WHITE SCANDINAVIAN INTERIOR WITH A TOUCH OF SOFT PINK

Love these beautiful images of a bright and white home, and that soft pink rug and cushion cover is to die for!

Images via house of philia

INDUSTRIAL APARTMENT IN SWEDEN DESIGNED BY JOHAN ISRAELSON

First spotted via Nordic Design;  this raw industrial apartment has a certain masculine edge, yet a lightness and brightness which sits rather nicely amongst the dark interior furniture and ironmongery.  Those cement finish walls are absolutely perfectly imperfect, just the way I like it!

Designed by Swedish architect and interior designer, Johan Israelson.

Images via Vosgesparis

WEST ELM PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH EMILY QUINTON

Photo+Styling: Lindé Davies

Photo+Styling: Lindé Davies

Photo+Styling: Lindé Davies

Photo+Styling: Lindé Davies

Photo+Styling: Lindé Davies

Photo: Lindé Davies

Today I attended a very inspirational Photography Workshop hosted by Emily Quinton at the new West Elm Store on Tottenham Court Road.

It was a lovely and informal setting and I learnt *a lot a lot*!  Not only about framing, composition and lighting when you style are styling, but also about how to keep the magic of photography alive.  Take time out everyday to take a beautiful photo.  If you can't take the photo beautifully then rather don't take it. Post more/ daily on Instagram, follow more people, interact, take part in competitions etc etc etc.

We also covered how to edit your images on an Iphone and Emily shared some new apps to try out.  I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 so not all the apps were relevant to me -but here are some that were mentioned:  Pictapgo,  Camera Plus,  VSCO cam (android) as well as a Photoshop add on called Radlab which I will try out soon.

I took my SLR along with the hope to snap away some pics  - but alas, except for making the one appearance on the table, I never even took the lens cover off.  This is something I want to improve on this year - to take more photos with my SLR and get more comfortable with using it and not treating it as this precious monstrosity always hiding in my bag!

There is another workshop next Saturday and I can definitely recommend it if you are interested in styling and photography.  Emily was great and hosted a really interesting talk.

There was time to play around with some props and take some photos - and this is one thing I do struggle with a bit - when you are forced to choose something.  I am drawn to things and then I'll photograph them; so this was a slight challenge to be given plenty of wonderful material but then find what it is I am drawn to.  Something else I want to challenge myself with this year, to step outside my comfort zone and photograph things I normally wouldn't.  I even took a bold bright pic (dad this one's for you!) which was already styled by one of my fellow workshop goers.

All photos were styled by me (except bright yellow pic) and taken on my Samsung Galaxy S3 and edited afterwards in Picsart.


Images via Lindé Davies

BRIGHT AND WHITE APARTMENT: LARLINGSGATAN 26

It's light and bright and minimal
It's beautiful
And.... it's for sale!


Images via  huisligheter

FUN HOLIDAY TREE

This is my holiday countdown tree.  When I was little and we were counting down to the holidays or something exciting happening my mom used to get us to draw a tree and cross off an apple each day as we're getting closer to the happy day.

I've just booked my holidays to Cape Town - big hurrah!!  And my mom mentioned this idea to me again, so I thought it will be a nice way to countdown the days to my holiday.  I will animate the tree and each day one apple will from the tree until there are non left.  Which would be when my vacation will start!

Keep checking back if you'd like to see how this develops and turns out.  And maybe something magical will happen on the last day!

I guess I'm still just a little girl at heart, who loves drawing pretty pictures all day long if she can

Images and animation - by me

On Holiday!

PRETTY PASTELS

 For Dad:

Lindé Davies Designs

My parents sometimes read my blog!  Isn't that the most special thing ever?

Mom is coming up to 82 the end of January and my dad is in his late seventies.  I speak to them every day and we never run out of things to say.

So today I asked my mom what dad thought of my latest blog posts..... he thought they were a bit dull - see dad likes bright bold colours, and he dresses very dashingly (with the help of my mom off course!) A very trendy pair they are and I love them immensely and am so grateful to have them as my parents.

Anyhow, so I promised I'll post something colourful for my dad.  But it's not that easy - so I thought I would ease into it with these pretty pastels - and maybe towards the end of the week I'll manage something bright and bold!

When I made some polished cement samples in the summer for my portfolio, I sent my folks a bright turquoise one which my dad absolutely loved!  When I asked him which colour I should do a table top in (in the same polished cement finish.... I couldn't decide between white, grey or slate) he enthusiastically recommended the bright turquoise I had sent them... bless!

The last image I made for them - I do hope they like it!

Love you mom and dad, thanks so much for stopping by and reading my blog

Means so very much to me, miss you loads, but see in a few weeks time!

xxx

Images via Pinterest

Last image my design

PAULINA ARKCLIN'S HOME ... BEFORE

A small selection of images of Paulina Arcklin's home -  and these are the before photos!  Its so perfect already - I can only imagine how beautiful it will be after she's restyled it.

Lots more images here

Images Via  It's my visual life!

A BEAUTIFUL SCANDINAVIAN HOME

Understated and inspiring - what a beautifully calm and inviting and just the kind of home I'd like to live in someday soon!

images via helt enkelt

2014 - 365 days of New Year

Its the start of a New Year, and a new chapter.  Or even a new book!

But each day is really a fresh new start and a fresh new chapter - a whole 24 hours in your credit which you can spend as you wish.  Time is precious, and time is the only commodity we cannot get back once its been spent.  Its the memories of how you spend your time that will last for a lifetime!  Lets always be aware to spend our time wisely and pleasantly.

Take time and call your parents - they are old and won't be around forever.  Make the most of your time with them while they are around.  They are precious and they are irreplaceable.  And even though our lives gets so busy with our own day to day chores and runnings arounds - sometimes the only highlight in their day is to hear from us.  Let's not take that away from them.

Take time and call the youngsters - so they can realise and appreciate the importance of staying connected in real life,  to hear someones voice - you can tell a lot by someone's voice;  often hidden behind the letters of a keyboard.  But a real voice cannot hide happiness, or sadness or excitedness.
Take time and call your friends - they are always there for us, to spend happy times with and sad times, to go shopping and do enjoy chats over coffees or meanderings.  But sometimes a call just to say hello can mean so much more to that person - for you it may be just a call to say hello; but for them it can make their day!

And then enjoy all the little things that come our way.  How the barrista at your favourite cafe makes your coffee just how you like it - take a moment be grateful for that small delight, and then lets try multiply that and make someone else's day special in any small way we can.  And somehow in the bigger scheme of things the universe will smile down on us all.

Here's to a bright new year, a bright new wonderful year for us all!  xx

Images via Pinterest