DIY book covers etc.

Couple of days ago I came across this great blog - paislee press and few things that caught my eye over that space was - DIY book covers and a book called Mini Masterpieces. 

When it comes to DIY book covers, I know that not many of us probably have time or energy to do it, but I think these simple b&w covers and ribbon labels looks really pretty. Perhaps just cover the "ugly" books? like dictionaries, or really colourful books? head over here if up to this project.

Mini masterpieces is a photo book or in this case with pictures of drawings and projects your child made. I know my daughter would love it and me too...definitely doing it when she gets a bit older and have more drawings. Wouldn't that be great gift for grandparents?

urban wedding

Cool wedding from centre of Johannesburg, stunning photos & great industrial location.
the full story with loads of more photos here.
all photos by creative emporium.

today we baked

Sun is out, it feels like summer, finally. We ate a full box of cherries with A. today and baked cherry muffins. 6 muffins + pint of milk + me + my daughter + 1/2 hour = nothing left. Shame on me, going for run in the morning....

photos by me

for little B.

Yesterday I finished one of these for a little B. A lady ordered large little stars in grey for her newborn niece. With a date, time, weight and measurement written in hearts I think it makes a beautiful gift for new mums and would look lovely in a child nursery...

inspired weddings

Is another book lying on a side of my bed. I enjoy flicking through the pages, reading ideas and tips. Beautiful book about wedding styling. Matthew Robbins picks certain object as a painting, french candy, a cup or shells and creates a theme based on colours and textures. There is 9 themes, and it tells you everything from who could it be for, when is the most suitable to use the theme, food tips and styling, table decoration. A must for a wedding stylist and someone who's planning to design their own wedding. Just really pretty! 

Inspired Weddings by Matthew Robbins

stylist's home

Like any other stylist's home this house is full of vases, ornaments, cups and plates. But beautifully placed with limited colour background they create calm and cozy place to be. Love the chocolate brown with white, nice change to b&w.... full home tour here. 

photos by Lynn Kloythanomsup of Architectural Black 

have a nice sunday afternoon

fletchers nursery

Hello! we are back from Prague where M. ran marathon last weekend. We had a great time with our family and also made small progress on our house in countryside. Oh what a joy to deal with builders! Back to loads of work, which feels good, and today attending a wedding in typical English small village, hopefully the weather stays ok. But on a completely different note, this room belongs to Fletcher, whose mum used our You are simply wonderful poster in his new nursery. What a stylish place for a little boy. thank you! to see the more photos head over here.  the place was also featured here. 

today I like

pretty things from patkas

If I was getting married ...6

photos: swimming pool, black balloon, blue+ gold invitations, stripy bridesmaids, black invitations, blue wall, painting, ribbon table setting, dress, love balloons, black poster, lit bottles, table setting, gloves, paper cake, butterflies, drinks, mr&mrs


This time somewhere warm. Chic and modern. 

makes me happy

have a great weekend!

favourites

bag, rings, tray, table, ring, purse, card, mug

I would happily own every single item...

kiss slowly

Posters in blush pink, black and pebble grey now available in our shop.
photos & styling by me - veronika

we are family...

The weather in Uk was just horrid last couple of weeks so one afternoon last week I decided to pull out a large canvas which I was keeping for "one day", when start painting again, and told A. she can paint whatever she wants. At first she was a bit hesitant as it was a quite large space to fill but once she got Gruffallo to help her, she was fine:) Of course I controlled her a bit:). There was a limited colour choice and I tried to encourage her not paint everything black and pink. I really enjoyed teaching her long strokes with brush, mixing colours and it was just great fun. In the end she wanted to draw our family. Surprise! and I ended up being the fattest and tallest one! not true!! although it feels like it today after not moving all day...

what are you wearing this spring?

Yesterday I tried to persuade Anya (almost 4) that being cool is better then being just pretty. She was refusing to wear something I chose and was desperate to wear  a pink skirt which is becoming very small but still her very favourite. It was something like that:

me: "can you wear this please?"

A: "no I want to wear this pink skirt !" ( pulling out skirt which I hid at the bottom of her draw)

me: "come on, you wear this all the time... this is (pointing at skinny jeans and in my opinion very cool top) much better, it looks really cool!"

A: " but I don't want be cool! I want be pretty!"

me: " but being cool, it's better then just being pretty........blah blah...etc.

It's sometimes hard to fight with Barbie, even if the only one we have at home is on DVD and is a surfer...so sort of cool:)

all photos from here, layout and words  by me