was little. mum used to buy me one every week at the supermarket. it was so much fun to see it here and remember. thanks for posting it! x
Isn’t that CK catalogue gorgeous. I sooo want the sewing basket!! I love the sound of the boy’s rooms – I think they should have really colourful rooms! Can’t wait to see the new shop – very exciting!!
That is my fave Golden Book ever! Love Ari’s drawings. And the colour sounds great, I saw a Dutch house in a homes mag recently and they’d made great use of green, red and blue, really strong colours, it looke amazing. Much better than dull ‘neutrals’!
I think the boys room sounds tops. Yay for colour.
lovely pics. Has poetry in motion got a blog – I love my new handmade dress – it was such a hit on the weekend. Thanks mikes.
I am SO excited!