A Weekend of Wallpaper!

This weekend has been full of Wallpaper! I have been decorating my mum's living room for her as she is trying to get me to do all her diy before we get the new house. It must be at least 5 years since I have done any wallpapering, as much as it is a challenge, I love it, the results are so instant.
If you have never tried wallpapering I do urge you to have a go,  alot of it is just practice and patience.

Laura Ashley - Josephine Moss

I have been ordering a load of Wallpaper samples over the Internet recently, ready for the move. I am trying to plan quite a bit of the decor so I am ready to start as soon as we get in. There a quite a few sites where you can order free samples, usually upto 3, wallpaper direct is particularly good. 

There are so many wonderful wallpapers out there, I particularly like large scale prints. I have been pinning a board of 'splendid wallpapers' over on pinterest. I have found some beauty's, especially by a company called Timorous Beasties.

Here are some of my favourites

Beautiful papers by Timorous Beasties, these are quite pricey though!

Some of my other favourite papers at the moment, what do you think?

Spring has Sprung!

So for my blog today I thought rather than have a theme as such to chat about. I would just post a few little snapshots of some items around my home. In my last blog I was talking about my addiction to ceramic vases, as you can see in the photo above there is a nice little group of 3! Looking very spring- like with the daffodils.

Still waiting for  my Easter Cactus to flower, I picked the Swan vase up at an antique shop for £5 recently. It had a lot of peeling paint so, I scrubbed it off! Although I have noticed recently Asda  home selling something similar,  and a lamp which is really rather cute!

This is the Asda lamp which is only £15, I am seriously tempted to purchase, they also do an ornament, very similar for £8. What's not to love!

I talked before about my love for coloured glass, the red vintage vase and apothecary bottle I have had for many years. I so would love to collect alot of apothecary bottles they are so beautiful.

Some more of my coloured glass collection.

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A slight addiction to vases!

I don't know when or how it started but I seem to have an addiction to vases! Whilst they are handy obviously as vessels for flowers (if you can find the right height, width etc) which seems to be a perennial problem regardless of how many vases you actually have. They are just simply fabulous as decorative objects. I have long been obsessed by coloured glass vases but relatively recently I have began to collect ceramic patterned vases.
They look so powerful when grouped together and make a real statement in any room.

These images are from pinterest, you don't need to have as many as these but as a rule of thumb always group objects in odd numbers. The vases are West German vintage, I particularly love the white ones.
In this image I have simply grouped together three vases 2 modern and 1 vintage.
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For the love of Orange.

Orange has been one of my favourite interior colours for a very very long time. I believe it is hugely underrated. I guess a lot of people think orange, think 70's! However that is precisely why I love it, I remember my aunts house when I was growing up, with all the bright colours inspired by the 50 's, 60 's & 70's. Too many people are scared of colour and live in a haze of magnolia. You sometimes only have to use colour in small amounts to get dramatic results, you don't even have to put it on the walls. Why not try a few key cushions and ornaments!
I have created a pinterest board for the love of orange, check it out here; www.pinterest.com/mojojomo14/for-the-love-of-orange/

Here are a few of my favourite 'orange' images from the board, you can clearly see it's very 1970's inspired, but just by using a few key colour pieces together you get a really defined look.
Here are a few of my treasured ornaments;

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